Time is the most enigmatic of all the Sorcery talents; mages who manipulate time are also intimately connected and in contact with Brewesha, the Keeper of the Balance, though they rarely feel her presence.

Time is a weave of events, and a Time mage functions by altering the weave. It is difficult to change the weave; that affects all the rest of the weave from that point on, and the more that will be changed, the more effort goes into making the initial change to the weave.

Time Scars are nearly always imperceptible; the mage is often made amnesiatic of certain events, driven insane from an influx of possibility, or outright destroyed as if he had never been born--with no one else remembering him.

Appropriate time focuses are things that represent a weave--a spider or web, cloth, a loom--or things that measure time, like a sundial, waterclock or measured candle.

LEVEL ADVANCEMENTS:

None: As with all sorcery talents, awakening almost always causes the mage to move to the Apprentice level.

Apprentice: The mage can perceive the Weave of Time. This perception is greatly limited both through time and space, as the Weave encompasses both; the only events that can be viewed in the past or future are ones right in the Apprentice's location and for a few minutes before and after that time.

Journeyman: The mage's perception of the Weave increase to roughly a few days, and the distance to about what a man could walk in a day. He may begin to create general time effects such as slowing down time or speeding it up, but this effect is very general, concentrated mostly where he stands and losing concentration as one moves further away until it reaches the end of the mage's perception of the weave.

Mage: The mage's perception of the Weave increases to months timewise, and the distance that a man could walk in a month. He may create effects such as he did before, but concentrate it upon a single part of the weave; i.e., on a single person or target.

Adept: The mage's perception of the Weave increases to decades, and the distance to encompass nearly any place in the known world. He may cause a wrinkle in time, causing something to jump from one point in time to another and cease to exist in between.

LOST ABILITIES: It is rumoured that mages once had the ability to view nearly any part of the weave they wished and could completely stop the flow of time in a region.