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Originally Posted by CraigM
* Economic competition with the wizards who were already making a good living as magical printers.
* The mages have Divination; they can see threats coming in advance. Ditto for the dragons.
* But, yeah; not all technology was suppressed. Bits made it through when the mages find them useful or harmless. Aralaise ships and swords, a hint of clockwork, germ theory, etc.
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Magical printers could not have been making loads of money making it the job of the bottom rungs. Not enough clear and present danger to all mages to effect a violent global conspiracy.
Either way, global perfect conspiracies involving humans simply do not pass the laugh test. Especially if it's the only one or only major one in a setting.