non-magic as a disability

I'm planning to write something set in a world where just about everyone has magic, and those who don't (or who have a different kind of magic than normal) are considered disabled.

Can you think of some ideas for specific abilities the majority would have, and how they'd affect society?

By the way, I quit posting ideas awhile back. This is me cautiously trying it again. See my signature, I'm hoping it'll help.

Using my magic system as a basis (which means not all might be applicable to yours)

• Unable to be healed
• Unable to take a hot shower
• Unable to use birth control
• Unable to turn on lights
• Unable to make any sort of contraption go, at all
• Unable to contact anyone long distance
• Unable to send warning signals of any kind
• Unable to train animals

Naturally, this means that everyone else would have those abilities. They'd prolly either need caretakers or end up taking twice as long to do something very simple.

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Now, that only works if magic is not specifically channelled one way or another, and everyone can use it the same way, more or less.

edited 1st Feb '11 3:09:51 PM by MrAHR

What kind of magic system/setting were you thinking of using? A magitech society could be interesting, and pretty easy to relate back to the real world—imagine if some people just couldn't use electricity. Nonmagicals might create their own subculture thing similar in concept to Deaf culture, but that depends on how common it is to be nonmagic. You could also make a specific word for the disability, to help convey that normal people are normal and these people aren't. Maybe "nonmagical" or "People who are magically deficient" is the uber-politically correct version.

Oh I have two worlds like that.

Sort of.

In one world if you can't use magic it's becuase it's in an unusuable form thatmakes you immune to magic. But then most of those people become fighters and the world goes as normal. Wrong choice.

Okay, My Controlers story everybody in the world can control an element and the ones that can't are considered a curse and sent to X-Isle.

edited 1st Feb '11 4:30:14 PM by nekomoon14

ohhhwhatpun. ^^