About the mobs in the World of Darkness

[Fenral]

As we all know now, by the end of CT story we learn that the 4th umbral calamity caused by the cristal tower, was not beacuse of a malfunction, it was beacuse Xande, on a desesperate move to end the civil war and kill all rebels, he tried to use the cristal tower and it overlaped the limits of the tower's capabilities.

Well, there was a malfunction, but it happened because the entire thing was triggered early. Remember, Doga and Unei were inside (presumably fighting Amon) when it happened, while Salina was outside somewhere safe enough that she wouldn't be killed by the earthquake. Doga and Unei were the more informed party. We don't even know if Salina really had any knowledge of the rebels beyond what she saw on TV, honestly.

My question is, how Xande, Amon, Scyllia, Garlobas(?) and Plegenton. In all that chaos of the civil war had the time to ugumented themselfs, gaining overhuman powers and becoming really big. Ok maybe Xande ( given that his thone is big, he probably become big a while ago ) and Plegenton ( experimentation ) and Scyllia ( experimentation ), but Amon and Garbolas(?) ??

All the augmentation happened well beforehand. I'd even wager the willing parties had a device like the post-war Zentradi (points if you get that reference) that lets them switch forms, kind of like Amon's temporary(!?) Toad magic.