Incarnation of Time

Time's office is held by a single person. For one to take on the role of Time, one must take up the Hourglass as the future Incarnation of Time delivers it from the future. As a result of this, the office passes backwards in time unlike all others. The Incarnation's most notable possesion is the Hourglass, the most potent magical item in the universe.

Time (or Chronos) is the one being in the universe with certain knowledge of events that have not yet occured. This is for two reasons: one, the office-holder is a person who is travelling backwards in time from the point in the future where (and when) they assumed the office, and two, as the possessor of the Hourglass, the office-holder is the only person gifted with unrestricted travel in Time and Space throughout the entire history of the Universe. There is but one restriction on this power of travel: the office-holder cannot affect events outwith their own timespan as holder of the office.

This timespan for each holder of the office is defined, travelling backwards in time, from the moment the office-holder assumes the office by picking up the Hourglass and turning it over until the time of their birth, when they must pass the Hourglass to another. The duration of possession of the office is therefore absolutely defined, unlike the duration of the other major offices, whiose holders change as the result of personal choice or external events. There is an implication that Time may select the next holder of the office by selecting a physical location with few people in it.

Job description
Being one of the five notable mortal offices, the current holder is continually changed throughout time. This office is possibly one of the more impersonal offices as Time is concerned with the preservation of the future, though the office-holder is immune to prardox caused by changes to their personal future as a result of changes to the 'real' future of the whole universe.

One of the main duties of the office-holder is to assist Fate in resolving difficulties in the timelines of individuals by helping that Incarnation fix crossed timeline treads.

Known Incarnations of Time

 * Ordheg son of Fleurisan (first)
 * Ah-ku-nefer
 * Siû Zati
 * Wadjset of Memphis
 * Dimetrion
 * Takasu
 * Duilius Eagle-caller
 * Merlin (briefly)
 * Ægnor
 * Leyf Gramsson
 * Michael Psellus
 * Norton