You arenāt creating an artificial spirit. You are giving a real spirit some form and direction.
Hey, you don't get to decide how magic works in other people's fantasies. Personally I like the idea of magicians creating artificial spirit servants.
Letās dispel this power idea ā this is sorcery, not Pokemon. The biggest name and most powerful spirit is not always the best for the task at hand. Its not about power, its about nuance. The question should not be āwhats more powerfulā but āwhats best for this situationā?
That attitude... applies pretty well to Pokemon too. I mean, Mewtwo is strong but hit it with a strong dark/ghost/bug type attack from a more mundane monster and it's still gonna get hurt pretty bad. You shouldn't dismiss other people's games just because you like LARPing as a wizard.
There is currently a servitor that I have positioned in a tree that on the road that leads to my house. It is programed to alert me with a tingle on the back of the neck every time a vehicle passes with the intent of coming to my house.
I bey that would be the kind of thing people would do if magic were real. But, it's not. You're probably just more aware of things than you think you are, and are using your regular senses to tell that a visitor is coming.
Really though, if spirits really could be put to work, why isn't that something that has been turned into a major for-profit industry. If it were possible, it would have been done long before now. And, you'd be able to do cool stuff that was more than just making good guesses about stuff some of the time.
Oh yeahā¦thatās right, we did not feel the need to destroy it, and it did NOT suddenly turn on us and try to destroy us. From servitors, to Golems, to AI I often think that the assumption that everything we give life to will try to destroy us if we losen our grip on it, says more about the creator than the creation. It was Doctor Frankenstein that was the real monster after all, not his creation.
I think this is an attitude I can approve of though.