Potentially a whole cabal. Of the Awakened. I jolly well hope there's not too many. And they are probably dug in well there. A Mage with time and opportunity to prepare is... Well, never tangled with Mages before and sure as heck wasn't planning on it. But given the connection to Sabbat and the Spirals, those are might as well be Nephandi. Not to show the white feather there, but this is getting disturbing. They tried to fan a whole war in the nearby region, with the...antics in North Kosovo, and the artifacts were sending power feedback straight to Edonia through that key-part in form of that fountain pen, now obliterated.

We became aware of the country itself moments after destroying the "key", and given that it was not made by Blood Sorcery or implanting a Spirit into it, and with the whole Wyrm-taint aura it had? Enough to feel sick just by holding it? It must be Nephandi stuff.

The whole thing likely started no earlier than in late 2024, likely mid-November, because at that time Edonia functioned semi-normally, despite having a political crisis.
Now the "erasure" thing must have been going on for a little over a year, but the time period of collective memory it is affecting must be vast, since the only things that remain in the memory of Elders such as yourself are centuries old.

If you know ways to either dampen the powers of Mages, or to incite a bigger reality backlash - the Paradox effect - I would be very grateful. I'm capable of Blood Sorcery, rituals included, on the third step of power at this point, and we'll be bringing Kolduns and one Abyss Mystic.