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== Expanded Time Powers ==
 
== Expanded Time Powers ==
 
Expanded descriptions of effects that differ significantly from [[Powers (FiD)#Typical Powers and How to Use Them|Typical Powers]].
 
Expanded descriptions of effects that differ significantly from [[Powers (FiD)#Typical Powers and How to Use Them|Typical Powers]].
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=== Attune ===
 
=== Attune ===
Harness the powers of time to perceive and manipulate temporal energies.
 
 
 
'''Chrono Sense'''
 
'''Chrono Sense'''
''You can detect time creatures and powers.
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Detect time creatures and powers.
  
 
'''Causality Collapse'''
 
'''Causality Collapse'''
''Force a time creature that is native to another plane of existence to return to that plane. You can end power effects by forcing their duration to run out.
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Dismiss a Time creature or power effects.
  
 
'''Chrono Conjuration'''
 
'''Chrono Conjuration'''
''Summon time creatures or versions of yourself from alternate timelines. A common trick is the three ages of fate, that is yourself at two additional different ages.
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Summon a Time creature.
  
 
'''Wish'''
 
'''Wish'''
''You can break down causality, causing events to happen without cause. This is beyond dangerous but can allow wish fulfilment.
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Break down causality.
  
 
=== Command ===
 
=== Command ===
Exercise authority over temporal forces and communicate across different timelines.
 
 
 
'''Time Whisper'''
 
'''Time Whisper'''
''You can use the command action against creatures that normally wouldn't understand you.
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Command Time creatures that normally wouldn't understand you.
  
 
'''Temporal Tip'''
 
'''Temporal Tip'''
''You can warn allies in the past of events in their future. This reduces the consequences of recent actions, as if the position had been one step better.
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Send messages to your past self to improve resistance.
  
 
'''Time Tongues'''
 
'''Time Tongues'''
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'''Time Tyrant'''
 
'''Time Tyrant'''
''You can give commands to time creatures as if you were their superior. This does not remove existing motivations, which can lead to conflicts.
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Command Time creatures as if you were their superior.
  
 
=== Consort ===
 
=== Consort ===
Merge with temporal energies and manipulate time to your advantage.
 
 
 
'''Alter Age'''
 
'''Alter Age'''
 
You can change your age.
 
You can change your age.
  
 
'''Temporal Transition'''
 
'''Temporal Transition'''
''You become yourself from various alternate timelines. Add 1d to one action and subtract 1d from all actions covered by an attribute except if you just raised one of them.
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Become an alternate self.
  
 
'''Chrono Change'''
 
'''Chrono Change'''
''Temporal Transition a willing or helpless creature into themselves at another age or from alternate timelines. This is permanent, but you can easily break the effect.
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Temporal Transition others.
  
 
'''Wild Hunt'''
 
'''Wild Hunt'''
''Transform a large number of willing or non-sentient creatures into future versions of themselves with +1d to all combat actions and give them a simple instruction, typically someone for them to hunt.
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Temporal Transition crowds.
  
 
=== Finesse ===
 
=== Finesse ===
Manipulate time with precision and finesse for various tasks and combat.
 
 
 
'''Temporal Turbo'''
 
'''Temporal Turbo'''
''You can increase the speed of a mount or vehicle giving it fine quality.
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Increase the speed of a mount or vehicle.
  
 
'''Time Technique'''
 
'''Time Technique'''
You set up a fine and potent close-range attack, similar in effect to a fine potent dueling sword or pistol, or you can give your friends the Ride ability.
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Set up a fine and potent close-range attack.
  
 
'''Time Trim'''
 
'''Time Trim'''
''You can manipulate time precisely in small spots. This can slow down or hasten alarms, timers, and other mechanisms.
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Manipulate time precisely in small spots.
  
 
'''Chrono Charge'''
 
'''Chrono Charge'''
''You set up and then release a storm of blades, suppressing the effect of multiple opponents and acting as a fine potent weapon.
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Set up a storm of blades, suppressing scale.
  
