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Wizards are the only ones who actually had to work for their magical abilities. Everyone else just inherited it or were gifted it by a higher power. Wizards are otherwise normal people who realized that they can figure it out on their own. And yet they're somehow always considered the haughty, elitist ones.
It's probably because whenever spellcasters are being compared, a Wizard comes in and says something like "we're the only ones who had to work for our magic", as if finding a powerful entity and convincing it to make a not horribly skewed bargain, learning to commune with the land itself, or following the orders given by a deity isn't "work".
And don't Bards also have to study their magic?
Bards are just Wizards with arts degrees
I hate how much sense this makes.
Yeah druids, wizards, and bards are all "learned" spellcasters.
I would argue that a bard has to work at it since they had to take the years to learn a musical instrument and then put it to use as an adventuring tool.
Silly bards. Barbarians can easily use instruments as adventuring "tools".
Wooing and banging everything that moves is hard work