#I also have no idea if any of this is feasible re: exandria’s cosmology

[playerkingsley]

while I would love if Ludinus was similarly beset by crippling lapses in magic, (if anyone deserves the consequences of cosmological fuckery, it’s our resident smiling villain) this is still possibly a deliberate first stage of the predathos plot—arcana may very well remain functional around the tether site, if the ritual involved some sort of leyline redirection for its singular purpose, perhaps doubly so if there’s a time dilation leveraged by the beacon that allows those in the vicinity reap the surging benefits of a prolonged apogee solstice. bells hells (and allies, perhaps) may have been the only ones ejected from the area in an effort to either save them or shrug off their interference. we just don’t know!