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Mages is about a war for how reality should be at the most fundamental level, are you really fond of string theory? You will makeprove it's real!

So in your example you already have the problem that each mage or group of mages will have vastly different ideas about how Magic itself should be practioned and what it can even do, so maybe you want to look like Gandalf and throw literal fireballs around, but another mage from an animistic tradition thinks we should be praying to the spirtis of nature so that it rains tomorrow, it's not just against the cold modern scientific consensus you fight against.