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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 811559" data-attributes="member: 6929"><p>It depends on the sage, I guess. If he's well-funded, he's probably the son of a lord somewhere - instant political might for one faction, bloody turmoil for a few years, new king on the throne, little changes for the peasants beside a few more scorched fields after each battle. If he's a priestly scholar (and face facts, most scholars were priests or monks until a couple hundred years ago) he's associated with a religious order; they either burn him as a heretic or exalt him as a great saint. If he's a crazy hermit on a hill somewhere, nobody cares and his hill is suddenly a whole lot quieter that it once was, while he runs around pointing at rocks that blow up or turn into rabbits. The occasional quester for knowledge comes to his door, and magic spreads out very slowly through a caste of wanderers and bards. Which in turn either creates an exalted wanderer caste, or all the wanderers get stoned on sight and civilisation enters a new dark age in that region as everyone bars their gates and looks suspiciously at anyone who might be from out of town.</p></blockquote><p></p>