The Game Analists
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Yeah, wizarding guild or more realistically, few wizards can actually afford to get up to the higher levels of spell-casting. Not every doctor is a neurosurgeon, right? So his example of a battlefield mage is a dinky little loser who throws a few sleep spells and then fucks off. It's not prestigious and likely not respected.
Indeed, that would be a good model for the wizard tier too, they could govern themselves and have a separate structure, or act like criminal families and demand compensation for their protection over a given area if they don't feel like replacing the feudal order.Yeah, wizarding guild or more realistically, few wizards can actually afford to get up to the higher levels of spell-casting. Not every doctor is a neurosurgeon, right? So his example of a battlefield mage is a dinky little loser who throws a few sleep spells and then fucks off. It's not prestigious and likely not respected.
My point is that the mere existence of wizard would surely have prevented medieval society to exist as it did, especially if you consider that their main attribute is INT, I don't see how they would have left nobles on top of the food chain.
There are a lot of way it could have turned out, but I doubt them just being part of the medieval society at the same rank as craftsmen makes any sense.
If we want to preserve medieval power structure as much as possible, wizards would end up being parts of guilds, as it would provide them with more control over their possible competition, and they would probably not allow unsanctionned use of magic, nor let non wizard easily command one of theirs.
That said, his later post about the wizard class makes more sense with chartered, outsider, and outlaw wizards, but even there, the chartered wizards seem no more powerful than your usual medieval craftsmen guild.
Technically nobles are the second on the food chain. The church has a great "soft power" which means while it cannot realistically tell anyone what to do, everyone listens to its "advice" and even the rudest clerics don't get hung. The church is left to govern itself almost entirely.