Their authority (and their right to jobs as businessmen and doctors) comes from their ability to use magic, and magic comes from enslaving spirits. It's POSSIBLE to use magic on the basis of an equal partnership with the spirits, but all of them are brainwashed to think that's not possible. If I'd been raised as a magician, I'd probably think the same way.
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Date: 2015-08-01 07:06 am (UTC)