Nether Portals [ Tinker Profession ]

[Wretched 2039]

[Full credit to 501warhead]

 

[This lore has been implemented for some time. It is now being made public to explain how high level Tinkers are able to create Nether portals]

 

 

 

The portals are left over elven portals. The elves, laurhei in particular, had a deep fascination with travel VIA portals (or the concept of traversing over land by manipulating separate, alternate planes). One of the best ways to do so, which the undead did in mass, was using the nether due to the fact that it was tethered to the mortal plane rather well - making travel over long spans of distance in the overworld take a fraction of the time it would if one simply traversed the nether. Obviously, this isn't quite the best route to take as the little fact of it being filled with toxic gasses, lava, a raging and angry Arch-Daemon, and a hellscape of a variety of very deadly creatures made travel through this landscape very dangerous.

 

However, it appealed to a few - as mentioned Laurhei actually managed to build a portal that tethered to a realm with less hostile entities but was more confusing and twisting in nature - this was how she ended up in Athera and eventually Asulon with her followers, the High Elves. However, it wasn't just the high elves that had managed to engineer a stable portal to another realm, although granted they were the first and probably had the safest portal setup. Nay, for routes of fast travel the Mali' under Malin had managed to construct gateways that linked to each other through a forgotten realm. This system spanned the majority of the eastern part of the world, a scattered one or two located in Urguan's land, an increasing amount the further south you go, and then in the south eastern corner where Malin's home rested the heart of this portal-network exists - massive, now empty and lifeless, portals used to move many, many Mali' at once. However, as with most of what was built before the Brothers vanished and the Descendants moved inward to the central continent of Aegis, the portals became unmaintained and eventually winked out, one by one.

 

Queue this era - where tinkering and curiosities have begun to spark once more. Long have the High Elves attempted to rebuild a portal like their Ancestor Laurhei, and while during Athera many tinkers finally managed to get a replica going they were all closed simultaneously by some unknown force, later to be revealed Iblees and his Workers doing as they resurfaced in the later years.

 

However, now as we've reached this land some of the more advanced of these curious engineers have begun to stumble upon these portals once more. The technology is worn down and planes shift and move in relation from each other - the "safe" plane the elves originally used to travel seems to be too far away - not that most of us would even know how to tap into it in this era. Rather, with the recent events unfolding with Iblees' return the nether sits closer than ever before - these portals, once powerful enough to rip open a portal to those hundreds of thousands of miles away, hold just enough potential to open a portal perhaps to the nether... why anyone would ever wish to do so is beyond us, but some seem to be eager to try it.