I love that merit. We based a whole unfortunate "kinda illegal but everyone thinks everyone do it so no one try to do something about it" practice on it. In our games, Mage population is much smaller than associated Sleeper Sleepwalker "pyramid" under them, and a lot of estabilished Mages wraps themselves in Sleeper Cults [the fact that we houserule Sleeping Curse to modify memories of Magic not to "mundane stuff" but to "most believable NON SUPERNAL explanation for the victim, including lower case magic, supernatural, ESP, UFO, etc] where they first carefully shape their victims worldview [so the Curse will rationalize Magic for them in the "wanted" way] and then procedurally abuse Integrity of the few chosen ones in hope they will get the Fitful Slumber Merit.
It also makes hunters, police and other investigators much less ignorant; not unignorant enough to TRULY grasp the beauty of Magic, but unignorant enough to perceive how dangerous it is.
I've always felt it's ok for non Mages to know about Mages, as long as they cannot grasp Supernal for what it is. Makes Mage even more tragic than "they just rationalize it to gas leaks" imho, especially because you can try to fool yourself into thinking that maaaaaaaaaaaaybe they are one breaking point away from getting it. Integrity Bombing your own family and then despairing that they are almost getting it, but that almost is in the worst MISSING THE POINT way anyone?
It also makes hunters, police and other investigators much less ignorant; not unignorant enough to TRULY grasp the beauty of Magic, but unignorant enough to perceive how dangerous it is.
I've always felt it's ok for non Mages to know about Mages, as long as they cannot grasp Supernal for what it is. Makes Mage even more tragic than "they just rationalize it to gas leaks" imho, especially because you can try to fool yourself into thinking that maaaaaaaaaaaaybe they are one breaking point away from getting it. Integrity Bombing your own family and then despairing that they are almost getting it, but that almost is in the worst MISSING THE POINT way anyone?
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