From:	Lars Ericson lericson@****.edu
Subject:	Initiate Grades (Was Re: Centering vs Penalties)
Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:21:26 -0500

Arcady wrote:

> I would look at it in the same way that you might look at the number of doctors
> who have completed their internships and gone on to be full doctors.
>
> If there are 30 thousand mages in Seattle (1% of the population, though at 3
> million Seattle should be a small backwater hick town... and considering it's
> land space it's more spacious than many of today's suburbs...) and a good fraction
> of them are full mages... then there's likely a very large number of initiates.
> I'd say anyone who's been doing magic for more than a few years is an initaite
> or viewed as washed up by their collegues.

I think you are misinterpreting the statistics a bit. I think it's
supposed to be
1% of population is awakened not mages. That gives 30,000:
40% Unaware and dormant
25% Adepts
25% Aspected Magicians
10% Magicians

It doesn't make sense that there'd be more full-blown magicians than
adepts/aspected magicians in the world. These numbers are by no means
fact, they're just my instincts/perceptions of the Awakened World. Out
of those 18,000 consciously awakened people, I'd say maybe 10-20% are
initiated. Most people are not going to need metamagic or even know much
about it, especially physical adepts (military, sports, etc...). So,
that leaves around 2500 initiates in Seattle alone. That's a hell of a
lot of them. Looking back on this crude analysis, maybe my numbers are
way off and it should be more like 1% are initiated.


> Of course most initiates don't go too high up in the grades. It gets progessively
> harder and there's a lot of other stuff to learn as well.

That's definitely true.

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