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In the Wheel Of Time series the Aei Sedia (a guild of sanctioned magic users) are bound always tell the truth via magical means. This is ostensibly done to convince non-magic users to trust them but in practice it has the opposite effect because due to this binding members of the Aei Sedia often become quite adept at word-games, lies by omission/implication, and using nitpicky technicalities to get around their "limitation". Of course, the normies notice this tendency and naturally come to trust the Aei Sedia even less.

Reading this along with Bounded Distrust I find myself wondering if Scott is being purposely obtuse as a means of currying favor with his ingroup (wealthy bay-area progressives), or genuinely doesn't grasp the above dynamic.

Have you read Pact and/or Pale? Same limitation on magic users and magic creatures. Pretty much the same result, too, other than there is no issues with normies distrusting magic users because they do not know of them.

Do you know if there is any place I can get this as an epub? I tried googling it and I just find links to the guys website, im not interested in reading the whole thing online.

If you're fine with mobi files, you can get Pact from https://github.com/TheBrain0110/worm_scraper. Pale isn't on there, but the script would probably work on it too if you wanted to run it locally.