I had a dream last night... and no, I'm not going to go on in great detail about it. Suffice it to say that it was well on the rational/logical/cause-and-effect end of the spectrum (as dreams go)... but it illustrated how, if "dark powers" exist, they could get evil-loner-types to willingly gather, and willingly sign on for, group activities. Of course, the answer's obvious: you pay/bribe them to do so.
However, among all the makes-good-sense (given the setting) pieces, there was one odd bit... the recruiter admits to the new recruit that the only reason he's involved in this transaction is because the dark powers in question will, once the deed is done, teach him "a spell of folding AND a spell of unfolding", which, by his tone of voice, he considered to be quite the deal. Now, it would be easy enough to say "it's just a dream, you should expect LOTS of strange things"... but I have to wonder, what kind of folding/unfolding would be so appealing to someone, in spell form or otherwise, that they would take great risks to acquire it?
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What about folding spacetime? You could conceivably travel anywhere you want and possibly anywhen (without all that velocity and gravity getting in the way). Unfolding would then be the opposite. Able to add time or space into the mix.
That's a decent possibility... especially given the undercurrent of unfolding being something the forces in question wouldn't normally include in their bargains. I can see all sorts of ways over-eager magician's-apprentice-types could get into trouble with that kind of folding spell that they would be hard pressed to get out of without an unfolding spell... to the great amusement of those self-same powers, of course... :)
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