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I always appreciate the creation of unique magic systems

That was interesting. When people say magic school I think we instinctively pay more attention to school than to magic (the average person has been to school but can't cast spells). It was interesting to see the approach from a "these kids are dangerous, let's use them as weapons" angle: it's more realistic than teaching a 14 years old how to make a love potion or an 11 years old of how to open any door. I had a few ideas about writing of magic schools lately, and this video was quite insightful.

This is one of the best videos on the internet for writers.

in classic wow, there is scholomance, a school of arcane magic that was infiltrated and eventually corrupted by necromancers.

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik is a story about a student at a magic school of questionable goodness.

I have my own pet versions. It needs not be a physical school, it could be a fraternity/society/cults. Tutors can go to students (vice versa) instead of students to school, think avatar the last airbender. (This way learning and adventure can happen on the run.) (Or mix them all) Evil schools can simply compromise students/parents. They can also easily hide, at least for a while as benign or mundane institutions. Imagine, hero goes to evil school, or it's a horror story. I have my own pet evil schools called Waterrunian Education Fraternity, The Sorin's Faculty, The Confission's Instructurate, and a few others.

Write this. I would read it, and I assume a lot of other people will too.

This is such an interesting form of world building. I love that you took inspiration from real-world institutions, without just ripping it wholesale. Do you mind if I incorporate these concepts into my DnD game?

Why do I feel like your describing the Jedi with the whole kidnapping magical children and killing magical adults stuff. I also can imagine that someone might turn against the institution because the university killed their family for trying to find them.

I know no one will read this but I found this video while researching ways to do my writing challenge to combine Doctor Who and Harry Potter. In my world, people are born with two distinct types of powers Chronos or Diviners. If you are a Diviner you have access to magic which offers many magic powers. and can go to a prestigious university to learn to control it. But if you're a Chronos you only have access to one power that has to do with time. Chronos is lower class and doesn't have many resources to train their abilities.

Tad of a late one but I think a common idea for both school types, magic schools and super power schools, is twofold: refinement of the student's power and their morality as a citizen. The former because you don't want a dude in his early 20's without a job who's also able to hurl fireballs around. The second is for a reason as old as time, public morality. Because if one is able to throw fireballs, see the future, and raise the dead, it would probably be in society's best interest that they value human/elf/orc/dwarf/whatever civilized races there are. As for why this is it's because, lets' face it, even in a horribly authoritarian and class based system, be it pre-revolution France or North Korea, if you have the educated elite going around abusing the common folk for the funsies it's not going to end well. However in these authoritarian systems which are guided by political principle you're much more likely to see an evil school than systems in more libertarian nations. I think this is due to arrogance. You see this a lot in faith schools. At best it's "oh they don't know any better, they're just silly, so we have to try and show them the path to [Insert faith and sect here]." At worst it's "those [insert name of rival religion or sect here or just infidels] don't understand us faithful, they spit on us [insert name of sect here], so you must be wary." I've experienced this a bit. Me and my oldest sister went to a Baptist pre-k and were generally treated nicely. Then my family converted to Catholicism. And my baby sister experienced a shitty time. Bordering on outright abuse. Kids could steal and insult my youngest sister and not get punished "because the teachers weren't there." And that's just between two different sects of the same religion that worship the same God and messiah. Now this isn't to say anything bad about any religion, but there does come a certain arrogance from it all. A huge source of evil in academies and schools is generally speaking an arrogance. "We're right, we're the enlightened, we are the righteous." You can see how this can lead to abuse. As for my idea for how it would go I have a slight idea. I didn't really think it'd go so far for my gm but he seems to like it. So in a game I'm in using the Dungeon World system my character is a wizard. She was trained in "the farm," where children who were abducted from birth or were bred in a eugenics program like my character, were brought up with the sole purpose of serving a secret society of ancient witches and wizards known as "the aunts and uncles." The goal of this group is, on paper, good. A government of enlightened individuals making sure that all people want for nothing in need or pleasure, except freedom. The "aunts and uncles" are strictly authoritarian, and are divided as to what degree people should be subservient. But what they do agree on is that only a magic aristocracy can guide all to eternal pleasure on the mortal plane and that the gods are a threat to humanity. Needless to say this kind of belief system behooves itself to backbiting and general dickishness. You could "graduate" by being an especially potent magic user. But the main power of the "aunts and uncles" is secrecy. So unless one is especially powerful they are made an example of. My character passed by realizing very early on that she has a lot more power by being over estimated. So she let herself be submissive, she let herself appear meak and pathetic, all the while manipulating others. All the while using invisibility spells to create rivalries between more abusive students, using charm spells to steer those who found her a fun play thing towards a more useful end (ie killing her abusers), until finally she was noticed by a particularly powerful "aunt" and graduated.

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