"On a smaller scale, curses may alter someone's abilities, but only for the particular individual who has been affected by that curse. On this scale? No things, but certain powerful individuals can hold such power over travel to and from, or within, their own domains."

Actually, Caedra realizes she's very familiar with a specific example, but she hadn't thought of it in this light until Semiyon brought it up so helpfully.

"My home, for example. Anyone wishing to travel to the domain in which I reside will end up within a certain large domed cage outside the City of Rust, regardless of where they wanted to go. Once there, they are trapped there until they are released by the guard."