Time from Without
The Savant Collection · by Scholar Palwen Merivan
External Pressure - Time from Without.
"The Eternal Void"
Chaos is an indefinable thing. It flows about this world, through it at points. This often intangible nexus of force, it washes across this existence in a torrent. Most cannot comprehend the pure absence of order, they crumble, their minds unable to grasp that which surrounds them upon experiencing it. There is no, direction, no up no down. These simple yet definable references do not exist. Chaos is utterly and absolutely uncontrolled. In all of this madness, the consciousness is shattered. There is no great reference, no ordering factor to establish rule. There is nothing governing which moment shall precede the next all is at once and not at all. In this magnificent void, this tiny pinprick of mindless perception that is chaos one finds an overpowering force. A rock, or foundation if you will, that corrupts and hardens. This is time. This is the significant difference from one moment to the next, a stain of order in an elaborate masterpiece of mindless torment
"The True Force that is Time and Order"
From within this reality, that you exist in, it is difficult
to truly measure the power that is time. As a cog in the eternal clock one only knows that; what has been has been, and what will be has not. Each being proceeds from a definable start to an elaborate, sometimes sudden end. This mystical force arranges all things in such a fashion that even entities born in the unrestrained ether that is chaos cannot freely enter its influence. Like a wall, or mass, it is a moment into which only the most powerful can try to enter, and then with little effect. Like a perceivable veil, only accepting that which is ordered as it is. This anomaly in a sea of anomalies stands out. It influences everything in its grasp, yet denies all others. In past times some have sought to remove themselves from it. Unshackle themselves from its grasp. In doing so, however, one is no longer within the scope of order and becomes lost in the eternal gulf of chaos. Such a parallel state of being from the uncommanded chaos those born within it cannot function from without.
"Possibilities"
Theories abound about the powers of time. Most cannot even
realistically understand the influence they have on one moment or the next. The ability to traverse time, move along the defined order to another point, is considered an almighty feat. Control of, or the adjusting of the rules by which the eternal metronome beats can have magnificent ramifications. To speed up this existence, or to slow it down. To create a junction, a point at which a moment in the future will meet the past. These things, these possibilities, can make gods of mere men. That view, however, is only a small part of the entire picture. It is not within its own influence that this undeniable force can truly be molded. It is without. One can change the very nature of this existence. Change the reference point for all, while at once knowing the entire chain. Born of chaos the demonkin are minds unrestrained by the limits of order. Where another might be lost upon the winds of chaos, drown in the dark waters of madness, demonkin could exact their will. No longer subject to following the rules of this order, the possibilities become endless.
Aabahran