Whats a whirling portal of energy?
A whirling portal of energy is a shortcut to a distant land. It lasts only a short time. Mages can make them, but there are restrictions. Some places can’t have portals (for example, the Coral Depths, Darkhaven, and the Academy), and it’s hard to cast a portal to a player or mob who is higher than you in level. No one can make a portal to a corpse, but it might be possible to cast a portal to a nearby mob or player. There are a few permanent whirling portals of energy, also, like the one at the western end of the Academy, and the one in the Ancient City of Aurora. Always look in a portal before you enter it. Sometimes you might run across a portal that avatars used to get to a really nasty place. You might not want to die there. A whirling portal of energy is not the same as an extradimensional portal, which is a container that mages make for their own use.
