Quote from: "Talyafera"Hum. I always thought it was like hennjo and Mia said. That people know there are Mordecai but just don't know who they are.
How does this work? The Mordecai have been going around for years systematically stamping out mages and seriously no one has put two and two together? No one has noticed that when there's a group of soldiers making a mage raid, magic doesn't work? What...do they think it's some crazy coincidence that magic ceases to work every single time a raid goes down? Considering how methodical Connlaoth is with their anti-mage efforts, you'd think people would notice the pattern. o.O
Honestly, people could chalk it up to a lot of things. It could be that their magic just didn't work that day. Who says that magic works all the time? Some mages might have magic that doesn't work every time. And people really do have an amazing ability to rationalize things. If Mordecai are considered to be like faeries or aliens in the modern world, where everyone knows what they are, but don't believe them, I doubt that many people, when seeing magic fail, even repeatedly, would go "Must be this fairy tail creature."
It happening often will give the 'crazy' people who believe the legends more 'proof', but not really enough to convince most people. Like all the Area 51 nuts. If one came up to you and started to tell you about all this proof they had, even showed you some things, would you believe them? Probably not. Because you know there aren't aliens.
Same way that people
know Mordecai aren't real. Even seeing the proof right before them doesn't prove anything. The Mordecai's ability isn't all that flashy or obvious. A mage can't work their magic? Well, most of the citizens in Connlaoth think magic is pretty evil as is. That just proves it. Magic will abandon you when you need it most.
Or, well, that's how I figured the Mordecai worked. With being the secret everyone knows about. Legends and myths like fearies and dragons and aliens. People know what they are and know they aren't real. Only nutters think they are real.