I wouldn't go so far as to say crazy, but a different mindset is usually necessary to become great in magicks. Speaking from personal experience. Ahhhheheheh.

All the same, your land sounds a dire place I would not care to visit. Magic is so embedded into who and what I am. To have it labeled worthy of the death sentence, no questions asked, would not sit well with me.

It sounds things were messy in most realms at the time of our departure. Mine, on the brink of war and destruction. But also necessary change and political unrest. Perhaps that is a factor in what draws a hero to Tu Vishan.