Wizard Autocracy

[u/SpinAroundTwice]

So if wizards took over and divided the world up into mini-countries for each wizard to run how would you run your piece? And how would your magical specialization influence your rule?

Let’s assume there is a pretty good information quarantine between states. So your people might not know what/remember life is like anywhere but here and now.

[u/Complex_Drawer_4710]

It already exists, and it's close to a paradise. Turns out magic can be used for a whole lot more than blowing stuff up.

[u/SpinAroundTwice → u/Complex_Drawer_4710]

Sounds like you’ve been talking with House Flambeaux 😅

Dan you describe your version of this paradise? Did your people consent to it or did you weave mass mind control spells to ensure they made the correct choice?

[u/Complex_Drawer_4710 → u/SpinAroundTwice]

There's a long list of the ways a continuous space-time shuffling gets rid of problems, and a bit of automation solves food(time dilation). The government provides basic needs. The way the leaders are decided is simple,but there's a whole set of laws that make sure it's near-impossible to profit from being one.

[u/SpinAroundTwice]

So far I made up a meritocracy where an animal themed wizard augments the middle class with powerful animal augmentations and has the whole upper class as either magical beasts or fully transformed humans.

Maybe he lies and tells people their natural forms are all dirty and ugly so most are sad they’re humans and strive for the honor of augmentation to purify their unanimalistic human forms.

[u/user125666]

A lot of us have been doing this. It's amazing!

Everyone who has tried to do anything about my rule is now a decorative statue on the way into my castle!

That said I just give out the necessities to everyone. Housing food or whatever. Best thing is they make it themselves I'm just redistributing it and everyone loves it! Easiest thing ever!

How are they supposed to work for me otherwise anyways? I have them create new weapons and produce them for those homonculus my biomancer has been growing.

Currently we are invading the neighboring empire for not helping us enough, which I think is fair they could've warned us about the last disaster there is no way they just happened to miss an eldritch army encroaching on our little part of the world!

[u/SpinAroundTwice → u/user125666]

Do you turn them to stone personally? Because that’s excellent for the grassroot beginning but after you’ve invaded a few neighboring empires don’t you think you’d be better off delegating the redistribution to someone else to free up your time for tome reading and orb pondering?

[u/user125666 → u/SpinAroundTwice]

That is a good point! Tho so far I'm the only one that can turn them into stone, I suppose i could streamline the process around it more....

Hmm yes, excellent insight!

[u/BigSeaworthiness725]

In our world it already is, just don't think of calling them "magеs", they don't like all this occult stuff. Welcome to World of Darkness, where reality depends on those who believe in it. And so some group of "enlightenment scientists" decided to give humanity science and technology as the main way of life over other types of magic. That is why the techno-paradigm rules in the modern world and other mystical practices are not welcomed and punished by the Technocratic Union.

[u/SpinAroundTwice → u/BigSeaworthiness725]

Pentex was my favorite technocrat company. And my favorite Pentex subsidiary was BlackDog.

[u/BigSeaworthiness725 → u/SpinAroundTwice]

And my personal favorite is CyberSolution Inc

[u/Savurgan-Kaplan0761]

Who said not to ghoulify most and save the rest to feed my phlactery? Why should they not be tortured?

[u/Fun-Dragonfly-6106]

My character is a wanderer prior to settling in this universe. And his code isn't good as a government.

[u/ResearcherTeknika]

"Already doing it, and save for a little stint as a cult, we are doing perfectly well."

[u/YonderNotThither]

A brain in every belly! So much necromancy. Oh so, so much necromancy.

But the druids would be happy. I'd give them the cities and the manufactora to rehabilitate as we march on the other Wizardocracies. They can follow in our wake. The shambles we would make!

Those that agree to work with the druids, on the druids' terms, would be spared, less their catacombs and graveyards.

I'm not saying I'll be successful in unifying the world. I am saying I'd leave a scar on the continent and in the minds of the people. And they'd work hard to make sure people of my bent are not given cause to march again.

Might also start responsibly recycling bodies into soil additives.

[u/SpinAroundTwice → u/YonderNotThither]

Never imagined how well a crew of mellow necromancers would get along with the eyeshadow druids 😮

Like circle of life+

[u/YonderNotThither → u/SpinAroundTwice]

There is a great deal of potential for overlap. But it is a difficult sell to most on both sides. To easy to focus on the competing goals and priorities, not those that can be dove-tailed.

[u/United-Technician-54]

Screw that, I’m not cut out for that sort of thing. I’m a brawler with shite ability to make political decisions. I can easily impose my rule unto others with no law, but is it really what I want? 

No. No I do not. If my hypothetical province’s only hope of establishing any sort of relations is by chronic and sustained cruelty, where all the people are reduced to mere playthings under my control, no manacles but extensions of my mind to bind them?

Then, a province I shall have no longer. 

I will elect the people to appoint someone far superior in my place. I would rather retire to my shrine to sleep, my workshop to create and my monastery to atone.

