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*** It's less "Anti-" as much as it is simple mistrust. Magic-potential children in Brettonia are taken away by the Green Knight. The girls come back as Prophetesses, the boys don't come back at all.

* The Ascended from ''[[Feng Shui]]'' are this, since the only thing that can revert them back to their original animal forms is magic and they are not very willing to undergo that.

* ''[[Warhammer ~~40000~~]]'''s Imperium is a borderline example. They employ [[Psychic Powers]] but persecute any psykers that are not on their side (and occasionally them too). [[State Sec|The Inquisition]] is particularly skilled in this.

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'''s Imperium is a borderline example. They employ [[Psychic Powers]] but persecute any psykers that are not on their side (and occasionally them too). [[State Sec|The Inquisition]] is particularly skilled in this.

** It should be noted, the setting being [[Crapsack World|what it is]], that aforementioned psychic powers come with a chance of getting your entire planet [[Demonic Possession|eaten by demons]] or inadvertently drawing the attention of your friendly neighborhood [[The Legions of Hell|Chaos Space Marines]]. The Inquisition, though it can be a bit overzealous at times, is [[Properly Paranoid]].

** The [[Space Elves|Dark Eldar]] would also count, they don't have any psykers, any one found is immediately considered a plaything. They also have methods of countering their psyker powered counterparts.

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* The Coalition States in ''[[Rifts]]'' is anti-magic in the same way they're [[Kill'Em All|Anti-Nonhuman]].

** They weren't always this way. The Coalition actually was starting a nascent Special-Ops program using mages, then they got into a bloody war with the one magic-using faction that was nearly as bad as they are (or would be). They turned anti-magic after that, but a few surviving ex-Coalition mages (and their descendants/students) formed a group called ''The Vanguard'', and chose to continue helping the Coalition from the shadows.

* Can be found in ''[[Dungeons ~~and~~ Dragons]]'' on occasion, though it's more usually a faction enforcing a "nobody in this town/country is allowed to use magic but ''us''" rule. That said, you do get factions like the (now technically former) Cult of Entropy based in the city of Lutcheq in the [[Forgotten Realms]] who consider ''all'' use of arcane magic an abomination punishable by death, or the Principalities of Glantri on [[Mystara]], an actual [[Magocracy]] where the use of ''clerical'' magic is punished with similar harshness on principle.

* Can be found in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' on occasion, though it's more usually a faction enforcing a "nobody in this town/country is allowed to use magic but ''us''" rule. That said, you do get factions like the (now technically former) Cult of Entropy based in the city of Lutcheq in the [[Forgotten Realms]] who consider ''all'' use of arcane magic an abomination punishable by death, or the Principalities of Glantri on [[Mystara]], an actual [[Magocracy]] where the use of ''clerical'' magic is punished with similar harshness on principle.

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