Gates

Clue found in Accord HQ
An extract from a book in the Accord Library- Realms and the outer planes, Chapter 8- Local Realm Gates

The local realms are so named because they are classed as immediate neighbours of Earth in the interplanar network; all 5 of these realms including earth are often classed as a single plane within the larger cosmological network, and travel between these realms is a lot easier than travel to the outer planes and beyond.

The Gates are the main means of travel between the local realms, and two sets of gates exist that govern travel between the two different sets of local realms- the gate between Earth and the seelie and unseelie realms is known as the Fae Gate, while the gate between Earth and heaven and hell is known as the Divine Gate. There is not a clear reason why the Gates are paired, but cosmologists have theorised that it may be linked to the greater balance of the planes as we know them.

The Gates are migratory in that they do not exist in a consistent space and time on either side in the realms they are linking; tracking the location of the gates requires either the services of a seer, immense soular energy in a location ritual, or tracking a recently deceased spirit that wishes to travel to one of these realms upon their demise. There are many hypotheses about why a recently deceased spirit knows the location of the gate they wish to pass through, but no good theories that stand up to scientific rigour; spirits interviewed about the process describe it as a feeling of a gravitational pull in the correct direction once their mind is made up about their destination, similar to the process experienced by spirits wishing to reincarnate.