Not Attached To The Ask Game, But: Tell Me About Time! Was Time Itself A Semi-tangible Material For You

Not attached to the ask game, but: tell me about time! Was time itself a semi-tangible material for you to manipulate? Did it have a look/feel? Or was it just a sort of invisible concept? So on and so forth.

-from a humble spider friend

Hmm… hello spider friend hehe. This is actually something I’ve been looking for an excuse to talk about, so thank you.

I wear an eyepatch - I traded my left eye for the ability to see through time. I also wield the Timestave - A gift from Corellon (dammit, not even two paragraphs in and challenge failed) upon my ascension to godhood. He gives one to every new Seldarine - In my canon, at least. Not sure if that’s canon lore. The quarterstaff serves as a proxy for my manipulation of the continuum. I can use it to concentrate or spread the flow of time. Of course, I can do that without my staff. My timestave just makes it easier!

Now for how I actually see it - I can summon a glass tube filled with running sand. This sand represents the continuum, and I spend most of my time watching over it. When some of the sand gets clogged up, or moves incorrectly, this is how I know someone - whether mortal or immortal - is fucking with my shit. Small clumps can be things like immortality and minor time travel while larger occurances such as the Spellplague caused larger clumps. I learned the hard way (tried to show Ollie) that only I can see this physical manifestation of the continuum. Oops.

Fun fact! I am (mostly) the reason that time didn’t stop when Ao told us all to piss off (the Time of Troubles).

not sure if you’ve talked about this before, but what do the others think of cae’s pointy teeth? from what i know, that’s not a typical tiefling trait - but then again, no one noticed astarion’s fangs

The tiefs mainly just have flat front teeth though right?

I think with the goofy expressions he tends to make it’s not very intimidating. Though I’m sure it can be- if you didn’t know of his aloof tendencies? In the dark? Tearing into food? Genuinely angry? I wrote a line before, paraphrasing, something like “his wide smile, every sharp tooth in plain view, it would have frightened anyone else, yet it only excited Astarion.”

Preach I guess

21?

21 - Favorite character in source material?

Hmm. That’s an interesting one because my source material is,,, all of d&d. So maybe Drizzt Do’urden? Classically famous drow. Very popular among some of the Seldarine for being a good drow and very unpopular among others for being… well, a drow. If you mean ones I personally know, Bhaal was unironically pretty chill. Yes yes I wasn’t supposed to be around evil deities (esp one of the dead three) and Corellon would’ve had my head if he found out but I needed something interesting in my life or I would’ve gone bonkers. Or - if you mean across any and all modules - Flapjack the flumph from the Light of Xaryxis module. OR — do video games count? Maybe that one guy from the tutorial of Neverwinter Nights. Wait that opens up all of BG3;;;; Astarion? Gale? I can’t choose.

TL;DR: the answer is ‘yes’.

Gale.

11 and 13? As Lolth specifically, but feel free to answer as others if you would like!

11.  Was there someone you wished you had gotten to know better? If so, who?

This one is tricky for Lolth... Not that there is no one I think worth knowing, but instead I just don't really know who I know/knew as Lolth (besides obviously the members of the Seldarine and the Better Seldarine*)

So, I'm going to answer this with a kintype it's very easy to answer for: Riliane from Evillious

Answer: ALLEN!!!!! My brother that saved my life and spent so much time with me that I hardly got to know??

* ehehe.

13.  What was something you hated in your canon?

Smiles placidly. I can't pick one, sorry that this evil bug was full of hate

1. Can I just do my thing for five minutes without some guy called like. Paladin Sunfuck trying to undo it. Get yourrr fucking greaves out of my web

2. There was this tone Sehanine used with me once...

3. When the jig is up! <- <- <- <-

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Thank you for the ask, patient hour-keeper friend ^_^