Editing Umbral Domains: Changeling Alternate Realms v1 (section)

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==== Realms & Spirits ====

Originally spirits were did not seem to be covered very clearly by the original dividion of realms.  Some might say this was intentional since fae are not regular spirits and might have trouble interacting with such entities.  Personally I view it as an oversight to be corrected rather than an intentional systems incompatibility.

Previously Greg Pluknet, et al came up with a different version of the [http://www.digitaldreaming.org/righttodream/rules-spiritlink.html Ephemera Realm] specifically to cover spirits, however I figure the standard number of realms should really cover pretty much everything, so I'm going to shoehorn spirits into the standard realms along with the modifications presented above.  I have however stolen the name "Ephemera" as the "Fae" realm replacement, just because "ephemera" is probably the most accurate concept descriptor I could find in the thesaurus.

Under these modifications the Ephemera Realm covers only some spirits.  These rules work under the assumption that a spirit is the essence of a thing, thus any realm that controls the thing controls that spirit.  So spirits of sentient Entities (those with Intelligence, Wits, ''and'' Will of at least 1) use the actor realm, spirits of trees use the nature realm, etc.  However, spirits of intangible concepts (freedom, war, etc.) are generally controlled only by level 5 of the Ephemera realm.

Note though that while the spirits of concepts themselves are only affected by Ephemera level 5, most of the external magic they control can be affected by Ephemera level 3.
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==== Raths & Trods ====
Under these rules opening a Trod requires the Portal Passage and level 4 of the Ephemera Realm.  A Rath may be opened by anyone posessing the appropriate Realm for the material the Rath is made of.  In theory a combination of Portal Passage, Ephemera level 4 '''and''' another appropriate Realm could be used to '''make''' a Rath, although this would require a but butt-load of successes to accomplish and probably take quite awhile.

--[[User:Peter K.|Peter K.]] 18:12, 29 April 2006 (PDT)