 
=== Hunt ===
 
=== Hunt ===
Track, hunt, and manipulate time to your advantage in various situations.
 
 
 
'''Time Trace'''
 
'''Time Trace'''
''You can track time-travellers and time warps.
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Track time-travellers and time warps.
  
 
'''Temporal Target'''
 
'''Temporal Target'''
''You can set up a ranged attack, similar in effect to a fine and potent rifle.
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Reverse time to make a creature attack itself.
  
'''Temporal Torrent'''
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'''Timelapse'''
''You can set up an area attack similar to a fine and potent grenade. This allows you to fight many creatures in the same area very effectively, but there is a risk of collateral damage.
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Change how much time an event takes.
  
'''Chrono Cannon'''
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'''Temporal Turmoil'''
''You set up the equivalent of a fine potent artillery barrage, attacking everything and everyone in a wide area. This can raze buildings and create rubble. Usually enough to provide cover for any escape.
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Reverse time to make several attacks go wild.
  
 
=== Prowl ===
 
=== Prowl ===
Move stealthily through time and manipulate it to your advantage.
 
 
 
'''Time Tactician'''
 
'''Time Tactician'''
This gives you slight warning of future events, making you less likely to be spotted or surprised, improving your position.
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A warning of future events.
  
 
'''Double Time'''
 
'''Double Time'''
''You can halve or double speed, increasing the effect of movement maneuvers.
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Double your movement.
  
 
'''Temporal Transport'''
 
'''Temporal Transport'''
''You can bring allies along when you use Time Tactician and Double Time.
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Crew Time Tactician and Double Time.
  
 
'''Time Travel'''
 
'''Time Travel'''
''You can time travel, which is extremely dangerous even when you know what you are doing.
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Time travel. Extremely dangerous.
  
 
=== Skirmish ===
 
=== Skirmish ===
Engage in combat using temporal manipulation and tactics.
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'''Stop Watch'''
 
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Resist Time damage.
'''Stopwatch Strike'''
 
''Set up a close-range attack, similar in effect to a melee weapon or pistol.
 
  
 
'''Time Touch'''
 
'''Time Touch'''
''Same as Stopwatch Strike, except the weapon is fine and potent.
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Set up a melee attack.
  
 
'''Temporeal Tango'''
 
'''Temporeal Tango'''
Create areas of slowed time, useful for distracting some enemies while you fight others.
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Distracting slow time.
  
 
'''Time Torrent'''
 
'''Time Torrent'''
''Set up attacks in all directions, attacking all enemies in the area.
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Set up a storm of attacks.
  
 
=== Study ===
 
=== Study ===
Gain insight into the workings of time and utilize that knowledge to your advantage.
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'''Chrono Classifier'''
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Identify objects and creatures of Time.
  
'''Analyze'''
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'''Chrono Clarifier'''
''You can identify objects and creatures linked to time, including clocks. You can see the use of time abilities.
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Learn the powers and abilities of Time.
  
'''Research'''
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'''Chrono Chronicle'''
''You know the powers and abilities of something you analyze.
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Observe the past and possible futures at your location.
  
'''Hindsight'''
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'''Chrono Cartographer'''
You can read the past events of any object or person. This includes how the target has been moving around as well as significant scenes.
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Chrono Chronicle on everything in a wide area.
 
 
'''Hyped Havoc'''
 
''You research everything in a wide area. This is easy to do where you are, more difficult at range. You can then use hindsight on some of these targets.
 
  
 
=== Survey ===
 
=== Survey ===
Monitor and perceive time and its effects.
 
 
 
'''Time Tingle'''
 
'''Time Tingle'''
''You instinctively feel time effects in a wide area. This is always active and requires no rolls.
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Notice Time effects in a wide area.
  
