This is a great free worldbuilding idea about wizards being distrustful of magic actually working. Much like the faith that software designers have in software, haha. This post also goes well with the idea for Working Class Wizards!
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Worldbuilding Idea About Wizards
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This was kinda the idea with the Unseen University in the discworld books. Wizards, as masters of the arcane, know magic is usually just going to cause bigger problems and avoid using it at all costs. It’s specifically stated at some point that the university mostly exists to gather the magically adept and feed them five meals a day until they’re fat and complacent and uninterested in doing anything that might unravel the fabric of the universe. And if they do get any wild ideas the senior staff is there to smack some sense into them.
Similar situation with the witches. They’re a bit more open to using magic, but most of the time headology will deliver the same results with less effort or complications (ex: make someone just think you turned them into a toad rather than actually doing it).
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I like how in the very first book he explains that everything requires work to accomplish, and magic requires more than most, so it’s not terribly efficient.
And how everyone in Unseen University is simultaneously trying to kill the person ahead of them and stop the person behind them from killing them.