“Thank the Great Me for summoning you! Hmph!”
— Petralka Anne Eldante III, Empress of the Holy Eldant Empire
Methods of transport to a fantasy world - Part 2
The second most common way of being transported into a fantasy world is through the discovery of a dimensional crack or rift. Either with divine influence or just blind luck, a modern person can find themselves traversing a dimensional rift. In one moment, they are living a normal life, and in the very next moment, they could be in a fight for their life against a low level magic beast.
These rifts in space and time are unstable at the best of times and can begin destabilizing as soon as they come into existence. Passing through a rift is innumerably more dangerous than a hero summoning ritual and can likely result in death during the transition from the modern world to the fantasy world. Great care must be taken when interacting with a rift.
Places that are known for mysterious disappearances of planes, ocean vessels, and or people are likely locations of these dimensional rifts. Take the Bermuda Triangle for example. On the one hand, it is entirely possible to come up with a series of logical arguments for how a location off the tip of Florida has repeatedly been steeped in a lore of mysterious disappearances. In fact, many theories abound – everything from tumultuous seas and turbulent air, to a sudden release of methane gas pockets from the ocean floor. However, I conjecture, that it is also possible that these mysterious regions are somehow more active spawn locations for dimensional rifts that connect to other worlds.
Many would be quick to deny these claims as nothing but the ravings of a madman, but claiming something as impossible without proof is nothing but a monument to man’s arrogance. I merely posit that a dimensional rift could be a viable explanation for these locations whispered about in bedtime stories and laughed off in the halls of higher learning. Let us not go so far as to deny the existence of a fantasy world itself!
There is also no telling how long it could take for a safe traversal of a rift even if it were completely safe. Without provisions, no human would be able to last a traversal that took more than a few days. And herein lies the true danger of a dimensional rift as a method of transport to a fantasy world. Given the incredible danger of rifts, it is so much better to be summoned by a hero summoning ritual.
