Some thoughts/ideas about links
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[quote=Giwdul;5258][b]Link Theory:[/b]Link data / facts / things to be explained:
1. A Link is a magical-energy cable connecting two points.
2. All types of Links are variations on this (#1) theme.
3. Magical links can conduct both mana and animus.
4. Magical links can be used for targeting spells, anchoring portals and other similar tasks.
5. Magical links can be used for many levels of communication and power sharing.
6. Magical links are not constrained by material reality (not limited to 3-dimensional space).
7. Magical links break when they are run from the outer planes to the abyss or vise versa.
8. Links can be protected from damage/tampering by placing insulating spells around the links. These insulating spells are called “ciphers”.
9. Various spells can interrupt/interfere-with a link. Some wards have this effect to some degree or other.
10. Links can be anchored to both physical items and souls. A Link can be anchored to a soul by one of two means:
1. Coercive binding spells.
2. Willing recipient.
11. When a link crosses out of material reality, it will appear to extend out from it’s anchor for anywhere between 5 and 50 feet before fading out of view (Assuming you are using wizard-sight or some variation of it).[/quote]Ciphers are not so much shielding spells as encryption. But that’s more of a point of view and how you look at them, could be either. It’s encrypted communication.
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In the simplest terms, a Link can be thought of as a unidirectional, extra-dimensional, magical ‘tube’ through which mana and animus can flow. While links can conduct raw mana and animus (illumination streams), they can also be used to target spells such as Inter-dimensional portals and most other distance spells.
[/quote]The analogy I use today is that they are VPN tunnels through the internet. Or, in older computer parlance, the are “Sessions” something that web browsers simulate when you log into a site (in the old days they were true private/dedicated links)
Of course, I wrote the rules for this stuff around 1992 plus or minus. I had the Internet, but VPN’s weren’t so much. Dial up modem was probably a bit better.
I think of the link and it’s auto-keep up being like pings, or a “heartbeat” that says both sides of a session are present.
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Links are not effected by distance, a link between two items 5 feet apart will not require extra power to maintain the connection if you move the two items 500 leagues apart. Once a link is created, it does not require further powering to maintain it.
[/quote]Yes, or very minimal with some types of links.
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Link Fail-Over:
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Agreed[quote=Giwdul;5258]
Note – STIO: When a link passes through the walls of a reality/plain, it picks up a small oscillating vibration from the interaction of the link and the boundaries of that space-time, this is the STIO (Space Time Interaction Oscillation) (need a cool name for this)(this is a hypothetical I came up with to explain the outer-plains → Abyss link breakage).
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I like that.[quote=Giwdul;5258]
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This is excellent for the OOOTA (Oak Orks Of The Antilles) aka Demons in Space series that I plan to do.Love the Interdiction wards theory!
Great stuff. Now, I need to follow this where it goes! Will come back to this as soon as I’ve figure out how it plays out!
Thanks
Also as is already stated, priests can pull preapproved amounts of mana directly from the Outer Planes, it’s only for things above their quota that they have to route through a saint, or on an occaision like Nysegard.
[quote=Iume;5264]So the reason why Hilda’s links to her illuminaries broke regardless of where she was (material or outer plane) was because they were SITO-O even though it was a mortal-immortal link rather than a direct connection to Tierhallon? In short the links inherited or were contaminated by her SITO and so they mimic it?[/quote]
Will say more once I read Giwdul’s thoughts and digest.
My first gut is this:
All the saints have an answering service, so to speak, they have, I believe, called it their Prayer Queue, so for example they spend a good part of their day going through their Prayer Queues. They also have alert qeues that give them an alert when someone is requisitioning mana above their pre-approved quota, the saint responds to this alert by reviewing the request (real time) and approving or disapproving the request.
All of this functionality is in Tierhallon. So, under normal conditions, everything is routed through Tierhallon, that’s where her Help Desk is located.
That’s prayer and prayer links.
Illumination streams however, run through the saints and then on up. However, once cut, they would have to be manually reestablished. So I think Hilda being in Freehold might be a problem.
Is Tom’s method of binding a soul when ascending D’Orcs used by gods as well when creating their avatars?
I ask because I was wondering if that meant Tiernon knows the true name of all of his avatars and has personal links or not. If not, then how does the saint creation ritual vary?
Also Gastope is technically able to be tizzy’s AM because there’s already a binding link on him.
There are spells that use the link but not the true name. That’s how tizzy was summoned for the lich and ice dragon fight in HH.
[quote=EyeDeKay;5456]Also Gastope is technically able to be tizzy’s AM because there’s already a binding link on him.
There are spells that use the link but not the true name. That’s how tizzy was summoned for the lich and ice dragon fight in HH. [/quote]
Once a link is in place, you don’t need to know the true name to summon the person.
The trouble with this link is “how did it get there?” Gastrope’ couldn’t have done it, he doesn’t know Tizzy’s name, and Tizzy (hopefully) doesn’t know Gastrope’s Now of course, you only need to know the bindee’s true name, not the binders…but even so, it is not something that Gastrope’ or I wager any wizard has ever seen done before.
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