Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
I'm not sure the void counts as inter-shard travel. The shard that was there is now not; that's the point. Usually, the dimensional planes have a membrane between them that's reinforced from both sides by two separate aether-rich worlds. Breaking through that barrier is nigh impossible, and (as far as we know), the instant you actually manage to break through, the distinction between the worlds is undone, the membrane collapses, and the "reflection" is "deleted".

The way we've seen this circumvented thus far is to die, transcend the flesh, and somehow ride through the crystals outside of the Source, into a transitional something and then into another shard.

With the Thirteenth, you only need to cut through the Source-side membrane and swagger directly into the empty, and even that takes a profound amount of energy.
If it is possible to travel bodily to the Void, perhaps that would be a way to travel bodily to a Shard - VIA the Void? While the door is now closed (the Crystal Tower), it was apparently possible to travel bodily to the Void, as we did in the World of Darkness raid. Might it then be possible to travel bodily from there to one of the other shards?

I guess it depends in part on whether there even IS a connection between the Void and the other Shards. It's entirely possible that the Thirteen Shards share a border with the Source, but NOT with one another. Have we at any point heard whether Voidsent can travel to anywhere ASIDE from the Source?

It's possible the Source is special, in that regard. Perhaps even Ascians cannot travel directly from Shard to Shard, but need to pass through the Source on the way...