Yeah, that’s… that’s just called moving in three dimensions. It’s not exactly a witchhunter-tier accomplishment. You’ve actually been doing it a lot out here, you just don’t have a second mind’s eye for depth perception.
The entire point of the “separate sheet of paper” analogy was that each “sheet” represented a whole three-dimensional universe. If you’re right, it doesn’t matter how far inward, outward, up, down, left or right you reach your little magicka line – you’d never reach across into the “next sheet” because it’s not in any of those directions. Rather than literally being on top of eachother like a stack of paper, the planes people summon help from would be lined up in some fourth dimension. And unlike a needle poking through papers, you can’t imagine what something reaching perpendicularly through multiple universes would even look like.
Unless…
You think back to that thing you were always told, about the stars being “holes to Aetherius”. If the night sky were a giant black ceiling like you thought when you were little, then a hole poked through it would just be a circle. But… if someone cut a round hole in three dimensional space, it wouldn’t be a circle – it would be a sphere. A sphere-shaped hole leading directly in the fourth dimension!
Of course, when you tried to slam your little magicka-line into the stars, it just bounced off the edges. This could mean the “holes to Aetherius” story is bullshit and you’re overthinking a children’s fairytale, or it could just mean that the hole is closed off on its edges. Given that you can move your magicka-line freely around the outside of the star, that really makes it less of a “hole” and more of a “tube”. And if the star is just a cross-section of a weird tube leading across multiple planes, maybe you could…
Fuck, that’s right, the book! Just before you went blind, you were looking at a magic book that mentioned otherworldly denizens, and there was a whole section in it talking about stars! You frantically try to recall details of what you saw. If your ridiculous and over-complicated idea about stars being tubes reaching through multiple planes of existence is right, you might be able to follow those tubes. If you knew roughly where the next step along a four-dimensional tube was going to be, following it might be as simple as, like, searching the correct spot in three-dimensional space. You remember the book had an almost map-like diagram of some constellations with six stars labeled, and if you could remember what…
Additional credits:
Caliber, AMKitsune
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