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...n be used as a trap, the destination circle placed in a room with no other travel circles and no exits. ...ny shape, and while they ''are'' usually round, they aren't always; square travel circles aren't all that uncommon, and for some reason in [[Alfenane]] penta

...travel|traversal]] of long distances in [[outer space|space]] in much less time than would be possible with conventional [[rocket]]ry and other mechanical ...s is seldom a problem, because most jump drives don't require any recharge time before they can be used again, so longer distances are simply covered by mu

...seem to be of a dominant [[ellogy|ellogous]] [[species]] in the areas they travel through—which means that most corpora of Wanderers seen in [[human]]- ...ances. Occasionally the group splits, or two groups of Wanderers meet and travel together. Multiple corpora of the same Wanderer, however, are never known

==Travel between cosmoi== {{main|Intercosmic travel}}

...mountains. A few passes do exist through the mountains, but most of what travel does occur is done by air, either by [[airship (Diddu)|airship]] or by flyi ...has two children, a son and a daughter, but neither has been seen in some time. Lurethan seldom speaks of them and seems completely unconcerned by their

The '''streampath''' is the most common means of travel through the [[cities of the onirarchies|cities]] of [[Dadauar]]'s [[onirarc ...r will emerge from the terminal and regain his former shape. The speed of travel in a streampath varies by the width of the path and by how occupied it is,

...fact there are a number of unusual phenomena that occur there from time to time. Some of these phenomena have little consequence other than the cosmetic, ...he Dreamseas of other worlddisks, providing [[dreamsailor]]s interested in travel to these disks a reason to venture to these dangerous fringelands—tho

...Cities think of the pathnodes as only areas that must be passed through to travel between cities, and perhaps as places where food is grown and other resourc ...all cliffs, or other barriers to passage. (Of course, where convenient to travel between eidopoles, bridges, tunnels, and ramps will no doubt have long ago

...t the process requires a great deal of red tape that may take considerable time to arrange. ...anarchic. Still, the perception lasts, and is another factor discouraging travel from treaty worlds to wildworlds (or possibly ''en''couraging it among thri

...[[world]] of [[Gala]], especially by [[adventurer (Gala)|adventurer]]s who travel the world looking for wrongs to right and [[treasure]]s to tain. While the ...out knowing who she is, and of their journeying together with her for some time until at some crisis point she reveals herself when she uses her divine [[p

...ost people of Eidecia spend their lives there, and are much more likely to travel to another eidopolis than they are to the surroundings of their own home ci ...deed in an entirely different cosmos, nevertheless it's relatively easy to travel from one eidopolis to another, through [[glomungule|glomungular]] [[pocket

...There seems to be a [[correlation]] between the size of the object and the time it takes to return to the shade on separation—the smaller the object, Shades look exactly as they did as mortals at the time of their death—rarely, they look as they did just ''before'' their de

...nterpretation of a concept, be that concept an abstraction such as [[Ereod|time]] or [[Maithe|knowledge]] or a concrete object, or category of objects, suc ...es are slow and subtle, generally unnoticeable except over long periods of time, but over several [[week]]s, say, a particular street may grow or shrink in

...gods—not the local gods of the veigur, who may not yet exist at the time of the veigur's origin, but of powerful gods with dominion on many worlds&m ...two or three (or, rarely, more) vegari have established regular trade and travel with each other, perhaps having more or less merged socially into a single

...odies, but this isn't actually the case; aside from the fact that it takes time for phantoms to develop a residence while ghouls start out as ghouls from t .... Finally, some believe that the spirit does indeed spend the intervening time in some other place or [[plane]], but not necessarily the afterlife.

