Essentially the point I tried to raise with all this is, if you wanted to be so powerful out of the gate, why did any of us need to be here? What could we hope to accomplish in comparison?

I concede sorcerers are powerful. Very much so, but the rest of us need to feel not useless or obsolete by comparison

I'm not trying to be an ass, just expanding on my point. From my perspective, why bother going up against some immesurably more powerful than yourself?