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Sovereign: /* How It Works */

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Sovereign: /* Initiation */

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Sovereign: /* Abilities */

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 [[Category:Magic]]
 [[Category:Created by Mystic]]
 An uncommon ability even between magic users, Transposition is the power to use the everflowing currents of ether as a bridge to fold the fabric of space between two points and connect them with a portal. It is used by mages as a means of communication, transportation, fast travel, and in the case of the few mages of exceptional ability in this discipline cross the boundaries of the Material Plane to other realms.

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 =How It Works=
-Practitioners of Transposition utilize the power of their rune to seize or create streams of aether and compress them across order to bend the fabric of reality and connect two points with a portal. There are three components to creating a portal, and four types of limits when creating one.
+Practitioners of Transposition utilize the power of their Mark to seize or create streams of aether and compress them across order to bend the fabric of reality and connect two points with a portal. There are three components to creating a portal, and four types of limits when creating one.
 ===Base Concepts===

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 =Initiation=
-As with all Cardinal Runes of Magic, the aspiring Transpositioner must find a wizard who is both willing and able to inscribe the Cardinal Rune of Transposition upon their flesh. Threshold sickness caused by the Rune of Transposition is particularly dangerous, not due to the direct effect of the symptoms it causes, but because of the vulnerability it causes on the initiate. Usually, the effects are purely psychological: the affected experience complete depersonalization and the boundaries of reality become blurred, making the person lose all sense of self that is tied to the world surrounding them; it also causes extreme spatial disorientation and amnesia, resulting in an inability to recognize places, distances or heights and following a certain course. On more extreme cases, the future wizards experience visions of faraway places as if they were their current environment, and small, partial teleportations might trigger, resulting in bits of flesh being ripped off their bodies as they teleport a few feet away, causing bleeding or internal bleeding. The threshold sickness lasts a few days, and after that patients might need some time to fully adjust to reality before it’s safe to start their training.
+As with all Raw Magics, the aspiring Transpositioner must find a wizard who is both willing and able to inscribe the Cardinal Mark of Transposition upon their flesh. Threshold sickness caused by the Mark of Transposition is particularly dangerous, not due to the direct effect of the symptoms it causes, but because of the vulnerability it causes on the initiate. Usually, the effects are purely psychological: the affected experience complete depersonalization and the boundaries of reality become blurred, making the person lose all sense of self that is tied to the world surrounding them; it also causes extreme spatial disorientation and amnesia, resulting in an inability to recognize places, distances or heights and following a certain course. On more extreme cases, the future wizards experience visions of faraway places as if they were their current environment, and small, partial teleportations might trigger, resulting in bits of flesh being ripped off their bodies as they teleport a few feet away, causing bleeding or internal bleeding. The threshold sickness lasts a few days, and after that patients might need some time to fully adjust to reality before it’s safe to start their training.
 =Overstepping=

