Item: Gatebooks Category: Teleportation Type: Magic Powers and abilities: Teleportation Needed prerequisite for use: None History: Discovered by one of the Original Sisters, Sister Bramble in her quest to create an infinite bag of holding to aid her on her quests and her uncurbed tendency for hoarding. Instead of creating a pocket space to hold her items, a temporary means of teleportation was developed. Centuries of further development Description: Carried in the form of a specifically-reinforced book, these are limited-use teleportation portals that most Sisters and Wolves carry around with them. The Gatebooks comprise of two parts: the book itself, containing the magic required to activate the portal, and a “glyph” that is either attached to the front of the book, or can be popped off the page like a cut-out and applied to the activated portal to “open” it for others to pass through. They operate by opening a portal that a user can step through with an assigned glyph emerging on the other side while the portal closes behind them upon deactivation of the glyph, usually by reciting the incantation given on the page. This is generally the first thing that magic-users learn to create after mastering elemental magics, due to how useful these are - and how many times they’ve saved lives when they’ve needed a quick escape. However, they are quite complex, and extreme attention to detail is required to successfully craft a book without accidentally injuring or maiming the user. The most basic mechanic of these Gatebooks is that they are not “enchanted” but “written” with specially-made quills. A set of several variables have to be completed in order to anchor the teleportation properly, such as location, time, radius from original location, magical wards, who can or cannot pass through, so on, so forth. The non-magical equivalent of writing a Gatebook properly would be some form of programming, giving those who worked in information-technology an advantage. Mastered properly, their functions can vary from transporting a person from one country to another or merely leaving within a radius of where they originally were. Notes:
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