Of course exposition delivered through the lens of mages is gonna make magic seem like the end all be all, but is there concrete evidence of that actually being the case? There are no prerequisites to being discriminatory against those different. If there was just one single snobby mage in the...
Here's where the premise just falls apart. It's now revealed that there's a whole other faction for "swords" that exists apart from mage society. Will is no longer the hard working but talentless MC cast away by society. He's not a failure, incompetent, or even special in any way (that we know...