The Duelist

The Aleph is the tallest mountain within my astral landscape. Snowcapped, it overlooks a vast mountain range that is often obscured by clouds. I didn’t look for it or even intend to end up there the first time I found myself at the summit; I actually meant to materialize in my usual spot, the Promontory.

Nowadays I do a lot of my evocation from that spot, particularly hostile or uncooperative entities. The Aleph is a position that probably represents my complete dominion over my astral fiefdom, and to evoke an entity from that position conveys the position of superiority to them. More friendly entities get invited over in cozier accomodations.

The Aleph also allows a strange sort of long-distance scrying. Strange because things scryed from the Aleph appear both as distant events and zoomed-in windows at the same time. I’m not conveying this properly. Let me try again. They appear to be very far away and at the same time no detail is lost. It’s hard to explain.

Now that I think about it, I have never been to the Aleph at night (astral ‘time’), although I’ve been to the Promontory during all times of the day. I wonder why that is.