Chronomancy/Time Magic: Is it possible?
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Chronomancy/Time Magic: Is it possible?
Would such magic be possible in Arelith?
How could we make it work?
Could DMs make it work?
Timetravels and idea of ”what ifs” always has drawn interest to me, something I would wish to consider using in my roleplay. Imagine if there would be chance to undo or change things that your characters experienced, be it wrongfully or rightfully.
Like what if Wotan Woodberry would be able to stop his ill downfall from bad blood and blackpaint? How that would affect in timeline? Would it be temporary or permament?
Thoughts? Would be fun plot/element to play with.
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as someone who had a char that was heavily involved in this stuff; this is the best approach. i somewhat regret normalising it for a while.
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Whether or not people play along depends heavily on:
-Your presentation
-How enjoyable it is for others
-How much sense it makes
-How much apparent thought/effort you put into it
Chronomancy is something I only vaguely encountered IG; emphasis on vaguely. I never tried to pull it off, as I had a hard time coming up with things that were both believable AND gave me some leeway in case someone decided not to play along.
You might be able to show some mechanical representation of dabbling in it with things like timestop, haste, or slow. Flat out reversing time or events would be something I'd avoid.
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We'd be talking about "old magic" (pre fall of Netheril) in this case ...and while such magic is present even on Arelith (everything Myon for example), it would have most likely originated from som magical object as noone would have been able to recreate said magic for some time now
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youre conflating a mythal with a mythallar, myon has nothing to do with "old magic" as you put it. unless i'm deeply mistaken.-XXX- wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 1:17 pmWe'd be talking about "old magic" (pre fall of Netheril) in this case ...and while such magic is present even on Arelith (everything Myon for example), it would have most likely originated from som magical object as noone would have been able to recreate said magic for some time now
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But I agree that the above is probably best left unanswered and left to IC speculations. Doesn't really matter anyway as the topic's focused on time travel.
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A Mythallar is different as Kuma already said.
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I wouldn't put any stock in that wiki article, it's worth noting. It's all old 2e lore, when haste/slow etc were chronomantic effects (IE, they affected your life span). This is not the case anymore with 3e lore. I'd be pretty careful and wary with roleplaying chronomancy, too. Keep it subtle and non-definite.
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Mythals are magical fields created as a result of Elven High Magic rituals; they're specifically just fields of magical energy that apply enchantments over a large area (like levitating a city [like Myon], or making an area constantly temperate and spring-like [like Myth Drannor]). They can also break the rules of magic and cause entire schools of magic to no longer function as they should. They do not always, but often can, require the sacrifice of the lives of one or more of their makers. True mythals are no longer feasible in the setting because, as of 1372, there's about a half dozen High Mages left in the world and they've all agreed to take no further students and to hide away all tomes and books of knowledge of High Magic - ending the art forever. Smaller-scale mythals can be created by Epic-level mages of all races, but typically requires vast expenditure of both material wealth and personal lifeforce (i.e., EXP cost for creating the seeds of epic spells) to power them.
Mythallars are just giant magical batteries that tap directly into the Weave and siphon off vast quantities of magic, which is then used to power various magical devices (like making an entire city fly.) Mythallars project a 1-mile radius 'field' of magical power around them, and allowed the Netherese to create 'quasimagical items' - enchanted items that only functioned within the 1-mile radius surrounding a mythal. While these items could be powerful magical artifacts, they were more often just things like magical roombas to make the commonfolk happy.
Chronomancy exists but Mystra forbids its practice. Of course - there's more than one Weave now, isn't there?
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It doesn't help that yet more High mages also die during 1372, and another gives their life to restore one of these Mythal's.Flower Power wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 6:31 pmElven usage of mythals predates the Netherese Mythallar by 22,000 years.
Mythals are magical fields created as a result of Elven High Magic rituals; they're specifically just fields of magical energy that apply enchantments over a large area (like levitating a city [like Myon], or making an area constantly temperate and spring-like [like Myth Drannor]). They can also break the rules of magic and cause entire schools of magic to no longer function as they should. They do not always, but often can, require the sacrifice of the lives of one or more of their makers. True mythals are no longer feasible in the setting because, as of 1372, there's about a half dozen High Mages left in the world and they've all agreed to take no further students and to hide away all tomes and books of knowledge of High Magic - ending the art forever. Smaller-scale mythals can be created by Epic-level mages of all races, but typically requires vast expenditure of both material wealth and personal lifeforce (i.e., EXP cost for creating the seeds of epic spells) to power them.
