From the outline for IST 25, in the "history" chapter:
CC The Mage-Age Revolution DD The Unified Theory of Magic released in 1996 C-BOX The Whole Earth Grimoire (1997) C-BOX The UTM and the Grand Unified Theory DD Practical and Research Theology, Theurgical Studies DD American government restricts magical research dramatically due to Evangelical Christian influence on the Buchanan administration; only the threat of
foreign magical attack prevents it from being
outlawed entirely.
There will also be coverage on it in the "Magic" chapter.
I will expand on this as space allows -- I have an unfortunate history of overwriting my books and I'll be trying very hard not to this time around -- but to answer your question in brief, the circumstances are very much like those I mention in Drunkard's Walk -- a coalition of physicists and mages across a number of universities who got tired of there being a thousand different ways to cast a light spell but no coherent explanation why, working for twenty-some years to uncover the real underpinnings of magic; I've not given any of them names yet. The contents of the Grimoire were intended to be the spells found in GURPS Magic for Third Edition. General reception was -- with the exception of America as noted above and probably the Vatican -- a mix of blase acceptance (from the man in the street, who's got more important things to be concerned with than egghead theories), general relief (on the part of scientists and parascientists who'd been dealing with magical types for decades already), hostility (from those mages who were certain that their way was The Truth, and from religions and political groups that didn't like magic), and cautious acceptance (from those mages who practiced "no true way" styles or who approached magic in more organized, methodical ways).
Legal changes had already been percolating since the first verifiable mages had appeared in the 1930s; the publication of the Grimoire accelerated legislative and judicial attempts to outlaw "black" and/or dangerous magics and regulate the rest. And by 2015 they still haven't thrashed out all the ramifications of sapient undead -- the three main ares of which I have classified in the outline as "Dead is dead", "Undead is not dead" and "Chicago voter registration".
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
CC The Mage-Age Revolution DD The Unified Theory of Magic released in 1996 C-BOX The Whole Earth Grimoire (1997) C-BOX The UTM and the Grand Unified Theory DD Practical and Research Theology, Theurgical Studies DD American government restricts magical research dramatically due to Evangelical Christian influence on the Buchanan administration; only the threat of
foreign magical attack prevents it from being
outlawed entirely.
There will also be coverage on it in the "Magic" chapter.
I will expand on this as space allows -- I have an unfortunate history of overwriting my books and I'll be trying very hard not to this time around -- but to answer your question in brief, the circumstances are very much like those I mention in Drunkard's Walk -- a coalition of physicists and mages across a number of universities who got tired of there being a thousand different ways to cast a light spell but no coherent explanation why, working for twenty-some years to uncover the real underpinnings of magic; I've not given any of them names yet. The contents of the Grimoire were intended to be the spells found in GURPS Magic for Third Edition. General reception was -- with the exception of America as noted above and probably the Vatican -- a mix of blase acceptance (from the man in the street, who's got more important things to be concerned with than egghead theories), general relief (on the part of scientists and parascientists who'd been dealing with magical types for decades already), hostility (from those mages who were certain that their way was The Truth, and from religions and political groups that didn't like magic), and cautious acceptance (from those mages who practiced "no true way" styles or who approached magic in more organized, methodical ways).
Legal changes had already been percolating since the first verifiable mages had appeared in the 1930s; the publication of the Grimoire accelerated legislative and judicial attempts to outlaw "black" and/or dangerous magics and regulate the rest. And by 2015 they still haven't thrashed out all the ramifications of sapient undead -- the three main ares of which I have classified in the outline as "Dead is dead", "Undead is not dead" and "Chicago voter registration".
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.