A paradox is a person whose timeline diverged for whatever reason. The two timelines' differences are so significant that it results in a rift. With the person having memories from both timelines, their minds are torn between them, constantly confused over their existence. When making a paradox, it is important to ask questions about your creation and your goal, such as who you were before the spilt, why the split occurred, and what you will do with the information you have about your diverging timelines.
- Skill Proficiencies: Arcana and either Deception or History
- Languages: Celestial
- Equipment: 2d10 gold pieces, 1 trinket from one of your timelines, a set of common clothing, and a journal of timelines that only makes sense to you.
You are connected to time in a way that nobody else can understand. You feel time as it ebbs and flows around you and can sense its flow. You can see how it interacts with every living and unliving thing in the universe and can sense when it's being manipulated, damaged, or otherwise behaving outside its norm.
- Temporal anomalies such as paradoxes, creatures, and objects out of their own time and magic that manipulates time stand out to you. You can feel what's wrong and its direction and distance from you.
- Spacial anomalies that influence time, such as unusual gravitational manipulations from spells or teleportation, also stand out to you, if not to a reduced capacity.
- You can accurately recall the duration of anything you've experienced. You can perfectly recall anything you have personally experienced with a DC 12 Wisdom (History) check.
Suggested Characteristics
Every paradox has certain traits and quirks that they either developed newly or remembered from one of their timelines.
| d6 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I have no recollection of one or both of my previous lives. |
| 2 | Residual memories of both of my past lives still remain, and due to the nature of the alternate times, my 2 personalities often conflict. |
| 3 | My existence on its own shows me the awesome power of nature and the natural order. I show great reverence for nature and the natural flow of life. |
| 4 | Due to a god's intervention in my timeline, I have become loyal to that god or to a god opposed to them. |
| 5 | Due to my nature as 2 separate beings, I have the preferences of the two, meaning that I enjoy the food they enjoyed, and I like art they liked before. |
| 6 | Before the divergence of my past life, I was in love or in a very close relationship with a significant person. I now feel compelled to seek out this person and confess my unrequited love to them, although I may be saddened by what has happened to them, be |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | You work to fix rifts in time and assure everything is running as intended. (Neutral) |
| 2 | You understand your true role as a paradox and become a champion of a new age, one without time. (Evil) |
| 3 | You understand that if time is breaking, then you're not using your abilities correctly. (Lawful) |
| 4 | You understand that you're not supposed to be here; thus, you need to get back to your correct timeline. (True Neutral) |
| 5 | You understand that time—even paradoxes—is natural and deserves no intervention. (Chaotic) |
| 6 | You work to prevent an unfathomable, paradoxical end of the multiverse. (Good) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | You have a fuzzy memory that seems important for discovering who you are. |
| 2 | You remember an unidentifiable figure who appeared in your dreams before you diverged in time. |
| 3 | You are committed to time and time only. |
| 4 | When you diverged, you saw a glimpse of an apocalyptic future. You want to prevent it from happening. |
| 5 | You find the past better than the present and want to revive the old days. |
| 6 | You think you saw a past version of yourself once; you want to make sure. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | You often forget where you are and why you're there. |
| 2 | You sometimes experience short-term memory loss. |
| 3 | You have lost interest in the finite, including life. |
| 4 | Nothing seems to matter because time is too hard to change. |
| 5 | You get too focused on the complex that you sometimes forget the obvious. |
| 6 | You don't know how to talk to other people without seeming insane. |
As a paradox, your connection to time is strong. You feel the pain that time feels, and therefore your goal is to remedy rifts in time. You feel an obligation to obey the flow of time and must work to stop anyone inadvertently or purposefully impeding the natural order. This means you may be pitted against your friends and allies in order to stop them from altering time. You don't know what actions will alter time, but you must use your intuition to determine what will affect time and what won't.
Your hatred for time stems from your creation as a paradox. You view yourself as beyond time, rejected by the fickle nature of the force. Your goal is to strike your own path. You hate the idea that fate determines your actions and you want to make your own choices, contrary to your destiny. This means that your goal is to act sporadically, to always strive for the less likely outcome, and to make your own decisions, often ones that seem crazy and illogical.
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