Quote:
Originally Posted by ajardoor
Hmmm, perhaps. What factor would you say is needed to stabilise the equilibrium and prevent (or at least minimise) any uprisings and oppression, assuming no great disaster rocks the boat and sends the world into free fall panic?
I'm thinking perhaps putting the majority of the magi to live in the outer planes and out of the mundanes' hair? Good fences make good neighbours, and a transdimeansional gateway can be a pretty good fence. Presumably, the power and promenience of magic didn't really become a huge enough "deal" (threat/destabilising element) until the end of the Cold War (perhaps Ritual Adept was very rare or non-existent until the outer planes were discovered?).
|
In general, a society based on mutual respect, acceptance of differences, value of the individual for the individual as opposed to for power, civil rights (and other nice bits of a civil society). Or at least some of these, if all aren't possible. You know, like the civilisation with psychics in La Belle Verte, the future society in The Girl From Tomorrow, the Syreen in the Star Control setting, apparently Star Trek etc.