Timerifts are volatile tears in space and time. They can displace an area briefly, and large tears can be unstable and destructive.
A rift near Lake Lucerne in the Alps formed a passage between Earth and Xalmyrra. In Earth’s year 2040, David Vorrel investigated the surrounding fog with a molecular analyzer and neural wave emitter. When he connected the devices, pain overwhelmed him and the crossing carried him into Xalmyrra, where he became Deylin Varos.
Timerifts are volatile tears in space and time. They can displace an area briefly, and large tears can be unstable and destructive. Powerful temporal magic can alter them. A rift near Lake Lucerne in the Alps formed a passage between Earth and Xalmyrra.
The Earth passage
Thalena found a tiny splinter in reality near Lake Lucerne and drained the surrounding land for power to widen it into a fog-filled tear. In Earth’s year 2040, David Vorrel investigated the fog with a molecular analyzer and neural wave emitter. When he connected the devices, pain overwhelmed him and the crossing carried him into Xalmyrra, where he became Deylin Varos.
After his departure, Thalena traced him through the fracture, adjusted it forward and followed him into the final Xalmyrran cycle. She closed it after crossing.
Timerifts are volatile tears in space and time. They can briefly displace an area, erase matter in a destructive collapse, or form a passage between worlds and different periods. Temporal magic can create or widen them.
Casting and limits
During an attack on a city, Helena combined a timerift with Zero’s void spell. Part of a fountain vanished before the space snapped back into alignment and exploded.
The Earth passage
Thalena found a tiny splinter in reality near Lake Lucerne and drained the surrounding land for power to widen it into a fog-filled tear. In Earth’s year 2040, David Vorrel investigated the fog with a molecular analyzer and neural wave emitter. When he connected the devices, pain overwhelmed him and the crossing carried him into Xalmyrra, where he became Deylin Varos.
After his departure, Thalena traced him through the fracture, adjusted it forward and followed him into the final Xalmyrran cycle. She closed it after crossing.
Varnhallow displacements
Timerifts struck gatherings in Chronasis and Kyranthos, as well as Rhyzmar in Irrathis, carrying mages into Varnhallow. The casts also erased parts of the surrounding rooms and injured those left behind.
Within Varnhallow, random timerifts carried people away whole or cut them in half. As its temporal boundary failed, rifts cracked through the air and exploded, while portions of the sky and ground disappeared.
Timerifts are volatile tears in space and time. They can briefly displace an area, remove matter in a destructive collapse, or form passages between worlds and different periods. Temporal magic can create or widen them, but casting a short rift differs from manipulating an existing passage.
Casting and limits
Thalena’s cast timerifts could send someone only seconds backward or forward at great cost. The displaced area collapsed and realigned shortly afterward. In battle against Eremion, she formed blue rifts that imploded into voids and then detonated, forcing him to defend against their shockwaves. During an earlier attack on a city, Helena combined a timerift with Zero’s void spell; part of a fountain vanished before the space snapped back into alignment and exploded.
Eira also opened a timerift at a weak point in Varnhallow’s temporal boundary after Kaelion and Jin destabilized it, allowing the three to blink through.
Existing fractures can provide longer passages. Eira found a small tear near Lirathen and spent eighteen days adjusting it forward, feeding it from stored essence cores and god cores through her skyship’s equipment. She counted the days and nights visible within it, then widened it enough to reach Earth. She later brought Thalion and Abraxas back through the same passage.
The Earth passage
Origin and crossings
Thalion’s escape through a veil left small blue rifts leaking essence into Earth. Abraxas closed the leaks to prevent damage to the world. At Thalion’s request, he left one near the Alps so they could eventually return to Valrindor. Abraxas could close these rifts but could not open the passage they needed with his reversal magic.
Thalena later found that splinter near Lake Lucerne. She drained the surrounding land for power and opened it into a fog-filled tear. In Earth’s year 2040, David Vorrel investigated the fog with a molecular analyzer and neural wave emitter. When he connected the devices, pain overwhelmed him and the crossing carried him into Xalmyrra, where he became Deylin Varos.
After his departure, Thalena traced him through the fracture, adjusted it forward and followed him into the final Xalmyrran cycle. She closed it after crossing.
