[World Building] Alt-History TL 8 Earth with open RPM

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Prince Charon

The problem is, that magic is being done by people who are, to varying degrees, practically slaves. This does not have good precedents for that society (there's no direct equivalent, but slave-soldiers are fairly close, historically).

You have to look at it not only from the mundane PoV ('Those people are useful, but terribly dangerous!'), but also from the mages' viewpoints ('I will not be a slave any longer!').

This is largely a set-up for a self-fulfilling prophecy: mages managing to form a conspiracy of some sort and eventually seizing power and waging war against the slavers. Cliché, boring and largely non-constructive.