Wind's Defiance (-9.659): Mareet, ruler of Saragar, is visited by a time-traveler from the future. He tells the king an appending doom to Athas before disappearing. Obsessed with the warning, Mareet orders his most powerful psionicists to breach the time stream and determine the nature of the warning. They are later joined by a third psionicist.
Desert's Slumber (-9.459): The psionicists breach the time barrier and learn of the impending Cleansing Wars, Rajaat, and Defiling Magic. Mareet wants to warn all of Athas, but the psionicists disagree and take control of their leader. The three use their formidable powers to shield Saragar from the rest of the world. The Mind Lords are born.
In the sourcebook "The Will and the Way" time travel appears as a psychoportive science in paga 79-80.
Power Score: Int + special Initial Cost 20+ Maintenance Cost 8/hour Preparation Time 8
Distance Initial Cost Power Score Modifier 1 day or less 20 0 1 week 30 -1 1 month 40 - 2 1 year 50 -3 10 years 60 -4 100 years 70 -5
1,000 years 80 -6 10,000 years + 100 -8
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What if the champions of Rajaat rebelled because they were warned by a time-traveler from the future? Or WotC wanted to use the time-travel to explain or justify some retcons, for example new PC species and subclasses to be added.
And what would happen with the canon of the novels? What if there is an Athasian multiverse with alternate timelines?
The time travel is canon in Dark Sun.
Here you are one example:
From Dark Sun Wiki: History.
Wind's Defiance (-9.659): Mareet, ruler of Saragar, is visited by a time-traveler from the future. He tells the king an appending doom to Athas before disappearing. Obsessed with the warning, Mareet orders his most powerful psionicists to breach the time stream and determine the nature of the warning. They are later joined by a third psionicist.
Desert's Slumber (-9.459): The psionicists breach the time barrier and learn of the impending Cleansing Wars, Rajaat, and Defiling Magic. Mareet wants to warn all of Athas, but the psionicists disagree and take control of their leader. The three use their formidable powers to shield Saragar from the rest of the world. The Mind Lords are born.
In the sourcebook "The Will and the Way" time travel appears as a psychoportive science in paga 79-80.
Power Score: Int + special
Initial Cost 20+
Maintenance Cost 8/hour
Preparation Time 8
Distance Initial Cost Power Score Modifier
1 day or less 20 0
1 week 30 -1
1 month 40 - 2
1 year 50 -3
10 years 60 -4
100 years 70 -5
1,000 years 80 -6
10,000 years + 100 -8
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What if the champions of Rajaat rebelled because they were warned by a time-traveler from the future? Or WotC wanted to use the time-travel to explain or justify some retcons, for example new PC species and subclasses to be added.
And what would happen with the canon of the novels? What if there is an Athasian multiverse with alternate timelines?