Wow . uznibbor you sure we ' re NEVER going to score 150 ? <| sep |> I ' m ashamed how long I spent thinking about what to put under the record this week . Hoping for a win today to avoid any more sad signs . <| sep |> I think ultimately , how you go about the societal implications of Magic is all down to your society at large , and how Magic came to be . If your story has a Futuristic or Modern setting , the culture surrounding magic would be different than if it was a medieval setting . It is also up to how magic came to be . If it always existed , then that would be a different case then if it suddenly came to be all of a sudden . To add on to this , who can use magic also plays a large part . If you limit who can learn magic , then society will tend towards the mages being the upper echelon of society out of power imbalance . meanwhile if everybody can learn it , then it is just another facet to play around with because everybody is on equal ground . That ' s not to say that having everybody on equal grounds makes for a boring story , it just allows you more tools to play around with . As a set piece , there is merit in somebody just becoming overwhelmingly powerful by power of the draw genetic advantage , or pure old hard work to the detriment of everything else and with those pieces in mind you can still have a group of people like that move towards interbreeding to the extent that they are more powerful than everyone else so that you could get a ruling class of magic users in there .