[✓] Chronoshaping Clarification

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OOC Explanation: There have been multiple complaints concerning Chronoshaping (Chronomancy) so with a few members of the LT and a few people experienced in Muun' lore, we have come up with this clarification. This fleshes out more of what they can't and can do while also preventing it from being used in combat. The decision to make Chronoshaping unable to be used in combat stems from the fact that the complaints that have been received are most, if not all, due to combat related incidents.

 

Chronoshaping

Chronoshaping is the art of both reversing, as well as speeding up time within a limited space. This is done through the creation of a time ‘bubble’, being Muun’ energy used by Metztli’s priests in order to work her magic. This may only affect what is inside said bubble. A priest may create this ‘bubble’ around anything; be it a plant, a wall, or perhaps a creature(Although it is to be noted you may not fully coat an animate creature). With this formed area of Chronoshaping, they may rework time itself as they see fit. This may be to the point where a cut upon the skin was not there, or even furthering or reversing an old walls crumbling. As the magic begins to work, there is a layer surrounding it where time itself is cut off. Such results in nothing being able to leave nor enter until the spell vanishes, and the cut off section rejoins the rest of the world. This is to stop any and all ‘paradox effects’ from taking place, and making it unable to ever create multiple of oneself or another. This also means that all objects, particles or pieces of the reversed zone must be present in the bubble of chronoshaping in order for it to return to as it once was.

 

After large sessions of Chronoshaping, a priest may find themselves aging in order to rival their magic, seemingly growing several years in the span of mere moments. This downfall can be evaded with the use of multiple priests combining their efforts, and evenly spreading the effort upon each. This isn't to say it's fully negated, but rather spread through each; Instead of a single priest growing four years, ten may grow only a few months.

 

In addition to this would be the act of using Moonbinding with Chronoshaping. Chronoshaping may be bound onto a ‘Charged Lapis’ Crystal, bearing the strength of a spell a tier lower than the bindist. This can be used to ‘enchant’ a single spell with chronoshaping to age a small area forward or backwards. They lack the intelligence of a priest, and will not use less Muun’ for smaller things, or more for larger. That fact is what disables a small Charged Lapis piece from taking upon a larger area, and rather enable it to mostly stick to smaller spots of reversing. That doesn’t go to say that healing the effects of taint with Moonbinding is impossible, as such could very much be done with a larger piece of Lapis. Smaller gems typically have the use of ‘healing’, usually for injuries.

 

Red Lines

• Chronomancy isn’t specifically healing, it is reversing or fast forwarding time, thus it cannot bring back the dead.
• Taint itself cannot be removed from an area, but the EFFECTS of taint can be reversed (the taint will remain and likely continue to work after the bubble of time is reconnected). Only Druidism and holy magics may remove taint.
• Chronoshaping does not create the paradox effect, at all.  You cannot create multiple selves with it, or recurring events.  When a temporal bubble is made, it dislodges that certain area from time, where the priest molds and changes it, before placing it back in the world.  An example of this would be a wall.  The priest may rewind time, causing the decaying wall to strengthen again or even be unbuilt entirely, or it may be put forward, as the wall decays further and crumbles.  Either way, people could still witness this wall changing, and it would not create any paradoxes.
• All building blocks or parts of a thing being reverse-chronoshaped must be present within the zone of reversal. For example, if five bricks are removed from a wall and all but one of them scattered around it (with the odd one out being thrown far away) and the wall is reversed through time, the bricks within the reversal zone will return to their original place but the brick that was thrown away remains missing (and remains in the location it was thrown away). Another example can be if a wolf bites off a section of flesh and runs away with it. If one reverses the area of the bitten flesh, it shall not regain the removed flesh.
• Limbs cannot be reconnected after being removed, even if time is reversed with the limb in the zone of reversal.
• You cannot seal or freeze somebody in a chronomancy bubble for multiple reasons. You may not use chronomancy as a prison. You may NOT use chronomancy for combat (this does not apply to having a field up prior to combat being initiated).
• You cannot simply freeze time at will or use a chronomancy bubble as a shield. For example if a rock is falling towards you, you may not operate a chronomancy bubble to freeze the rock in place. There will usually be no way to stop the rock unless you are fully prepared and already casting.
• Chronomancy on the brain or head area may cause brain damage or memory loss, thus OOC permission is required in order to operate around that area, including healing. You must roleplay this properly. Small injuries such as a scratch is mendable but probably wouldn’t be required as a scratch is not fatal.
• You may not age somebody forward or backwards.
• When you lose your sight to Moongazing you may not chronoshape your vision back, however you may gain brief glimpses of what is in front of you via present moongazing on yourself, but such must be taught.
• This stresses the Priest’s body greatly. If they were to rewind time on a large area, they themselves would find their bodies rapidly aging in tune with how much they rewind the time.
• This can be used to heal wounds, but it is not instantaneous and requires the target to be mostly immobile.
• You may not regrow limbs. Descendants are not amphibians; they do not naturally regrow limbs in normal time and thus altered time is not exempt from this.

 

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Fury_Fire

Adam_Barnett

Mephisto

Benbo

Tsuyose

[BonesOfTheEarth 1564]

Ayyyy

[Gladuos 857]

Sure okay whatever. +1

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Under review.

[GDPR 014 23]

Accepted.

[GDPR 014 23]

This Lore has been accepted. Moved to Implemented Lore, it will be sorted to it's appropriate category soon.