User blog comment:Mrs Sting Eucliffe/POSSIBLE Site-Wide Event!!/@comment-3327892-20160914190211

Mmmmm... isn't technically how already works the legal system of Ishgar? At least on a theoretical bases, ALL legal guilds must answer to the council, thus making every single mage in a legal guild registered and accountable. Of course, Fairy Tail and many others are quite oddballs, but the system over all works: after all, considering that a good 10% of the world population si composed by mages, a conscription of all mages in Ishgar would be highly impractical at best, and useless mass violation of human right at worst... However...

However, considering the recent progression in the manga, I can see some way why a similar idea could work out well. In cases of a threat of catastrophic geopolitical events like the invasion of Alvarez (or maybe, If we stay strictly in this wiki, a sudden rise in power of dark guilds like Dragon Soul or Desperados, but they must acquire a militar strength to virtually threaten an entire countinent), the council may deem necessary to take more extreme measures to deal, and give rise to a mass militarization with the complacency of many of the ruling bodies of Ishgar. Such militarization may even involve a mass pardoning of Dark Mages and Dark Guilds, who will have all their crimes swept under the rug if they the cooperate with the council in dealing with the menance. With such allies, many grudges may resurface in the good guys factions and conflicts may arise.

Even better, the council and the rulers of earthland may be persuaded (or, in the former case, even took over) by incredibly powerful, knowledgable and unscropolous mages to find new ways to boost the militar strenght of Ishgar by partaking in activities which could damage the civil liberties of the Ishgar citizens and mages, or even potentially harm the life of thousands. For example, they could introduce a process of demonification which can empowers thousands individual at the cost of their mental sanity; they could strike alliance with dark powers on other continent or try to employ weapons of mass destruction that would make Etherion and Face like childsplay....

The possibilities are really numerous. We could introduce a roaster of new characters, flesh out the relationships between countries, making criminal enforcers of the government and making legal guilds outlaws. I smell potential for an epic scale, sorta a-la Game of Thrones, filled with intrigues, magics of mass destruction, guerrillas, grudge-matches and moral dilemmas galore.

The only problem about that, is that would be incredibly difficult to write in a coherent and satysfing manner....