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I suppose I should be embarrassed, I'd actually forgotten that I had posted this story here...
As one comment helpfully pointed out, this site is pretty much dead,and so it completely blanked my mind to come check it out again.
A link to a fully updated version of the story can be found below, where we are on chapter seven already. If you were waiting for updates... I am sorry for being an idiot and all the future updates will be found under The_Oddest_Exclamation at Archiveofourown.
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As for comments, I won't respond to all of the comments that this version of the story has garnered, as I think I answered them pretty well whether in the continued story itself on archiveofourown, or in the comments section there.
I will respond to Covante though, and I must apologize for taking so long to respond to a very long and well written comment that I literally didn't realize existed until only a few minutes ago. I also haven't gotten much sleep, so forgive me if my answers aren't the greatest, just know that I will go into more detail to answer your questions in the story itself in future chapters.
But the short answer is I did attempt to see things from multiple viewpoints, in retrospect I didn't express it as well as I could have I will admit... but that sort of stuff is actually one of the main reasons chapter 8 is taking so long, as I wanted to formalize how exactly the roman empire and the rise of the anti-wizarding societies across the globe fit into the world I've tried to craft.
And while I don't want to spoil everything for you, I will tell you that you can blame the actions of the civilizations from the "golden age of magic" that sit at the beginning of human history in the timeline I've created, which are Atlantis, Mu, and Lemuria. It is both the impact they had on later civilizations, and the biological and mental differences that you would think would logically come with being a mage in general, are a large part of why common people view wizards and witches the ways that they do in the stories setting. That and that the impact and interactions of the individuals and civilizations that followed them is a major reason that wizarding civilization and biology is the way I have chosen to describe it in the story.
For instance, the reason I went with the Romans (among others) rejecting wizarding culture is entirely social and political, related mainly to the Greco-Roman culture and way of life and there connection to earlier civilizations. In universe, the Romans, having lost a long and painful series of wars attempting to subjugate Carthage and magical Egypt, decide to restructure the way their mages live around a domineering church, using the abrahamic faith to chain their mages into servants of the state. Having been inspired by the legacies of the Hyperborian Kings that nearly wiped out the shattered wizarding peoples in most of Afro-Eurasia to begin with.
Your point about the Malleus Maleficarum still stands well though, and it is part of what confused me about the canon story to be honest. If we think of it in the way you presented, there really isn't really much of a reason for the mages to hide to begin with in so long as they aren't acting like dicks, which is why I have attempted to write a sensible history to begin with. And their inability to not act like dicks, and the biological reasons for that behavior, are a big part of what gets the mages into trouble in the timeline I've created.
So going forward, I thank you for your questions and hope you find my exhausted explanations acceptable, and that you will find the the stories future chapters enjoyable as I continue.
As one comment helpfully pointed out, this site is pretty much dead,and so it completely blanked my mind to come check it out again.
A link to a fully updated version of the story can be found below, where we are on chapter seven already. If you were waiting for updates... I am sorry for being an idiot and all the future updates will be found under The_Oddest_Exclamation at Archiveofourown.
____________________________________________________________________________________________
As for comments, I won't respond to all of the comments that this version of the story has garnered, as I think I answered them pretty well whether in the continued story itself on archiveofourown, or in the comments section there.
I will respond to Covante though, and I must apologize for taking so long to respond to a very long and well written comment that I literally didn't realize existed until only a few minutes ago. I also haven't gotten much sleep, so forgive me if my answers aren't the greatest, just know that I will go into more detail to answer your questions in the story itself in future chapters.
But the short answer is I did attempt to see things from multiple viewpoints, in retrospect I didn't express it as well as I could have I will admit... but that sort of stuff is actually one of the main reasons chapter 8 is taking so long, as I wanted to formalize how exactly the roman empire and the rise of the anti-wizarding societies across the globe fit into the world I've tried to craft.
And while I don't want to spoil everything for you, I will tell you that you can blame the actions of the civilizations from the "golden age of magic" that sit at the beginning of human history in the timeline I've created, which are Atlantis, Mu, and Lemuria. It is both the impact they had on later civilizations, and the biological and mental differences that you would think would logically come with being a mage in general, are a large part of why common people view wizards and witches the ways that they do in the stories setting. That and that the impact and interactions of the individuals and civilizations that followed them is a major reason that wizarding civilization and biology is the way I have chosen to describe it in the story.
For instance, the reason I went with the Romans (among others) rejecting wizarding culture is entirely social and political, related mainly to the Greco-Roman culture and way of life and there connection to earlier civilizations. In universe, the Romans, having lost a long and painful series of wars attempting to subjugate Carthage and magical Egypt, decide to restructure the way their mages live around a domineering church, using the abrahamic faith to chain their mages into servants of the state. Having been inspired by the legacies of the Hyperborian Kings that nearly wiped out the shattered wizarding peoples in most of Afro-Eurasia to begin with.
Your point about the Malleus Maleficarum still stands well though, and it is part of what confused me about the canon story to be honest. If we think of it in the way you presented, there really isn't really much of a reason for the mages to hide to begin with in so long as they aren't acting like dicks, which is why I have attempted to write a sensible history to begin with. And their inability to not act like dicks, and the biological reasons for that behavior, are a big part of what gets the mages into trouble in the timeline I've created.
So going forward, I thank you for your questions and hope you find my exhausted explanations acceptable, and that you will find the the stories future chapters enjoyable as I continue.
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