I think in both cases, the tower detects magicians.
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In my world, the side with magic won by constructing a tower that had the power to detect them before they exhibited any magical tendencies, thus avoided the genocide being perpetrated at the time by the non-magical folk.
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Should a magician show magical tendencies without some kind of protection, then the common folk will kill them without thought. So the tower detects these magicians before their magic flourishes and takes hold.
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The tower detects magicians (Ardorians) when they're two. They are fosted at a noble house and then train at the tower from fifteen to twenty.
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Sounds like it would be something good to read, to me.
Just out of interest, Marvolo, have you read any of the books in
The Saga of Recluce series by
L. E. Modesitt Jr? If you haven't you might like to. Whilst they're not the same as your idea, they follow the same general idea - magicians are picked up at a young age, become noble.
When I was reading your post I started thinking of Modesitt, you see. Not a bad thing, that - Modesitt is an extremely good writer.