A compilation of Planeshift experiments found in Amberlight
The book, found in the Amberlight library by Harold details various versions of a spell called 'planeshift'
There is a stack of pages wedged inside, indicating that no tests have resulted in any successful castings.
It appears to be even less reliable than teleportation magic.
The book itself is obtuse, and confusing.
If you read through the paper... There seem to be two sets of journal entries.
============================================= The first are dated to be around 30 years ago --------------------------------------------- The archmage is pacing again. The thin ceiling is getting thinner as he wears a hole through it from the floor above. I may never get any sleep. Woe to the students who would seek to be well rested for their trials.
I can hear his mumbling from here. Or perhaps I cannot, but I can certainly guess at what he is saying. He's been repeating the same thought for days. "It should work, it should work..." again and again and again...
The old spellbook is thought to have originated in another dimension of some sort, where the flow and veil of magic is not quite the same. Similar enough though, he said. Similiar enough that the book was not useless. A little bit of crystal. A little bit of a spark... We could make it work.
To be fair, some of the spells can be reproduced. Many in fact, though some have required a little more persuasion than the book indicated. Why then, should these last few be fabrications? And in his vast understanding of magic, the archmage is convinced that they should work.
But they do not.
Thus he paces, back and forth, trying to solve a puzzle he knows he hasn't got half the pieces for.
We are all prisoners here.
He wants to see more. There are other lands beyond Kariva. THe Sky kingdoms. The land below. The Chaos Plains. Perhaps even the pools of
But these are not the places the archmage is looking for. No, he seeks to tear through to other worlds. He pokes at the mephits. He prods at the elementals. Where do you come from? he asks. How do you get here? For we can summon more... at great effort, but it can be done. Yet, when defeated, they do not return to whence they had come.
A path that goes only one way...
The mirrors... they lead to somewhere... but that place is still here. Still Vyaelian. Still the land of the lost... the lost land? The Lost.
we need someone from here or there... something. a connection, a powerful link...
He is dead. The project is dead.
Perhaps it would have been easier to find the Key behind Thor's hammer in the land below...
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The next group of pages are dated a couple years ago, but they are even more damaged -------------------------------------------
A mirror from the Lady's Palace...
It reflects this world... but can go deeper... into Dreaming... into Memory... where the masked ones are said to remain when they die, beyond the fog...
Perhaps we can instead bind it elsewhere. If we can find someone or something with a strong enough connection ...
That is how the key of worlds was said to work.
A relic was donated to the cause by Idamisa he says it was made in the land of his god. It is powerful, there is no doubt... but how strong is it's connection...
the trial was a success...
it flickers unstably in the levels around...
it has levelled off...
what have we done
we cannot close it... it is widening...
a sacrifice maybe... yes... a sacrifice...
The book itself is obtuse, and confusing.
If you read through the paper... There seem to be two sets of journal entries.
============================================= The first are dated to be around 30 years ago --------------------------------------------- The archmage is pacing again. The thin ceiling is getting thinner as he wears a hole through it from the floor above. I may never get any sleep. Woe to the students who would seek to be well rested for their trials.
I can hear his mumbling from here. Or perhaps I cannot, but I can certainly guess at what he is saying. He's been repeating the same thought for days. "It should work, it should work..." again and again and again...
The old spellbook is thought to have originated in another dimension of some sort, where the flow and veil of magic is not quite the same. Similar enough though, he said. Similiar enough that the book was not useless. A little bit of crystal. A little bit of a spark... We could make it work.
To be fair, some of the spells can be reproduced. Many in fact, though some have required a little more persuasion than the book indicated. Why then, should these last few be fabrications? And in his vast understanding of magic, the archmage is convinced that they should work.
But they do not.
Thus he paces, back and forth, trying to solve a puzzle he knows he hasn't got half the pieces for.
We are all prisoners here.
He wants to see more. There are other lands beyond Kariva. THe Sky kingdoms. The land below. The Chaos Plains. Perhaps even the pools of
But these are not the places the archmage is looking for. No, he seeks to tear through to other worlds. He pokes at the mephits. He prods at the elementals. Where do you come from? he asks. How do you get here? For we can summon more... at great effort, but it can be done. Yet, when defeated, they do not return to whence they had come.
A path that goes only one way...
The mirrors... they lead to somewhere... but that place is still here. Still Vyaelian. Still the land of the lost... the lost land? The Lost.
we need someone from here or there... something. a connection, a powerful link...
He is dead. The project is dead.
Perhaps it would have been easier to find the Key behind Thor's hammer in the land below...
===========================================
The next group of pages are dated a couple years ago, but they are even more damaged -------------------------------------------
A mirror from the Lady's Palace...
It reflects this world... but can go deeper... into Dreaming... into Memory... where the masked ones are said to remain when they die, beyond the fog...
Perhaps we can instead bind it elsewhere. If we can find someone or something with a strong enough connection ...
That is how the key of worlds was said to work.
A relic was donated to the cause by Idamisa he says it was made in the land of his god. It is powerful, there is no doubt... but how strong is it's connection...
the trial was a success...
it flickers unstably in the levels around...
it has levelled off...
what have we done
we cannot close it... it is widening...
a sacrifice maybe... yes... a sacrifice...
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