More on Timestream Formation

Careful deliberaiion on the mechanics behind the timestream tums up some discrepancies, If the timestream exists outside of linear time, why don't the characters meet themselves in Temporal Prime? Also, if Linear time exists at a single point, eventuaily a chronomancer would be timeslipping to or from every point in a world. How does the timestream arrange for the characters to appear near the middle of the timestream?

It comes back to temporal activity. While the timestream may exist outside of linear time, the character does not. If the character became nonlinear, he would effectively be a time dimensional, and it's unlikety that he could again interact with the known world. So, tirne still exists on Temporal Prime.

With that in mind, it is understandable that, at any given Lnstant, only a certain number of slips occur—very few, when the total number of chronomancers is considered. The time-stream interacts along this limited form of time and shifts very subtly, beyond human detection, to ensure the slips take place closer to center. Though lifeiines appear to run a straight course, thev actually angle just enough to travel from the middie of the timestream out to the edge and back again. If a character could stand outside of linear time completely (as a dimensional), the lifeLines would be seething in the timestream to keep the slippage from reality toward the center.