Prime Gates
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Prime Gates are a rare and difficult means of transportation.
Designed and built at a time when the world was at peace--the first, or 'Mother' Gate—was created by the Gnolaum at Castle Andilain.
These mighty artifacts were crafted to allow for travel across vast distances by opening doorways between two locations. Ancient scrolls speak of a time when the gates were used to usher in trade among the peoples of the world. During conflicts, vast armies moved from one position of power to another. During times of crisis, nations provided refuge from natural disasters and invasion.
While each continent contains at least one Prime Gate, Humär is known to posses three.
Prime Gates require specific magical knowledge. Each gate is constructed in precisely the same fashion--using the exact same combination of ore, stone, and magical symbols.
To activate a gate, mägo 'Invocators' manipulate the complicated symbols on each of the three black spires, specific to the location one desires to visit.
Few invocators know every combination available to a Prime Gate.
Unlike its successors, the Mother Gate did not require a secondary gate to connect with in order to open a portal. How this was accomplished, no mägo has revealed. There is no written account I have been able to find, speaking of any other gate able to function without a secondary gate to connect to.
It should be noted that it was the Mother Gate which allowed for Mahan to be banished to Unrest, as well as the colonization of Iskäri-Käläm and the establishment of Sanctuary.
Höbin
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