User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Mage: the Awakening tribute sheet: Oliver Skarsgard/@comment-4867780-20151018024029/@comment-4867780-20151027022510

Truly ascending such transcending power does seem like it would change you a lot, and Exarchs probably just lost interest in the Fallen World, since they are now pretty much conceptual gods in the Supernatural one (this does remind me of W40k's Chaos Gods somehow, more interested in ruling the Warp than conquering the Materium).

So the Abyss was actually created by the destruction of the Celestial Ladder ? I actually pictured it as some primordial eldritch plane rather than a byproduct of human meddling. I'm surprised too Scelestii aren't more powerful considering the abyssal taint is famous for empowering spells. I would have imagined them more as an in-universe equivalent of 40K's Chaos Sorcerers : psykers significantly empowered by the dark energies and secrets of the Warp, at the cost of being corrupted on multiple levels.