>magic is directly proportional in its strength with how many believers exist
why does the clocktower hide its presence from the general public? wouldn't this deliberately weaken it? i thought eras where magic was commonplace was where it was at its strongest.
More people means greater strength.
Greater strength means more difficult containment.
More people means more actors to consider when judging a situation.
More actors means more difficult containment.
Loss of containment means when somebody snaps they fireball an entire building instead of shooting up their school/workplace.
Destruction requires only power. Avoiding destruction requires both power and finesse. A large number of believers boosts the former while doing nothing for the latter.
but wouldn't it boost all magic, including both destruction and restoration? if more people are able to use it then more people can intervene if a situation becomes too dangerous, and do so in a shorter amount of time than it would take for the mage association to send someone out.
This is information is classified. If you have to ask, then you don't need to know.
shut up, rin.
because magi are fucking assholes and if they manage to reach the root then it'll stop mattering
A sloppy, miscast fireball can still burn your house down. A sloppy, miscast healing spell is either going to mangle you or leave you deformed.
To use another example: can you counter the risks of giving everyone on earth a flamethrower by also supplying them with fire extinguishers?
Magic doesn't grow weaker or stronger based on belief, it's a different metaphysical mechanism which causes the collective human subconscious to influence the supernatural in Nasu's setting.
But the strength of magic is irrelevant because magecraft is only a means to an end for mages and the end neither requires power nor changes based on it. Plus the mage's association has to contend with the church who is vastly more powerful than it and only barely tolerates the mage's existence as a means of containing magecraft and imposing regulations on mages. The church's influence is downplayed in Fate but in other aspects of the setting it's clear that the balance of power favours them overwhelmingly, and they serve as a very necessary power check to the general existence of the highly unscrupulous and inhumane practitioners of magecraft.
if they're trained to be capable of using both, then yes. most of the time you have drills that ensure everyone is aware of what to do during times of urgency. alongside that, you would also restrict the ability to access a flamethrower by licensing obtained only by displaying the proper use of the flamethrower, alongside what to do when something goes wrong with it. i think spells could fall under that category as well. what do you do now when people have access to 3d printers that let them make whatever tool or weapon they want? do you decide to just ban 3d printers? it's silly to me that this is the mindset here.
>i thought eras where magic was commonplace was where it was at its strongest.
You've got things turned around. Magic was more commonplace BECAUSE it was stronger, not the other way around.
And the ability to use magic is a hereditary trait that's rare in the general public and genetically recessive so more people knowing about magic wouldn't change anything. Most of the human race can't use magecraft regardless. The value of heredity is part of why mage families are so secretive and obsessed with legacy and pedigree. Let it slip and you end up losing it almost entirely in only a few generations.
>i thought eras where magic was commonplace was where it was at its strongest.
If you're talking about AoG then that is another story.
Btw in Fate/Requiem, magecraft is for everyone and everyone could be a Master. This girl (pic related) is from a family in Spiritual Evocation department - Clock Tower.
but then how was waver or shirou able to use it? their parents didn't have any connection to magecraft did they?
Why didn't they just study biology and identify the gene sequence for strong magic affinity?
Waver is from a minor mage family. His ability to use magecraft is hereditary.
Shirou has limited aptitude inherited from his parents, whoever they are. His family's heritage traces back to someone who was a proper magus at some point and just produced a small amount of potential in him by a fluke. Even then, his natural aptitude for magic was so poor it's unlikely he ever would have been capable of any magecraft whatsoever had he not spent most of his life with Avalon embedded in his body.
Because, get this, it's magic.
Why are their headquarters in the parliament building where all the government people are? Is the UK government in on the masquerade?
but Kayneth said that Waver was a 1st gen mage and was arrogant for thinking he could try and reform the methods of refining magecraft with a weak lineage.
>While the Magic Association was founded in the 2nd century this town is said to have been established in the 12th.
>The ones that offered the land, funded the city's construction and are still bankrolling it are the twelve magi families known as its monarchs. As the ones that manage the safeguarding, concealment, and decline of mystery in the modern era, it would be no exaggeration to call them the rulers of the magical world.
He’s a third gen whose first gen was a whore who learned some tricks through bedroom talk
ie the worst kind of mage newbie
You can buy a flamethrower for 5 dollars at walmart.
Get a lighter and some aerosol.
But somehow not everyone is committing arson all the time?
So probably giving everyone a flamethrower wouldn't change all that much
At least post images these wall texts are boring as fuck
>some idiot fails at magic
>whole city goes up in flames
b...but at least they can heal people really really well now.
A better example would be weapons, you can get most weapons easily, but some things like nuclear weaponry etc are not available to you because they are far too dangerous.
ie a limit in power
Sounds lile a success to me