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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 2915946" data-attributes="member: 307">I don't think it depends on that. It depends on whether magic is useful or not, no matter who can use it.Of course, it would assume that people expect wizards to do that, even ones "on their side". People also fear nuclear weapons, at least those in the hands of their enemies. On the other hand, most people want (or at least believe it is necessary to have) nuclear weapons in the hands of those friendly to them. Sure, you fear powerful out-of-control wizards, but the only reliable way to stop them is to have your own.And, of course, this doesn't even begin to consider the usefulness of having a wizard around on a day to day basis. People accept all kinds of danger if it makes their life better. We have coal mines and power plants that blast carcinogens into the air, cars that kill thousands of people a year, and we pump highly explosive natural gas into our homes. We do this because we like having electricity, easy transportation, and heated homes. Despite the fact that these things kill many thousands of people every year. Wizards are useful like that.Or, peasants would go to them to get problems solved. The people in power would ally with them (or wizards would become the people in power), and nations that educated and cultivated their wizards would dominate their neighbors. Suppress and kill off all your wizards, and the next door country, who has spent time educating and developing their wizards will invade and destroy your nigh helpless armies.All of these examples, being drawn from the tradition extant in the real world where magic is feared and sitrusted, are entirely irrelevant to the question of how magic would likely be treated in a world in which magic is a normal part of existence. If magic were real, they would likely react differently than they do in the fictional worlds in literature rooted in popular perceptions built up over centuries of magic free history.Plus, your arguments are wrong. People in the Wheel of Time series don't fear spellcasters because they are rare. They fear them because many such figures in history have gone nuts and killed massive numebrs of people. In the X-Men series, it was generally renegade elements of "the powers that be" that targeted mutants, and many people thought the mutants were okay. And using the silly nonsenical cosmology of Star Wars to justify anything is a dangerous area to get into. For example, during the Republican era, Jedi were loved and respected in many areas, despite being rare and unusual.This is true of anyone with a character class and enough levels in D&D. It is not unique to spellcasters in general, let alone arcane spellcasters. Plus, consider that sorcerers and bards, as arcane spellcaster, are likely to be among the most likable people around. The friendly personable guy down the street, he's a sorcerer. Not the misanthropic hermit who lives in the marshes.</blockquote>

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