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Originally posted by Groo

Hello my friends,

I am trying to build a campaign in the Golden Ages of Netheril, but I still have some doubts.

Mainly, how the men, orcs or other creatures can reach the enclaves, if they are floating. There are portals, ways to climb it (!), just magic?

Thanks

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Originally posted by Groo

Hello my friends,

I am trying to build a campaign in the Golden Ages of Netheril, but I still have some doubts.

Mainly, how the men, orcs or other creatures can reach the enclaves, if they are floating. There are portals, ways to climb it (!), just magic?

Thanks

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from Netheril:
At one point in Netheril’s history, a permanent Oberon’s extra door of incredible power and distance was set up in order to accommodate the heavy trade
- p.15
Lathery used the magic of its mythallar to capture fish for export to other cities. Lathery levitated along the shoreline of the Narrow Sea, teleporting fish that swam beneath the enclave into a storage room that was affected by continual Veridon’s storm spells.
- p.79
There were several companies that specialized in the creation of gates in Netheril, but Transgate Industries was the most revered. Throughout their 120-year history, they never had any problems with their magical gates: they were reliable, safe, and always got their passengers to their destinations. [...] Through this seven years of analysis and testing, they were able to create the most stable gates ever seen in Netheril. Oddly enough, when one used one of their gates, there wasn’t a one-round confusion as one regained lost bearings (similar to the effect of a dimension door spell). For some reason, they were able to instill a sense of relational location equilibrium into the equation—something that the other gate companies never accomplished.
- p.105
from How the Mighty are Fallen:
The guards explain to the patrons that travel to the Karsus Enclave (or any other floating city) costs 50 gold pieces per person. It's roughly a one-hour waiting time for each departure, since they don't want their patrons teleporting onto some cargo (each city follows a specific schedule).
- p.9

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Originally posted by Gary Dallison

Also it is worth pointing magic was not cheap or free, even in Netheril's time. Yes it was cheaper thanks to the mythallar and we have no evidence of there being any costs at all, but the lack of unlimited magic is evidence to support there was still a cost associated with mythallar magic.

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from Netheril:
Once this magical item was created, the floodgates were opened, and the nation of Netheril was suddenly faced with a glut of magical items. The prices of such quasimagical items dropped to one-tenth the going rate for “real” magical items.
The cost of traditional magical creations—those that required a permanency spell—rose to three-times the going rate, since only those who left the range of a mythallar required such items.
p.6-7
allow them to retire. Most of these new magical items were designed with the common person (the middle class) in mind. This group of people were the ones in greatest numbers and carried with it the greatest promise for get-rich-quick schemes. These small-time arcanists had the right mentality: make an item cheap, simple to use, and make it appear to be invaluable — basically turn a nicety into a necessity.
The first items to enter the market were simple roomlights, a globe that continually shed light in a room. This ended with it being perfected into a globe that would light with an activating command or sound (depending upon the desires of the purchaser). Soon, every house floating on an enclave had one in every room.
Next came running water, contrived by opening a permanent fissure into the Elemental Plane of Water, controlling the flow with a simple spigot. Once this was accomplished and sold to every house, indoor plumbing and water closets were the next logical step.
- p.8

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