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[feotakahari]

Shout out to the Charlie Bone series for the best explanation I’ve seen of where evil wizards come from. They’re not (exclusively) an ideology, they’re not a bloodline, and they don’t use “dark magic.“ They’re any random wizard who decides to use their power to take what they want. That’s why there will always be evil wizards even in the “good” families, because viewed over enough generations, any family will have bad people in it. Conversely, if a wizard bloodline devotes itself to blood superiority or whatnot, someone will always pop up who thinks hurting people is bad. So they clash, on and on down the centuries.

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[sigmaleph]

isn't this just "evil wizards happen in the same way and for the same reasons any other evil people do"

[feotakahari]

Yes. Yes it is. And it’s so much better than shit like “dark magic.”

[sigmaleph]

i mean, i don't disagree! just seems odd to attribute it to a specific book series

[feotakahari]

I mean, it pretty much IS just that series out of what I’ve read. Even Alex Verus does some of the “dark wizards are an ideology” thing.