| The Teleporting Platforms | |
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| Appearances | Divine Divinity |
| Type | Text |
| Author | Adrianexos |
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| Weight | 1 |
The Teleporting Platforms describes the vague history of teleporters throughout Rivellon.
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| “ | THE TELEPORTING PLATFORMS by Adrianexos the Human. Who built the teleporting platforms in the first place, nobody now knows. The fact is that these strange monolithic structures are scattered throughout Rivellon, suggesting a civilisation that was once as all encompassing as it was magically learned. What became of this lost people, or peoples, is beyond the skill of today's scholars and scryers to discover. Each of the six major races of Rivellon has adopted at least one teleporting platform in their territories. Unfortunately, the exact positions of these magical sites are no longer common knowledge thanks largely to the racial petty infighting and general disintegration that all our social structures have suffered over the past five hundred years. Fear of the teleporters being used to facilitate a military sneak-attack has caused the virtual closing down of this wondrous system of transport. If an individual wishes to use the teleport platform of a certain race, he will need to know their magic activation word. For the above mentioned security reasons, only a few important members of each race possess the knowledge of these activation words and, in turn, entrust them only to those they trust implicitly. The result has been that where trade and intellectual commerce could have thrived by virtually instant transport between the different races, now only stagnation exists. The platforms might as well be deactivated and dismantled, because nobody can use them. No race will entrust another with its activation word. The informal brotherhood of mages has two or three platforms in their keeping. One is near the village of Aleroth and connects an area northwest of Stormfist Castle. If I'm not mistaken |
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