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Griffyn612:
I think the easiest hand wave for the Dresdenverse will be for time to be a woven cord or tapestry. Butcher can relate it to the Fates, and introduce the idea of a time traveler making a loop of their thread into a point earlier in the cord/tapestry.

There's only so much time that can pass before the weave becomes too tight to be manipulated, so Harry can't just leap centuries into the past. Maybe a quick jaunt back a few years at most.

And Merlin doing his Demonreach thing would take Major Power to enable him to effectively cut a small segment of his thread, leaving a thin stand at the original time and then taking four pieces and inserting them into other times. Possibly all in the future of his own time, just floating out there until the time comes for them to be inserted.

But that's predominantly a method to explain a singular timeline, and not one with common branches.

The_Sibelis:
Idk, I've always likened what I see in time travel to a tree. Merlin I think entwined the original trunk of timelines and they branch from there, specifically, when someone steps of the tracks of their fate and makes a free will choice. There are a few allusions to it, the mother's about new future's unfolding, Uriel and co enabling choice.
That's important, they're not preserving choice, they specifically enable it. Promoting new future's. Mmm, in a way, that makes the KotC vs Denarians battle about tilling the metaphorical soil and planting new seeds new possibilities.
I like the idea of a B2tF timeline where you have to go back to before the choice in order to effect it, taking Odin saying the effects of TT are twinned universes it makes sense combined with the multiversal precepts in place.
The current timeline very likely being one already having time travel effects.. but, it also seems to be very closed loopish, with things fluctuating in the story based on his memory of the event changing. That's an indicator to me to, if it's a past tense first person narrative then he has to be away of the changes of in some way have his memory buffered from it. The Occam's razor to me, is it's because he's directly involved in it in some way.
@griff, perhaps he wouldn't have to cut? I'm not on top of my weaving methods but I think crotchet for instance maybe? I was thinking, it's more like five already slightly different versions of Merlin went back on the timeline to some point before their divergence and tied them together, like crocheting a dreamcatcher, using tension from the different angles to give it structure.

Mira:

--- Quote from: The_Sibelis on September 03, 2021, 09:17:10 PM ---can you elaborate on those rules and how he bends which of them? I've never had the pleasure to get into Dr Who properly.

--- End quote ---

If you can stream Britbox you can catch up on the episodes it is one of the most successful science fiction series in the history of television.. 

morriswalters:
https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/cult/a870656/doctor-who-time-travel-rules-explained-changing-history/

The_Sibelis:
Interesting..  reminds me of the new what if episode.. though, that actually reminded me of The time Machine itself. Can't change what makes you need to make the journey. In the DF you can change the details of that journey still though? Mmm, that would seem to imply whatever is the catalyst for Harry going back, unless you subscribe to the he did it cause he always did it which I don't think matches the given themes so far.

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