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Liger:
Yeah, I would agree that Time is a bit tricky to work with.  However, the reason they don't go on a rampage is because part of what kicked off the shadow war was a major preemptive attack on the time clan.  This left the clan all but destroyed with the few remaining members left in hiding.  This happened years ago, so one one is really sure if any of the Time bloodline remains at all.  Furthermore, since time control is so powerful I put the most restrictions on it.  First of all, only the most experienced and powerful members of the Time clan were able to look into the future at all, however since the future is always changing based on people's free will anything that is too far in the future would be pretty much unknown, since it could change.  Therefore, most members of this clan could only slow the time around them a bit, so if they were in a fight they could move or respond quicker, and so on.  However doing this for extended periods of time would cause exhaustion and even death.  They can also look and see events that have already happened.  But once again using any of the elemental magics for extended periods of time would be incredibly taxing on the user.

svb1972:
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I have a problem with the concept of people who have access to Seers being ambushed and nearly wiped out to a man.  This does not work, unless they let it happen for a reason.  And yes, they can't see terribly far.  But the closer it gets to the moment, the easier it becomes.  Also, if they look far into the future and see 50 different futures, 40 of which involve them being ambushed.  Or even if it' just 12.  That's still a significant chance, and you take precautions.

also, if most of the members of the clan can slow time around them.  Basically giving them superspeed/reaction.  That is a formidable weapon in combat.  If all the clans got together to do this premptive strike, perhaps, but really they should have seen it coming and done something.  Unless they did see it coming, and saw that it was necessary for them to allow it, so that something more dangerous than the other Clans would think they were dead too.   And being able to go back and see events that have already happened is hugely powerful.

Liger:
True enough, its still a work in progress and I haven't quite figured out all of the odds and ends.  I just wanted your guys opinions on it. :)  I have a possible idea on how to address the issue of the clan getting attacked when they could see it coming.  It mainly deals with their power source being weakened, but like I said its still a work in progress.  So I don't want to go too far into detail without sorting out some of the problems. 

Besides the whole Time clan issue was there anything else that occured to you guys?

Aakaakaak:
How do you preempt masters of time? You would only need one to go back and warn the others.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: aakaakaak on May 21, 2010, 08:21:26 PM ---How do you preempt masters of time? You would only need one to go back and warn the others.

--- End quote ---

Overwrite their grandmothers.

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