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Universal Tangent

All universes can be defined as a set of physical rules and constructs. As each one occupies an ortogonal set in the mathematical metaphysical space they are unlikelly to interact with one another.
— Strange passage recovered from the datasphere by the Oracle of Ohda
  Due to the space-time folding resulting from the last resonance event known as The Shattering, the current universe rules have been disturbed to the point that it now touches other, strange, universes at certain points. The points at which the universes touch is called an Universal Tangent.
At these spots, the influence of the other universe's rules can be felt on both sides of the tangent, which results in the ocurence of events which are considered magical or miraculous by the mortals who witness them.  
Sub-sets of ensembles at sympathetic points of two universes resulting from the shift in local dimensional and physical constants, allow the orthogonality to be violated when the sympathy increases over a critical threshold. The violation of orthogonallity causes a Dirac overlap of the overall wavefunction of the specific meta-space, and the mutual metaphysical exchange between the two ensembles on an exclusive local scale
— Excerpt from the ramblings of the Master of Oracles at Ohda during a deep meditation sermon

Manifestation

All tangents have a physical manifestation due to the effect of other universes rules on this side of the contact. Phenomena which cannot be easilly explained are a likelly spot but the exact nature of these phenomena varies. The only sure way to detect one such tangent is the existence of Dimensional friction.

Localization

The most proeminent universal tangents are: The Archfjell in the Panndorsal of Pannark, the Ravenous Basin in the Yulth Badlands of Adiath, and the Hanging Ocean of Aestro over Naestro.  
Whoah?....
— Confused Sermon attendant at the Oracle of Ohda
Type
Metaphysical, Astral

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Feb 20, 2019 23:42 by R. Dylon Elder

I laughed out loud at that quote, my boss is looking at me weird now...any who what is he really sayin? Who or a shortend what? Maybe woah? I think its like what but I was confused simply cause I couldn't hear it's intention. my fault.   Lot of teams indont understand quite yet. World terms needing links mainly which I assume they have been written yet just cause u do have a link there. Is this how you explain magic? It's brilliant and ubderused in my opinion. I love the idea and the only thing I can even remotely think of that uses other universes to cause magical things would be the watchers and this is a little different from that.   My next question regards the 2nd quote. It makes sense until the end. I can't tell we he means by local scale. Is their a word missing? Ensembles occurs on a local scale. It's very well done. good job! It makes me wanna know more which is super nice. It's short and concise and has alot kf complexity without being indecipherable.

Feb 21, 2019 00:01

It's supposed to be a confused "what". I'm not native english so I didn't know how to write it.   Magic in numenera is highly advanced technology left over by previous civilizations or caused by nanites in the blood of casters. some of it comes from accessing other universes but I never considered the creation of "micro-tangents" by casters. That's a great idea   Everything within the quotes is supposed to be scientific jumble mimicking advanced science, which the oracles relay by accessing the datasphere (an internet of sorts left overfrom previous civilizations). this is something even the oracles don't know about, they think it's divine guidance or premonition.   The exclusice local scale means that they only occur at certain points and are limited to those points. they don't expand to all space.   I'm working on articles for the terms that need more explanation: resonance event, the shattering, dimensional friction, Ohda, the Ravenous basin, the hanging oceans, etc...

Feb 21, 2019 00:01

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Feb 21, 2019 00:16 by R. Dylon Elder

Oooo I know it. Never picked up numernara sadly. I've wanted to forever but never have.   And oooh ok so in America it can be Whaaaa? Or maybe whuh? Or just huuuhhh? Could work. up to you its not major leap to know what u meant at all and I have no clue how other countries handle it.   Ok so now it makes sense. lol I was confused about the local thing quite a bit