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I am already side-eyeing the supposed "good guys" of this story, because the way the worldbuilding works is that the only thing it takes to be a witch is the knowledge of how to do witchcraft, so in the past, all of humanity used to know how to wield magic but the world was in constant disarray because of it until the "few good souls left in the world" erase humanity's memory and only pass on their knowledge to people who prove themselves, so witchcraft remains a niche art. They also spread the lie that witches are born, not created, to get the populace to never question anything.

 

Using the most obvious comparison, imagine if a few people banded together and decided that humanity didn't deserve to know how to make art, and erased everyone's memory of how to do this. Anytime a small minority decides they know what's better for a majority it will always be morally grey AT BEST. You can not tell me that those few witches were the last reasonable people in all the world, there is no way that innocents didn't get caught in the crossfires of that decision and are now having a valuable means of expression withheld from them and fed lies about it. Sure, maybe the world is more peaceful that way, but it's still not without flaw from a moral standpoint and I wonder if the story will touch on this at all.