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whitelaughter:
Crossing Thresholds without an invitation is very bad for enchantments; and for mortal enchantments, dawn is the start of a new day, and thus a threshold - ditto midday for Winter Sidhe and midnight for Summer Sidhe. And these thresholds would be insanely powerful: *every* mortal with Bless This House in a hemisphere is backing it, so for North America, all of Europe and Africa, plus a slab of Asia.

But - suppose you're invited?

It's not that hard. A character in Chicago could just before dawn ring a friend in New York and get invited into the new day. Dawn is still a threshold, but you've been invited across it, so your spells are fine.

Or better yet, set it up with an AM radio station to have the intro "welcome to the new day!" or something equally banal as their breakfast program catch phrase. A radio is old tech, you could be woken up by the effect that protects your spells!

Don't want to do something like this every day? Well, the Russians will just put their new centre in Murmansk, and have 3 months between needing to do anything for both Summer and Winter.

One thing though - don't invite your friend in New York back into your day in Chicago! Don't know what would happen, but pretty certain it would violate the Law on Time.

Mr. Death:
The dawn isn't a threshold. It's a dawn. Just because they have the same effect doesn't mean they're the same mechanic.

Quantus:

--- Quote from: Mr. Death on June 11, 2018, 02:16:32 PM ---The dawn isn't a threshold. It's a dawn. Just because they have the same effect doesn't mean they're the same mechanic.

--- End quote ---
Agreed.  If anything I always considered it more of a daily Mass Fire Cleansing.

whitelaughter:
"Thresholds can even be conceptual: the transition from night to day has a weakening effect on magic precisely because it is a sort of threshold. "(YS230)

Taran:
I agree it’s a threshold but my issue with what you are saying is no one owns the day.  If I am homeowner, I can invite people into my house.  My guests cannot.  We are all temporary guests on this planet and none of us own the day or the planet.

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