The Drift - Revision history

Admin: Merged into The World is Woven; redirect to section

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Merged into The World is Woven; redirect to section

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	~~{{DISPLAYTITLE:The Drift}}~~		#REDIRECT [[The World is Woven#The drift]]
	'''The drift''' is the surface symptom — the only word most of Dereth has for what is going wrong. Portals have stopped keeping to their marks. They mis-aim. They open a pace from where they always opened, then a street, then a valley. It has been getting worse for a long time, and everyone had learned to live with a world that no longer arrives quite where it promises.

	~~== The budding ==~~
	Then the drift began to do something it had never done. It stopped merely mis-aiming old doors and started making '''new''' ones — ''budding'' fresh portals where the lattice runs thickest, which is beneath the four great towns. A door opens that nobody set, on ground nobody warded, and it stays.

	~~''A portal is a thing a person makes. These grew.''~~

	~~== The wrong copies ==~~
	Step through a budded door and you do not arrive somewhere strange. You arrive somewhere ''familiar'', and that is the horror of it — a barrow, a grotto, a dry well you could have named, the same stone in the same places. It is Dereth doubled: the world rethreaded off a pattern the loom half-remembers, with the wrong things living in the rooms. The longer you look, the more of it is not quite the place you know.

	~~The things behind the doors are drift-touched — creatures caught in the rethreading and changed by it. See the [[Bestiary]].~~

	~~== What can be done ==~~
	The drift cannot be understood at this depth; it can only be ''thinned''. Keep the doors emptied and they stay quiet a while. That is the whole of the work the [[Unbidden Doors]] offer a new traveller — and it is enough to be worth a coin, from people who cannot afford to pay it and pay it anyway.

	~~Look deeper and the drift resolves into '''the lattice''', and the lattice into '''[[The Warp\|the Warp]]'''. But that is a longer road. See~~ [[The World is Woven~~]].~~

	~~== See also ==~~
	* [[Unbidden Doors]] · [[The ~~Meridian]] · [[The Warp]] · [[Bestiary]]~~

	~~[[Category:Lore~~]]

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	The drift cannot be understood at this depth; it can only be ''thinned''. Keep the doors emptied and they stay quiet a while. That is the whole of the work the [[Unbidden Doors]] offer a new traveller — and it is enough to be worth a coin, from people who cannot afford to pay it and pay it anyway.		The drift cannot be understood at this depth; it can only be ''thinned''. Keep the doors emptied and they stay quiet a while. That is the whole of the work the [[Unbidden Doors]] offer a new traveller — and it is enough to be worth a coin, from people who cannot afford to pay it and pay it anyway.

	Look deeper and the drift resolves into '''the lattice''', and the lattice into '''[[The Warp\|the Warp]]'''. But that is a longer road. See [[~~Lore~~]].		Look deeper and the drift resolves into '''the lattice''', and the lattice into '''[[The Warp\|the Warp]]'''. But that is a longer road. See [[The World is Woven]].

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:The Drift}}
'''The drift''' is the surface symptom — the only word most of Dereth has for what is going wrong. Portals have stopped keeping to their marks. They mis-aim. They open a pace from where they always opened, then a street, then a valley. It has been getting worse for a long time, and everyone had learned to live with a world that no longer arrives quite where it promises.

== The budding ==
Then the drift began to do something it had never done. It stopped merely mis-aiming old doors and started making '''new''' ones — ''budding'' fresh portals where the lattice runs thickest, which is beneath the four great towns. A door opens that nobody set, on ground nobody warded, and it stays.

''A portal is a thing a person makes. These grew.''

== The wrong copies ==
Step through a budded door and you do not arrive somewhere strange. You arrive somewhere ''familiar'', and that is the horror of it — a barrow, a grotto, a dry well you could have named, the same stone in the same places. It is Dereth doubled: the world rethreaded off a pattern the loom half-remembers, with the wrong things living in the rooms. The longer you look, the more of it is not quite the place you know.

The things behind the doors are drift-touched — creatures caught in the rethreading and changed by it. See the [[Bestiary]].

== What can be done ==
The drift cannot be understood at this depth; it can only be ''thinned''. Keep the doors emptied and they stay quiet a while. That is the whole of the work the [[Unbidden Doors]] offer a new traveller — and it is enough to be worth a coin, from people who cannot afford to pay it and pay it anyway.

Look deeper and the drift resolves into '''the lattice''', and the lattice into '''[[The Warp|the Warp]]'''. But that is a longer road. See [[Lore]].

== See also ==
* [[Unbidden Doors]] · [[The Meridian]] · [[The Warp]] · [[Bestiary]]

[[Category:Lore]]