Into The Fold
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By a Gwylim Student/Teacher
Many colleges that practice the arcane are known to have been built in exceptional locations. Some intriguing institutions, in fact, lie entirely outside the normal plane of existence. Take, for example, the structure known as the Battlespire. Through advanced use of predominantly conjuration magicks, Imperial battlemages were able to create an extraplanar college. An extraordinary feat, though its ingenuity was its failing, in the end. Gwylim, on the other hand, was built entirely on this plane of existence, though one cannot see it with the naked eye. It exists in a pocket made by unknown creators, in a hidden part of Mundus itself.
Visualizing this phenomenon is quite difficult, for the inexperienced. How can something exist when none can see it? First, we must explore the means by which Gwylim's "pocket" of Mundus came about, or at least our most developed approximations and theories on the subject. Once conveyed, the answer seems self-evident. First, we start with a simple substrate, like a piece of paper; perhaps this very page! Of course, paper can fold. If for example, one were to bend a corner of this page, one would observe a such a fold; a thing that, once manipulated might go both up and down, left and right, or forward and backward. Any observer can see this and register it as possible. One could even - with skill - create an animal figurine or pouch out of this paper page, if one desired to do so.
Of course, reality is not paper. Warping of the very fabric of reality is an order of cosmic magnitude above folding mere paper. But, my dear reader, these orders are closer than they might appear. Paper is indeed only a speck in the existence of the whole, but it is nevertheless a part of the whole. If we consider the manipulation of paper a possibility in this reality, the principle of manipulating the fabric of reality should be similarly possible.
If one could detect the plane of reality, one could crease and fold it like we might crease and fold ordinary paper. One could create an infinity of shapes, or impress large pockets of existence into the very world we stand upon. Such things took place in a time before modern comprehension, and remain a testament to their creators.
Gwylim was built on the core of this work. It is a work we can scarcely comprehend. A work that, even after our best efforts, we only can recreate on a tiny scale. Gwylim is a work that still perplexes us, and a work that will be subject to study for centuries to come.