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How did they bootstrap this thing? If the easiest spell is "Explode The Sun", then becoming a Great Mage able to cast "Prevent Sun From Exploding" is very unlikely!
In the early days, mages were less powerful because there was less power in the Aether. Their most powerful spells could only destroy small houses. Plenty of small houses were destroyed as these mages learned their skills, but it was mostly their own houses, and they learned from their mistakes. Over time, these mages not only became more skilled at their craft, they also improved the power all mages had to draw on, weaving isolated pockets of Aether together into one large Aether-net.
Through this, the mages were able to accomplish much, much more. But it meant that new mages could draw on power far greater than a new mage knows how to control.
Easy, it was another, greater mage. It's mages all the way down
In a time before modern mages, before pre-written incantations, before even Auto-Incantated Vibration Casting (A-I VibeCast), there was a... different time.
It was the Sages of the ancient Fortran civilization, followed by the Assembly of Oracles, who truly understood the old magics.
The old tongues are understood so little these contemporary times.
Even those only whisper in hushed cants about the before times, when every inscription was carefully annotated in scrolls that could become as long as entire towers
Annotations?! You know of the myths?
Is casting "Fist" more complicated than casting "Explode The Sun"?
Yes, for it requires intense physical training for a proper casting of "Fist"
Ah, those damn somatic components.
casts summon bigger mage
there have been a lot of suns
there's always a bigger sun
Any idiot can cast rm - rf /
It takes real power to limit user permissions and have backups from which to restore.
You see there used to be two suns before the first mage was made.
The Sun was created by some mages that come from a realm where magic is way less powerful...