Character Fear?
Purestrain mages. Â Hammer reads. Â He knows in passing how high-end magic has been, unilaterally, responsible for the ending of ages. Â Anyone claiming to be a pointy hatted wizard looking for power scares the shit out of him in a way backed by way too much evidence in the FF universe.
How do they cope?
Geek the wizard first is a thing Hammer actually abides by. Â Fight between a guy with a knife and a mage? Hammer's going to hit the mage first before putting a boot into the knife guy. Â
He also does his best to make people actively afraid of magic as well, or at least respect it to a degree that it stops being job 1 and starts just being a tool instead of pure power seeking. Â This is the healthier of his two options, but it's no less scarring, given how he tends to enact it.
Come to think of it he also likes putting non-magical power (Weapons, explosive, siege weaponry) in the hands of common non-magical people. He knows that easy-access 'power' leads to chaos, but he also figures you're going to need it against people who can say "Well I'll just drop a moon on them, neener neener."
How do people respond to their fear?
They get their own brand of fear. Â Either of Hammer, consequence, or history. Â Fear breeds fear and, frankly Hammer is both aware of this and -perfectly alright- with it.
Do you think one day they could be cured of there fear?
Maybe.  That'd probably end badly for everyone involved given that Hammer already, publicly, muses that maybe things would have been better off if Dalamund had actually landed....or several had landed on most of the major population centers.  Hammer without his inherent loathing for magic is someone who might well latch onto it and start looking for targets.  Right now high end magic is where cowards go to do things they have no right to meddle in to fuck over honest people.
If the world were suddenly target rich of mages and magic abusers, and Hammer had a button that would let him do a one man 6'th umbral Mage War calamity to wipe them out?
There's a good chance he'd get over his fear to indulge his spite.
If that doens't happen? No. Â It's a fear tempered by knowledge and superstition that's very personal. Â It'd require Hammer to become a mage and that's never happening. Â He's too old, too furious, and too set in what he 'knows' to make that kind of sudden turn into "Magic is the best and only option" path.
Purestrain mages. Â Hammer reads. Â He knows in passing how high-end magic has been, unilaterally, responsible for the ending of ages. Â Anyone claiming to be a pointy hatted wizard looking for power scares the shit out of him in a way backed by way too much evidence in the FF universe.
How do they cope?
Geek the wizard first is a thing Hammer actually abides by. Â Fight between a guy with a knife and a mage? Hammer's going to hit the mage first before putting a boot into the knife guy. Â
He also does his best to make people actively afraid of magic as well, or at least respect it to a degree that it stops being job 1 and starts just being a tool instead of pure power seeking. Â This is the healthier of his two options, but it's no less scarring, given how he tends to enact it.
Come to think of it he also likes putting non-magical power (Weapons, explosive, siege weaponry) in the hands of common non-magical people. He knows that easy-access 'power' leads to chaos, but he also figures you're going to need it against people who can say "Well I'll just drop a moon on them, neener neener."
How do people respond to their fear?
They get their own brand of fear. Â Either of Hammer, consequence, or history. Â Fear breeds fear and, frankly Hammer is both aware of this and -perfectly alright- with it.
Do you think one day they could be cured of there fear?
Maybe.  That'd probably end badly for everyone involved given that Hammer already, publicly, muses that maybe things would have been better off if Dalamund had actually landed....or several had landed on most of the major population centers.  Hammer without his inherent loathing for magic is someone who might well latch onto it and start looking for targets.  Right now high end magic is where cowards go to do things they have no right to meddle in to fuck over honest people.
If the world were suddenly target rich of mages and magic abusers, and Hammer had a button that would let him do a one man 6'th umbral Mage War calamity to wipe them out?
There's a good chance he'd get over his fear to indulge his spite.
If that doens't happen? No. Â It's a fear tempered by knowledge and superstition that's very personal. Â It'd require Hammer to become a mage and that's never happening. Â He's too old, too furious, and too set in what he 'knows' to make that kind of sudden turn into "Magic is the best and only option" path.
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