Right. Pocket lecture. When they put the wards up, it affected a lot of the calculations for locational magic. Most of the time it doesn't matter much, but if you're trying to go from one place to another, it especially does.
And the first set of wards, in 83, affected different places differently, so between 85 and 87 they had several people go through and do really thorough calibration measurements. (I did Wales, it's why my Welsh is largely useful in pubs. It takes forever to do a complete survey.)
My best guess is that the rite eighteen months ago did something similar, but I don't know if it's a general offset, or something that's affected by other variables. (Like the amount of local magic in the area, nearby ley lines, and so on.)
Normally, the measurement tables would get filed with my Guild, but I don't think they were this last time. (I can ask.) If not, it's possible to do the measurements, but of course you'd have to do it for the places you wanted to go to, individually.
Beyond that, I've no idea if MLE's put anything in place that might affect things or cause an alert: portkeys are unusual enough as a kind of magic they'd be possible to identify by signature, yes?
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Right. Pocket lecture. When they put the wards up, it affected a lot of the calculations for locational magic. Most of the time it doesn't matter much, but if you're trying to go from one place to another, it especially does.
And the first set of wards, in 83, affected different places differently, so between 85 and 87 they had several people go through and do really thorough calibration measurements. (I did Wales, it's why my Welsh is largely useful in pubs. It takes forever to do a complete survey.)
My best guess is that the rite eighteen months ago did something similar, but I don't know if it's a general offset, or something that's affected by other variables. (Like the amount of local magic in the area, nearby ley lines, and so on.)
Normally, the measurement tables would get filed with my Guild, but I don't think they were this last time. (I can ask.) If not, it's possible to do the measurements, but of course you'd have to do it for the places you wanted to go to, individually.
Beyond that, I've no idea if MLE's put anything in place that might affect things or cause an alert: portkeys are unusual enough as a kind of magic they'd be possible to identify by signature, yes?