The magical schools of Earth ranged from thousands of members to merely a handful. During the City of Immortals' campaign of suppression, they had often discovered schools once registered with Kamar-Taj that had now declined after losing their heirs. Many of those schools had lost contact with Kamar-Taj over the past few centuries. Had it not been necessary to consolidate Earth's magical schools, rebuild Kamar-Taj's authority, and prevent psionic incidents, those nearly extinct schools might have remained dormant until they became forgotten bones in forests, desert wastelands, and mountain caves, waiting for someone destined to unearth their former treasures and wisdom.
Those people's fates would most likely be tragic. No event involving psionics was ever safe.
The magical schools born from Earth's various civilizations could all be traced back to ancient wizards and shamans exploring nature and the Outer Dimensions. To some extent, the knowledge they had inherited had crossed the taboos defined by Kamar-Taj. That was why the Emperor was so eager to unite all magical schools on Earth. With the Sorcerer Supreme gone, casters such as the pitiful souls who had been forced to cross the line by desperate circumstances, as well as madmen whose explorations had long been suppressed by the Sorcerer Supreme, would no longer have any scruples. The Emperor could only use Explosive Rounds Guns, Chainsaw Swords, and the cruelest punishments to reestablish the authority of the New Order. Though the Sorcerer Supreme had treated those magical schools gently while she lived, in that era a thousand years ago when Psionics were abundant, Kamar-Taj's authority had likewise been erected upon the blood of its enemies by the Sorcerer Supreme.
As a former Kamar-Taj Arcanist, Victor von Doom endured the hostility of senior Arcanists such as Master Wu Guiyue and the recently released Master Mordo. Although