ANDERS MAGE PAGE 2.0

This Paradox being is the manifestation of all small things that make a large difference, the unpredictable randomness that always brings down complex plans. Usually it appears to mages who control probability too much, and give them a taste of the random in life. It has even manifested in the Digital Web, causing trouble for the Virtual Adepts.

The Butterfly is a normal sized yellow butterfly, with the edges of the Mandelbrot-set decorated wings serrated in a fractal pattern.

Usually it just flitters around inconspicuously, but in a critical situation it might land on a vital part or flap its wings. It has the power to cause a tiny disruption that will have great and unexpected consequences. When a hermetic mage draws his elaborate magickal circle, the butterfly might discreetly land and erase one line with its wings, causing the ritual to backfire. It lands on a dial of a Son of Ether gizmo, upsetting its delicate calibration. As a Verbena tries to brush it aside, she accidentally tips over a powerful potion into her cauldron. It flies over a gaming table, distracting the players, which changes the outcome of the game despite the attempts of a mage to control it.

The Butterfly sometimes makes a powerful attack against a mage by causing a lot of random events to conspire against him. As the mage drives to his Chantry, the driver of the car in front sneezes (because of butterfly dust in the air) and brakes unexpectedly, making the mage run into him. The brakes on the car behind him don't work properly (because the repairman was distracted by an unusual butterfly), and it crashes into him too. It happens to be filled with Men in Black on their way to an important meeting...

Weather control: Yes, the Chaos Butterfly has the ability to control the weather in the future. Since it never does anything it is told, this is of limited utility.

There are stories about how mages who misuse Entropy too much get visited not by the Chaos Butterfly, but by millions of them. This massive Entropy Paradox backlash leaves a devastated place where just about everything went wrong.