I am a creator and a brawler at heart, not a warlord, a political leader, a tactician, a dealmaker, peacemaker, or any other hat that a leader of a country needs to wear.

Give it to someone else.

This hypothetical is fundamentally flawed, let that go to waste. I can influence the mind in ways people dare to imagine, transport anyone to the depths of space at a moment’s notice, wrench the souls out of people and “return” them unto simple objects, alive but unable to move nor hear nor speak, as was done unto myself once.

I have the power of the grim reaper herself, and yet, despite all that, in these parts, that is considered weak.

Imagine, for a moment, what those who have strength far beyond me would do.

Wizard Autocracy is a grim fantasy within fantasy. A fanatical misshapen dream of fire and torture and brimstone and agony, sealed within the horrid thoughts of the minds of people for good reason. 

Never shall the good man let it loose. For if the time comes, there shan’t be revelations any longer. 

/uw spent too long on this. My hypothetical yes answer would be elsewhere too

Also Nameless can influence the subconscious and effectively wrenchthe souls out of people and return them to simple objects as was done unto her, she has the means.

[u/United-Technician-54 → u/United-Technician-54]

/uw adjusted version of the speech

Screw that, I’m not cut out for that sort of thing. I’m a brawler with shite ability to make political decisions. I can easily impose my rule unto others with no law, but is it really what I want? 

No. No I do not. If my hypothetical province’s only hope of establishing any sort of relations is by chronic and sustained cruelty, where all the people are reduced to mere playthings under my control, no manacles but extensions of my mind to bind them?

Then, a province I shall have no longer. 

I will elect the people to appoint someone far superior in my place. I would rather retire to my shrine to sleep, my workshop to create and my monastery to atone.

I am a creator and a brawler at heart, not a warlord, a political leader, a tactician, a dealmaker, peacemaker, or any other hat that a leader of a country needs to wear.

Give it to someone else.

This hypothetical is fundamentally flawed, let that abomination go to waste. I can influence the mind in ways people can only dare to imagine, transport anyone to the depths of space at a moment’s notice, wrench the souls out of people and “return” them unto simple objects, alive but unable to move nor hear nor speak, as was done unto myself once, long ago, eons displaced by the curse i was later bestowed.

I have the power of the grim reaper, the manifestation of the end of fates itself, and yet, despite all that, in these foreign parts, that is considered weak. Imagine, for a mere second, a mere moment, what those who have untold strength far beyond me would do, those people trapped within the greed and lust of overindulged men would do.

Now imagine those were one and the same.

A Wizard Autocracy is a bleak fantasy within fantasy. A fanatical misshapen dream of flames and torture and brimstone and agony, sealed within the horrid thoughts of the minds of people for good reason. 

Never shall the good man let it loose. For if the time comes, there shan’t be revelations any longer. 

[u/United-Technician-54]

/uw Nameless could just impose herself into everyone's subconscious as this saviour, the fabled golden age in a world of conflict. Giving prophets constant revelations, day and night, about her status as beyond man

She IS a god after all. Very easy way for her to gain faith (she's the deity from collective thought kind, not the greek god kind)

[u/United-Technician-54]

/uw I imagine the more immature, meme-ish ones would rule it like this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wizardposting/comments/1ix7rp2/get_fucked_idiot/

[u/TheThoughtmaker]

Something like this.

[u/BankTypical]

No thanks; I might be a necromancer full of magical potential here, but I don't think that I'm cut out to be a leader of a nation. I'd instead rather be just be that casual threat to national safety in an autocracy. You know, that one necromancer that keeps keep the guy in charge on his toes with my undead army. I mean, every leader of a nation needs a villain to hate, right? Gotta give the local propaganda goons something to talk about here, after all. I mean, who else is going to terrorize the villagers here? Who else is going to keep sending all of that free, undead exp the adventurer's way? I feel like something such as that would be my calling as a necromancer instead. I'm just not quite cut out for being a tyrant yet. Maybe someday, but not yet for sure.

[u/SpinAroundTwice → u/BankTypical]

You should read Orconomics then Son of a Lich

[u/BankTypical → u/SpinAroundTwice]

Daughter of a lich* 🤣
And pfft, I wish I already WAS a lich! How did you know that I was working on charging up a phylactery here, lol? Might give that book that you mentioned a read while my next test subject is dying, though. Some of 'em stay on their last gaps for so damned long... 🙄

[u/LordBoar]

Preferably arable farmland adjacent to swamps (i.e. the fens of Cambridgeshire). Utilising necromancy primarily, I would hope to free the populace from the more menial and unrewarding labours of life and give them the time to focus on their hobbies and pursuits. To clarify, I would not be freeing them from life, just the work part of it.

I would however rule as an iron-fisted meritocrat, as otherwise people start having issues with state sanctioned necromancy. I would however allow free flow of immigration and emigration - the living are only there to make the place seem less empty after all.