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 Transposition masters have an increased resistance compared to starters or non-initiated, but even for a Master, traveling a few thousand miles essentially causes Portal Sickness as an inevitability, with greater distances causing more significant sickness. While suffering from severe Sickness, further portal travel or blinking exacerbates the effects exponentially, causing overstepping and soon leaving the user bedridden. Even minor Sickness does induce this effect, but obviously at a less exponential rate. Portal Sickness' effects linger until a bit after the Fatigue level goes under the critical threshold, then quickly fading. Excessive use of inter-city portals in one season and thus repeated cases of Portal Sickness can deteriorate the user's spatial integrity and thus incur the negative consequences of Arcane Corruption.
-'''Substance:''' The Aetherium is the source of all things created, and as the Aether Flux theory postulates, different kinds of aether, energy and matter are composite substances coming from it. Space is formed by layers of different aetheric density; as such, the Transpositioner must tear open all these layers to allow all kinds of substances to cross their portals. Thus, there’s four known layers that can be open to allow substances of increasing aetheric density to cross: aether (raw currents and magic), energy (light, heat, sound…), inanimate matter (elements such as air, water, rock, metal and dead matter) and life (all living creatures). Only organisms containing the spark of Raella and spirits of similar composition are considered Life. Substances not allowed to cross the portal just ignore it, their course following material space.
+'''Substance:''' The Aetherium is the source of all things created, and as the Aether Flux theory postulates, different kinds of aether, energy and matter are composite substances coming from it. Space is formed by layers of different aetheric density; as such, the Transpositioner must tear open all these layers to allow all kinds of substances to cross their portals. Thus, there’s four known layers that can be open to allow substances of increasing aetheric density to cross: aether (raw currents and magic), energy (light, heat, sound…), inanimate matter (elements such as air, water, rock, metal and dead matter) and life (all living creatures). Only organisms containing the spark of Y'shendra and spirits of similar composition are considered Life. Substances not allowed to cross the portal just ignore it, their course following material space.
 '''Crossing:''' Portals are able to transfer substance through space, but that transfer always comes at a cost: in order to allow matter or energy to pass through it, a flow of aether proportional to density and amount must feed the portal. The flow must be uniform in order to stabilize it; if this aether fails to be provided, the portal breaks, and either only a fraction of the substances cross it, or it rejects them all together, canceling spatial transposition.

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 An uncommon ability even between magic users, Transposition is the power to use the everflowing currents of ether as a bridge to fold the fabric of space between two points and connect them with a portal. It is used by mages as a means of communication, transportation, fast travel, and in the case of the few mages of exceptional ability in this discipline cross the boundaries of the Material Plane to other realms.
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 Finally, an Elder may carve their own small domain within space, though it appears to exist within the edges of a pre-existing realm. This domain, far inferior to a God's realm but still arbitrated by their will, can even be melded with the real world or withdrawn from it at their behest. Commonly it is a home of some sort, and they cannot fabricate life within this domain. Things that physically interact with other entities must be physically viable; for example, a home can only be lived in if it is a home that has truly been built. Still, this offers the Elder a safe reprieve from others, and an escape from most dangers. It is, however, very exhaustive in aether to call upon this domain, though less so to enter it.

