"Yes. The truth is easily to distort, and to manipulate. And so nothing can be trusted, not even your own perception... you're more apt an observer than I thought." [I mean you're talking to the guy who literally was able to control the laws of an entire alternate plane of existence so... magic twisting what is set in stone has a whole other meaning to him he's not bringing up.] "So Magic is the thing that changes the rules. Or perhaps, it is magic which sets them in the first place.

"But yes. We have no knowledge, nor leverage to gain it, about our circumstances. Which makes things all the more difficult for us, all things considered."