Glossary
Hope Link
Once the largest known Link to the spiritual realm, created by Anahita herself in the dying days of the War of Mages in order to beat back the Nephalim. After it was used to hurl these demon-spawn back into Apollyon’s clutches, it was placed with the Tower of Hope, and its volatile energies used to float a large rock on water. Later, this rock would become the site of Atlantis, and the Relic Wall was built to protect it from the violent sea storms of the Myrian Ocean.
A spiritual conduit, or Link, allows an object or a spiritually aware being to influence a greater area of the physical realm using its imprint on the spiritual realm. In the case of objects, a Faerie would have to create a loop in the object’s imprint upon the spiritual realm, allowing it to have some control over how the influence is used, otherwise it would simply dissipate back to the spiritual realm. For most relics, the link is tiny, sufficient enough to make fuel burn. Others have s everal large links which allow balanced control over a large area.
The Hope Link was significantly more powerful than any of these, and so was heavily protected at all times. Alas, the Link was destroyed in the Hope Disaster of 3002 YA, after a suspected attempt at seizing the Link. It is thought the Link was ripped apart when it was snatched from the Hope Tower, sending pieces flying across the landscape. Whilst enough of the Link remained to influence the Tower itself and some of the parkland around it, it could no longer keep Atlantis afloat, and the city sank to the ocean floor.
Since the Link’s creation, it has been studied by over a hundred Faerie scholars, and some have even been foolish enough to use it as an experiment. In all 62 times, all the Faeries found themselves unable to stop the flow, the usual method with other Links being to simply force it off with willpower. They later perished, simply being absorbed by the Link with no physical traces left. Most scholars have assumed that the Link simply siphons the physical component up because of its unusual intensity, sending it into the spiritual realm.