MMO syndrome strikes again.

I just did something, and it looked at first like so little I paid no particular attention to it. But it was "the thing" I had been trying to achieve for a very long time. Real magic this way is just like overpriced virtual items in pay-to-win MMOs: the smallest possible status increase for the highest possible price anyone would pay. But then you win when using it because higher numbers are still higher and that's why it works.

I also realized something about my artifacts... it's not just Fay's knife. I kept wondering how that worked. Why can I see full live London streets at different times of the year, with sun, with rain, in the winter, in the summer, the sounds of walking on cobblestones, the chill of the morning. The knife is the British empire up until 1895. Using it for anything will place the concentrated force of that entity into the edge of the knife. It's not endlessly powerful, but compared to anything mortal it's pretty powerful.

What I did just now is similar. It's just a kitchen knife. But it's also "the world" in modern days. It's fully logical that this is how it is, but I was unable to see it before doing this little thing.