...t may be that the pace of technological advancement tends to increase over time. Certainly there is some appearance of such exponential increase, although ...of someone below the poverty line. In any case, the cost may change over time; on Earth, for example, over the course of only a few decades, computers we

...through [[mirror (Interlife Earth)|mirror]]s, and in fact must spend some time there to maintain their ghostly existence. ...dge of the details of their types and society. While living creatures can travel freely about the Mortal World, ghosts are confined to specific areas within

...n on the subject, which isn't easy to come by, or a means of [[interplanar travel|traveling between planes]] oneself, which may be even harder to obtain. ...h;powers that are not easy to come by; mastering [[spell]]s of interplanar travel may require [[year]]s of study. These plane-traveling powers do not have t

...ts specialized mouthparts and injecting digestive acids; after giving some time for the prey's tissues to be liquefied, it then sucks up the fluids through ...dangerous interlopers. Nevertheless, some chabdachs from the pavilion may travel to distant areas to hunt for food, both to provide for more variety in thei

...ects. Thus two planes may differ in such factors as the rate of flow of [[time]], the strength and direction of [[gravity]] and other [[force]]s, et ceter ...n intersecting, rarely matters unless there is some means of [[interplanar travel]] that depends on the planes' physical proximity, or unless a plane can pro

...dopoles. A [[Upper Port|second port]] extends into the Hhep, whence ships travel up and down the river to other cities it passes through. ...s. The [[Domestic Council]] is a more recent creation, dating back from a time when the city was run by a handful of noble [[house (Aeol)|house]]s. Thoug

...tell Galaxy remains something of a mystery; at its current fastest rate of travel it would have taken far longer to make the journey than the [[world]] has b ...worlds, and picked up many new inhabitants. The living world continues to travel erratically, staying for years near a particular [[star]] and then suddenly

Pack monkeys are creatures of the jungle, and spend most of their time in the trees when they aren't actively attacking prey on the ground. Fortu As their name implies, pack monkeys live and travel in large packs, which are almost always found together. Within the pack, t

...nd that the traditional account of their formation has been distorted over time, or is even a product of intentional misinformation. ...ledge for the presence of all inhabitants of the land. It still took some time after that for the group to really earn the trust of the other fraternities

...abilities making it able to build roads and take other means to facilitate travel. The plentiful springs and lakes in the mountains mean water isn't a conce ...o the monarchs' death, without the monarch having learned of the matter in time to select a new heir. In this rare circumstance, the Investure Council is

...have previously possessed, and has led to many people being convinced that time as the fourth dimension is a scientific fact. ...nts to number the dimensions, it's just as valid (albeit unusual) to count time as the ''first'' dimension, and length, width, and depth are the second, th

...people from other places with a thirst for adventure or a drive to do good travel to Djarvin specifically to join them. Today one of the most diverse nation ...il, who, after hearing from the Illuminator and perhaps setting aside some time for debate and deliberation, hold a [[vote]] to decide whether to admit the

...may be virtually omnipotent, limited only by what spells they know and the time it takes to cast them. This is seldom the case, however; even if the only ...ire different casting conditions, and therefore cannot be cast at the same time. Frequently, however, it's just an optional maneuver when the full spellca

...on is based on the real world. For example, if one actually [[interplanar travel|traveled]] to a version of Earth where [[Wikipedia:Sherlock Holmes|Sherlock ...d that resembles the base world at some past (or, rarely, future) point in time. The resemblance need not be exact, and in fact an exact resemblance would

...th dire consequences both for whoever and whatever may be on the shee at a time, and also for the contents of the ground it falls onto. ...even smaller than that on an island, at leats after a comparable amount of time to develop, life is still likely to find a foothold there.

...mmunities abstain from violence, even so mild as a poke or a slap; or from travel, spending their whole lives in the same small region; or from [[alcohol]]; ...d one artificial. There are also enough tunnels through Chee that one can travel from one side to another even far from the conasters, though it may be a lo

...was thirty Meldrake was a wealthy man. He took advantage of his wealth to travel around the world for several years, experiencing many foreign nations and c ...of defiance for those who opposed the cressarchs and their reign. By the time the cressarchs realized this and decided to wipe him out, some of Gallerra'

..., though any materials that are fully opaque are impenetrable to it. They travel through clear water as easily as through air, and are almost as likely to b ...be able to extract their needed nutrients from some solids, but this is a time-consuming and difficult process for them, and one they generally undertake

...y, the best estimates have it that the population of North America in that time was perhaps half a percent of the total much-decreased population of the wo ...even they are sometimes attacked by bandits. Perhaps the safest means of travel, at least unless one has a fear of heights, is by [[zeppelin (Nuclearth)|ze

...ern [[Burcady]]. In the eight [[year (Dadauar)|year]]s she's been in full-time operation, she has already developed a reputation as one of the best people ...m to her advantage. Where she must dock openly at a port—because of time limitations or because there is no other suitable berthage—she learns

...es only occupy perhaps ten or fifteen [[percent]] of his time; most of his time he spends on Neorne itself. One thing that Csscun does relish is travel; he enjoys seeing new places and experiencing new cultures and environments

Perhaps due to its having been a part of the Alliance so long, giving time for resentment to develop, or perhaps because of dissatisfaction with the d ...rom one side to the other than one might suppose, though still tedious and time-consuming.

