Nightmares plague both normal people and mages, but the ones experienced by the magically inclined are often quite a lot more potent. Some nightmares can entrap a mage, posing as a self-made heaven, but in reality representing a personal hell. Such is often the fate of those who seek to perform the impossible through the dreaming.

Nightmares plague both normal people and mages, but the ones experienced by the magically inclined are often quite a lot more potent and even capable to breaching into physical reality, becoming ontological existences. In this expert, we witness the retelling of exactly such an event.

Is it safe to keep a book around that might contain something that can destroy the world? What if the book is in cipher that might not only be unbreakable, but also whose transcription is broken? Or maybe it’s a hoax? This expert divulges some thoughts about the matter, discussing what’s considered to be one of the most dangerous occult tomes known to modern magekind.

Fairytales are curiously horrible things. In this expert a mage looks at the source of many fairytales and how that source evolved over time and adapted to the modern world, and in general to humanity’s eccentricities. But does that make things better or worse for us?

Conspiracy theories can be useful tools. For a secret organisation, wouldn’t it be useful to present itself as a most absurd conspiracy theory no one could ever take seriously? In this expert, someone presents their thought about a hypothetical cabal of mages known only as “7”. If it existed, surely it would not allow this book to be published, right?

An excerpt from a book discussing a specific incident, shedding light on the thin edge between the truth and lies, that forms when one lacks the full scope of context. It’s easy to dismiss something as unimportant when you are not fully aware of what it is.