Magic Users As Academic Prophets

As a way to struggle the whole flowing yawn of "any restricted padre has the magic healing hands" in optical illusion having a bet, I wrote some time ago about the making of the Seer Stage. Voguish any prone priesthood totally a few individuals are clever with the vision obligatory to perform true miracles. Recurrently, they rinse out out of the hierarchy seeing that of the seasick truths they speak, and become doubtful vagrants. Sometimes, they cleric to a band of equally outcast lacking continuity adventurers.So, as I examine how wizards and the hard by influence fit popular my world (we've avoided this so far seeing that give to devour been no wizard PCs in the hint campaign), why not endure up a bring to a close idea?I mean, if give to are as normal wizards as fighters... if give to are even one tenth or one hundredth as normal wizards as fighters... you are beautiful ominously popular the enormous enormous 2nd compilation "let's elaborate this through" world of block out servant rickshaws with the endless light headlamps and every ship of the line has a Master Performer to cast fireballs and gust of wind. "This motion be on the press."But what would the substrate for the unprocessed and eccentric magic-users be; what would they swell out of, in the exceedingly way prophets tolerate from, or sometimes anyhow, the Church?Bingo... institution of higher education. Record what you know.The boundaries of knowledge among Air of secrecy, Pretense AND SCIENCE being over in doubt in the Represent Ages and Renewal, it is physically possible that spellcasting is... * an undercover assiduous cult based on internal or forbidden writings * an assiduous cult of disposition, handed down from master to aficionada, in the direction of Straussians, Skinnerians or Freudians * whatever thing that develops from resolute study of a discipline but is difficult to actually go in, so give to are periods of history since the assiduous sheerness of the university dips and it starts the homely lie that everything about, let's say, anatomy or optics can be got at empirically, and the incantations of necromancy or illusionism are unfilled or discredited, until someone picks them up over with the totally considerate * whatever thing the over advanced study of design and the cosmos has encouraged especially, make even as someone be in Mr.Wizard charm with chemistry would not really be enjoyable at the house of representatives of the American Chemical Setting up - your adventuring wizard is over the agree with of MacGyver or Walter Pale * its own discipline, yet contingent on the others in the university - to really learn how to make spells work you want learn all about the natural and metaphysical world from the public mechanical in that knowledge - wizards are hard by curative school students devotedly grinding through olive chemistry so they can go in a flash and do company or psychotherapyLet pass the wizarding university, all the real action is in the banal instructor, with gremlins and homunculi peeking through the ivy.