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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 7462026" data-attributes="member: 63">The timeline was:1. Ack, demons and aliens and stuff invading our world.2. I have a plan! Find portals the invaders are coming through.3. Seal portals from 8 planes. (Actually it was more than 8, but only 8 ended up mattering.)4. Demons and aliens and stuff withdraw their forces from those planes.5. Now we have 8 planes that are free from invaders.6. Perform Axis Seal ritual, blocking off everything except those 8 planes.When that happens, you've now got nine seals:I - VIII) Eight small ones each blocking a single plane, metaphysically focused on the existing portals the invaders once used.IX) A massive one blocking all other planes, which simultaneously links the 8 worlds to this one.The interaction between the big seal and the small seals sliced off some tiny pieces of the planes. Places that were near the original portals were carved into pocket dimensions, in temporal stasis, only accessible through the (sealed) portals in the ziggurats.Then steps 7 and 8.7. The Gidim who cleverly hid on Apet started invading again.8. Tweak the Axis Seal ritual so Apet is still linked, but travel to and from is very difficult. This strands the Gidim there, causing them to starve and go mad.So each of the ziggurats is suffused with energy from the plane they link to, and when you open the small seal, even more energy pours out. Also, if any creatures happened to be by the portal when the Axis Seal went up, they were kept in stasis, so opening the small seal would let them out.I hadn't previously considered this, but it makes sense that Nalaam's wizards might have popped the seal of Urim when they founded the city. They probably fought some xorn or something, then built their bad-ass Las Vegas in the mountains.</blockquote>

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