The Device

The Device was a series of three interdimensional listening towers strategically placed above End Portals across Orwald in Dimension T-2022. In 1859, sabotage of the Device by Kojiman spies led to the collapse of T-2022 and the transportation of Orwald to Dimension S-2012.

## History

The history of the Device begins with the research of Professor Prevost. In 1850, a convention of archaeologists in Peria concluded that the countries of Orwald were not doing enough to preserve their past. Professor Prevost, a leading archaeologist, argued that there was a large network of ancient dungeons spanning the continent. According to him, this large network proved the existence of a large continent-spanning empire predating even the Lamiran Empire. Having visited most of these dungeons, he discovered they all had a room containing a defunct portal. Professor Prevost wanted to conduct experiments in order to activate one of these portals. To do this, he requested the aid of all countries on Orwald. The professor calculated he needed 2000 Amethyst Shards for his experiments. The international community, the Kingdom of Corellia and the Grenivik Chiefdom in particular, shot into action and donated Amethyst Shards to the Professor. After transporting the Amethyst shards to the dungeon located in the Principality of Inner Peria, Professor Prevost set up his machinery around the portal. Condensing the amethyst into high density crystals, the professor inserted them into the portal. A bright flash briefly lit up the dark portal room before activating the portal. However, the professor was nowhere to be seen. His assistant sent a request to the countries of Orwald to organize a rescue mission to the other side of the portal. Several nations responded, including the Principality of Inner Peria, the Kingdom of Duyn and the Kingdom of Corellia, providing troops for the rescue party. After entering the portal, the rescue party found themselves in the End, a dark dimension seemingly on the edge of existence. There, they found a being only known through legend; a dragon. The Ender Dragon attacked the rescue party, but they valiantly defeated it through strength and cooperation. After its death, the dragon opened up a portal back to the Overworld, but it also spawned an egg. The egg was taken to the Congress of Nations, where its fate would be decided. However, there was no sign of professor Prevost, but now that there was a stable two-way connection between the End and the Overworld, the countries of Orwald were free to explore it and go looking for Prevost of their own accord.

After two years without a sign from Professor Prevost, the Kingdom of Corellia put their best scientists on the case. In 1852, one of their scientists theorized that Prevost’s whereabouts could be determined by putting large mechanical listening devices above three End portals. By comparing the data from the three different portals, the professor’s position would finally be able to be triangulated. The scientist came up with a design and wanted Corellia to build it above their portal as a prototype. It required some hard to get resources, including an End Crystal to transfer the End’s frequencies from the portal, 4 Sculk Sensors to detect and record the frequencies and a Beacon to eventually transmit the frequencies to a future calculation device. The Kingdom's best engineers were put on the project and within a month, they had a working prototype set up above the End Portal. The first calculations came in relatively quickly The Echo Chamber provided vital details about the inner workings of the End. According to the calculations, the End was actually physically located within a deep layer of the planet’s crust. The device also identified some disturbances, similar to a seismograph. However, there was noise on the line and the scientist believed this was due to the End’s atmospheric composition. Before a second and third Echo Chamber could be built, the scientist required a sample of condensed End atmosphere. Only in condensed form would he be able to study the composition and cancel out the noise. However, the only way to obtain condensed End atmosphere was through Dragon’s breath. Luckily, members of the rescue party from Duyn had collected some of the Dragon's breath during their battle. The scientist was able to proceed and plans were drawn up to construct additional towers in Duyn and Inner Peria.

In 1856, a second tower was constructed above the End Portal in Duyn, and in 1858 a similar tower above the original portal in Inner Peria used to travel to the End by the rescue party. However, as a result of the Winter of Discontent conservative aristocrats in the Principality of Inner Peria were opposed to the construction of the Device and funded Kojiman spies to tamper with the Device. In 1859, they blew up the tower in Inner Peria, resulting in the collapse of T-2022 and the transportation of the continent of Orwald to S-2012. After the transportation, the Library dismantled parts of the Device to prevent it from being used again.