Avatar Storm

A huge influx of spirit energy from the deepest umbra to the near horizon, coalescing around the gauntlet. The avatar storm occurred in the latest years of the 20th century, leaving a disordered and devastated horizon in it's wake. at the same time, the gauntlet thickened, and apparently embedded with jagged shards of the avatar wind, although no one is sure if this was cause, effect, precursor or aftershock, of the avatar storm.

Though the avatar storm as mostly subsided, the avatar winds are still drawn to paradox and will. The costs of being caught unprotected in the path of the avatar winds is very high. A mage caught undefended might count death a minor penalty compared some of the effects of the avatar winds that have been observed.