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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1781948" data-attributes="member: 3649">The first Rex Mundi TPB is already in the queue, waiting for me to get to it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Magic does not spread out from the Tunguska explosion, but rather reappears all at once all over the world. The more 'primitive' societies first experience real working magic when some of the rituals and rites suddenly start producing working reproducable results. Russian mystics do have a reputation for being powerful, though. The Muscova University magic program produces some of the top mages in the world and many Western mages try to attend at least a few lectures there every year. Their journal is internationally recognized as one of the best. And Russian psionics research is the best in the world, bar none. WWI is already winding down at the time magic returns, so I'm thinking about what the effect it will have. It might lengthen the war considerably, producing a lull as the world adjusts to the global phenomenon, then flaring up again with new weapons and means of war. Then again, it might die down early, with little resolved. I'm thinking that at the time, there would be very few magic items. People haven't relearned how to make them yet, and are still rediscovering spells. Probably the spell list at that time would be three or four spells of each level. Incantations, however, would be actually more prevalent since it doesn't require someone with the Mage advanced class - only someone with a lot of ranks in Arcane Lore. Giles comes into his own. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The first real Mages probably do not appear until the late Twenties when the first small thaumaturgy schools are founded in reaction to the creation of the Dead Zone. (The creation of the Dead Zone revolutionized thaumaturgy; the powers that be decided that a 'spell gap' would be unacceptable while simultaneously realizing that a lot of the 'primitive' peoples who had never abandonded their magical traditions now had equivilant power in their hands. Ironically, without the Black Lodge's major screwup and the pressures of WWI, magic might have become a backwater 'dillitante' occupation, something old professors and librarians did in their spare time).</blockquote>

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