Sure, but I see it turned the opposite way: you can tell we don’t have magic because clearly there is stagnation where magic would strike deals (even with small, mutual, safe, local wishes).
I'm thinking something like
wish magic to ease human suffering/desperation is an incredibly lucrative businesses model within magic societies, though human business actions are also a devastating source of magic pollution/imbalance which feeds+attracts invasive magical wildlife (from beneficial dream moss to creatures best avoided). Unpredictable magical effects are noted to happen alongside extreme weather events, which is often just as dangerous to magical beings who are unprepared.
Some humans still decry even the nicest magic spells (and beings) as evil even after malicious spells were banned interdimensionally (in fact, it seems some humans are angry about that decision), but the most common of questionable spells just turns escapism into escape. The regulations are fairly strict and clear, and most modern wish casters draw from a vast sum of knowledge (both magical and human) to provide a more favorable return. Greedy wishes (if not outright ignored) pretty much always still turns out as you’d expect though.
The one thing that most humans fail to comprehend about magic in general is that it flows not unlike other natural forces, and that wish casters simply attempt to direct it. Natural magical forces often have a much better track record of influencing human affairs just by chance alone (it has been said that a summer amnesia wave prevented nuclear war last year, but this has not been confirmed as no one involved could recall that day).
(And yes, I know that probably hits some plot points of at least 4 of those anime cartoons and probably at least 1 Junji Ito story and/or older folklore. Or maybe it’d just be countless new episodes of… The Twilight Zone / The Scary Door)
Sure, but I see it turned the opposite way: you can tell we don’t have magic because clearly there is stagnation where magic would strike deals (even with small, mutual, safe, local wishes).
I'm thinking something like
wish magic to ease human suffering/desperation is an incredibly lucrative businesses model within magic societies, though human business actions are also a devastating source of magic pollution/imbalance which feeds+attracts invasive magical wildlife (from beneficial dream moss to creatures best avoided). Unpredictable magical effects are noted to happen alongside extreme weather events, which is often just as dangerous to magical beings who are unprepared.
Some humans still decry even the nicest magic spells (and beings) as evil even after malicious spells were banned interdimensionally (in fact, it seems some humans are angry about that decision), but the most common of questionable spells just turns escapism into escape. The regulations are fairly strict and clear, and most modern wish casters draw from a vast sum of knowledge (both magical and human) to provide a more favorable return. Greedy wishes (if not outright ignored) pretty much always still turns out as you’d expect though.
The one thing that most humans fail to comprehend about magic in general is that it flows not unlike other natural forces, and that wish casters simply attempt to direct it. Natural magical forces often have a much better track record of influencing human affairs just by chance alone (it has been said that a summer amnesia wave prevented nuclear war last year, but this has not been confirmed as no one involved could recall that day).
(And yes, I know that probably hits some plot points of at least 4 of those anime cartoons and probably at least 1 Junji Ito story and/or older folklore. Or maybe it’d just be countless new episodes of… The Twilight Zone / The Scary Door)