I'm rolling an idea around in my head for a game setting, where when humanity went to the stars we discovered that something about our planet was repressing latent magical/psionic abilities in some large percentage of the population, so people leave the planet and start developing powers.
I was thinking FATE just because that's what I've been studying up on, but I'm not sure about the fit.
@Problematic Perhaps we can take the wizards' base/home/academy out of the Enchanted Forest? It seems thematically appropriate for all the PCs to not consider the Forest their home, but rather see it as a place one goes when desperate/ambitious.
If that interferes with your concept, though, no problem, we can keep the wizards in the Forest.
@BESW that sounds good; it also makes the forest an "appropriately dickish place" to hide his staff, instead of "we couldn't be bothered to be creative, so we just stuck it over there"