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 ====== The Battle of the Magics (577) ======
-Belazan{{zioth>t,148}}: The conflict dates back to the beginning of time, and has little to do with magic. I imagine the first men to craft arrow heads out of stone were feared and hated by their enemies, and the weapons themselves viewed with suspicion. Nothing changed when mages began to hire themselves out to princes and kings. The kingdom with more power was hated, but that hatred couldn't target an entire kingdom. To do so would be to admit inferiority. Instead, the weapons themselves – the mages – became the target of the hate. With a bit of foresight and a little less strife among ourselves, we might have seen the signs earlier and prevented what happened. As it was, by the time a few of us got organized, it was too late. The kingdoms united against us, murdering their own mages as a sign of unity. This did nothing to quell our own anger, and many of us wrought a great deal of destruction before we were killed. Many more continue to do so, and even the power of [[zioth:place:brundash|Brundash]] is unable to control them. It doesn't help that the priests, Morenthians in particular, can counter our magic.
+Belazan: The conflict dates back to the beginning of time, and has little to do with magic. I imagine the first men to craft arrow heads out of stone were feared and hated by their enemies, and the weapons themselves viewed with suspicion. Nothing changed when mages began to hire themselves out to princes and kings. The kingdom with more power was hated, but that hatred couldn't target an entire kingdom. To do so would be to admit inferiority. Instead, the weapons themselves – the mages – became the target of the hate. With a bit of foresight and a little less strife among ourselves, we might have seen the signs earlier and prevented what happened. As it was, by the time a few of us got organized, it was too late. The kingdoms united against us, murdering their own mages as a sign of unity. This did nothing to quell our own anger, and many of us wrought a great deal of destruction before we were killed. Many more continue to do so, and even the power of [[zioth:place:brundash|Brundash]] is unable to control them. It doesn't help that the priests, Morenthians in particular, can counter our magic.
-I suspect that we'll survive this war and things will go roughly back to normal – after all, how can the kingdoms survive without magic – but it will be a bloody time.
+I suspect that we'll survive this war and things will go roughly back to normal – after all, how can the kingdoms survive without magic – but it will be a bloody time.{{zioth>t,148}}
+Fovery, before the Battle begins: A Battle of the Magics is an old idea. It's any conflict -- even a staged one -- in which the two sources of magic are pitted against each other. What you're talking about is the same thing on a massive scale. It won't eliminate magic entirely -- the necromancer you mentioned had to have learned his art from somewhere -- but at the very best, the magi keep themselves completely hidden from the world, and aren't powerful enough or interested enough even to control one of their own. And all this mutual destruction comes from a few kings releasing their magi and a temple or two denouncing us, neither of which is anything new. What makes this time different?"{{zioth>t,214}}

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