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Hokay, so. I tracked down some nuts and bolts on this Solomon Ring situation, with a little help from the Google. Still really wishing I could just call Artie and put him on it, but the regular Internets will have to do. [If she'd found any hint of a database like the Warehouse's, she would have hacked the shit out of it, but alas.]

Name, as suspected, comes from the Biblical king, who supposedly had the first of these things. This isn't the second or even the third, but the last one set up was a good several centuries back. This one's got backing from the royal family and some dude called the Manticore, and with the spirit situation that's probably not a cute nickname; they've been working on getting it set up for a few decades now.

As far as why goes, and why now, that's trickier to place. There's a laundry list of dust-ups and incidents cited as reasons to get some intelligence-gathering going in the Spirit World, but I'm not sure if one in particular set off interest or sped the project up or what. I'm gonna keep digging as best I can.

And then there's what it does, which is establish a permanent gateway to the Spirit World - or as 'permanent' as it is allowed to stay upright, considering the older ones are all long gone. One entity gets through it at a time, but you don't need much power at all to open it, so it'd make it possible for just about anyone to go back and forth between planes.

Anyone else find out anything worth knowing, about this or other stuff?

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Really, and the Trumps are not at all the same?

I was not aware that you were the expert on both the Illuminants and the Trumps and whatever spirits are here.

I may not have been possessed by an Illuminant like certain people, but magic was the life's work of both myself and my relevant overlay.

Anyway, it's impossible to say the difference for sure unless one of us can get a look at this Spirit world the same way some of us saw the Illuminants' domain. Have you happened to hear anything about the possibility of traveling to there from Earth, or is only the reverse known?

Even those of us who became Illuminants only have an intimate knowledge of that Illuminant and their magic. Compared to an Illuminant you were little more than someone doing slight of hand tricks on the corner.

Well, it seems you have your work cut out for you since magic is your life's work it would seem that you are the best suited to try to get in there.

"Sleight of hand" and "tricks on the corner" in one insult, very nice. You must be a very classy gentleman back in the 14th century.

And I do suppose that that should be the next focus of my research. The Solomon Ring is meant to provide a permanent pathway; I'll have to see if that path runs both ways, or just one.

1195 by the christian calendar, so 12th century actually.

Do they not have street jesters where you are from? Pity, you would likely do well in such a profession, maybe even make it in to a noble's court if you learned to keep to yourself.

Please, keep talking about things you have no idea of. Dramatic irony sustains my immortal soul.