That's the thing, is they use that very excuse to take children from their parents and lock them up into the Circle Towers as if they're no better than criminals simply for having magic. Young children, no more than eleven or twelve in some cases.

The mages were in the midst of a rebellion when I left. Or, rather, something else happened and the majority of them had thrown their lot in with a new peacekeeping organization. I'm not sure if a decision had been reached before I was brought here. Probably nothing formal considering the other threads that needed dealt with first.