It starts well enough - what if magic worked like programming? That's a cool idea. What if there was a parallel world that you entered by dreaming and where thoughts coexisted with thinkers? Nice. What if there was a wizard that lived in the dream world but also in the real world and also he has super-magic powers? OK. What if there was a cabal that had super-SUPER-magic powers and was hiding it from everyone? Uh. What if all that was a lie and the cabal was actually protecting humanity except not really and then it's a million years in the future and everything is a simulation by space wizards that can do super-super-SUPER-magic and we have real computers imitating fake computers imitating real computers and