Question Clairvoyance and Scrying into Whateley

You'll see some evolution in the whateley psi and mystic defenses during gen 1 - year 2.

The 'old' policy, which starts to get reworked after year 1's Halloween attack is that it is impossible to cover a location as large and active as the Whateley campus strongly enough to block 'everything' ... any really strong focused attack will punch through even the strongest 'area' defense. And in doing so, such a strong barrier is likely to keep your best defenders constantly working/drained to keep it active. It makes more sense to have defenses that keep out 'accidental' incursion and alert defenders to respond to anything intentional. This leaves defenders more energy to counter attacks. It also has the benefit of not 'trapping' the minds of psychics and sensitives inside those walls... which can significant increase the potential for warnings. Consider... a large collection of psi sensitives and precogs, probability warpers, and so on... are about to come under attack. The odds of one of them twigging on it coming is fairly high... unless all external awareness has been cut off by strong wards.

The specific reasons for things changing and how... well... you'll see, as we move forward in year 2.

NJM1564 wrote: Isn't Eldrige making some things or the school?

Eldritch does things when specifically asked to. Because there are competent Mystic Arts Staff on campus who are the ones responsible for the ward networks, they would likely take pride in maintaining them as best as they can. They know nuance, and what dirty tricks they, themselves, would be likely to use to bypass wards, and add those things in.

Eldritch is powerful, but as far as Magic goes, she's an idiot-savant for physical mystic object crafting. Which means her wards can be physically broken until she actually learns how to USE and understand magic. Everything has advantages and disadvantages.

Why rely on an idiot-savant with an imperfect understanding and a need for massive amounts of materials (so she can be as effective) to cover the school when a few experienced sorcerers can hang wards in the astral, or the air, or what have you? Without the need for massive amounts of salt, iron filings, or more exotic materials?

There's effective, and then there's efficient. For the purposes of Whateley's ward network, Eldritch's powers are not necessarily the more efficient route to protecting the school. Certainly not the most imaginative.