Adepts are gradually eating away at reality. Every time an Adept casts a spell, it singes a little hole in the fabric of the universe. One of these days, the fire won’t go out.

So what’s all this millenial bullshit? Haven’t there always been Adepts? Why didn’t this happen sooner? Quit laughing, you’re not as clever as you think. Look, Adepts only cropped up a few thousound years ago. For a millenium or two after that, Cryptomancy was the only game in town. After Mechanomancy hit the scene, it snowballed. The shit hit the fan, and even the Sleepers were too stupid to clean it up. Now there are dozens of schools, each gnawing away at the cosmic order.

Thing is, Adepts weren’t in the original plan for the universe. They came straight out of left field and knocked the Statosphere’s jaw loose. Of course, this is exactly the sort of thing the Comte de Saint Germain’s supposed to deal with, but there’s another problem—the Comte can’t see Adepts or their magick. Sure, he can see the impacts they make, but only after the fact. If an Adept kills a man in front of the Comte, the Comte won’t see the Adept or see the man die, but if he looks away and looks back, he’ll see the man dead. Poor bastard’s got no clue. Thinks he’s going nuts.

The rest of humanity has a similar blind spot, only subtler. Yeah, individuals don’t have too much of a problem remembering magick unless they go to a lot of trouble to suppress it, but what about the public? Doesn’t it seem odd that the popular image of magic is still all old school? People haven’t had experiences like the ones in Harry Potter for at least a century or two, but they’re still writing about them and thinking about them. Adept magick has never had an impact on the popular consciousness, and it never will. I guess it’s the Statosphere’s immune response or something. Sure, there’s steampunk, so Mechanomancy’s made it, but it got in the game early. Must’ve caught the Clergy off guard.

There. Now try and prove me wrong.