Dimension of Time

Dimension of Time

(Plane)

Erratic

Static

Titles

The Hidden Dimension

Sphere

Inner Sphere

Gravity

Normal

Time

Erratic

Realm

Immeasurable

Structure

Lasting

Essence

Mixed

Alignment

Mildly neutral

Magic

Normal

Denizens

Danavas
Hounds of Tindalos
Iriis
Siktemporas
Time dimensionals
Time dragons
unbound shades

Divinities

Yog-Sothoth
Tawil at'Umr

Description

Dimensional realm accessible by magically entering one's own timeline

Source: Planar Adventures, pg(s). 214 (1E)
GM Core, pg(s). 181 (2E)

In Gamemastery Guide 145, the Dimension of Time also had the

N

trait.

Ⅱ

The Dimension of Time is a hidden, poorly known, almost unreachable dimension of time that touches all known planes except timeless ones.

Access

The Dimension of Time cannot be reached by conventional planar travel, and no tuning fork attuned to it is known to exist. Only complex rituals documented in extremely rare tomes grant access to the plane.

What little is known on Golarion about this plane comes from obscure works such as the Book of Serpents, Ash, and Acorns: Shadows of What Was and Will Be and Necronomicon. The techniques contained in the books allow a creature of the Inner Sphere to conjure a manifest expression of their own timeline and crawl up it into the Dimension of Time. Those native to the Outer Sphere, including deities, are unable to access this dimension. Fate seems to hold sway over mortals only, forcing others to look on as from a distant shore.

Description

Few accounts of travels to the Dimension of Time exist, since most travelers to the dimension never return. Each of those accounts reports a unique experience.

Upon arriving on the dimension, some travelers find themselves in a transparent bubble surrounded by countless, chaotic images from their past and innumerable other timelines. A single exit provides access to any moment in their past, providing they can remember it fully and maintain continuous concentration. Those who fail to do so are cast out of the Dimension of Time and suffer various devastating side effects; at least, they will become targets of hounds of Tindalos. Any attempt to change the past, however, results in a swift reaction. Offenders are either excised from reality completely or trapped in an inescapable time loop.

Travelers on the plane manifest as translucent versions of their physical forms and trail translucent cords radiating from their mid-sections, in much the same way as on the Astral Plane.

These journeys do not allow travelers to truly enter the Dimension of Time, or explore eras before one's own birth or in the future. Most knowledge about the dimension has been gleaned from natives of the dimension: danava titans, hounds of Tindalos, iriis, and time dragons, who speak of a truly alien place inhabited by incarnations of time itself. The Outer God Yog-Sothoth may be a sentient manifestation of the dimension, and his avatar Tawil at'Umr knows the methods by which a mortal may travel to the Dimension of Time, with terrible prices.

Those who manage to enter the Dimension of Time find themselves at the Desolate Shore, the beginning of Stethelos, the mysterious realm at the centre of the Dimension of Time. The core of Stethelos is the city of Stethelos itself, also known as the Green Meadow, which lies at the middle of an ocean surrounded by monstrous cataracts over which the water pours into the nothingness of the future.

On entering the Dimension of Time, there is a vast and dense forest behind the traveller called the Viridescent Jungle. Travelling into the forest, away from Stethelos, takes one deeper into the actual Dimension of Time. A land called Tindalos is said to lie at the other side of the Viridescent Jungle, but those who travel too far into the jungle or over the edge of the cataracts disappear forever.

References

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