I have tried to piece together what info I have about the aiudara (elf gates) from PF1e and PF2e material, but if anyone has put together a map (or graph) of how the elf gates are interconnected, I would love to have a copy.
I've learned a bit from the link Elf Gates, and the AP #17 A Memory of Darkness, as well as from PF1e's Distant Worlds.
A map (or graph) of the elf gate system would still be mighty useful.
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The Age of Ashes AP is based around these gates and their destinations...
There are a lot more aiudara than the one's in AoA. It would be cool to have such a map but I don't think I've ever seen one.
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I wanted to generate one for part five of Second Darkness, which was intended to have a significant section about navigating the aiudara network as a way to sneak into a fortress through a forgotten magical back door, but the adventure turnover went in a different direction and there wasn't much time to course correct, so we ended up having much more of that particular volume focusing on a big dungeon crawl than I'd anticipated.
As far as I know, we've never really had much of a chance to do more with aiudara networks or maps since then. Hopefully we'll get a chance to so eventually, but for now I'm pretty sure we don't have an official map of the way they all link. Just close to two decades of print product containing a lot of examples in text that might be tricky to all track down. :-/
I wanted to generate one for part five of Second Darkness, which was intended to have a significant section about navigating the aiudara network as a way to sneak into a fortress through a forgotten magical back door, but the adventure turnover went in a different direction and there wasn't much time to course correct, so we ended up having much more of that particular volume focusing on a big dungeon crawl than I'd anticipated.
As far as I know, we've never really had much of a chance to do more with aiudara networks or maps since then. Hopefully we'll get a chance to so eventually, but for now I'm pretty sure we don't have an official map of the way they all link. Just close to two decades of print product containing a lot of examples in text that might be tricky to all track down. :-/
I hope you get around to it. I think it would be cool to see more APs use/focus on the elf gate network. I'm using them in my game so that I don't have to have the drudgery (IMHO) of trekking via ships, caravans, on foot, etc., when I really just want to move the action to the next location hundreds or more miles away.
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2e’s first AP, Age of Ashes, was literally all about aiudara.
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2e’s first AP, Age of Ashes, was literally all about aiudara.
"Age of Ashes" is only about a very small part of the aiudara network, only about Alseta's Ring. The aiudara network is much larger than that. It also extends to Castrovel. Check out PF1e's AP #17, "A Memory of Darkness", for another very small piece of the network.
Starfinder mentions the aiudara on Castrovel in the "Temple of the Twelve" AP.
I'd like to see a map of the entire (known) network, at least on Golarion.
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Probably best not to nail down the whole network. Leaves things open for making them work the way they need them for future adventures.
OTOH, hopefully they've got all the established bits documented in place, to make it easier to avoid clashing later.
I think if they made it an in universe map of widely known or known by the creator of the map aiudara vs a definitive map of every single aiudara in existence that would suffice. Then they could always add more without any conflict.
People keep mentioning AoA but it's only 5 functional aiudara in a network that spans continents/planets.
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In addition to Paizo not having them mapped (information about known aiudaras is almost always isolated in their own APs as in AoA) there is also a flavor that explains the fact that many of these portals have simply been forgotten over time with the rise and fall of empires and civilizations. So unless there's another adventure specifically focused on the aiudaras on Golarion and other planets, we'll hardly have anything organized about them.
Slight shift in topic. What gates ARE known and available to the public? Are there ANY gates that the party could travel to said town and pay the gatekeeper X amount of gold to travel from A to B?
Is there any other in world travel systems? I'm curious if there is a way to get form say Bevoy to Absalom quickly other than spells like teleport?
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Just close to two decades of print product containing a lot of examples in text that might be tricky to all track down. :-/
OH! This sounds like a fun research task! I will provide a full report when I am done.
Speaking of aiudara, I have a question about the network on Castrovel. Unlike Golarion, the network here is far more active and used, and most cities houses a few gates from what I've gathered. However, I'd like to know if these gates form a single "net" so to speak, or multiple smaller ones?
Which is to say, could you go from any city housing one of these gate from any other of these city only from jumping from gates to gates without ever having to travel "in land" and quit the confine of a city, or does they all connect only a handfull of cities with each others?
If it's the former, it would explain why Castrovel don't seems to have much in the way of big roads, and why much of the wilderness is still so "wild" compared to Golarion, if most of the big city are all touching each other in a sense. It would also make internationnal relationship interesting and very different from what we're used to if all of the greatest ruler of the planet are a few "gate jump" away from each other instead of being separated by thousands of miles worth of travels.