"No idea! My best guess had been that they were a myth to scare people right up until I woke up nailed to a cross in the desert bearing one. Sorcery is rare enough that I'd never heard of anyone using it, and I'm the kind of person who would have. Given what the staff said, they probably just have a stash of these for whenever they need it, since the artefacts needed to create them are all here in the Exiled Lands."

"Huh. - and you don't count gods turning sticks into serpents as sorcery, right."

"—no. Those are miracles. I imagine there might be sorceries that can do that? I'm not sure, there is not a lot of knowledge to be found on the subject and it is very taboo most everywhere."

"Right. So... God, now I'm wondering if I should have some kind of password for the omni, so that you could use it if it passes on to you but some random would-be tyrant can't use it to conquer the world in a few centuries if we fail. But maybe a tyrant who raises the tech level sufficiently would be better than the natural evolution of human civilization? The natural evolution of human civilization sucked."

"It's still wild that you're from the future. How did it suck?"