Everything

Perhaps the rarest form of access, a Shallowing is an area where the Gauntlet thins out almost to nothingness. Common in folklore but incredibly rare in today’s world, a Shallowing lets someone walk into the Otherworlds simply by wandering in the right, or wrong, direction.

With very few exceptions, Shallowings occur in remote wilderness – regions where neither Technocratic procedures nor human banality have been able to seal the gap. Typically, these places wax and wane, appearing and disappearing like metaphysical fireflies in the dark. Fireflies often do mark the passage to such a place; so do heavy fogs, dust storms, tempests, or volcanoes. Nature, it seems, carves Shallowings with dramatic phenomena. Certain times of the year, too, mark a thinning between worlds; there’s a reason that Christmas, Halloween, Easter, and Midsummer’s Eve have reputations for uncanny events. Full-moon nights, misty mornings, the stroke of midnight – they’re all known as times when a Shallowing might open. And although it’s not likely that you’ll walk through a foggy night and wind up in the Otherworlds, such things do happen more often than you might think.