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

[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?).