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	Gained at Master. The Master’s mind is melded to the fabric of space itself, allowing them to project their minds to distant lands and open portals that connect very distant points. Their awareness of the landscape is awe-strickening: they get a perfectly clear perception of the environment up to 100 miles in the form of a sensory blueprint, now able to also sense living beings. After that limit its clarity slowly fades, allowing mages to perceive those physical boundaries increasingly blurrily up to 1000 miles; after this, it becomes hard to distinguish anything. Using this ability they can even perceive underground openings, open sea and the space over the clouds if they focus properly. This ability can scantily perceive the metaphysical boundaries between worlds, making the Master able to sense the Aetherium barriers that separate the planes and roughly peek beyond. Farsight costs increasing amounts of Aether the longer it's activated, though it can be mantained for longer than Spatial Perception before the cost becomes unreasonable; Masters usually activate Farsight for up to half a minute before the cost starts being significant, and they can keep it up to a minute if they need to before the cost becomes unreasonable. As in Spatial Perception, users need to rest a little longer than the Farsight activation timespan to make the initial cost lower back to its minimal amount.		Gained at Master. The Master’s mind is melded to the fabric of space itself, allowing them to project their minds to distant lands and open portals that connect very distant points. Their awareness of the landscape is awe-strickening: they get a perfectly clear perception of the environment up to 100 miles in the form of a sensory blueprint, now able to also sense living beings. After that limit its clarity slowly fades, allowing mages to perceive those physical boundaries increasingly blurrily up to 1000 miles; after this, it becomes hard to distinguish anything. Using this ability they can even perceive underground openings, open sea and the space over the clouds if they focus properly. This ability can scantily perceive the metaphysical boundaries between worlds, making the Master able to sense the Aetherium barriers that separate the planes and roughly peek beyond. Farsight costs increasing amounts of Aether the longer it's activated, though it can be mantained for longer than Spatial Perception before the cost becomes unreasonable; Masters usually activate Farsight for up to half a minute before the cost starts being significant, and they can keep it up to a minute if they need to before the cost becomes unreasonable. As in Spatial Perception, users need to rest a little longer than the Farsight activation timespan to make the initial cost lower back to its minimal amount.
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 Once the Transpositioner reaches Expert and Master, as detailed below, they are allowed to create portals reaching very long distances. While users of these portals (whether they're the mage that created them or a different traveler) may travel without significant risk to their body, every travel through a portal contributes to an ethereal cumulative effect lingering in each traveler's soul called Spatial Fatigue. Spatial Fatigue is harmless until it reaches a critical amount, causing Portal Sickness; effects include continued headache and malaise until it wears off, and vomiting and hallucinations in worse cases. However, the fatigue wears off with time, short travels needing just a few hours for the fatigue to vanish; long distance travels (1000+ miles) need a few days. Recovery time is directly proportional to distance travel, during which the accumulated Fatigue steadily dissipates; however, most experienced Transpositionists don't wait for full remission. Instead, they calculate their recovery times and the distances they need to cross in order to travel in the most efficient way, their stockpiled Spatial Fatigue fluctuating but attempting to never surpass the Portal Sickness threshold.
-Transposition masters have an increased resistance compared to starters or non-initiated, but even for a Master, traveling a few thousand miles essentially causes Portal Sickness as an inevitability, with greater distances causing more significant sickness. While suffering from severe Sickness, further portal travel or blinking exacerbates the effects exponentially, causing overstepping and soon leaving the user bedridden. Even minor Sickness does induce this effect, but obviously at a less exponential rate. Portal Sickness' effects linger until a bit after the Fatigue level goes under the critical threshold, then quickly fading. Excessive use of inter-city portals in one season and thus repeated cases of Portal Sickness can deteriorate the user's spatial integrity and thus incur the negative consequences of Dread-Mist Corruption.
+Transposition masters have an increased resistance compared to starters or non-initiated, but even for a Master, traveling a few thousand miles essentially causes Portal Sickness as an inevitability, with greater distances causing more significant sickness. While suffering from severe Sickness, further portal travel or blinking exacerbates the effects exponentially, causing overstepping and soon leaving the user bedridden. Even minor Sickness does induce this effect, but obviously at a less exponential rate. Portal Sickness' effects linger until a bit after the Fatigue level goes under the critical threshold, then quickly fading. Excessive use of inter-city portals in one season and thus repeated cases of Portal Sickness can deteriorate the user's spatial integrity and thus incur the negative consequences of Arcane Corruption.
 '''Substance:''' The Aetherium is the source of all things created, and as the Aether Flux theory postulates, different kinds of aether, energy and matter are composite substances coming from it. Space is formed by layers of different aetheric density; as such, the Transpositioner must tear open all these layers to allow all kinds of substances to cross their portals. Thus, there’s four known layers that can be open to allow substances of increasing aetheric density to cross: aether (raw currents and magic), energy (light, heat, sound…), inanimate matter (elements such as air, water, rock, metal and dead matter) and life (all living creatures). Only organisms containing the spark of Raella and spirits of similar composition are considered Life. Substances not allowed to cross the portal just ignore it, their course following material space.

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 '''Interplanar Portal (CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE)'''
-Gained at Master. Having perceived the limits of the Material plane, the Master Transpositioner has transcended them. In an extraordinary display of magic power and ability, they can tear open portals to other matter based worlds, including the Elemental Planes and the Shrouded Realms.
+Gained at Master. Having perceived the limits of the material plane, the Master Transpositioner has transcended them. In an extraordinary display of magic power and ability, they can tear open portals to other matter based worlds, including Bel, Muid, Reverie and the Outlands.
 ==Elder Abilities==