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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4663028" data-attributes="member: 62992">Let's take the assumption of spell-casters as a real power and force to its logical conclusion. Lots of mages may indeed be powerful if prepared, but they are relatively soft targets if they are surprised. In addition, to defend themselves they would have to expend most of their magical power to keep up a constant defence; a high price for someone who is trying to pursue scholarly research. As a researcher myself, I can tell you that scholars tend to become very myopic and can often lose complete track of the "real world" that other people experience. We do not like interuptions at all. If mages did become a force in wars, then don't you think that the your enemies first move would be to try and kill as many of your mages as possible, much like a first strike to destroy as many of the enemies missle silos as possible? Isn't it also true that magical wars would be terrible and frightening things that would probably make mages an object of hatred and fear? If this is so, then most worlds would go through one or two terrible magical wars and then I predict that mages would refuse to have anything to do with temporal matters, either because of a restriction placed upon them by others or, more likely, as a result of the mages own refusal to become involved. So mages could well be relatively common, magic powerful and pervasive and yet have almost NO effect on society at large in such a scenario, because, I would argue, mages would eventually realise that they would just become pawns in the hands of others and would have strict laws to prevent this happening.</blockquote>

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