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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 7878281" data-attributes="member: 42856">I am much more pessimistic about this. The "best" thing about magical beings is that we have no shared history to foster hatred. We don't have anti-elves around because there are no elves to blame. I am pretty sure some of the xenophobic arguments like "the X steals our jobs" will sound too silly when applied to semi-magical, rare creatures, to be considered even by the... enlightenment-challenged people. So, unless there is a significant number of them, and they start gaining some visibility, I don't fear openly violent acts toward them.However, you will have people who will them as an opportunity. I am pretty sure there would be a market for human fights to the death on TV if it was legal to kill people for money. As long as Alfar and Shifters are not specifically granted a new status, they are property. They'd be protected in some places by laws against cruelty against animals, but as long as some places allow rooster fights and dog fights, there will be places to allow Shifter fights (and TV shows broadcasting them to an interested and affluent audience].Also, you mentionned in your earlier post that magical ancestries people had a "home world". This was just alluded, but... should this territory be accessible (magic portals?)(a) it would be unclaimed land, some country could actually claim this territories to be colonized, as they are not protected by treaties, and... if magic is not über-powerful, a few military demonstrations will make the fey king more welcoming toward granting tracts of lands and welcome their new human overlord.(b) it would have its share of mundane resources that could be traded for and a world-sized landfill. Dumping wastes has never been easier, with just a few Alfar to complain (but who are they to complain). I can even envision a company making money in "recycling" nuclear waste by planeshifting them into the feywild, and having no qualm about that.[OK, I tend to turn everything into grimdark, I can't help it, but maybe you could make villains out of that]</blockquote>

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