Her website hitomihosono . com has links to a lot of articles about her work . That ' s where I would start looking for specific information about the processes behind pieces like this . <| sep |> There is a great city called Academia that is a magic republic , it offers citizenship to anyone who arrives at the city and gladly educates them on how to use magic in exchange for their service to the city . The problem with Academia is that it is a giant walking city that is hard to find , and even harder to get into . Now with cities , the nobility sees the magic as its right to rule in a very Machiavellian type way . There is a book that is distributed in a Kingdom named Altania called the King and his subjects which describes the layout of feudal society . It ' s describes the reason that nobility should keep magic to themselves , because it is their right to rule . If the masses gained the ability to use magic it would be the fall of society . So the nobility uses every effort it can to prevent the populace from learning magic , mostly just economic means . Now comes the actual magician , they have a strange position . They are a rare resource , almost everyone wants a magician in their city . So they know that their pure existence can make them wealthy , sown use that wealth for comfort and some use it to further their magic studies . The magician is commodity and they know it , this makes them arrogant . Most magicians look for the highest bidder and sell themselves to it , meaning only the nobility and rich merchant families can afford them . This also drives more introverted magician to attempt to hide their magic or to escape from society and live in the woods . Some of these magicians make friends with elves , orcs , goblins , etc . and help them learn magic . A magician who helps people without payment is actually seen as weird , and sometimes the nobles will attempt to have them killed so they can secure their power .