Some mages theorize they are mages, born into a new age of wonder and developing unconsciously before any hope of training. Others point to the ashes of China, the pure force of the Wyld emanating and changing the tellurian. Most agree that they have arrived just in time. An old enemy reemurges from the void, things in the Coalition reach a breaking point, and the elites wring their hands over the vague prophecies of the Scattering.