Veilometer

A veliometer, also known as simply a "veilo", is any magic device, or rather a series of devices, some partly organic in nature, that were originally necessary to sustain the complex magical spells and energies within a Vestibule, keeping the veils between realities locked together around the vestibule and keeping the Sideways out.

The devices also let magi know the status of the veils and alert them at any attempt to disturb the delicate synergy in any way. Modern Veliometers, however, are very small and computerised and disregard the "visceran" term coined to specifically describe the machines that used organic matter, although some devices, such as those supposedly created by Dr Crowe are said to use brain cells of magi embedded within computer components

Today such devices can be used outside of vestibules for magi to monitor extra-universal threats, sustain gateways within this universe to other points in space or focus tuning potential to detect magic and perhaps more complex detection of the actual genetic potential of tune-capable magic users; in essence anything that uses magic to tug on the veil of reality.

Some older velometers' can be considered relics and are though to be the basis behind Coredrive technology.

### **Visceran Veilometers**

Little is known about the original creation and operation of earlier veilos, in the "*Age of Magitech*", an era magi refer to as the Victorian age of industry, the devices were archaic and primitive and often dangerous. It was the case that they had to be supplemented with biological components taken from magic users, or in some case magical creatures from Otherworld, to maintain a strong magi-technological coherence.

These devises often require magi to connect them to some form of smaller singling device or work station; in modern times that has become easier via computer screens and readouts, but very early Visceran Veilometers required a magi to mentally connect with the devices in ways that are said to eventually drive them quite mad; it was often said that the magi could feel the death and eternal suffering of the magi's organ in some horrific form. Because of the multiple negative connotations associated with these devices in early days, the use of "clean" modern veilometers has been somewhat jaded and their use is very rare.

    Very few knew how to create these older Visceran Veilometers at one point; the old-fashioned process was said to take decades, with each component created from scratch or harvested from living things in a certain way. Disturbingly the creation of these early devices, particularly those created in the Victorian eras was said to be "*not for the faint of heart of high in moral*", as such was considered a very dangerous crafte that borders on black magic and many organisations, such as the House of Seasons hid such terrible machines far out of reach of others in forbidden areas and even denying they exist. This led to a high number of magi splitting into factions, in particular Magi Purists that saw the entire concept of magitech as unnatural and therefor alluding to black magic from the start.

It was suspected that the opposing occult order knowns as Ordo Templi Orientis were known to create and sell or trade these types of early veilometers to the House in exchange for some sample of knowledge or a blind eye to whatever the Order was doing at the time.

The Dawnshadow Coven found a way to circumvent these machines within the House to temporarily open a Sideways gate and send a rabbit through, with horrific consequences; upon their banishment they reviled to other members that the House was using horrific devises to sustain the connection to otherworld which led to what the House called The Great Divide, from which Dawnshadow, the early O.T.O. and Pura Arcana were created.

It was assumed that later the House of Seasons used much more modern "veliometric" computer systems to monitor and maintain their magical links to different places across Earth, particularly after they blocked all access to Otherworld after the Orchard Grove event.

Use of these older devices within the community has been outlawed by the House for decades, and since the Orchard Grove incident the use of these devices to travel to other universes has been banned also, needless to say it takes more power, devices and magic to sustain a two-way vestibule between two universes rather than different points of space in the same universe.

### Modern Veilometrics

While these devices have a verity of numerous applications, the basic system of magical detection and manipulation of the veil of reality is their goal and through a mixture of science and magic these devices can, with varying success achieve this; these devices, however have a number limitations, particularly in their sustainment and constant repair, their creation and the manufacture of new parts can literally take decades and their negative connection to their predecessor devices have ensured that such devices are very rarely used these days.