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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7880148" data-attributes="member: 6704184">That all does help determine how things play out. So, some answers for the world in question. There is no Gift. You can learn magic. It’s a variety of skills. As with all skills, talent=work+time, more or less. Genuine Mind control is impossible, as far as anyone knows. There is “beguiling” magic, but it’s mostly illusions and glamours like, “make yourself hard to notice as long as you don’t do anything to stand out” or “encourage mundanes to use their natural pattern forming behavior to reinterpret you weird features as just an odd looking human”, and the like. Banning magic once it’s prevalent would be like banning electricity. Sure, it can happen, and it probably will in the games of people who want to explore the question of whether it’s okay to interfere with other societies, or explore stories of coming from a place where magic is homicidally stigmatized and finding yourself now in a place that embraces it. Mostly, though, it ain’t gonna happen in 90% of societies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 7880148, member: 6704184"] That all does help determine how things play out. So, some answers for the world in question. [B]There is no Gift[/B]. You can learn magic. It’s a variety of skills. As with all skills, talent=work+time, more or less. [B]Genuine Mind control is impossible, [/B]as far as anyone knows. There is “beguiling” magic, but it’s mostly illusions and glamours like, “make yourself hard to notice as long as you don’t do anything to stand out” or “encourage mundanes to use their natural pattern forming behavior to reinterpret you weird features as just an odd looking human”, and the like. [B]Banning magic once it’s prevalent would be like banning electricity. [/B]Sure, it can happen, and it probably will in the games of people who want to explore the question of whether it’s okay to interfere with other societies, or explore stories of coming from a place where magic is homicidally stigmatized and finding yourself now in a place that embraces it. Mostly, though, it ain’t gonna happen in 90% of societies. [/QUOTE]

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