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These things were first described by archaeologist Alfred Watkins in 1921. He claimed that in ancient times when Britain was very densely forested, people built roads in geographically convenient straight lines. He believed that the lines had been called "leys" because so many of them passed through towns with "ley" in their name. He would later claim that these "ley lines" existed in many countries all over the world, especially in Europe. His theories were generally dismissed by his peers, however.

 

 

Now ley lines (sometimes written as leylines) are hypothetical alignments between [[Place of Power|places of power]], which may be [[Mana|magical]], magnetic, or psychic in nature. These places of power are where two or more ley lines cross and are often known as Ley Nodes, Nodes, or Nexuses. Nodes are often regarded as spooky or unearthly. Stone Henge is said to be built on one such intersection.

* The ritual known as the Holy Grail (from ''[[Fate Stay Night]]'') works by using a giant mana circle to collect mana from the two foci of leylines under Fuyuki, and then using this mana to summon Heroic Spirits. In the ending of ''[[Fate Zero]]'', {{spoiler|Kiritsugu uses explosives to damage part of the leyline so the circle will eventually be obliterated by an earthquake before the Fifth Holy Grail War can occur. [[Foregone Conclusion|Too bad the Fourth didn't end normally...]]}}

* While not explicitly used in ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]]'', but [[Significant Anagram|Asakim]] [[Original Generation|Dowin's]] [[Humongous Mecha]] Shurouga can execute its strongest attack "Ley Buster", which turns into a [[Ramming Always Works|crash attack]] generated by a circle of seemingly magical energy. The above picture is even given a [[Shout Out]] as part of the "[[Sphere of Destruction|Spheroid of Destruction]]".

* ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]]'' 4 has those. Sacred Groves are created at the crossings of those. Conveniently, there can be always at least one such crossing in each Preserve, seeing as a grove can theoretically be built in any of such cities when it isn't forbidden by map settings. The groves boost a hero's maximum mana count permanently by 3. Additionally, Gauldoth [[Body Horror|the Half-Dead's]] campaign (the necropolis faction one) involves opening a portal to another realm, where Gauldoth's master Kalibarr is being held prisoner. That is done by destroying the Angel's Blade at a giant nexus point of the same kind of lines, which is described in words as a place where many rainbow-coloured lines meet, visible to a practitioner of Nature magic like Gauldoth. On the map, it looks like many other evil-styled Quest Gates, though.

* ''[[Dungeons of Dredmor (Video Game)|Dungeons of Dredmor]]'' has an ability tree in which you specialize in the usage of ley lines, who increases mana and mana regeneration

== Webcomics ==

* The [[Sins (Webcomic)|Sins]] once used the term to define the spot where they built the temples to draw energy from. Rhett quips that this makes the embodiment of evil hippies.

* In ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'', Ley Lines are discussed quite often when talking about their system of magic, known as 'lux.'

* While it hasn't influenced the plot, one annotation on ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' pointed out that moving vast numbers of ancient artifacts to the world's museums would turn them into immensely powerful nodes.