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I noticed a sentence in the CRB describing Apostae:
"This arch is similar to those that link many of the system’s worlds—and a functioning ring of such portals within the city provides access to most of the other Pact Worlds"
So I started wondering if there are any descriptions of these portals, how common they are and how available they are. Presumably these are the same type of magical portals as used by the elves of Castroval. If so,
- Which of the Pact Worlds have them?
- Does one (or more) exist on Absalom Station?
- How available are they? Can anyone use them (for a fee perhaps)?
- Would they be the preferred means of transportation for shorter missions where a starship is not required?
- Being instantaneous, would they have an effect on how information flows in the Pact Worlds (rather than dealing with the time-delay of the Drift (when travelling physically) or light speed (when broadcasting messages)?
- Are there other consequences will a network of portals have?
Probably gonna have to wait for the Pact Worlds book in march.
I believe this is talked about at least a bit in the temple of the twelve adventure path as castroval has a number of those portals. If I recall correctly the golarian portals are inactive/destroyed the other portals I believe are still functioning but are currently under control of some dragon. They do still work but you have to pay the fees to use them.
I am sure this will be covered in more detail with the pact world book but if you are curious the temple of the twelve does go into this a bit.
Thanks for replies - yes hopefully the Pact Worlds will detail this out a bit. Obviously the Golarion portals are non-functional from the pact worlds, but the ones on Castroval work and perhaps the ones on Apostae. I haven't seen them referenced anywhere else though, so should be interesting to see.
I'm planning to start a campaign in the near future and am getting to know the setting - this may have a bit of an impact imo.