It did. [ He says, not willing to go into the long and tragic story of the Crusade at the moment, instead concentrating on the present. ]

What have you got so far? I have learned that the displacement of objects is less... severe than that which would accompany a teleportation accident, or the like. Someone can get stuck in a wall without suffering the agonizing trauma that would normally come with having two solid objects occupy the same space. I assume this is partially because our world is something of a Noospheric projection.