Teleportation, Telepathic Communication, and Friends
Teleportation and telepathic communication are perfectly normal things in the Spiral and aren't actually excessive to Wizards.
Teleportion is referred to as "Porting" and telepathic communication is called "Whispering"
There are certain areas in each world that people can port to without having to set a marker to port there. People can also port to their houses without any problems.
Porting to specific locations is a bit trickier. First, the person in question has to have been there before and they will have had to set a location marker to port to. People can only have 1 marked location at a time. If you try to mark a location when you already have one somewhere else, the old one with dissappear. Your porting mark will also dissappear once you port to it, so it's only a one use thing. When most people mark a location, they have to wait for a bit to be able to make another one. Wizards don't have to wait to place another marker, but they use mana when marking a location as a trade off.
There are some situations you can find yourself in that you can't port out of or that other people can't port to you, such as being kidnapped. The reason for this is unknown.
With some work and practice, some more powerful wizards can learn to port people other than themselves. Usually this takes the form of the wizard porting with the other person/people, but sometimes people can port other people places without porting themselves. Both of those takes a lot of practice and, especially at first, power.
The term "Friend" isn't just an abstract concept in the Spiral. People can still be friends without the documentation, but "Friends" is also an official title that has power. When two people become "friends" in the Spiral, they both agree to it in a magical sense. By doing that, they are magically bound together a tiny bit and able to port to one another and whisper to each other. Usually, when people do this, they have it written somewhere (such as a wizard's spell book) so as to better keep track of it, but it's not necessary.
However, there's a bit of a catch when it comes to the official "friends" title. It can only be applied to "your own kind" or people who do the same sort of thing you do. For example, Wizards can only document other wizards, pirates can only do it with other pirates, merchants with merchants, etc. That means that you don't get the benefits of porting or easily whispering to friends that are in different "organizations" so to speak.
While both people have to be in agreement to document each other as friends, the same cannot be said for ending it. One of them can just decide that they no longer want to be friends with the other and can just remove them, which will remove the magic bond that connected them and let them port and whisper to each other.
People can only handle a certain number of magic friend bonds. Once that number is hit, that person cannot accept anyone else as an official "friend" unless they remove one or more people from their friends bond
Whispering has 3 forms; 1 on 1 convsation, group convsation, and messaging.
1 on 1 convsation can only happen between two people who are magically documented/bonded as friends. To whisper to one of their friends, they have to mentally focus on sending a telepathic message to the friend they want to whisper to. When responding, the person who receives the whisper has to mentally focus on sending a telepathic message back to the person. The more you whisper to people, the easier it gets and less focus is needed, even to whisper to someone you've never whispered to before.
A group conversation whisper happens when someone decides to invite their friends to have one. The people in the group don't all have to be friends with each other, but they do have to be invited to the group by a friend who is in it or who made it. [Unlike in the actual game] You can be in multiple groups at the same time but it's not advised. If you are going to be in more than one group, it's best to only be in 2.
A Whispered message is a one way message that cannot be responded to. Unlike the other 2 forms of whispering, being friends is not required. A message can be sent to one person or multiple people. Messages tend to be short as well. Usually they are just telling people to come see the person who sent it or announcing an event that is happening. This form of whispering is much harder to do than the other two
