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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8801926" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Eh, an overrated saying people take as axiomatic, when it isn’t.And the divide between wizards and commoners is only so great when comparing an individual commoner to a wizard with at least several levels.Some would think this way, sure.And then get murdered by the entire countryside, or at best driven from the realm on pain of death, and ensure that that realm and all its neighbors legalize the killing of wizards with very little need to justify the act for the next several hundred years.And the reason is that it makes a fun, chilling, story, to have the wizard be very scary and mysterious, and we don’t have real wizards to actually formulate strategies against IRL.The behavior you posit would quickly provide its own solution, and then the world would indeed have very few wizards!EDIT: again, I do think there would be some wizards behaving as you suggest. I just think at least as many, but probably many more, would seek legitimacy in the eyes of the masses, and for said masses to not fear the average wizard, and to not be near-completely isolated from the rest of the world.</blockquote>