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 One of the earliest and most basic applications of enchanting was to move heat around, and even today some of the simplest and most widespread enchantments are effectively forms of heating; the glyphs used are designed to emit heat, which they absorb from the substrate upon which they are placed. Cooling enchantments are less widespread, because even though the same glyphs //could// be used, not all cultures have sufficient grasp of the nature of heat energy and thermodynamics to take proper advantage of the principle, and must use a more complicated enchantment to achieve the same effect by drawing heat out of the air and into the substrate.
-Heat is not the only form of energy that can be manipulated through enchantment, though the others are usually far more complicated to deal with. There is, for example, a subset of glyphs dealing with the imparting of kinetic energy: that is to say, it can cause objects to move. But until recently, the object that would move was that on which the glyph had been placed, and it would begin to do so immediately upon the completion of the glyph. This means that the object must be not only be braced during at least the final stages of enchantment, but that it must be contained thereafter, lest it escape from the control of its makers and travel across the countryside as far as the direction and terrain permit. Lately the [[xtauh:]] of [[avishraa:community:Poradrin]] have discovered how to cause kinetic energy to be imparted to an object that merely touches the enchantment; while this is a one-time, temporary effect, it is far more controllable than the previous method, and has already been the center of attempts to build [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun|projectile-launching devices]].
+Heat is not the only form of energy that can be manipulated through enchantment, though the others are usually far more complicated to deal with. There is, for example, a subset of glyphs dealing with the imparting of kinetic energy: that is to say, it can cause objects to move. But until recently, the object that would move was that on which the glyph had been placed, and it would begin to do so immediately upon the completion of the glyph. This means that the object must be not only be braced during at least the final stages of enchantment, but that it must be contained thereafter, lest it escape from the control of its makers and travel across the countryside as far as the direction and terrain permit. Lately the [[xtauh:]] of [[geopolitical:Poradrin:]] have discovered how to cause kinetic energy to be imparted to an object that merely touches the enchantment; while this is a one-time, temporary effect, it is far more controllable than the previous method, and has already been the center of attempts to build [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun|projectile-launching devices]].
 Among the most complex and impressive feats of enchanting is that of [[concept:glyphic teleportation]], the use of an enchanted surface to send the one who touches it instantly from one place to another.
 ===== History =====
-The origins of enchanting appear to lie with one of the xtauh civilizations that inhabit the northern [[avishraa:place:Brightness]]. A people remembered by later xtauh histories as the [[culture:ethnicity:Stone Eaters]], dwelling mostly along the banks of the [[avishraa:place:ehvanti_river|Ehvanti]], lived in the region during the [[history:storm_era:|Storm]] and [[history:steel_era:|Steel]] Eras, and were distinguished by the large, abstract, and highly individualistic symbols they carved into nearby sandstone cliffs, apparently as a form of devotion to their gods. It seems likely, given the similarity of some of the symbols to those used for emitting heat, that the first enchantments were discovered by accident as a byproduct of this practice. While the exact time of the invention cannot be known, enchanting was certainly in existence by the early Steel Era, where the records of the court of the [[avishraa:community:queendom_of_light_unobstructed:radiant_queen|Radiant Queens]] mention - dismissively - reports of their use among xtauh tribes.
+The origins of enchanting appear to lie with one of the xtauh civilizations that inhabit the northern [[geography:sekhaa:region:brightness]]. A people remembered by later xtauh histories as the [[ethnicity:Stone Eaters]], dwelling mostly along the banks of the [[geography:sekhaa:river:Ehvanti]], lived in the region during the [[history:storm_era:|Storm]] and [[history:steel_era:|Steel]] Eras, and were distinguished by the large, abstract, and highly individualistic symbols they carved into nearby sandstone cliffs, apparently as a form of devotion to their gods. It seems likely, given the similarity of some of the symbols to those used for emitting heat, that the first enchantments were discovered by accident as a byproduct of this practice. While the exact time of the invention cannot be known, enchanting was certainly in existence by the early Steel Era, where the records of the court of the [[geopolitical:queendom_of_light_unobstructed:Radiant Queen|Radiant Queens]] mention - dismissively - reports of their use among xtauh tribes.
 The circumstances of its discovery, to say nothing of the miraculous nature of its effects, meant that the effects of enchantment were ascribed to the power of the gods. On the one hand, this - together with the habit of inscribing the glyphs on large masses of stone, whose internal properties could not be easily investigated - meant that the ultimate source of the energy being produced was not understood for some time thereafter; although the heat was moved out of the mass of stone and into the air, it was seen to simply appear. On the other hand, since it became clear that some glyphs produced a real, measurable effect and others did not, it sparked a search to find other glyphs that might be pleasing to the gods. This trend remained even after the collapse of the Stone Eaters' civilization, where stonecarvers specializing in this branch of knowledge spent their free time trying different configurations of symbols. The greater portion of their compatriots tended to consider them holy men (or, just as frequently, women), and their search to be a divinely inspired quest.
-In the late Steel Era, the importance of three-dimensional geometry and proportions was understood, and allowed the miniaturization of some simple enchantments to fit onto portable objects. By the end of the [[history:Vigil Era:]], energy-direction glyphs had been derived, allowing emitted heat to be transferred across a surface rather than directly into the air, allowing it to be concentrated at another point. Not long afterward, in approximately 7 Cloud, the first known kinetic-energy transfer was achieved when the completion of a huge carving upon the exterior of a brick fortress wall in [[avishraa:community:Ivridan]] resulted in a sudden blast of icy-cold air and the implosion of the wall, followed shortly by the collapse of weakened remainder of the fortress. The cold air provided the xtauh with the first clue about the sourcing of emitted energy from its enchantment's surroundings.
+In the late Steel Era, the importance of three-dimensional geometry and proportions was understood, and allowed the miniaturization of some simple enchantments to fit onto portable objects. By the end of the [[history:Vigil Era:]], energy-direction glyphs had been derived, allowing emitted heat to be transferred across a surface rather than directly into the air, allowing it to be concentrated at another point. Not long afterward, in approximately 7 Cloud, the first known kinetic-energy transfer was achieved when the completion of a huge carving upon the exterior of a brick fortress wall in [[geopolitical:Ivridan]] resulted in a sudden blast of icy-cold air and the implosion of the wall, followed shortly by the collapse of weakened remainder of the fortress. The cold air provided the xtauh with the first clue about the sourcing of emitted energy from its enchantment's surroundings.
 Over the course of half a turn in 14 Cloud, one test carving on a cliff face remained quietly inert before [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission|violently detonating]], leaving a glassy crater and a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fallout|strange pestilence]] around and downwind of the site. The carver remained alive long enough to draw a crude mockup of the glyph so that it could be avoided. Not long thereafter, in 16 Cloud, the first, undirected glyphic teleportation enchantments were made, and developed a religious significance as portals to the spirit realm.