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Ummm...first roman control over slaves was nothing like you are postulating in this thread.
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That's because they didn't have the
need for such control.
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mage slave revolts <shudder>...
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But a 'mage' is not a homogeneous commodity. Only
some mages would need those extreme controls. Others could be kept in less strict controls. The guy with Lend Energy doesn't get the same treatment as the guy with Explosive Fireball, who doesn't get the same treatment as the guy with Enslave, who doesn't get the same treatment as the guy with Irradiate.
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magically scanning EVERY live birth...that doesnt happen in the first world now...
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It would if wizards could be born. They pretty much have to do it this way for the sake of the scenario. We're assuming that something is going on that prevents this world from fully implementing magic and taking the advances from it to their logical ends.
So, I'm saying they have trained up ten or fifteen people with the Aura spell, and a few thousand people with Lend Energy, and now they send those people around to check everyone for Magery. And now they train a large number of people with both Ease Labor and Aura at low levels and have them take care of all the births. Maybe give everyone a tattoo proving they've been tested. It's expensive, and it's a lot of effort. But it's within their technological means. It doesn't require any extraordinary leaps of the imagination to envision this being implemented. And people will go along with this because, first off, their labor is being eased, and secondly, because these people accidentally summon demons.