More lore drop on the in between and spacial magic in the AU
The in between is a knot between three types of magic:
-spacial magic as the place where portals lead before going from one place to another
-soul magic since it’s some kind of afterlife where souls with unfinished business stay
-time magic, when a person goes from a portal to another it’s as if time stops itself in « reality » meanwhile if you stay for a long time in the in between,time will pass slower in the « real » world, 1 week in the in between is 1 day in the real world
In consequence of this link between the three magics, there is an extremely small chance of a mage of one of the three attribute to have a child possessing one of the other two attributes (ex: a spacial mage has a 0.0001% chance of having a child using time or soul magic)
There are differences between a spacial mage using nature’s mana(Finral in the AU) and a spacial mage using his internal mana(Cob)
A mage using nature’s mana can only create portals looking like holes, cracks or tears in the fabric of reality like Finral, they cannot bend the portals to look a certain way even in regular circles but
Meanwhile a mage relying only on their internal mana can shape however they like the portal whether it stay a hole but looks like a perfect circle, a sophisticated or simple door and even windows for some
In the in between you can find the souls of some person
For an internal spacial mage they cannot see the apparence or understand what the souls are saying but said souls can’t pass through their portals to go back to the living world
As for a nature spacial mage they can understand as well as see key features of the souls, but these souls can and will mostly try to escape and end up as vengeful or roaming spirits in the living world
Internal spacial mage can explore the in between only in a perimeter of 1 to 2 km around their entrance point
For a nature spacial mage the perimeter can be extended to 5 or 6 km around their portal
A nature spacial mage is only linked to the entrance portal and has to find by himself the exit portal who can be as far as 5 to 6 km away from the entrance. Exit portals are not necessary in their case. When a nature mage makes another person go through their portal alone they have to be extremely focused so the entrance and exit portals are close enough in the in between to be seen as the same to make sure the person does not get lost in the other world
An internal spacial mage has a guideline toward the exit portal who are only as far as 1 or 2 km from the entrance. An exit is necessary in their case. But if another person goes through portal alone it will automatically have the entrance and exit close enough to each other so the person doesn’t enter the in between