Nicole Martinsen @MissMartinsen@TheEdVerse
Great Graybeard, your advice, I beg.
If one desired to create a pair of journals, with which to exchange messages across the same Plane, would this be possible? And how would one go about creating such devices, akin to sending stones?— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 1, 2020
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This seems to be a magic the gods frown upon, or that works not well with the Weave; although in theory it should be fairly straightforward, attempts repeatedly fail, or the paired journals work only briefly ere ceasing to 2)
…function or even crumbling away.
In the same way that a spellbook should be created of the finest (specific) materials, enchanted with purifying and preservation magics at every turn (see VOLO’S GUIDE TO ALL THINGS MAGICAL for…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 1, 2020
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…some successful preparation processes), the journals must be prepared—and both of them must be prepared in EXACTLY the same way (some practitioners have even created one book, then split it into two, and enspelled it with 4)
…the linking magics after doing so). One key to the magic working seems to be the enchanter using some of their own blood, or tears, or spittle on both books in one unbroken application (that is, the books being together and…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 1, 2020
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…the material introduced to both of them in a single, uninterrupted motion).
As with sending stones, if one of the journals is destroyed, the magic is destroyed too. If one journal is damaged (a page torn out, for instance), 6)
…the same damage occurs to the other.
The monks of Candlekeep refused a gift of linked trading coster registers in the early 1300s DR for fear the magic would introduce a “way in” through the wards of Candlekeep.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 1, 2020
Quite helpful! Thank you very much. ❤️
I giggle a bit that cloning magic (Kelemvor, Silvanus and their ilk frown on it, I’m sure) seems a more straightforward affair than a deceptively “simple” bit of Weave-working. It's the "linked across variable but possibly very great distances" thing where the instability lies.
Like the difference between dimension door and teleport (which as we know well, can have fatal errors).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 1, 2020