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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 3763366" data-attributes="member: 32536">Its just a concept for a single aspect of the setting, but...Wizards are scoundrels. The very word "wizard" is practically an insult, synonymous with words like "vagaband", "con man", or "crook". Wizards are vagrants and tramps, with no home and few possesions. They wander between villages, carying little but their walking-sticks and tattered robes. Because they live outside the safe boundaries of a village, they are viewed with suspicion and fear. Their mysterious powers only add to their bad reputations.Many wizards are orhpans who have been taken in by another travelling wizard and trained. Their lives are hard, and they survive with their wits. Many wizards multiclass as rogues. Many make their living selling cheap "snake oil" potions, or using their magic to con people out of their belongings or blatantly steal. Many fall in with mundane bandits, or lead groups of such. They always have schemes, born from their lust for ever greater magical and worldly power.Many wizards see each other as a kind of extended brotherhood of people who share the same fate. They keep their secrets hidden, even to each other, but they are usually wiling to lend aid. Further, many wizards share similar ascetic ideals and beliefs, considering them selves greater than those who live their lives in safe villages, away from where true power and wisdom can be found.Obviously enough, grand magical colleges and well-respected organizations of wizards are nowhere to be found, and provide no stabilizing element on society. More often than not, wizards work to undermine society, rather than asist its growth. All the magical services a wizard can provide are not easily come by, and there is a great risk of being cheated or robbed whenever a deal with a wizard must be made.</blockquote>

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