The prisons at Kamar-Taj headquarters had never been so overcrowded. Many spellcasters from other schools had been thrown into the shallow underground cells for resisting the knights who represented the Emperor and the Arcanists who represented the Sorcerer Supreme. Their fingers were bound, their tongues sealed, their eyes covered, and their Mental Power tightly locked within their bodies, unable to move. Whether they accepted it or not, the Emperor's Cavalry would not halt. Resistance would only cause needless casualties and would change nothing. Not every Arcanist at Kamar-Taj headquarters could adapt to this change. Some older Arcanists worried about it, while some younger ones supported it, believing that this was what befitted the title of Sorcerer Supreme and Kamar-Taj's status.
Although Kamar-Taj ruled the magical world, its relationship with other magical schools had previously been more or less equal. Now that this authority was truly being enforced, Kamar-Taj and the other magical schools had abruptly become superiors and subordinates—grimoires containing dangerous spells, vicious artifacts, and dangerous magical animals raised by the schools were placed in the hazardous materials vault deep within the Himalayan Mountains, isolated behind thick layers of rock and armor. Spellcasters who had conducted harmful experiments were brought out of their cells and judged according to the newly revised code, receiving punishments ranging from imprisonment and whipping to execution.
At first, Mordo had not supported this course of action. But as the trials proceeded, he discovered more and more illegal acts committed by those magical schools in his capacity as judge. Nearly every term verbally agreed upon between the Sorcerer Supreme and the magical schools had been violated: summoning entities from the Outer Dimensions, experiments in Possession by Evil Spirits, human trafficking, selling artifacts to mundane society, prohibited drugs and spells, and more. As the case files grew