Talk:Magic Tools/@comment-4698889-20150113225939/@comment-6192846-20150113230510

Because by and large, that's what it was, according to the worldguide, fanbook, and novels. Unless you actually met said select mages, they were just fairy tales told to you. This has been the reaction any character has to meeting a mage past EFEC era.

mothy's said similar reasons for why no one believes in the vessels of sin despite so much literature and accounts about them. The collective conscience just doesn't believe what it hasn't seen itself.