Re: A nation without Wizards
- From: firelock_ny@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 23 Jun 2006 22:01:43 -0700
Werebat wrote:
I don't know why people seem to want to persecute WIZARDS, when wizards
have to be trained in their arts and ostensibly have to learn their
spells from someone else. This means the society has some means of
controlling who gains more wizardly power and who doesn't.
That's pretty much what led me to experiment with a
society that bans Wizards - Wizards are pretty much
the only spellcasting group a government *could* have
a good chance of banning. All the other groups of
spellcasters are created by processes not easily
controlled by the government - a Sorceror is born,
a diety reaches out and taps a person on the head
to make a Cleric, that kind of thing. You can't ban
them to keep them from getting started, you can
only persecute them after they've already started.
Now, that does turn thinking towards the reverse
of the "Nation without Wizards": a society that
makes as many Wizards as it can, under strict
government control, and uses their power to
suppress those spellcaster types the government
can't control as well.
--
Walt Smith
Firelock on DALNet
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