A couple qustions not necessarily relevant to AoD

[Giwdul]

[Giwdul]

Question:
When Ruiden was in Murgatroy, he “sensed Talarius’ presence” and ran to find the portal. How did Ruiden sense Talarius’ presence?
Ruiden has a link to Talarius. That link should have been up and working throughout HH.

Possible answer 1:
Ruiden’s link to Talarius re-routed through the portal that Tom had created. This would give Ruiden a path to the portal.
Problem:
If links auto-reroute through available portals, the illumination streams of the Avatars and priests at the Citadel would have auto-rerouted through Tom’s runic gate the second he opened it.
Also, whenever someone opens a portal to the Abyss, every bound demon near the Abyss end and every Conjurer near the Material end would find their links auto-rerouted through the portal (Conjurers: “WTF??!!”; Demons: “Whoopee!!”).

Possible answer 2:
Ruiden was able to detect the portal (or Tom) via his super-perceptions.
Problem:
This doesn’t explain how he was able to sense Talarius’ presence from Murgatroy.

Question:
Sentir Falon has traveled to the Abyss on multiple occasions without being caught by the other avatars or Tiernon. Sentir Falon is a high ranking avatar with a lot of important links to important people. When he travels to the abyss, these links should, normally, be cut and that should be noticed by someone in Tierhallon. Why isn’t this happening?

Possible answer 1:
Sentir Falon created a small portal from the Abyss to one of the material plains and threaded all of his links through it while he was in the Abyss.

Possible answer 2:
Sentir Falon built himself some type of link-relay gizmo on the material plains that allows him to maintain his links while in the abyss.

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[quote=Giwdul;5257]Question:
When Ruiden was in Murgatroy, he “sensed Talarius’ presence” and ran to find the portal. How did Ruiden sense Talarius’ presence?
Ruiden has a link to Talarius. That link should have been up and working throughout HH.

Possible answer 1:
Ruiden’s link to Talarius re-routed through the portal that Tom had created. This would give Ruiden a path to the portal.
Problem:
If links auto-reroute through available portals, the illumination streams of the Avatars and priests at the Citadel would have auto-rerouted through Tom’s runic gate the second he opened it.
Also, whenever someone opens a portal to the Abyss, every bound demon near the Abyss end and every Conjurer near the Material end would find their links auto-rerouted through the portal (Conjurers: “WTF??!!”; Demons: “Whoopee!!”).

Possible answer 2:
Ruiden was able to detect the portal (or Tom) via his super-perceptions.
Problem:
This doesn’t explain how he was able to sense Talarius’ presence from Murgatroy.

Question:
Sentir Falon has traveled to the Abyss on multiple occasions without being caught by the other avatars or Tiernon. Sentir Falon is a high ranking avatar with a lot of important links to important people. When he travels to the abyss, these links should, normally, be cut and that should be noticed by someone in Tierhallon. Why isn’t this happening?

Possible answer 1:
Sentir Falon created a small portal from the Abyss to one of the material plains and threaded all of his links through it while he was in the Abyss.

Possible answer 2:
Sentir Falon built himself some type of link-relay gizmo on the material plains that allows him to maintain his links while in the abyss.[/quote]

These I have thought about before.

Typically most standard links do not cross planes. Not unless they are built to do so, like demon links and avatar links/illumination streams.

So Talarius/Ruiden’s links don’t cross planes. My intention was that with the portal open, and Ruiden there, his link was able to reestablish quickly because there was also short distances.

Plus, links, normal ones, don’t just automatically reset, unless that has been set up, but that costs mana. So you have to “try and reestablish a link” once it’s possible to connect again. Think of it like a vpn or dial up modem, if the link goes down, it will try to reconnect, but eventually give up until told to reconnect again. The Wand is a link hub and is designed to do things like auto-failover. normal people/avatars aren’t.

Ruiden was always continuously pinging Talarius.

As for the other portals, my answer previously in HH was, and still is, those portals aren’t up long enough for any autoconnection, unless one of the parties is right next to the portal.

Thus, if a deity was purposefully watching a certain area for a portal to open, they could try to connect and would eventually succeed, assuming the portal stayed up. But it’s unlikely that they would/could be doing that. They are not omniscient by any stretch.

This is also the problem with the Interstellar links, yes you might be able to link to something in a nearby star system, but you have to know where it is, or spend a very long time searching. Much like a radio signal from aliens, you have to look in the right direction at the right time, and links are not quite as dispersive as radio waves.

As for Sentir Fallon, I’m assuming he’s figure a way, a device to tether his links and then he shields himself heavily in the Abyss, since technically he should not be there, unless invited, which he sort of is by Lilith, who, of course, can’t admit to inviting him. But could if forced to by the Tribunal.

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