[MoreThanThree]

When the citizenry, the plebeian peasants as an entire class, receive access to technology invented by the military and ruling class, they tend to weaken the technology they so stole. The weakness of invention can be tracked with ease--the warrior invents the axe to fight off barbarians, the lumberjack shrinks its head to fell lumber; the archer invents the bow and arrow to slay monsters, the hunter shrinks the arrowhead to poach their lord's deer; the soldier creates the spear to defend his country, the fisherman snaps it in half and stabs fish; the king invents the castle, and the citizen devolves it into a house. It is only through the grace of our Masters, the omnipotent Red Wizards of Thay, that magic is kept in the hands of the powerful and away from the commoners to weaken it as the tools of war have been weakened.