Comment by Galactic Navy Officer on Lucky Vern Helar

@Lucky Vern Helar Yeah. We've seen in other works what happens when mages go bonkers with power and trying to get power. Like in The Great Estate Designer, that ass**** who tried to sacrifice the refugees in that one city by burying skulls all around the hill, all for a ritual to gain power. Or the many, many academy stories where the students are allowed to beat each other with their powers and the professors rarely intervene, causing damage to the school and landing the protagonists' friends and others in the infirmary. It's just story-telling convention none landed in the morgue.