 
'''Time Twinkle'''
 
'''Time Twinkle'''
''You can observe the past and possible futures at your location.
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View a place in a potential past or future.
  
 
'''Temporal Temptation'''
 
'''Temporal Temptation'''
''You view a known creature, but this vision can be from the near past or a potential future.
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View a creature in a potential past or future.
  
 
'''Transcend Time'''
 
'''Transcend Time'''
''You perceive a large area in the past or a potential future, giving you an idea of strategic events.
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Perceive area in a potential past or future.
  
 
=== Sway ===
 
=== Sway ===
Influence and communicate with time to achieve your goals.
 
 
 
'''Tempo'''
 
'''Tempo'''
''You can understand time creatures and gain a sense of their motivations.
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Understand time creatures and their motivations.
  
 
'''Translate Time'''
 
'''Translate Time'''
You and allies can communicate with time creatures.
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Crew can communicate with time creatures.
  
 
'''Temporal Temptation'''
 
'''Temporal Temptation'''
''You can plant suggestions in the mind of any creature, to be triggered under conditions you specify. This is a subtle power, but easier to spot once triggered.
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Plant suggestions for future action in any mind.
  
 
'''Temporal Tyrant'''
 
'''Temporal Tyrant'''
''You change the personality and motivations of time creatures. This power is permanent, whatever that means for time creatures.
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Permanently change the mind of a Time creature.
  
 
=== Tinker ===
 
=== Tinker ===
Manipulate and craft with time-based materials to create tools and devices.
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'''Overklock'''
 
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Work with clock tools and protective devices.
'''Temporal Tools'''
 
''You can work with time measuring devices and timers as if you had the appropriate tools and protective devices.
 
  
 
'''Tailor Tempo'''
 
'''Tailor Tempo'''
''You can delay or accelerate timed mechanisms such as traps and computers.
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Make a machine operate faster or slower.
  
 
'''Time Transformation'''
 
'''Time Transformation'''
''You can conjure objects from alternate timelines. This can create complex tools, such as fine and potent items appropriate to the power(s) used.
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Conjure objects from alternate timelines.
  
 
'''Conjurer's Clock'''
 
'''Conjurer's Clock'''
This is similar to Time Transformation, but you mass produce objects, even a set of different objects. You can also make something large, such as a vehicle or building.
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Mass produce or make something large, like the Big Ben.
  
 
=== Wreck ===
 
=== Wreck ===
Destroy and dismantle using the power of time.
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'''Age Erodes'''
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Noisily compress the wear of time.
  
 
'''Future Fault'''
 
'''Future Fault'''
''You can expose objects to potential future events, much like a sledgehammer. Noisy and leaves a twisted object in place.
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Expose objects to potential future events.
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'''Date of Destruction'''
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Future Fault, but silent.
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'''Tide of Time'''
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Future Fault a large area.
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=== Transfers ===
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'''Chrono Conjuration''' <br> Summon Time creatures or versions of yourself from alternate timelines. A common trick is the three ages of fate, that is yourself at two additional different ages.
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'''Wish'''              <br> Break down causality, causing events to happen without cause. This is beyond dangerous but can allow wish fulfilment.
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'''Time Trim'''      <br> Manipulate time precisely in small spots. This can slow down or hasten alarms, timers, and other mechanisms.
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'''Transcend Time'''      <br> Perceive a large area in the past or a potential future, giving you an idea of strategic events.
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'''Chrono Sense'''
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''You can detect time creatures and powers.
  
'''Age Erodes'''
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'''Causality Collapse'''
You can age objects. You can smash even hard objects as if they were wood. Works as a fine potent sledgehammer in combat.
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''Force a time creature that is native to another plane of existence to return to that plane. You can end power effects by forcing their duration to run out.
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'''Wish'''              <br> Break down causality, causing events to happen without cause.
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'''Chrono Conjuration'''
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Summon time creatures or versions of yourself from alternate timelines. A common trick is the three ages of fate, that is yourself at two additional different ages.
  
