Intransican Warning Portals

Intransican Warning Balls are a simplistic but effective system for provincial governors or regional lords to report emergencies back to The Imperial City. Each is given a small metal disc, with a magical portal inside. Wide enough for a scroll or other document to be wrapped and sent through, the portal leads to a building in the Imperial City, its location and purpose kept secret to outsiders. Reading the reports, Imperial Magistrates or other forces are dispatched as needed.

Access & Availability

The Intransican Empire keeps the warning portals under tight control. They are less concerned with someone misusing the magical items as they are a region being without the means of communication. The biggest concern however, is replication. This provides civil and military leaders a means of communication that exceeds almost any other, allowing them to be more responsive and adaptive. If rival nations or resistance movements could use this, it would be a dramatic hurt to their competitive advantage.

Discovery

Portal Magic was heavily explored in the middle of the First Age, after any and all hopes of T'sara being put back together after The Fey Crisis had dissipated. The magic is difficult to create and sustain, with most permanent "gates" being highly controlled.

The minitiarization of the portal does not affect the difficulty of the spell or enchantment, so conventional logic had been to make them larger to allow for people and things to be transported. On the other hand, the architecture to suspend a gateway is made difficult by size. Though smaller gates were easier to keep, their limited utility deemed them unfeasible until an ingenious member of the fledgling Intransican Empire devised this. In a way, he had created nothing new, but found a successful way to use what was already known in the arcane arts.