Magic In The Air
There was a time when all of this was files. Of course, not long after then the area around here was all fields, but then that’s databases for you. However, since those times, the record-keeping has all gone into the cloud. Many in the area have since put down the increasing use of hats to the fact we now get rainstorms of data, rather than rain itself.
Yet again, this has caused the Science Activists to come out onto the street in protest. All of them chanting their favourite equations and demanding that this universe adopt the scientific system to bring us into line with the majority of ‘known universes’ they claim to have discovered.
However, the traditionalists among us all point to the great cultural achievements that having a magic-based system of universal law has brought about. Apart, that is, from the problems with dragons, orcs and the occasional errant wizard going rogue.
However, since setting up the Thaurmatological Police force two centuries ago, all that has become less of a problem. Especially since confining the dragons to their reserves, where only a handful of people, mainly only tourists, are burned to death. Then only when they think they and they alone have come up with a foolproof idea on how to get their hands on a hoard of gold without any of that messing about with alchemy.
Still, the opinion polls show that is a price most are willing to pay. That and the – now rare – risk of being turned into a frog by any rogue practitioner of the magical arts.
The registration and licensing of the practitioners of the magical arts has – all agree – been great step forward in proper magical accountability. It has led to a massive drop in the number of unexplained happenings, as well as far fewer perversions and distortions of the natural magical order of this universe. Despite the problem of keeping the Magical Registration Database from falling on innocent bystanders, of course.
Of course no system is perfect, hence the need for the cloud-based database and the thaurmatological police squads.
However, the scientists are slowly – not exponentially, fortunately – increasing in number. So, should they take the leap from theoretical to practical sexual activity among themselves, they could in mere decades, or so, our number wizards tell us, outnumber the magical traditionalists. This is a severe threat to our own unique magical universe. This could mean, in the very near future, our very civilisation itself could change irrevocably into a science-based one.
That is unless we act now and turn all those pesky scientists into frogs.
