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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6311217" data-attributes="member: 17106">If they did it while Mind Blanked, how does anyone know to question them at all? And what if they have Modify Memory cast on them so they genuinely don't know they did it.Magic isn't foolproof. It would make criminal justice into an arms race, much as it is today.Cue actual history. The human race is rarely at peace.Yes. The real power on this earth is physical strength and intellect, and when have our monarchy/aristocracy/nobility/etc. ever been the smartest and the strongest people?D&D's conception of magic suggests to me that we would have deities competing for followers, and strongly sectarian conflicts would be common.I would expect many churches to recruit arcane casters as worshippers or at least mercenary allies. Unlike in real life, the wizards and sorcerers know that deities are real, even if their power doesn't originate from them, so they're not going to be atheists or anything. Arcane and divine magic synergize well. Alliances make sense.</blockquote>