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[LegalLoliLover]

Regardless of what they were back then, nowadays, they are not legally recognized, right, like how the DHO used to be regarded as heroes, but the ones who continue to do work nowadays are just specialized assassins?

[Mcjon01]

But yeah, they only have rules about magic because they're a magical trade union and it's not their job to legislate gay marriage and shit.

[Seika]

It does not seem to interact with the overall society, like you'd expect from most RPG guilds, though, like how, in most RPGs, Mages Guilds are legally recognized by the overall mostly Muggle society.

I'm aware that you have to relate literally everything to anime and videogames, but it shouldn't escape your notice that guilds in RPGs were based on an existing concept from what we call "reality".

[Snow]

Regardless of what they were back then, nowadays, they are not legally recognized, right, like how the DHO used to be regarded as heroes, but the ones who continue to do work nowadays are just specialized assassins?

They're s e c r e t so why on earth would they be legally recognized in the explicit form of 'Mages' Association'?

[Mcjon01]

It's not a transnational shadow state or anything like that, just a secret society. Like freemasons.

[Snow]

It's not a transnational shadow state or anything like that, just a secret society. Like freemasons.

Freemasons are pretty un-secret, as it is. Their rituals, however, are shrouded in mystère.

[LegalLoliLover]

I'm aware that you have to relate literally everything to anime and videogames, but it shouldn't escape your notice that guilds in RPGs were based on an existing concept from what we call "reality".

Pretty sure that most RL trade guilds are not secret and are beholden to most RL tax laws.

[FourthWall]

They're like the OTO fucked the Society for Creative Anachronism, basically

[Mcjon01]

The true threat to the Association isn't Solomon, it's getting taken down for a millennia of tax evasion.

[mewarmo990]

It's not a transnational shadow state or anything like that

well, the Church tries its best.

Nixon supporters were right

[Arashi_Leonhart]

Pretty sure that most RL trade guilds are not secret and are beholden to most RL tax laws.

Yeah but the Clock Tower is just the British Museum, so nobody's breaking the law, take it up with the museum administrators if you have a complaint.

[mewarmo990]

Freemasons are pretty un-secret, as it is. Their rituals, however, are shrouded in mystère.

I donated blood to the Red Cross at a masonic lodge over the summer.

my mana probably got used in a ritual somewhere

[asterism42]

Given that the Mages Association is less an organization within the overall Muggle society, rather than their own independent society, they theoretically have their own laws for everything, right? Obviously, if they break Muggle law, they are responsible for cleaning up or covering it up. Something along the lines of Bluebeard's actions is bad for all parties.

Oh good we're talking about this again. If you'll excuse me, I have to go ram my face into a food processor.

Bit late, but I had to revoice my mutilatey opinion.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

I donated blood to the Red Cross at a masonic lodge over the summer.

my mana probably got used in a ritual somewhere

Blood of the translator willingly given

[Raylen Cypher]

Bit late, but I had to revoice my mutilatey opinion.

You make it a habit of going to sources that'll make you scrutinize.

[asterism42]

You make it a habit of going to sources that'll make you scrutinize.

I'm a masochist

[Raylen Cypher]

I'm a masochist

Please don't Cyber.

[mewarmo990]

Blood of the translator willingly given

Chocolate chip cookies, forcibly taken

[SpoonyViking]

Do we know anything about Nasuverse werewolves? For instance, are they humans cursed to change into beasts? Magicians who can change shape at will? An actual separate species (and in that case, are they phantasmal beasts)?

[Zurvan]

Isn't Berserker in Fragments a werewolf? Not sure if he counts as a true werewolf since as Assassin he doesn't have the wolf form so to say.
If he does count as a werewolf than shouldn't that mean werewolves aren't phantasmal species, since iirc there aren't any phantasmal beasts that are also Heroic Spirits.