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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 2738541" data-attributes="member: 35788">Well, the obvious answer is that since nobody is completely sure of their existance hence the reason they are a legend ... who knows?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> The less obvious answer is that chances are the portals will be near the center of an organized force.  So, if there seem to be a ton of demons or devils of other BBEGs hanging around and all these ones look more powerful than the rest the party has faced ... well, there ya go.  There may be a portal nearby.As for destroying them ... few portal locations are concretely known on Enigmatica, therefore there is no hard and fast knowledge about how to do so.  However, there is a belief that if the magic that holds the portal open can be dispelled, the portal will become innert unless something else reinfuses the magical life within it.  There are various means of dispelling magic - some temporary and some permanent ... so safe and some quite hazardous.  Of course temporary means would probably only supress the portal and not destroy it.  There is the thought that if one end of the portal ould be placed within a permanent anti-magic field (or rather a permanent ant-magic field be placed around the portal) that it might seal the portal off as long as the antimagic field was in place.  But of course, there are other distinctly possible solution to that problem.</blockquote>

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