Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24339224-20150815063002/@comment-13446185-20150816030412

"This should be lit up brighter than the night sky, and it's not! Clearly you've interfered somehow. Or... You have something at your college don't you? Something immensely powerful. Beyond anything I'd anticipated. What is it?"

"What's important is that all of this work was designed to reveal to us sources of great magical power. Purely to help safeguard the Empire, of course. And yet, in the end, only two locations have been revealed to us. One is your College. The other... Well, that can only be Labyrinthian."

-Paratus Decimius

The Eye and Staff of Magnus are apparently of such extreme magical power that they completely overshine all the other magical artifcacts of Tamriel. Not hard to imagine given Magnus is the god of all magic.