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Kristopher
May 30th, '07, 09:33 PM
I want a name of teleportation that's more appropriate for a fantasy setting, and doesn't carry any modern, sci-fi, or comicbook baggage.

The character in question can "feel" space and matter around her, and move to another spot instantly, without crossing the intervening space, as an act of will. It does take some energy and concentration, but isn't a spell or other learned magical skill -- it's an inborn talent due to her unique parentage.

Curufea
May 30th, '07, 10:31 PM
Correspondence :)
(from Mage)
Transmigration, Apportation, Space bender, Thaumic Translation

Comic
May 30th, '07, 10:41 PM
Psychoportation, shadow-walking, going sideways, blinking, stepping, astral walking, bending, warping, transcendence, spotwalking, folding, weave-walking, spiral-dancing..

mattingly
May 31st, '07, 05:31 AM
Plane-stepping, Shadow-walking, Nether-travel, Following The Paths That Man Must Not Follow.

Hugh Neilson
May 31st, '07, 06:27 AM
Shifting
Castling

Roter Baron
May 31st, '07, 07:24 AM
Verschwinding ...

Delthrien
May 31st, '07, 07:33 AM
Hmmm...

(PC/NPC name)'s Bi-locative Conveyance
The Long Step
Traveling (always written with a capital initial)
The Walk-That-Is-Not

Killer Shrike
May 31st, '07, 07:36 AM
Farstep
Seven League Stride
Wefting


If you've decided on a specific SFX for how TPort works in general in your setting, such as travel via a specific extradimensional space, that opens up more campaign oriented options as well (obviously)...

mattingly
May 31st, '07, 08:41 AM
Gating.

Chris Goodwin
May 31st, '07, 09:05 AM
First edition Fantasy Hero called it Transport.

Edit: A couple of sources have called it "jaunting".

mattingly
May 31st, '07, 10:53 AM
A couple of sources have called it "jaunting".
We prefer the term "gallivanting."

Starwolf
May 31st, '07, 12:00 PM
Bamfing, poofing, puffing :D

Hyper-Man
May 31st, '07, 01:24 PM
Finding the cracks in reality.

Pretty much any Amber description of shadow travel as already pointed out.

Curufea
May 31st, '07, 03:13 PM
Jaunting was used in the Tomorrow People series.

ghost-angel
May 31st, '07, 05:54 PM
Sidestepping Reality, Dimensional Shift

Manic Typist
May 31st, '07, 06:26 PM
Blinking.

Clonus
May 31st, '07, 08:25 PM
Jaunting was used in the Tomorrow People series.

But they lifted from The Stars My Destination.

StGrimblefig
May 31st, '07, 08:52 PM
Walking the old paths
Making that which is far to be near
The rabbit's escape

if the spell or ability is known to have been discovered by a particular person, then it could be:
<discoverer>'s gate
Following <discoverer>'s Path

Perceiving the Ponderous Pathways of Pontificus the Plenipotentate.
Oh, wait. You DIDN'T want cartoony. Sorry.

Lucius
Jun 1st, '07, 04:38 AM
To Move in Stillness.

Lucius Alexander

I just call it "Riding the Palindromedary"

Labrat
Jun 1st, '07, 01:16 PM
You could just call it 'Dennis'...

Gate-hopping
Flashpointing
Wormhole Riding (hey... lets keep it clean...)

Supreme Serpent
Jun 1st, '07, 01:20 PM
Galooping

Clonus
Jun 1st, '07, 02:47 PM
Of course if you were speaking classical greek it would be "teleporos" from "tele" meaning "at a distance" and "poros" meaning "passage". If you were speaking latin it would be "transportus".

Hyper-Man
Jun 1st, '07, 03:25 PM
How about Conveyance?

Labrat
Jun 1st, '07, 04:42 PM
Sliding?
Tesseracting?

ghost-angel
Jun 1st, '07, 05:29 PM
Leap Of Faith.

(or did you buy Safe Teleport?)

Nolgroth
Jun 1st, '07, 07:18 PM
Explosive Recompression?

Manic Typist
Jun 1st, '07, 10:42 PM
Gods' Walk.

LoresLost
Jun 3rd, '07, 08:34 PM
I ways liked "Riding the Syncronicity Highway" from Hellblazer comics myself.:eg:

Here are a few others that come to mind:
Translocation, the far step, walking the eterinal roads.

Shadowsoul
Jun 13th, '07, 10:41 AM
Planeswalking. Celestial step. Moving Beyond. Wizard's walk. Ghostwalk. Corporeal Shift. Wending. Slipping. Corpus Agito, (Fantasy doesn't require good latin).
Alternatively it could be part of a school or system of magic called 'Defying' which allows the practitioner to ignore natural laws by the power of their own will. The formal name would be something like 'Defying the Common Path'.

Captain Obvious
Jun 13th, '07, 03:39 PM
The journey of a thousand miles ends in a single step.

Distance Door is a direct translation of teleport. Or maybe call it the Spell of the Seven League Boots.

BobGreenwade
Jun 14th, '07, 09:09 AM
TranslocationThis actually is the classic term for it, before sci-fi came along. :)

jaws
Jun 14th, '07, 12:13 PM
Etherstep or etherwalk, whisping, therenow

Silverbullet
Jun 16th, '07, 03:12 PM
In the Harry Potter books they call it, Apparition (A-pa-RI-shun) and Disapparate (dis-AP-a-rate) respectively.

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells_a.html#apparition