Setsuna Meiou knew this. She also knew that those who rose to power and prominence were often just like a nova or other stellar prominence. They might shine briefly for a moment, but were then forgotten despite all their pride or pretensions or plans. A decade or two and so many rock stars or politicians were discarded, the details faded, and a century later would be forgotten with very few exceptions.
Setsuna Meiou was quite familiar with the way such things went. She was familiar with the way that those in power tended to be the most ruthless, the most aggressive, the most likely to do or say whatever was needed to continue to accrue that power.
In this new timeline, she was finding that there was another factor. Magic was real and a fair amount of people had it. Those that were capable of magic had a natural edge that immediately gave them benefits and problems that non-magic-wielders lacked. Not that there wasn't SOME blurring of the line, as a magic-wielder could be born to non-mage parents just as a pair of magically inclined parents could have a non-mage child. The overwhelming tendency was for mage couples to produce mage children, non-mage couples produced non-mage children. Mixed parentage could go either way and produce either a weakly powered mage or an exceptionally powerful one.
Those without magic could make their mark in history, just as they had in the previous timelines. Those with magic could settle in for a largely uneventful life and avoid complications and problems. Those who did have the magic simply had more options available to them than those who did not, which was what power ultimately came down to whether that was political or monetary or social power came down to.
So she was looking at a sort of caste society except that it was worldwide. Further, from what she could see, the very kind of magic wielded had its effect on the world's development as a whole.
That sort of magic being:
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