Theory of knowledge

The Theory of Knowledge has been more of less acted on throughout history. It was first articulated by Dr. James Smythe. He claims no credit of "discovery". 
The theory states:
*Magic is a consensus reality.
*The more people are aware of magic and practice magic the higher the magic level will be.
*The fewer people that practice magic and know about magic, the lower the magic level will be.
In general this theory has proven correct. Outside forces have invalidated it.
==Practice==
Bureau 13 and like agencies have based their past practice on this theory and the premiss of western culture that less magic was better. Magic was suppressed and those that practiced it persecuted, even murdered to decrease the amount of magic.
To some extent the prejudice could be explained in light of the taint. The rest of it by a fear of competition for the hearts and souls orthodox religion so craved. 
Suppression of magic resulted in the creation of the half world, a place slightly off plane that the magical creatures retreated to. By the beginning of the 19thy century magic was at its lowest point in history. 
Events soon changed that. In 1848 the Fox Sisters kicked off the Spiritualism movement. Hot on the heels of this the Civil War in the United States created conditions that made people even more eager to contact the dead. 
Two inversions: The first in 1886 when a nest of Goblins made a war zone out of a small town in Idaho before its removal. This is the first verifiable Greyhawke Dimensional inversion. The second in 1887 when a night battle in the Superstition Mountains between US Calvary and Apache Indians is held beneath unnatural lights in the sky, the Aurora borealis. The battle was joined by strange misshapen men, and other men in medieval armor. This was the second major verifiable massive Greyhawke inversion. The Breakout clock is stared on this date. 
The effect of these two events started the inexorable decay of the weak barrier between Greyhawke's much higher magic field and Earth. The Vista City Mana Storm was the last nail in the coffin of the theory of knowledge. True or not, belief of not, magic is coming.
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