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Author: Confusion567

Jul 6th 2011 at 1:04:06 PM

I think [[AC:Mages are like aristocrats]] and [[AC:mages are like mutants]] both need better titles; Aristocrat implies rulership, and when I think "mutant," I think X-men... where they're born that way. Unfortunately, I don't have better suggestions for those two, and they're definitely very common, especially if you add superpowers into this, and other "not called magic" magics (Devil Fruit powers in OnePiece work by this system; any normal person can eat one of the fruits and immediately and permanently gain incredible powers).

For another classification, [[AC:Mages are like prodigies]]. It's not inherited, but they are born into it. Essentially a combination of aristocrat and lottery winner, where some people have it at birth and have it forever, and others don't get it at all. X-Men fits if we include superpowers.

Also, [[AC:Mages are like animal tamers]], for when a mage does no inherent magic themselves, but instead summons or allies with some magical being that casts for him. Wizards from the Bartimaeus series fit into this (they summon demons who do magic for them), as well as oztrickster's FF8 example above.