Quote Originally Posted by Remarus View Post
Echoing what Cleretic said here. It's also worth noting that, unless you are going to spend significant time exploring this in active storytelling, it may not be worth getting caught up in the weeds around it. Tripped and fell through a rift is as valid and useful as a twelve page treatise on how a Ronkan Mystic opened a portal through the void to slingshot you past the 13th into the Source if it's just going to be a bullet point in your character's background.
Yeah, I think we've been treating the question like this is something you want to actively write out and speculate on (because hey, it's the lore subforum, of course we overthink it). It's entirely possible you just want an 'excuse' plot beat, in which case you might actually want something people won't read too far into.

The fae do well for that in the sense that people will just hear that and go 'yeah, that'll happen'. The 'gate mages' I talked about in the ShB caster quests are also a decent example for that, because they already had their whole story. In this case Ronka might actually be a bad pick, because it kinda does beg for more information that might just not be what you want for the character.