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Originally Posted by Michael Cule
Thing is if that's true I don't see the mages being powerful enough to keep the Underground Engineers from overthrowing the Ministry of Serendipity and their equivalents.
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Yeah, I don't think the setting can support both a magical conspiracy that has successfully prevented almost a millenia of technological, military and societal change
and a low-magic feel where mages are not integral to the functioning of society. It's one or the other. If mages are successfully preventing society from adopting cannons, chronometers, steamships and canned food, they must be providing some sort of magical alternatives for seaborne trade and naval affairs. They might be inferior to the end result of adopting technology, but have to offer some benefits over the first few tentative steps.