[quote=@Tojin]
Or perhaps the Ruse are destroyed completely, somehow? People may have decided that the Ruse are collectively too dangerous to be allowed to exist and vanquished them. Though since the Ruse are born of people's imaginations, I'm not sure what that implies.
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That could get really dystopian really fast. I kinda like it.

Edit: That's Loris City, actually! Only on a grand scale. If this happens, it'd start there.