...course, leaves a barren scar where the land came from, though one that in time is likely to fill in, and over a long enough period may become indistinguis ...of course, the creators of an artificial wolk may seed it with life at the time of its creation.

...ssible to break a geis in only a minor way and get reduced penalties. Any time a geiseach fails to follow the geis's strictures, the full power of its pen ...amulet after eating, and then later the amulet is destroyed, then the next time he eats (and doesn't rub the now nonexistent amulet) the geis is broken. F

...ash;which bears the additional advantage of making them want to spend more time dreaming, thereby giving the onirarchs more power. In contrast, the waking ...r that keeps them alive to dream. Because they spend most of their waking time working anyway, people have few luxuries in the waking world; the typical c

...[lung]]s that allow them to survive above the water for limited amounts of time, perhaps ten or twenty minutes before they must return to the water. (The ...r two hundred [[year]]s, though without visibly [[aging]] much during that time; even a venerable sanhvin near death by old age has a physical appearance m

...number of palaces spread throughout his lands, Overkill spends most of his time in the [[Colossa]], his elaborate lair built under and within the former St ...spects, made him a formidable individual indeed. Of course, all this took time, but Steffensen was patient, and his studies of magic and biology had provi

...is filled with dangerous monsters and treacherous currents that discourage travel by ship, let alone swimming, and some of its denizens possess [[magic]]al r ...have even mastered [[travel between worlds]] and even [[interplanar travel|travel between planes]]; the fact that these other civilizations don't seem to hav

...unt Yun has now become a fairly well frequented byway for [[interplanetary travel]]ers, with small but functional [[spaceport]]s in two of its five populated ...ount Yun was propelled into space, some of the beings within it reacted in time to seal off the passages to the outside, keeping in the air inside the moun

...e, the sungang as a whole is in the sky over the area for roughly half the time. ...broad moon]]s visible over many parts of the world (though not at the same time): the large [[red]] moon [[Ulis]] and the smaller [[blue]] [[Beho]].

Although a landworking ritual takes considerable time to complete, there are ways of expediting matters if the landworker needs t ...one or a handful of rituals, learning more rituals is much easier; by this time they have already forged something of a bond with the land, and it will hel

...]—perhaps [[translocation|translocating]] an object or [[interplanar travel|casting it to another plane]], perhaps [[transmutation|transmuting]] it int ...to Earth, perhaps through discovering their [[portal]]s or other means of travel there, or perhaps from hearing about the new frontiers the Coalition is har

...s, and a good deal of luck, and no reliable method has been discovered for travel to such worlds. ...ment of the fine arts. Starting as a relatively harmless philosophy, over time Poesism increasingly attracted extremists who resorted to terrorism and who

...be apparent. In any case, on a world where most of its inhabitants don't travel far (which describes most of the godworlds of the Sacred Sea), the full for ...nditions on the world in some way. Sometimes the enchantments change over time, leading to [[cer|caeric worlds]]. In any case, as unusual as these enchan

...is not torn from the veigur itself, but assembled from bits [[interplanar travel|brought from various other planes]], and occasionally some other things cam ...k to fit through, and if it does have a central lair it doesn't spend much time there. Ceander is an intelligent being, and is certainly not above speakin

...e vehicles to enter the Market is through the ruge, which requires them to travel to the moon where the ruge is located. The Market bosses move the ruge eve ...nged with customers pushing past each other in all directions. To a first-time visitor, the floor of the Market may seem cluttered and chaotic, but the ex

...his, she had always been known to have a wry sense of humor. Also, by the time she found Uriel, she was very advanced in age and may have been somewhat se ...]'s will, he had better do so more broadly, and resolved to leave home and travel around the world doing good works.

