Time Bending

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time bend·ing

/tīm ˈbendiNG/ – noun

The catastrophically dangerous practice of tethering your mind to specific moments in time, allowing you to experience past or future events while your body remains trapped in the present.

This forbidden technique represents the pinnacle of temporal mastery—and the fastest way to accidentally erase yourself from existence.

“Time is naked to The KNOXX. Those who dare to bend it risk everything—their sanity, their identity, their very soul.”
— Unknown Oracle of The Seventh Order

Picture this: You’re standing in what should be Long Island in the year 2847, but instead of solid ground beneath your feet, icy water rushes into your lungs. The world spins. Your vision goes black.

When you finally wake up months later, gasping in a medical bay, your Time Bending Master teacher is standing there with those dreadlocks pulsing that familiar ethereal warning.

“Welcome back,” she says. “You nearly became the first person to drown in time itself.”

You see…

Time bending, no matter how tempting and “sexy” it may appear, is extremely dangerous…

That Adapt who nearly drowned, made a rookie mistake—he forgot that ancient water levels were higher than his present day — which landed him in a coma for three months…

But his near-death experience cracked open something far more terrifying:

The realization that time bending isn’t just about visiting the past or future. It’s not some machine you just jump in and turn the dial to a date.

No no no no no…

It’s a sacred science that is not to be tampered with — only by those trained in its arts.

And even then, it should only be used sparingly…

Three Ways Mishandling Time Bending techniques Could Bring Your Doom

The Universe Won’t Stop Moving for You

Imagine wanting to time bend back to Mars to witness the Comet Siding Spring and it’s breathtaking approach near Mars in the ancient times of 2014 AD.

While you’re bending through millennia, Mars has rotated 2.7 million times and drifted billions of miles through space. Miss your spatial calculations by even a hair, and you’ll materialize inside solid rock—or in the cold vacuum where your target planet used to be — or maybe in the comet itself…

Ouch…

The Mind Reading Illusions

Ever had a conversation with someone who already knows what you’re about to say? Master Time Benders are legendary for doing this constantly—most likely because they’ve experienced your future in their past…

Or they’ve acquired knowledge of the conversation from the past — like an audio recording, transcript, etc.

This “mind reading” illusion in the wrong hands could create great chaos, even massive casualties — as has happened to the ████████ during the █████████████████…

You’ll Need Someone to Remind You Who You Are

Master time benders—also called “starbenders” in The Etherverse—never actually “travel” alone.

Nope…

They rely on Anchors: trusted souls who’s entire job is to confirm what year you’re tethered to, where you are spatially, and most importantly, whether you’re still you.

Why?

Because after bouncing through multiple planes of time, it’s quite easy for you not to remember when you are, where you are, or even which version of yourself is real.

The Secret Training Grounds

Hidden across future landscapes within the Etherverse stand the Jinga Towers—massive structures where masters teach apprentices about “the fragility of folding time.” Students learn to navigate through time using Day Maps, sophisticated documentation systems that trace anchored paths through temporal space like breadcrumbs through a forest that spans millennia.

One wrong turn on these maps, and you might witness the heat death of the universe instead of making it home for dinner.

The Hunter and the Hunted

“I was relentless,” confesses an anonymous time bender, hands shaking as he recalls his greatest nightmare. “My older self tracked me across three different decades. Old man knew all my moves, all my weaknesses. Turns out near future me had made some… questionable decisions…”

This is the reality of temporal warfare: fighting yourself across time. In future eras, they call it a “Karmic Loop”—being hunted by past or future versions of yourself who disagree with your choices.

“Temporal suicide is legal now,” whispers another voice from tomorrow. “You can murder your future self without legal consequences. The question isn’t whether you should—it’s whether you already have…”

The Time Bender Who Sees Everything

Every so often in the KNOXX timeline, there’s a figure who masters the ultimate time bending technique: experiencing multiple folds of time and space simultaneously. This temporal time bender exists partially outside normal time flow, accessing memories from different eras, understanding the interconnected nature of all moments.

The mystics call this “Synchrony.”

“Forever is a current event,” a mystic master says, and suddenly every decision you’ve ever made—or will make—feels like it’s happening right now.

The Price of Playing God

f that isn’t dangerous enough, Time Bending comes with its many “side effects.”

Those who survive time bending describe phantom pains from injuries in the future that they haven’t experience yet. Identity fragmentation where you can’t remember which memories belong to which version of you in time. The crushing burden of knowing future tragedies you cannot prevent…

And for those who’ve achieved Synchrony, the loneliness. The eternal isolation of existing outside normal temporal relationships, watching loved ones age and die while you skip through time like a stone across the surface of eternity.

The Question That Haunts Every Time Bender

Deep in The Etherverse, 20-30 layers down where time moves at impossible speeds, advanced systems run countless temporal simulations within milliseconds. But here’s what keeps the masters awake at night:

Are we predicting the future—or creating it?

When you’ve seen tomorrow, does that knowledge force it to happen? Or does your attempt to change it guarantee the very outcome you’re trying to prevent?

Time bending isn’t just about technical mastery or philosophical enlightenment. It’s about confronting the terrifying possibility that time might be bending you back—reshaping your choices, your destiny, your very existence to serve purposes you can’t comprehend.