>>118346441Take what you said and apply even a child's logic. Even if everyone joins a coven, not everyone are shitty witches and in fact some are very powerful despite only one magic.
If stepping on the grass is a crime then there's probably a range of trivial other laws which get you hauled off to magic prison. Now take 100 competent witches and assume overtime they break a law, as can happen to upstanding people even in real life. Are we supposed to accept that all 100 would just surrender and unquestioningly go to prison, when the lawmen are less a threat than children? Sure you know the Emperor himself is a threat, but you also know he doesn't bother with such matters since Eda was an outlaw for decades and he never personally bothered with her.
So if even one competent witch decides to oppose the law, you've got another situation like Eda. If two competent witches decide to oppose the law, you've got a dangerous rebellion. Any more than that and it's revolution. Human wave tactics don't work when it's a government against the populace. There's little other logical outcome when the setting is basically
>The general populace are all armed with at least handguns, many have machine guns, and some have missiles>The lawmen maybe have handguns and many only have slingshots, while only the leader has a nuke, maybe one or two of his underlings have a tankBy default Belos and his goons are outnumbered by the populace, but in this case the populace are ALL generally more dangerous than the goons. You talk about human wave tactics, it'd be Belos who's facing down human wave tactics of a stereotypical revolution, except everyone is armed and dangerous.
