User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Nords do trust magic/@comment-13446185-20140323191349/@comment-9062114-20140324034109

Farengar, Anska, Belrand, Onmund, Tolfdir, they also use destruction well. So, it's not just him, and he was thought of being the Butcher because he had a lot of evidence against him, not because he was a mage!

They still act as a Fighter's Guild.

These things happen sometimes, Bethesda wants to make this as realistic as possible, one of those ways is by adding all diffferent sorts of opinions and personal interpretations.

He didn't say that. All he said was they have "forgotten their forefather's respect for Clever Craft", which can be opened up to a lot of interpretations.