Talk:Story: Awakening

The device is based around quantum entanglement. There is an identical device somewhere on Lanka left over from the days of the Veiled One-Charonite alliance, which is exactly the same down to the atomic level. Usually both have to be activated separately. Maybe the Praedicans found it a while ago, and just don't know how to use it?

Anyway, when both devices are activated, the aether stored inside emerges. The device makes the aether vibrate at an exact quantum frequency, warping time-space to a very exact degree; when this occurs in two separate locations, a rift results, joining the two locations. They have a sort of programmed simulated-consciousness that consciously maintains the aether, preventing the rift from collapsing accidentally.

Also, when one is activated, it sends a signal to the other; the other will partially activate, but still requires manual activation of the rift itself. Maybe the Praedicans show Dolen the device (after the Charonites have activated theirs), and Dolen sees a blinking light, and presses it, activating the device. Just a hypothetical scenario though.

btw, SPOILERS ENDED -Dyga And shush Holben this is for archival purposes :P