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 Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:35 pm
The Art of Teleportation
Wikipedia says teleportation is widely used in Science Fiction. True.
However, it's also widely used in Fantasy as well.
It's used by mages primarily, though also by pretty much anyone who
has access to magic even if they are not mages/wizards.
In my world, warriors who are proficient in physical combat who have
access to very powerful magic are also able to teleport.
Here is what Wikipedia says - Teleportation
Three examples of proposed discussion are:
* What do we think of teleportation?
* How do you think teleportation may work?
* Do you think it's physically possible to teleport? If yes, safely? Or if no, why?
Come up with your own questions and answers as well if you can.
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:08 pm
Ok, this is a big topic in the fantasy genre. It's used a lot, so I created a topic about it and made it a sticky. Nobody has anything to start us off at all?
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:53 am
Oops! Sorry for not noticing this till now but, I hadn't come to this sub-forum in a while. I think I came in the last days of August. Anywho, Mel is right. This has also been used in fantasy and one such thing that uses fantasy (as well as technology) is Dragon Ball Z. Goku actually learns to teleport thanks to a race of aliens that welcome him. I always wondered if the methods of teleporting were the same like, if they work entirely different depending on the type of story/world or if they are all the same. I guess not... For example, in my Castlevania fan fiction, I developed a character called "Vishno" who, by means of a spell, is able to teleport himself to a remote location. The way his spell works is that it actually moves time and space to a point that two places become one. The spell's caster then has to merely leave one place and enter the other one. It would be like if you had a cell phone (the kind that folds open) and, well... you get what I'm trying to say, right? As you can see, in my story, the spell doesn't actually destroy the original subject and recreates it somewhere else (like it says on wikipedia). Also, the spell's caster has to focus on a person, time and/or place to be able to go there. There's no way the caster can teleport to an unknown place or alike. I was also thinking that very powerful mages could use this spell to travel through time by using this but, it would also consume part of their life force in the process. I'm thinking that if we could somehow fold time and space, there would be no need for that supposed cloning that wikipedia suggests. I can't think of anything else to add at this time.
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:15 pm
Vishno? That's incredibly close to "Vishnu". One must be careful of using names close to that of the deities of other religions. Vishnu is a Hindu god I believe.
Nobody seems to care about this subforum and even the Chapel is going sour.
Anyway, teleportation...
Anyone got any ideas of how it might work?
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:18 pm
I have to say I'm a bit perplexed regarding teleportation, I can't seem to think of how it would work- with or without magic involved-. I suppose you could think of it as a large amount of magical force exerted on ones self and directed towards a specific location.
What I mean by this is: imagine a wizard using magic on say a pebble. He/she is moving something using force that is generated by means of magic. This movement is not delayed until a certain time and then released but rather moved as the wizard thinks to move it. With teleportation, it could be similar. The difference is before the "spell" is cast, the wizard selects the desired location and readies the amount of magical energy nescecarry, then releases it. This would cause the wizard( or object if they so wished) to be moved with a certain amount of force large enough to get it to the planned destination.
It still seems a little odd to me but that's one theory( confusing as it may be).
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:35 pm
Hey Mel! I know about Vishnu, al right. I do watch the Simpsons, you know? mrgreen I wanted to give my character a name that could be recognized but that wasn't the exact name as someone else's name. I couldn't think of anything better than the goddess of many arms from India. I should probably make his mom have some Indian blood from one of her ancestors or something, I don't know...
I think Drizzt has the concept of teleportation down on magical terms. That's sort of how I see it too and Vishno's spell can only work if he knows either a location, or a person who's already somewhere far away. If not, he could teleport to somewhere unsafe or end up materialized (therefore trapped) in solid rock. It's sort of an unspoken rule to protect the caster, you know? 3nodding
I can't believe nobody else has posted here yet (except for Drizzt). I hope more members come eventually...
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 1:14 pm
I agree that it is an important part of fantasy storys. Every good hero needs the ability to get places quickly. In many fantasy shows the main hero often has that ability. It is a good concept for writing too. It saves you the trip and pages and pages of idle description.
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:13 am
I've probably not seen or read much of what you have then Cupcake. I find it most often that it's mages and mage villains that can do it. In my world it's more....abundant let's say.
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:36 am
I wonder what kinds of stories our member cupcake has read or seen that have their heroes teleporting all over the place. I don't think I've ever read anything like that. I certainly don't recall any of the heroes in LotR being able to teleport so...
Then again, I don't exactly read much so I'm probably missing out on those stories she talks about.
I gotta say, not a lot of my hero type characters have the ability to teleport. However, one of them has the ability to teleport others no matter if they are with her or far from her. 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:21 pm
I prefer to think of teleportation as an illusion. If, by chance, something caused someone to move faster than the speed of light to another location, it would fool the eye into thinking that the person just appeared there. I suppose that doesn't really explain long-range teleportation like the stuff that happens in Star Trek, but it's a pretty good theory for short-range motion, I think.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:07 am
in my story I'm doing they use they're elements powers to make them teleport like with a burst of fire and fading into the shadows but i have it as were they are actually stopping time and altering space to transport themselves to different places
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:51 pm
Alanora Calaran I prefer to think of teleportation as an illusion. If, by chance, something caused someone to move faster than the speed of light to another location, it would fool the eye into thinking that the person just appeared there. I suppose that doesn't really explain long-range teleportation like the stuff that happens in Star Trek, but it's a pretty good theory for short-range motion, I think. That's one idea yes, and if you had the ability to stop time, you could seem to others as though you disappeared from one spot to appear in a distant other. Long distance teleportation can be easily explained with the theory that if you are a particle of dust in a sheet of paper and you want to go from one corner of it to another in an instant, you would have to bend the sheet of paper so that you only have to hop from one corner to the other. That's very good Lonewolf Sega! Messing with time and space is sort of what I'm trying to explain in the above paragraph. 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:39 pm
hypnocrown Alanora Calaran I prefer to think of teleportation as an illusion. If, by chance, something caused someone to move faster than the speed of light to another location, it would fool the eye into thinking that the person just appeared there. I suppose that doesn't really explain long-range teleportation like the stuff that happens in Star Trek, but it's a pretty good theory for short-range motion, I think. That's one idea yes, and if you had the ability to stop time, you could seem to others as though you disappeared from one spot to appear in a distant other. Long distance teleportation can be easily explained with the theory that if you are a particle of dust in a sheet of paper and you want to go from one corner of it to another in an instant, you would have to bend the sheet of paper so that you only have to hop from one corner to the other. That's very good Lonewolf Sega! Messing with time and space is sort of what I'm trying to explain in the above paragraph. 3nodding thats cool mate and your theory is really good ^^
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:51 pm
Well there's no need for praising me for that theory cuz it's not actually mine. I just changed the way they explained a theory on the History Channel, if I'm not mistaken, they were trying to explain how wormholes could be possible on a show about the universe. I love those! 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:27 pm
hypnocrown Well there's no need for praising me for that theory cuz it's not actually mine. I just changed the way they explained a theory on the History Channel, if I'm not mistaken, they were trying to explain how wormholes could be possible on a show about the universe. I love those! 3nodding lol awesome btw one of my characters can make dimensional portals ^^
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