User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Nords do trust magic/@comment-13446185-20140323191349/@comment-9062114-20140324181148

'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!'

Well my point was mages who specialize in destruction as I said in my last post, obviously every mage knows a few destruction spells for defense.

Farengar seems to me to be mostly an enchanter, Anska and Belrand count I guess but I wouldn't say they are masters, same goes for Onmund, and Tolfdir is an Alteration master (not to mention the fact that we don't actually know his race as he is an "Elder", though his name does seem Nordic).

There is no good evidence at all, nothing implies Wuunferth was the murderer. Viola merely says that their have been bad rumors about him for years, which seem quite obviously to be based off of biases against mages. The same hurtful rumors plagueFalion in Morthal.

They still act as a Fighter's Guild.

In the sense that they are a guild made up of fighters, yes. But I don't recall them reffering to themselves 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.

But who in their right mind would mistake the word college for magic.

'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.'

Clever Craft is obviously refering to magic seeing as that is the response he gives you when you request entry into the Hall of Valor by the right of you being the Archmage.

The fact that the Nords no longer "respect" magic shows that they don't hold it with esteem at all.

Well, we don't know what many mages really specialize in.

It's kind of implied in the game that they the Fighter's Guild of Skyrim per se. So that's why I said that.

Due The College teaching magic, they could've thought the two wewre synonmous. When they weren't.

It's isn't magic, It could be mages since the Dragonborn basically admits to being a mage if they say they're from the College of Winterhold. While the other professions might use magic too.