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marycatelli) wrote2020-11-07 11:45 pm
marycatelli) wrote2020-11-07 11:45 pm
common magic
So we have a magocracy where the upper classes have the powerful mages. Usually. They work hard at co-opting lower class mages of power, and those born to high rank without great power often marry them to give them the status.
Do the ordinary lower-class people have any magic?
I think so. I hate the trope where super-special snowflakes can get magic, and everyone else is out of luck. But, still, magocracy is the central trope. . . .
They can do lesser magic. In fact, they can do more useful magic earlier, because they spend less time mastering the power and can get into the subtlies earlier.
I think they are also going to have to have a fair amount of anti-magic. You devise a clockpunk device, you want it to be strong enough to cope with a malicious fracturing spell.
Do the ordinary lower-class people have any magic?
I think so. I hate the trope where super-special snowflakes can get magic, and everyone else is out of luck. But, still, magocracy is the central trope. . . .
They can do lesser magic. In fact, they can do more useful magic earlier, because they spend less time mastering the power and can get into the subtlies earlier.
I think they are also going to have to have a fair amount of anti-magic. You devise a clockpunk device, you want it to be strong enough to cope with a malicious fracturing spell.
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