Are the magic currents under the city expanding?

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Report of an iminent danger threatening us all

To the Attention of the Most Gracious Lords and Ladies of the City of the Hundred Fiefs

My fellow lords and ladies, the time is serious! I have to share with you an extremely urgent concern: the magic currents under our feet are expanding!
Many of you will not immediately perceive the severity of this problem or will doubt my assertion; let me explain to you exactly why all of us ought to be terrified.

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First, we all know the history of the emperors: how they all fully mastered our magic hotspot and submitted it to their implacable will so as to use as a source of power to conquer the region.
We are all aware of how all the continent allied against them, and how in their desperation the last emperors turned to terrible experiments to reinforce and eventually alter the magic hotspot, thus completely destabilising it and engendering their own fall.
We all cannot fall to acknowledge the consequences of their folly as we are all suffering under the incessant magic floods that wreak our city, corrode everything we attempt to build, and kill our people.

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Certainly then, agreeing on all of that, we all also have to agree that a further growth of the magic currents can only results in a growth in the frequency and strength of the floods, a phenomenon that never the city nor its people will be able to endure!!
Some of us might be tempted to see powerful currents as an opportunity to be seized, but let me remind you that since the currents have been destabilised and have undergone a first growth, nobody has been powerful enough—skilled enough to master them in any significant way. Let us not risk all of our lives on the pursuit of some fancy dreams!

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As for the justification for my belief in this growth, it is very easy: I have built a new more involved type of magicometre that has allowed me to measure the magic currents with a precision never equalled before!
Thanks to this, I have measured not only the height of magic floods all over the city over the past 5 years, but also the strength of the currents in periods of calm, and I can conclude this without doubts: both the floods and the magic currents themselves are picking up in power, in a sustainable manner, both backed-up and pushed by an immense mass of magic coming towards us!

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Brothers! Sisters! I implore you: heed my warnings and come together to work on blocking this disaster! Our entire future and the legacy of our past depends on you!
This is why I urgently summon a meeting of the Council tomorrow at noon and dearly hope to see you all there, ready to fight together, unified by a common goal against a common threat.

Lord Chemist

Note to Lady Olénie

This new type of magicometre was certainly not made with lenses coming from our own workshops, and therefore I highly doubt the reliability of its measurements.
We have certainly been monitoring floods too, and while there has indeed been a small increase in their strength, I do not believe we have any right to make such spurious and massive claims from such an observation!

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The City of the Hundred Fiefs

Territories The City of the Hundred Fiefs · Geography (The world's strongest magic hotspot, The cave system under the city) · Fiefs (The Fief of Glass, The Diviner Fief) · Neutral areas (The Council's Palace) Politics Government system (Lords and Ladies of the Fiefs, The Council) · Conflict (The ongoing Elantian civil war, Lord Adélème's fanclub, The Resistance against the New Empire, Water sickness, Previous inhabitants of the Fief of Perfumes) · Lords & ladies (Lord Adélème of Spinner, Lady Olénie) Magic Dangers (Seasonal magic flood, Magical corrosion, Are the magic currents under the city expanding?, Basement kraken) · Technologies (Tower wards, Ward pins, Tasty Treat) · Magic system (Runes, Glass and Magic Lenses) Culture History (The Return of the Empire, Dragonic magic manifestations, The Last Emperor's Experimental Notes, The Ruins of the Ancient city of Elante, Anti-imperial sigil) · Travellers (Trading caravans, Travelling healers, Divination Sessions) · Others (Lord Adélème's Tower, Tower cats, The Worship of the Imperial Family, Election of a Tower Leader, Spying Devices)