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feotakahariIn Font of Fertility, the great mages have millennia of stockpiled magic, but they don’t seem to do much with it. They just bicker back and forth and accomplish nothing, and one of them admits their entire job is pointless.
Which makes sense, if you think about it. A lot of them seem to hate each other, and their relative power levels keep the young ones from destroying the old ones. If one of them spent centuries of magic, it would take centuries to get it back, and they’d be vulnerable all the while. They act strong because of the implication that they might someday use their stockpile, even though they can’t touch it, and they race to gather more and more power just to stay in the same relative place.
In other words, they’re rich investors.
Which makes sense, if you think about it. A lot of them seem to hate each other, and their relative power levels keep the young ones from destroying the old ones. If one of them spent centuries of magic, it would take centuries to get it back, and they’d be vulnerable all the while. They act strong because of the implication that they might someday use their stockpile, even though they can’t touch it, and they race to gather more and more power just to stay in the same relative place.
In other words, they’re rich investors.
