Rule of the world
Teleportation, portals & travel
- 6.631 Witches, warlocks and hybrids TELEPORT, arriving and departing in a cloud of black mist or smoke (Kade’s “sometimes sparkling with gold”), and can carry objects and people with them. all books
- 6.632 TELEPORTATION TAKES ENORMOUS POWER AND DECADES TO MASTER; PORTALS ARE CHEAPER and can be learned from a spell book. Saving Jacob
- 6.633a “EVERY SHIFTER HATES TELEPORTATION; IT MAKES US SICK FOR DAYS,” and Kade uses it on shifters as a punishment. Taming Kane Ch 2, Ch 28; Chasing Ebony Ch 9, Ch 10; Resisting Damon Ch 21
- 6.633b Teleporting a shifter “will render me unconscious”; “shifters do not teleport. Teleportation shuts us down, forces unconsciousness”; “shifters can’t withstand magical teleportation,” collapsing at the threshold. Taming Kane Ch 28; Guarding Kendra Ch 26; Freeing Nala Prologue-Ch 1; Snatching Jackie Ch 11–13 — CONFLICT, see §10
- 6.634 A WITCH’S SHIELD SPELL NEUTRALISES THE SICKNESS entirely — “It’ll feel like walking through a door” — and is mandatory before teleporting an unmated shifter. Claiming Gabriel; Saving Jacob; Choosing Aaron; Chasing Ebony Ch 10; Resisting Damon Ch 22
- 6.635 Once a shifter is MATED to the caster the shield is no longer needed, because the claim transferred magic. Choosing Aaron Ch 36; Craving Carla
- 6.636 Humans also cannot handle teleportation but recover faster than shifters; the experience is “like being sucked through a straw—my body stretching, compressing, disintegrating,” followed by vomiting. Chasing Ebony Ch 9; Snatching Jackie Ch 11
- 6.637 Witches are unaffected by their own portals. Loving Amir Ch 19
- 6.638 PORTAL EDGE-COLOUR IDENTIFIES THE CASTER (see 6.354); portals show their destination through the aperture, and are closed with a snap. Crowning Aaron; Claiming Aya
- 6.639 King Amir teleports instantly with no portal — “a quick flash,” “more like a blink,” “reality ripping and reforming,” registering as a pressure change in the room — and can snap a captive into another location. Claiming Gabriel; Choosing Aaron; Crowning Anora; Loving Amir; Claiming Aya
- 6.640 An ascended being opens portals by thought and can travel between realms including hell. Loving Amari
- 6.641 TELEPORTATION SHOCK BREAKS SPIRIT POSSESSION. Loving Amari
- 6.642 Teleportation guardrails inside the Witching Glen block both portals and vampire teleportation (6.567).
- 6.643 Transportation on Wintermoon is traditionally wagons and carriages; a clan may own a pickup truck or two, mostly driven by the women, and driving is rare among bear shifters. Snatching Jackie Ch 9, Ch 20
- 6.644 Two ferries run to Mackinac Island — “one for shifters and the other for human tourists” — a twenty-minute crossing; the bridge crossing takes about six minutes and is barricaded and closed during storms. Taming Kane; Forgiving Levi
- 6.645 Wintermoon’s border is defended with spike strips on the road past the bridge. Taming Kane