Editing Sons of Ether (section)

== History ==
The Etherites actually trace their history back quite a ways, all the way back to the Trojan philosopher Aretus, who created their foundational tome '''Kitab al-Alacir''' from interacting with so-called refugees from the lost city of Atlantis. This book lays out the foundational concepts of using Luminferous Ether and how Atlantis harnessed it at it's full potential before being lost beneath the waves forever. The Kitab al-Alacir bounced around the world of antiquity for quite some time, getting translated in all different forms until a chance encounter with an italian mage and a Templar, both of whom happened across it in two different languages, and they came together to create a short-lived house within the Order of Hermes to attempt to decipher it. While it never got very far, it did lay the groundwork for future scholars to find common cause around the concept of Luminferous Ether.

The Etherites as we know them today however, got their start as part of the Technocracy; as a convention referred to as the '''Electrodyne Engineers''', dedicated to the use and control of all forms of energy; but left it in an outrage after one of their most beloved pet theories, the Luminiferous Ether, was ousted from the Technocracy's [[Reality Paradigm]] for moving it too fast, thus rendering them powerless and thought of as nothing more than quacks and illogical madmen. The Engineers, who felt that this was making science "duller" (not to mention making wireless energy transmission impossible), instead chose to leave in a huff, and proudly renamed themselves as the Sons of Ether, as a dedication to their central tenet. Considering that the Technocracy wound up creating a world so banal that their ''own magic'' is now struggling to work any better than that of the Nine Traditions, the Etherites have a point, and have spent every waking second since driving a wedge between the Technocracy's accepted reality and society at large; ethics and safety be damned. 

Their traditional characterization of the Victorian scientist is more common among the old guard of the Tradition, who are notorious for circlejerking blatantly asinine junk science like the flat Earth or phrenology. Younger Etherites actually tend to be Dynamic if anything, and have refocused the Tradition around more modern (if not strictly more credible) fields like UFOlogy, [[psionics]], and cryptoarchaeology.