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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 1011177" data-attributes="member: 3929">PortalsA world ruined by incredible amounts of magic. They’ve had to have made portals before the cataclysm, right? Well, they did. The great empires of the past had portals commissioned for a great number of reasons: troop transport, escape for the nobility, methods of going to the prince’s favorite vacation spot. Mages created these things to transport them to their sanctum sanctorum. All of these portals could only be used one way; they commonly had a returning portal nearby. The great cities possessed portals for any and all to use.Then, the Fall.The magic bound to these archways was not destroyed in the initial blast, but the open gates fell to the wrath of the mob – or ceased functioning when the companion portal was destroyed. The large portals used most often (and thus well known) would be mobbed by the angry populace bent on destroying magic. When a portal’s encasing archway was breached the result was an explosion. The size of the explosion depended upon the size of the archway, and the larger ones devastated the entire surrounding area, charring the earth. Yet, some still exist and still function. Those wizards with enough foresight to know what would happen to magic users after the Fall and wise enough to conceal their creations bestowed to their apprentices a means of traveling (and escaping). Some enclaves were constructed around these devices, building off from the former master’s sanctum. The creation of these gates is largely a craft lost to antiquity; although there are those that still live who possess the ability. It is also understandably unpopular to build there things in sight of people: mobs will likely appear to stop you. Then kill you.Portals are a reality; a reality not to be used lightly. While the method of creating the gates prevent a portal from transporting you into solid rock or to somewhere without a companion archway the masses are understandably agitated by people springing out of thin air. That, and any map that used to exist telling where each portal went is no longer around.</blockquote>

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