The world has grown ever more complicated. More and more mages are taking crooked paths, using humanity's limitless creativity to devise one scam after another, pushing human nature bit by bit toward indifference until people end up living like walking corpses. But there is also a bunch of fools who keep playing the odds, no matter how many times they're taught a lesson, just to bet on that one-in-ten-thousand chance. They can't learn to be indifferent or see through a scam. They're stubborn as a bull charging madly at a red cloth.