'''Date of Disintegration'''
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'''Wish'''
''Similar to smash, but destroyed targets silently disappear or are reduced to a fine dust.
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''You can break down causality, causing events to happen without cause. This is beyond dangerous but can allow wish fulfilment.
  
'''Tide of Time'''
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'''Temporal Turbo''' <br> Increase the speed of a mount or vehicle giving it fine quality.
''Similar to Age Erodes, but over a large area. This can level a city block, empty a canal system of water, raze a city wall, and similar massive destruction
 

Revision as of 23:09, 2 August 2024

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Time is a mysterious and dangerous power. It allows looking into the past and possible futures, but can create deadly paradoxes.

Time is the governing principle of all things, the regulator or the stream from Order to Flux. Together with Space, Time governs position and movement. The universe would be incomprehensible without orderly time. Time is a favorite of disaster theorists. Many claim that time manipulation is foolhardy and dangerous. Some claim time is an artifact of our perception; that it is the ultimate prison. Time travel is possible, but temporal inertia tend to restore events to what they were and minimize the effect of any changes to the past.

Time attacks stops time for an instant, then you set up weapons and events to cause harm when time resumes. They are hard to defend against, but likely to cause severe backlash if time is released too soon.

Time Power Effects

Action Basic
No minimum
3 Stress
Advanced
Minimum 2 Dice
5 Stress
Master
Minimum 4 Dice
7 Stress
Apex
Minimum 6 Dice
13 Stress
Attune Chrono Sense
Detect time creatures and powers.
Causality Collapse
Dismiss a Time creature or power effects.
Chrono Conjuration
Summon a Time a creature.
Wish
Break down causality.
Command Time Whisper
Command Time creatures that normally wouldn't understand you.
Temporal Tip
Send messages to your past self to improve resistance.
Time Tongues
You and allies can communicate with time creatures.
Time Tyrant
Command Time creatures as if you were their superior.
Consort Alter Age
You can change your age.
Temporal Transition
Become an alternate self.
Chrono Change
Temporal Transition others.
Wild Hunt
Temporal Transition crowds.
Finesse Temporal Turbo
Increase the speed of a mount or vehicle.
Time Technique
Set up a fine and potent close-range attack.
Time Trim
Manipulate time precisely in small spots.
Chrono Charge
Set up a storm of blades, suppressing scale.
Hunt Time Trace
Track time-travellers and time warps.
Temporal Target
Reverse time to make a creature attack itself.
Timelapse
Change how much time an event takes.
Temporal Turmoil
Reverse time to make several attacks go wild.
Prowl Time Tactician
A warning of future events.
Double Time
Double your movement.
Temporal Transport
Crew Time Tactician and Double Time.
Time Travel
Time travel. Extremely dangerous.
Skirmish Stop Watch
Resist Time damage.
Time Touch
Set up a melee attack.
Temporeal Tango
Distracting slow time.
Time Torrent
Set up a storm of attacks.
Study Chrono Classifier
Identify objects and creatures of Time.
Chrono Clarifier
Learn the powers and abilities of Time.
Chrono Chronicle
Observe the past and possible futures at your location.
Chrono Cartographer
Chrono Chronicle on everything in a wide area.
Survey Time Tingle
Notice Time effects in a wide area.
Time Twinkle
View a place in a potential past or future
Temporal Temptation
View a creature in a potential past or future.
Transcend Time
Perceive area in a potential past or future.
Sway Tempo
Understand time creatures and their motivations.
Translate Time
Crew can communicate with time creatures.
Temporal Temptation
Plant suggestions for future action in any mind.
Temporal Tyrant
Permanently change the mind of a Time creature.
Tinker Overklock
Work with clock tools and protective devices.
Tailor Tempo
Make a machine operate faster or slower.
Time Transformation
Conjure objects from alternate timelines.
Conjurer's Clock
Mass produce or make something large, like the Big Ben.
Wreck Age Erodes
Noisily compress the wear of time.
Future Fault
Expose objects to potential future events.
Date of Destruction
Future Fault, but silent.
Tide of Time
Future Fault a large area.

