07-29-2024, 05:21 AM
Quote:Wow, been a bit since I cracked this guy open, huh? Guess I got a bit too busy and a bit too erratic to bother writing in here. But, one of those days. I've been picking up too much, learning too much. And if I don't get my thoughts out I feel like my skull's gonna sizzle. The pain of having a Chronomancer's brain, huh?
Speaking of Chronomancy.
I'm finally starting to get it, my own magic. Sure, I always had a pretty stout brain for the flow of the clock--I understood what is made, must wither. What once was, will eventually never be--and what will be, can not come earlier then ordained. But, I've started to find myself thinking more on this path I find myself on. After talking to others, the Timestream as a whole has begun to come to the front of my studies.
We are but individuals upon a raft, which floats upon this stream, it is not possible to go back--nor can you row any harder to go faster down it's banks. You'll never reach the 'land', to do so is to find naught but the most abhorrent stasis. The flow, is decided. And no matter how much one pulls or tugs, they will continue moving down it's current; and eventually? They will sink. That's life, and that's death.
But to think it simple, well, I guess I was wrong wasn't I? Whilst floating down this path, there may be choke points--moments where the stream thins, and we have no choice but one; the ordained and fractional event which determines the streams flow. But until those chokepoints are met? One could glide down the current, and where they veer along that stream; do their choices change the path they take. A tapestry formed, betwixt these ordained moments; that is where choice places it's part. And as a Chronomancer, I yield a yet greater yield of this stream's flow, don't I? If I truly master these arts, could I serve to view upon myself the rapids that await; could I save lives? Help those in need? Preserve the sanctity of this flow, against those who deem the natural order too cruel?
I'm just a crafty, backwater Gunslinger, sure. But maybe that's only cause I haven't taken control of my own raft's path, yet. I can change this.
I will change this. For everyone. For myself. And for those I might save from sinking too soon.