traditionsFirst appears in: Wendy and the Neverwood

Chronomancy

Time perception, memory magic, experiencing all possible futures simultaneously. The cost is measured in the thing it manipulates.

Overview

Chronomancy, also called The Hours, is the tradition of perceiving and manipulating time -- speeding, slowing, remembering, forgetting. Peter's power: stopping his own aging. Wendy's: experiencing all possible futures simultaneously.

How It Works

The Hours does not actually move through time. It alters the practitioner's relationship to time's flow -- perceiving more of it, less of it, or parallel branches of it simultaneously. A Chronomancer doesn't travel to the future. They see the future as a branching probability tree, all paths visible at once.

The Hours monasteries keep clocks that run at different speeds in different rooms. This is not decorative.

The Risk

Getting stuck in a moment -- frozen, like Peter, in a single point of time that never ends. Or aging decades in seconds, as the cost of manipulating something far larger and older than you are. Time magic costs, and the cost is measured in time.

The Wellspring Connection

Chronomancy is the Wellspring filtered through temporal perception -- raw creative potential channeled through the dimension that gives sequence to events.