Expanded Time Powers

Expanded descriptions of effects that differ significantly from Typical Powers.


Attune

Chrono Sense Detect time creatures and powers.

Causality Collapse Dismiss a Time creature or power effects.

Chrono Conjuration Summon a Time creature.

Wish Break down causality.

Command

Time Whisper Command Time creatures that normally wouldn't understand you.

Temporal Tip Send messages to your past self to improve resistance.

Time Tongues You and allies can communicate with time creatures.

Time Tyrant Command Time creatures as if you were their superior.

Consort

Alter Age You can change your age.

Temporal Transition Become an alternate self.

Chrono Change Temporal Transition others.

Wild Hunt Temporal Transition crowds.

Finesse

Temporal Turbo Increase the speed of a mount or vehicle.

Time Technique Set up a fine and potent close-range attack.

Time Trim Manipulate time precisely in small spots.

Chrono Charge Set up a storm of blades, suppressing scale.

Hunt

Time Trace Track time-travellers and time warps.

Temporal Target Reverse time to make a creature attack itself.

Timelapse Change how much time an event takes.

Temporal Turmoil Reverse time to make several attacks go wild.

Prowl

Time Tactician A warning of future events.

Double Time Double your movement.

Temporal Transport Crew Time Tactician and Double Time.

Time Travel Time travel. Extremely dangerous.

Skirmish

Stop Watch Resist Time damage.

Time Touch Set up a melee attack.

Temporeal Tango Distracting slow time.

Time Torrent Set up a storm of attacks.

Study

Chrono Classifier Identify objects and creatures of Time.

Chrono Clarifier Learn the powers and abilities of Time.

Chrono Chronicle Observe the past and possible futures at your location.

Chrono Cartographer Chrono Chronicle on everything in a wide area.

Survey

Time Tingle Notice Time effects in a wide area.

Time Twinkle View a place in a potential past or future.

Temporal Temptation View a creature in a potential past or future.

Transcend Time Perceive area in a potential past or future.

Sway

Tempo Understand time creatures and their motivations.

Translate Time Crew can communicate with time creatures.

Temporal Temptation Plant suggestions for future action in any mind.

Temporal Tyrant Permanently change the mind of a Time creature.

Tinker

Overklock Work with clock tools and protective devices.

Tailor Tempo Make a machine operate faster or slower.

Time Transformation Conjure objects from alternate timelines.

Conjurer's Clock Mass produce or make something large, like the Big Ben.

Wreck

Age Erodes Noisily compress the wear of time.

Future Fault Expose objects to potential future events.

Date of Destruction Future Fault, but silent.

Tide of Time Future Fault a large area.

Transfers

Chrono Conjuration
Summon Time creatures or versions of yourself from alternate timelines. A common trick is the three ages of fate, that is yourself at two additional different ages.

Wish
Break down causality, causing events to happen without cause. This is beyond dangerous but can allow wish fulfilment.

Time Trim
Manipulate time precisely in small spots. This can slow down or hasten alarms, timers, and other mechanisms.

Transcend Time
Perceive a large area in the past or a potential future, giving you an idea of strategic events.

Chrono Sense You can detect time creatures and powers.

Causality Collapse Force a time creature that is native to another plane of existence to return to that plane. You can end power effects by forcing their duration to run out.

Wish
Break down causality, causing events to happen without cause.

Chrono Conjuration Summon time creatures or versions of yourself from alternate timelines. A common trick is the three ages of fate, that is yourself at two additional different ages.

Wish You can break down causality, causing events to happen without cause. This is beyond dangerous but can allow wish fulfilment.

Temporal Turbo
Increase the speed of a mount or vehicle giving it fine quality.