Mythallars are just giant magical batteries that tap directly into the Weave and siphon off vast quantities of magic, which is then used to power various magical devices (like making an entire city fly.) Mythallars project a 1-mile radius 'field' of magical power around them, and allowed the Netherese to create 'quasimagical items' - enchanted items that only functioned within the 1-mile radius surrounding a mythal. While these items could be powerful magical artifacts, they were more often just things like magical roombas to make the commonfolk happy.
Chronomancy exists but Mystra forbids its practice. Of course - there's more than one Weave now, isn't there?
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Mythals are created by multiple high mages casting 10th level spells that are semi-divine in nature, but hellball et al are absolutely 10th level, too. And Mystra's ban was on 11th and 12th circle spells specifically (Karsus' Folly was the only 12th level spell ever cast in FR lore iirc) and even in canon it's not a strict ban. Mystra just wants mortals to THINK they're impossible to cast.Hunter548 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 5:55 pmYeah, mythallars are created through 10th level spells (No longer possible after Mystra's ban - and no, epic spells like Hellball etc aren't 10th level spells. They're similar, but not the same), while mythals are created through Elven High Magic (Which is a seperate semi-divine magic specific to the elves) and were inspired by the Netherese mythallar if I remember correctly, but aren't the same thing and function differently.
I wouldn't put any stock in that wiki article, it's worth noting. It's all old 2e lore, when haste/slow etc were chronomantic effects (IE, they affected your life span). This is not the case anymore with 3e lore. I'd be pretty careful and wary with roleplaying chronomancy, too. Keep it subtle and non-definite.
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I've played a handful of epic level Wizards and a couple have been around others that looked into Time Manipulation and even set up player made situations trying to create such things. Granted, this was all with specifically designed fixtures and using magic circles and was really cool to see the effort put into it. Though, the two times I recall, by two separate people both had a DM intervene and add some special effects to the 'casting'.
And both times failed in spectacular fashion. Which, to me, was way more entertaining.
So, you could always try and set up some sort of ritual and gather people and try and come up with awesome and creative ways to tr and do something in localized setting. Like, go to a ruined city and see if you can turn back time in a small area and see what happens! Get a DM and a handful or more of other players that contributed involved and let the shenanigans ensue!
The building up to such grand things has always been more fun for me than the actual outcome.
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Like all RP magic it has to obey some of the unwritten laws of player agency such as not telling someone you time traveled and killed their parents.
Take it light and easy. Make its effects subtle or mysterious.
Ultimately I'd say treat any and all chronomancy as you would anything else if you have zero DM assistance and you'll probably be well and clear.
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Beside idea of time travels and ”what if-stories” has always been fun to witness.
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n-Petrifictus wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:23 amThought this as fine RP tool to undo things that were done by OOC reasons than IC.
no.
what
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What I mean is that if some things have been allowed to be ignored due to not wanting to deal with them, such as conflict and backlash, thus decided by group OOC that they ”never happended,” why it would not be fine IC use time magic to fix things, etc.?Kuma wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 10:07 amn-Petrifictus wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:23 amThought this as fine RP tool to undo things that were done by OOC reasons than IC.
no.
what
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As for time travel - it can be a bit iffy as it's a good way of writing yourself into a corner. It renders all stakes completely non-existent for example ...and that's only one of the plethora of problems that it introduces.
Furthermore, it's unsupported, so other players can 100% treat the would be time traveler as an insane person with no special powers whatsoever. Working from there, a misguided lunatic possessing some sort of information that could only be explained by time travel can be seen as metagaming.
TBH, this is one of the concepts that I personally would be very reluctant to attempt without having a DM holding my hand. That being said, I got the impression that Arelith DMs weren't all too keen on doing that, but clearly that's up to them to decide.
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because that's a terrible idea and shouldn't be supportedPetrifictus wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 12:37 pmWhat I mean is that if some things have been allowed to be ignored due to not wanting to deal with them, such as conflict and backlash, thus decided by group OOC that they ”never happended,” why it would not be fine IC use time magic to fix things, etc.?
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I would very much like to know a specific example of where you think this would be a good idea.Petrifictus wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 12:37 pm
What I mean is that if some things have been allowed to be ignored due to not wanting to deal with them, such as conflict and backlash, thus decided by group OOC that they ”never happended,” why it would not be fine IC use time magic to fix things, etc.?
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