Door

A door was a method of teleportation within a plane or between planes. Doors were very unstable and were one of the ever-changing aspects of the planes. Some doors like the Undersea Passage were natural while others were carved by doorsmiths.

Natural doors existed since the beginning of written history. A natural door usually transported anything that entered it to its twin door on one of the other planes. A few natural doors had counterparts on all three plains. The Undersea Passage was a very stable natural door that had entryways in the High Lake on the Hitherworld, the Lacus Major on the Etherworld and in front of the Great Tower on the Netherworld. The door in the Netherworld is guarded by a leviathan employed by the Netherworld Organization since prehistory. Other natural doors would appear and disappear seemingly by their own will.

Door Carving was a secretive art known only by a select few. The door carvers worked in secret, often for years at a time on a door. A carved door would use spells to cut through the space between two locations. A common problem with doors was their spontaneous disappearance. The unstable nature of bypassing space made them unpredictively transport themselves to different locations. Students of Door Carving were called Doorsmiths.

A rare but feared war tactic was to feign surrender and give the enemy a decorative door as a gift. The door of course would be carved in a pair with another door kept with the gifter's army. At their leisure, the army could storm through the door directly into the heart of enemy territory. It was risky and unreliable, given the nature of doors but a few generals pulled off the trick through the history of The Continent. It didn't take long before gift doors were destroyed outside city gates.

A carved door usually appears to be a stone archway about the size of a standard door with spells carved all around it. The rare larger doors were often huge stone circles with spells crawling along every inch of surface.

Doorsmiths are often drained to death by the energy required to transport things through space so it requires many doorsmiths to carve one door and the art of door carving has few followers.