modern fantasy works generally need to explain in some fashion how magicians exist yet everything still sucks a lot. if your explanation is "the magicians are basically dumb assholes" this has consequences you may not have wished forhttps://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/1013272887011115008 …
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's a tough sell to moderns who love their technicalized magic systems, but Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell use the classicist approach: if you call down a lightning bolt, it's because you made friends with the lightning and asked a favor, and now you owe the lightning something
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I started another story once where a magician explained that it was bad enough when every little hedge wizard guarded their spells, but now there’s the Internet and if magic were loosed there’d be a rec.arts.deathspells newsgroup in a week.
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