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Wizard McFee from “Changes”
SerScot:
Why is a full Wizard running a switchboard? Seriously, she’s a full wizard on the White Council and she’s running a switchboard? Is there nothing more useful she can do with her talents?
Why, does the WC have a full wizard in this position rather than a vanilla mortal?
Bad Alias:
Because they are secretive to the point of idiocy. While there are good reasons to have someone with enough talent to not be an easy target for an intelligence operation running communications at your headquarters, most of those concerns could be taken care of by just keeping secret who that person is.
SerScot:
Why would a full wizard of the White Council ever agree to such a menial task?
segaily:
--- Quote from: SerScot on August 09, 2019, 07:55:33 PM ---Why would a full wizard of the White Council ever agree to such a menial task?
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I would guess the job is on some kind of rotation and that everyone in the rotation gets out of some other duty that no one likes.
g33k:
There's also this: different wizards have different kinds of talent. It's possible that MacFee literally had no useful contribution in a crisis situation; note that, even with the older tech, she must have a very gentle, mellow gift, or she'd hex down the switchboard. IIRC there's WoJ that a couple of the Senior Council have no significant ability for combat magic, for example.
Behind the scenes, we discover that the Senior Council was secretly considering it very much a crisis situation.
It's possible that there was nobody except a full wizard that they'd have trusted to run Communications Central in a crisis!
All that said: yeah, it does seem a notable anomaly. Dunno if any of my speculations are true... or are sufficient explanation if true!
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