Your boss bad guy could be an aristocrat whose grandfather and father have been plotting for 50 years to get rid of an incompetent, unrealistic, untouchable, smarmy, ill-bred, disruptive, disrespectful, and downright suicidal gaggle of old women who DARE say "no" to a highborn. And it was his privilege to complete the task handed to him. The sort of thing that only a close-knit well-bred family of means can accomplish -- it's what we're FOR! Bunch of arrogant rabbits--imagine trying to ambush the top 100 knights in the realms? You'd be lucky to escape! But mages...corralled cattle!