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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2961495" data-attributes="member: 63">The SunTo the ancient elves, time was a strange thing. They did not change, but the world around them did. They liked to believe that they had mastery of magic and of nature, and that they understood the cycle of time. Occasionally, however, they would be confronted with something they had not experienced before. Because to them time was cyclical, it became necessary to rationalize how something new could ever appear.Their answer reflected the racism and pride inherent to elves. They determined that everything had always existed, hiding in the metaphysical shadows outside of their knowledge, only revealed whenever a fortunate elf discovered them. They proclaimed the sun to be their chief god, Vona, and then set about 'discovering' more gods and goddesses whenever they were needed.Then mankind showed up and started driving certain creatures to extinction, and eventually the elves came out of their temporal delusions and started dealing with life from day to day. The period in history when the first major contact between humans and elves occured, however, coincided with a unique event involving the Sun.Since primordial times, teleportation magic had been difficult. It is said that in the old days, before the world was claimed by the sentient races, every teleportation tore a hole in the fabric of the world, opening portals to demon realms, threatening to destroy Trema completely. In response to this threat, the Council of Pleian was convened, summoning the greatest heroes of mankind and elvenkind. Together they performed a powerful ritual to seal the world off from outside influences, aligning the planes that exist today from their original wild drifting and forming them into a giant series of orbitting wards, with the Sun as their center.The elves claimed their god had discovered the spell, and told it to them.Henceforth, teleportation was limited to within the planar system they had created, with only a few exceedingly rare exceptions. Even then, due to the construction of the spell, as the system was anchored around the Sun, all teleportation passed, if ever so briefly, through the sun itself, meaning it was not a type of travel that could be undertaken lightly. Most who had become used to teleporting wherever they went simply died, never having a chance to figure out a way around the danger. Only those who had created the Pleian Ban in the first place were aware of how to safely teleport, and they worked to safeguard this secret, understanding how great a threat instantaneous travel posed.Eventually the secret was exposed, but by then the descendants of the Council of Pleian had succeeded in stealing or destroying most texts pertaining to teleportation. For this, they are cursed by many elves, who believe they had done something profane -- using the power of the sun to conceal, rather than discover. For the three people who are reading this thread, tune in tomorrow for the plane of fire.</blockquote>

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