Demacia hot take

Fair warning if you’re pro mage you’re probably not going to like what I say which is fine! Just my opinion after all.

I wanna start this off by saying I don’t think demacias oppression of mages is okay or correct by any means but I think that their fear (especially since their entire society was founded after being hunted down by mages in the first place.) is legit. We’re talking about people who have the ability to control fire, flood entire cities, and summon other worldly creatures. In fact it isn’t even just demacia, in arcane one of the councilors mentioned how piltover was founded as a safe haven from war mongering mages and I’m guessing that despite these two being major regions I’m sure they aren’t the only ones, hell noxus is still living proof that mages can and still do use their powers for worse especially given the war in ionia. I think alot of people forget this fear of mages didn’t come out of thin air, that mages at one point did cause harm to a good amount of runeterra and scarred generations of people.

I know there’s going to be that one person so I’ll get this out of the way now; yes someone being born a mage doesn’t by default mean they are evil, however I want to point out that corruption is not that hard to fall into, especially if you physically have the ability to walk over or rule over others. I personally believe that if it wasn’t for patricide sylas and the other mages would have easily taken over demacia. Mages do have an advantage and I would argue that a corrupt or power hungry mage is more dangerous than a non magical human.

Now I do want to end this by saying demacias actions don’t help this case ethier giving mages a reason to want to kill people by committing crimes against them gives them a reason/ scape goat to justify using their powers against others.