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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 2132973" data-attributes="member: 18549">The Tales of Wyre, by Sepulchrave, and compiled in the Story Hour boards by Cheiromancer, has an interesting system for policing mages.  Some of the major magical characters got together after some problems with demon-summoning, and bound a quasi-deity creature to enforce a set of rules.  The creature is aware of all magic in its area of influence, and there are prohibitions against summoning and interfering in temporal affairs.  The magnitude of the punishment is tailored to fit the crime, and after a first offence, nobody messes with the system.It tends to have two effects: firstly is that mages stay in their towers and don't try to fireball armies or whatnot, and secondly they usually end up doing most of their best work on other planes, where they're not bothering the commoners with all the explosions and otherworldly beings.</blockquote>