Story/Mechanics Disparity

I was thinking about this recently, and I had to ask:

What is up with with Tier V Bloodline power for the val’Abebi? Their power is to be able to imbue shots of blast powder with their magical spark, but this makes almost no sense from a story point of view. Blast powder is Althares Second Gift, and is only given in 428 IC (only about 650 years before the Campaign). We know the val’Abebi have been around since the First Imperium of Man due to their involvement with the Nelgazzi Affair. So, how could their Bloodline power be something that didn’t even exist for MILLENNIA?! Hell, the FIRST Gift of Althares only camp up in 120 BIC, little more than a millennia before the current story!

So, what does this mean? The simplest explanation is that it was an oversight on the part of the rules-writers. The val’Abebi are known for guns and blast powder, so that means they get a power involving its production. Though this works conceptually, it does show a certain lack of awareness of the history of the story, though in all fairness this Bloodline power dates back to the 3.5 days so maybe that aspect of the story simply was not fleshed out at the time.

That said, it could also represent something even more interesting: What if the val’Abebi’s highest power was somehow changed a little over 500 years ago? What if their highest Bloodline Power has changed with the will of Althares (or his Valinor)? Maybe around the time of the Time of Terror they had a power relating with Electromagnetism relating to the First Gift? Perhaps before the Floating City of Khafre, they had yet a different, unknown power?

Questions. . .

(also, side note: Notice how the “Khafre” sounds very similar to several Kio words that we have come across in the story, and how both they and the Altherans have stories of Floating Cities. . . )