My concern with a ruler-selected office being the only one that has access to mentor goodies is that you are giving a player the ability to select who gets access to bonus gold/hours/fame. Favoritism and "clique-ism" could result in only the ruler's favorites getting a shot at this stuff.
True, but the new player would have to agree that the mentor they have is worthy of the points. We can adjust the exit exam language to encourage them to only give points that are truly deserved.
And we can make it so that bad marks quickly prevent a player from mentoring.
