Portals

**Portals** are a critical phenomenon of the Fantiverse. Its true purpose and existence is currently still in debate, but it is known to be somewhat of a taboo subject in Salam due to the dangers it poses, as demonstrated by the alarmed reactions of the Lunch Buddies to Fyrinem wanting to make a portal. In spite of this, people seem to be relatively okay with the existence of mini-portals.

## Description

Portals appear in swirling light and as a doorway, typically in green color. Large portals are regularly body-sized, while mini-portals are more made an appropriate size to crawl through rather than just straight-up walk through. Depending on what planet large portals are going to, they can be red, green or blue.

## Usage

Portals have different ways of being summoned. More regular portals tend to require days of careful procedures and spell-casting, as demonstrated by Fyrinem. Mini-portals, however, can take a single day for some magic users, or a matter of minutes in the case of Moonbeam, who is naturally gifted with the ability to summon portals. They tend to start as either cracks in the air, sand on the ground or appear completely out of thin air, with different types of portals taking different amounts of time to fully form. Certain portals can also transport people to the limbo dimension if they touch it in the wrong way, in which they may mysteriously gain or lose powers.

## History

Portals are something of a taboo subject in Salamvalley, and perhaps all of Salam, because of the rather insidious implications of them potentially bringing troubles from other worlds to a planet that did nothing to warrant it, or more appropriately, spread the troubles of a certain planet to another. However, several sorcerers gain the special power to utilize portals, and at best end up abusing it, or at worst get captured by a totalitarian government for its own nefarious purposes. In spite of this, however, flat portals and mini portals seem to be more widely accepted, and even an encouraged use in Salamvalley for issues with daily life. However, given that Salamvalley is an isolated valley in a much bigger world, the culture surrounding portals may be vastly different everywhere else.

## Users

* Fyrinem (limited)
* Moonbeam

## Types

* **Portals**: Gateways that can be used to travel to other worlds; generally, they take a long time to make by people who don't specialize in portal magic, and are rather dangerous due to the risks that come up with attracting people from other worlds as well as how explosive they can be
* **Mini-Portals**: Transport people on a planet to the planet's closest moon, or if they're on a moon, transport them back to the planet they orbit. They take much shorter than portals to make, but apparently are incredibly precise as to where they land, meaning there's a large risk of the portal opening underground or thousands of feet in the sky
* **Flat-Portals**: Flat portals are portals that are horizontal rather than vertical, something that people typically fall into or jump into. They transport people who walk through them to a random location on the same planet. They are usually best utilized by someone with portal magic