These two conasters are far from the only means of travel between Ijian and Sadabrang. The world of Ijian is unnaturally riddled wit ==Astronomy and time==

...ents and as temporary homes on those rare occasions that he does decide to travel. ...er, with the name David Juvérez Quesado. As a youth, he passed his time with card games, particular favorites being the games known as [[Wikipedia:

...g themselves in these orders, most members are elevated, after a period of time that may be as long as a few decades and is seldom less than a few [[year]] ...oped powerful talismans such as the [[ha sphere]], useful in [[interplanar travel]].

As the empire grew and the importance of the Chalari gods waxed and the time came for a capital world to be chosen for Ll, Axa was an almost immediate c ...ugh these signals may vary regionally (posing a problem for those prone to travel). Of course, there will always be those who have no compunction about eati

...ants to change direction so as to keep its head facing in the direction of travel. However, when it needs to maneuver quickly, the iorx is quite capable of ...an adult iorx, this is initially very disorienting, and takes considerable time to grow accustomed to; iorx parents, however, if they have the [[money]] fo

...posed that the complex [[infrasound]] "[[song]]s" ganulias produce as they travel are a true [[language]] that the ganulias use to talk to each other over lo ...been witnessed remaining "attached" to each other for extended periods of time, perhaps as long as several [[day]]s. This seems, however, not to be a req

...ous initiation ceremony in his home community, it may be to his benefit to travel elsewhere to a place where its initiation procedure is less arduous and joi ...t their members to support them and to give them a certain amount of their time and other resources; while no fraternity would last long asking too much of

...s can tell, during their dreams people—or some aspects of them—travel to some other realm or esture, which some refer to as "[[Goëtogenia]]" ...is that however dream magic first entered the esture there was, indeed, a time when it didn't exist, or at least when it wasn't known. Even now, there ar

...ith a destination that is known, but that the living have little reason to travel through, but often a community may have a tube designated for delivery with ...sm]]s—and leave [[putrefaction|rot]] to do the job. This takes more time, of course, but various traditions have arisen surrounding the wait. This

...hen the operation became well understood and relatively safe, it was still time consuming and performable only by highly skilled individuals, and only a sm ...just before laying when she is bloated to near-immobility, and during the time just after when she is enervated and expended and her moulted exoskeleton i

...may just as well have been on some well known [[world]], but in a long ago time that no one now remembers. Even the crime that led to such a punishment ha ...don't find it necessary to work for a living at all... which frees up more time for them to jockey for position in the society's byzantine politics.

...conquest]], from [[Wikipedia:Old Norman|Old Norman]]. It was around this time that Old English developed into what is now called [[Middle English]], stil ...his did not happen may be largely attributable to the development of rapid travel that let people go around the [[world]] in [[hour]]s rather than [[week]]s,

...al ''upper'' limits to the size of a sovereign state, too, especially in a time before rapid transit and near-instantaneous communication. A government ma ...factors, and depends on many parameters. Easier and faster long-distance travel and communication lessens the difficulty of governing large areas. On the

...inside itself for long periods without food or water, saving them for its time of need or simply keeping them prisoner. ...ally powerful of Aebegai's creations, and are rumored to have the power to travel to other worlds.

...hape represent stages in a temporal progression, that brotoids evolve over time from perfect silhouettes to regular circular rews—or, much less likel ...same shapes as those on the opposite. The landforms may slowly shift over time due to a combination of processes including [[erosion]], [[deposition (geol

...o make a living. Those who retrieve the chemicals remotely have an easier time of it, though they may not be paid as well. ...-edge [[nanotechnology]] and research on improving means of [[interstellar travel]]. A number of respected [[university|universities]] are found on Oe, of w

...oduces the similar sorts of logical pitfalls to those that arise in [[time travel]]. While no definite resolution has been proven for this palætiologi

..., the two most prominent being [[discurrent constellation]]s, which simply travel back and forth along one (usually [[line]]ar) path, and [[gyrant constellat ...nses of self) generally reflect them as they were in their prime or at the time they first rose to eminence, not as they were in their [[senesence]] or jus

...e islands are now far more isolated than they were before the war when sea travel was more commonplace, and many of them have suffered technological regressi ...silos. The Soviets, however, discovered the incoming American missiles in time, and Vintronov retaliated with a launch of his own—and as more nation