Varnhallow displacements
Timerifts struck gatherings in Chronasis and Kyranthos, as well as Rhyzmar in Irrathis, carrying mages into Varnhallow. The casts also erased parts of the surrounding rooms and injured those left behind.
The displacements were made by Thalena’s group from within the void. Lunorax cast repeated timerifts to move the group to the required time, with Horol’Khai supplying power. Silas opened the void’s edge and Thalena widened it. Deylin and Sigurd cast the timerifts that reached the gatherings, while Horol’Khai guided those taken toward Varnhallow. Casting from the void made the spells too unstable to avoid damage. As Horol’Khai weakened, she could no longer guarantee the Kyranthos group’s landing time or place.
Within Varnhallow, random timerifts carried people away whole or cut them in half. As its temporal boundary failed, rifts cracked through the air and exploded, while portions of the sky and ground disappeared.
Timerifts are volatile tears in space and time. They can briefly displace an area, remove matter in a destructive collapse, or form passages between worlds and different periods. Temporal magic can create or widen them, but casting a short rift differs from manipulating an existing passage.
Casting and limits
Thalena’s cast timerifts could send someone only seconds backward or forward at great cost. The displaced area collapsed and realigned shortly afterward. In battle against Eremion, she formed blue rifts that imploded into voids and then detonated, forcing him to defend against their shockwaves. During an earlier attack on a city, Helena combined a timerift with Zero’s void spell; part of a fountain vanished before the space snapped back into alignment and exploded.
Eira also opened a timerift at a weak point in Varnhallow’s temporal boundary after Kaelion and Jin destabilized it, allowing the three to blink through.
Existing fractures can provide longer passages. Eira found a small tear near Lirathen and spent eighteen days adjusting it forward, feeding it from stored essence cores and god cores through her skyship’s equipment. She counted the days and nights visible within it, then widened it enough to reach Earth. She later brought Thalion and Abraxas back through the same passage.
After Varnhallow’s collapse, Eira could no longer see the patterns for timerifts or other spells that displaced time. Her stasis remained accessible, halting the body’s flow rather than directly affecting time. Eliona also reported the loss of temporal spells and suspected a connection to Horol’Khai or Varnhallow.
The Earth passage
Origin and crossings
Thalion’s escape through a veil left small blue rifts leaking essence into Earth. Abraxas closed the leaks to prevent damage to the world. At Thalion’s request, he left one near the Alps so they could eventually return to Valrindor. Abraxas could close these rifts but could not open the passage they needed with his reversal magic.
Thalena later found that splinter near Lake Lucerne. She drained the surrounding land for power and opened it into a fog-filled tear. In Earth’s year 2040, David Vorrel investigated the fog with a molecular analyzer and neural wave emitter. When he connected the devices, pain overwhelmed him and the crossing carried him into Xalmyrra, where he became Deylin Varos.
After his departure, Thalena traced him through the fracture, adjusted it forward and followed him into the final Xalmyrran cycle. She closed it after crossing.
Divine Helena
Long before the current Malverand Intergalactic Empire, divine Helena Hyperion used two successive rifts to travel between her Valrindor, Xalmyrra and Earth. She took Isaac from Earth through Xalmyrra into her own Erenmyr. The passages remained accessible when she returned to Earth years later. There she met Rafe and Xarion arriving from her future, before eventually crossing back into her world.
During that Earth visit, Rafe altered David’s equipment so it could detect essence. His intervention helped fulfill David’s eventual crossing into Xalmyrra.
Varnhallow displacements
Timerifts struck gatherings in Chronasis and Kyranthos, as well as Rhyzmar in Irrathis, carrying mages into Varnhallow. The casts also erased parts of the surrounding rooms and injured those left behind.
The displacements were made by Thalena’s group from within the void. Lunorax cast repeated timerifts to move the group to the required time, with Horol’Khai supplying power. Silas opened the void’s edge and Thalena widened it. Deylin and Sigurd cast the timerifts that reached the gatherings, while Horol’Khai guided those taken toward Varnhallow. Casting from the void made the spells too unstable to avoid damage. As Horol’Khai weakened, she could no longer guarantee the Kyranthos group’s landing time or place.
Within Varnhallow, random timerifts carried people away whole or cut them in half. As its temporal boundary failed, rifts cracked through the air and exploded, while portions of the sky and ground disappeared.