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    Mogamett really can be so honest, straightforward and gentle after his own fashion because he doesn't consider non-magians humans anymore (or he doesn't consider magicians humans but something higher and humans are just animals). There's not a trace of doubt in him anymore. The same can't be true for the younger folks who haven't gone through what he did. Thus they won't be as genuine, and in the end they can go either way: Adopt the racist way of thinking as an ideology or they can keep doubting it. The latter people might find living in Magnostadt somewhat haunting, even if they pretended otherwise.

    Titus's situation looks worse than I thought. It's clear his past was bad, but now it seems he has no future at all. I doubt Mogamett foresaw this when giving the human pet to Titus, but it couldn't have been better luck for him. It was Marga who made Titus want to defy his destiny, leading to betraying Scheherazade. Who knows what he is, in the end. Maybe he's a non-magician altered by Scheherazade to become a really powerful magician at the cost of his life? We don't really know if Scheherazade is any good, after all.

    I still hope Al Thamen doesn't have too much to do with Magnostadt, at least in the form of direct influence. It would be strange if they totally ignored such a nest of magicians, but I want Magnostadt to be standing on its own.

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    Procacious Polymath Ryllharu's Avatar
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    Mogamett Is a good person, just horribly misguided. The conclusions he reached are perfectly understandable given what he's been through, but as you implied, I don't think he realizes that what he's doing in spreading his views is that he's repeating the past, just the other way around. Bureaucrats treated him, his family, and his friends like something less than human, and he's making other people do the same, without any of the context he's been through. He treats the good or selfless goi like pets, he treats the greedy ones like insects. His followers treat them all like firewood.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
    We don't really know if Scheherazade is any good, after all.

    I still hope Al Thamen doesn't have too much to do with Magnostadt, at least in the form of direct influence. It would be strange if they totally ignored such a nest of magicians, but I want Magnostadt to be standing on its own.
    Scheherazade is like any other non-villain we've seen in the series. She will defend what is her own (in this case Leam) at any cost and by any means. The ends always justify the means for her, Sinbad, or the royal family of Kou (minus one bitch empress and one adorably naïve princess, both on opposite ends). If I remember right, they also speculated that Scheherazade is among the older set of Magi, unlike Judal who is young in both appearance and actual age, and Aladdin who ultimately isn't from this world but instead from the last.

    Aladdin seems to have found his answer to Dunya's death, his sense of unease about Mogamett, and also the answer to why his vision brought him here.

    Dunya's death wasn't a personal vendetta against the royalty as she had always thought, it was Mogamett's war against everyone who oppressed him and his kind. She was just unfortunately caught in the crossfire. Had Mogamett thought more clearly, he should have saved her for a figurehead.

    Mogamett doesn't seem to be the cause of Aladdin's vision either. He's good natured and has the right idea, just going about it in the one of the worst ways possible. He genuinely wants the best for the majority of people, and Magnoshtat is that method. He doesn't want vengeance anymore, he wants acceptance of magicians.

    On the other hand, something is going on underneath him, and that is the cause of Aladdin's vision. I don't know how much of it Mogamett is aware of, but I doubt he's responsible. He just doesn't seem the type. I'm not sure if Irene (also see spelled Elaine) is working for Al Thamen or not, but it is clear that Al Thamen is worming their way into the upper portions of their academy and government. Al Thamen is trying to manipulate the magicians into doing something truly awful for them. If they were working together directly, they would be allied with the Kou Empress Bitch of the Universe.

    The magicians haven't been given the answer to make djinn, so Al Thamen is influencing at most. Irene caught that in Aladdin's expression. What she showed the three of them is at the infancy stage, where Aladdin and the audience have seen Al Thamen's total control over the process. I'd wager Al Thamen is trying to get the magicians to create a purely artificial djinn that goes completely out of control immediately. The opposite of Al Thamen's process of using an individual's resentment to guide and control that power.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu View Post
    Scheherazade is like any other non-villain we've seen in the series
    I think it's way to early to just assume Scheherazade is a non-villain. I mean, she's probably not, but there's no reason she couldn't be.

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