Random thought as I procrastinate on my essay: Do you think there are colleges or universities or any other institution of higher learning in Azeroth that *don’t* teach magic? Are there schools that exclusively teach non-magical things like history, philosophy, or science?
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That is very true. I suppose I should amend my previous statement to say learned people in terms of literacy and scholarship (as opposed to craftsmanship) might have commonly been assumed to be magic users in some capacity.
This actually parallels quite well with how religious people have been regarded across our real world's history, now that I think about it. Knowledge has often been considered the gateway to higher powers (just as how Catholic clergymen were the only ones who could speak Latin)
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Weeeellllll... Latin was the "common" tongue (common in availability, not usage) that transcended national/tribal/ethnic borders from Rome to the Reformation - and the Catholic Church made VERY few changes until then.
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(Untagged the others so we don't spam their notifications, haha) Looking from the perspective of a typical German, for example, during the Medieval ages (which is usually the time period fantasy is quasi set it), Latin was completely unintelligible, which made the teachings ...
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