Discussion Main / MasqueradeParadox

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• Rivers of London. The masquerade is a Case 4, upheld created more through public indifference and traditional discretion, despite the fact that numerous elements of the police and other government agencies are aware. In addition, magic is very much a science and able to be used safely, and the main characters have no problem conducting scientific experiments on it. The only reason given in Book 1 by Nightingale is that they wouldn't want the hoi polloi learning magic.

This really isn't an example. There are very good reasons, stated in universe, as to why the masquerade is kept. When humans use magic, it tends to kill them through neurological trauma. The para normal all have valid reasons to keep quiet. The original anthropomorphic personifications of the London Rivers were all killed by humans. In "Foxglove Summer" it is mentioned that a methodist preacher killed the spirit of a river, and also seen that the ancient Romans managed to punch through to the realm of the Fey. For the more everyday type of Fey, they are as vulnerable as anyone else to things like bullets. Not to mention the Masquerade isn't really that well upheld, and the paranormal interacts regularly with the normal in everyday methods, and just nobody cares. This example needs rewritten at the very least.