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Basically if you get rid of guns it opens the door for a lot of questions from the readers about the world building and history of this place and creates a bunch of work for you the author if your just trying to do your standard modern day fantasy.
But you kind of needs guns not necessarily because they add to the setting, but if your doing a modern setting the creation and then innovation of guns basically help kick start the industrial revolution since it forced blacksmiths to have a higher tolerance for machining than ever before to...
Oh whoops. Goddamnit. The world ladder is still tripping me up. lol. But if you don't want guns just make the magician anti physic's shield make them malfunction and have the muscle guy's strong enough to shrug off bullets even on the lower ends.
That just leaves power levels. How they compare to guns and modern militaries? How integrated and involved or antagonistic and independent are they with local governments? Stuff like that to figure out the relationships and logistics of the Masquerade.
That's the hard part. lol. It's why there's so many over power Harry Potter or Naruto stories. The powers the easy part it's integrating that with a whole world and compelling cast of characters.
You should make the jocks have a more philosophical bent, to where they see mana as a tool to purge the weakness and impurity from your body and become a higher better form of yourself. With maybe a little biological manipulation too as the mana causes changes to your body, like bigger lung...
Different elemental and concept magics vs Black iron dragon, sky titan spear, glacide Phoenix swords. Organizations pairing the two types together as partners
Math nerds versus steroid jocks. lol. Magicians who use their powers to constantly shift space around, attack in all angles and degrees with a complete disregard for physics. Versus warriors pumping so much magic they can shatter congregate when they jump and cut faster than the human eye can blink.
Just anime setting with these hax reality bending magicians with sophisticated techniques and on other side are warriors pumping mana like steroids to make bigger thunder sword slash