To give a good answer to the timeless fiction question: “There are characters here who can manipulate time, why don’t they just win?” Primis has certain rules around time and time-abilities that will never be violated. They are as follows.
Time never truly stops. It always has to flow forward, even if very slowly.
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For reasons covered later, in some cases slowing time too much can make it hard to re-speed it up.
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There exists two levels of time, vita-time and sphera-time. Vita-time is the constant flow of time that governs iunctra. Sphera-time is the constant flow of time that governs physics and other interactions within a sphera.
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Slowing down vita-time makes the target experience time slower, allowing for more thinking time, but punches don’t become stronger/weaker for it. It could be helpful to view thinking as a vita-level process that is beyond just the brain.
Slowing down sphera-time can be done on anyone or anything within a sphera and has an effect on how physics are experienced, but happens at the same “””rate””” as it would normally, no change to how long the target can think.
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Just like all other powers in Primis, time abilities can target one individual, everyone within some region of space, or everyone within a sphera. Only one targeting type can be done at a time.
There is no absolute “seeing the future”, you can see the different possibilities but not outright what will happen before it does.
The extent to which sphera-time can be slowed or accelerated is relative to the original base reaction rate of the sphera. This means “as slow as possible” could be 1 second for every 5 in the palace, or 1 year for every second in the palace for different sphera.
Within the palace, there is no vita-time.