Following the 2070 Mage Selection Games, a young man was sourced what would
turn out to be a very powerful time power. He could teleport, but also apport,
which means he could instantaneously transport other things besides himself.
Not all apporters are alike. Assuming a given mage or choosing one is
standing at point A, some would be able to move an object from A to B only,
while others could move it from B to A, while still more could move it either
way. There are even a few who can move something from B to C, but they would
have to know a whole lot about the location of just about anything within
range, whether they were looking at it, or not. These were the three primary
classifications of apportation, but there were variants within them. Baran
Avan was a Class A apporter, but with a special twist. He had to teleport
himself along whatever it was he was trying to move. Of course, regular
teleporters were limited to this, but they generally had to be at least
touching the target for it to work. He just had to be close enough to see it.
The thing about him, though, was that his power grew over time, the more he
used it. When starting out, Baran could only transport something the size of a
penny, but he kept practicing, and upgrading, and becoming more powerful. In
under ten years, he was so strong, and his range so wide, that he was capable
of moving an entire town from one place to another. Knowing this would be the
case, a group of people started building a new town to capitalize on its
utility, which they called Motus. They didn’t dig into the ground, though.
They first constructed a gigantic platform, on top of which every building
would sit. It required a flat surface to remain stable, but these weren’t too
hard to find. While Durus did have mountains, valleys, ravines, and the like,
it was actually pretty smooth. They had, by then, surveyed the whole surface,
so Baran had an accurate map to know where to make his jumps. Once completed
in 2079, Motus required fewer mages to be assigned there than other towns. It
wasn’t like they didn’t need any, but their primary means of surviving monster
attacks would be Baran. When the alarm sounded, the other mages would fight
the threat, while Baran gathered his strength, and prepared to make the jump.
At first, this often resulted in his fellow mages being left behind to fend
for themselves, but as time continued, he not only grew even stronger, but
also more precise. He could select individual objects within his range to tag
along with them, even if they were a hundred meters off the platform. Some
believed his power would never reach a limit, and that he would one day be
able to move the whole planet across the void. They never found out, though.
Motus was only around for a little over a decade before the final battles of
the war began. While many of his contemporaries survived to pass their genes
onto their offspring during and after the Interstitial Chaos, Baran ultimately
became a casualty of the war. Until then, however, the Motus method proved
productive. It just made travel between it and the other towns a little more
complicated.
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My name is Nick Fisherman III. It's not my real name, but that's not because I'm trying to hide from my former agency, or something. I named myself after someone I've known for most of my life, and he chose it in honor of his late best friend. I took up writing when I found myself failing 8th grade science, and realized I might never reach my dream of becoming a biochemist, a meteorologist, and a quantum physicist. I started developing my canon after a scouting trip to an island inspired what I thought would be my first novel. I founded this website upon the advice of many people, who told me I needed to get my work out there, and not wait for an agent to accept my manuscript. You can expect one new story every day. Weekdays are for microstories, which are one or two paragraphs long. They're usually only thematically linked, so you won't have to read one to understand another, but they do sometimes tell a combined story. Sundays are for my continuous longer story, The Advancement of Mateo Matic, which I started in the beginning, and won't end until 2066. Saturdays are for long series, most of which take place in the same universe as Mateo, and add to the larger mythology.
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