Threefold (help I accidentally a setting)

[Kappa]

Yes, a clone society would proceed in approximately that way.

[DanielH]

I’m having trouble imagining why a non-clone society wouldn’t. If both parents were mages it sounds like your chances would be almost as high as of your were covered from a mage. Even if that’s wrong, any given point in genome-space would monotonically increase in chance of somebody conceived there being magic. Have mages just been becoming more common throughout history?

[Kappa]

Yes, mages have been becoming more common throughout history.

Having two mage parents does not give you as high of a chance as being cloned from a mage. It's high but it's not that high. I'd say maybe 70-80% compared to 90%?

The chance of any random individual with no particular relation to any existing mages becoming a mage is really, really small.

[BlueSkySprite]

<Kel> oh hey kappa if a mage in threefold personality merged with a nonmage, would they gain a power appropriate to the personality of the nonmage? (should I ask this on the actual thread instead?)
<kappabeta> yes and yes

[Kappa]

<3 <3 <3

To clarify further:

If a nonmage acquires a copy of a mage's personality and transplants it into their own body and merges with it, the result might be a mage (I haven't decided).

If a mage acquires a copy of a nonmage's personality and transplants it into their own body and merges with it, the result will be a mage.

If a mage and a nonmage do a personalty merge that ends with both of them in a new body, the result will be a mage.