Ael Juice
Aels, giant serpentine creatures native to the time dimension, secrete a liquid commonly known as ael juice. This deep purple goo is consumed by chronomancers in order to enhance their abilities. Drinking this juice allows the user to briefly experience future events, allowing them to plan a course of action in advance, if desired.
Ael juice is a living entity which dies shortly after being shed by an ael. A single serpent produces about a gallon of juice every Earth year, sliding off the body as the aels swim through time, creating a time soup.
Acquiring Ael Juice
I wish ael juice actually tasted like mangoes. I frickin love mangoes. I once ate seven mangoes in one sitting. But the juice tastes like a tomato, and I hate tomatoes.
Acquiring the juice of an ael is a somewhat easy task. The only two tools required is an interdimensional net and a jar to hold the juice in.
An interdimensional net exists in two dimensions at once - to do this, a sorcerer must cast a specific spell to connect the net to another realm. To harvest ael juice, the net must partially exist in the Time Dimension.
Interdimensional nets passively harvest ael juice. Time, in its liquid state, is bound to its realm, but ael juice is not. These nets sift out the juice, cleansing the Time Dimension while it works.
Living & Dead Ael Juice
Living Juice
Living juice is much more powerful than dead juice. Juice drank straight off an ael's back will allow the user to alter future events while they are being experienced, something dead juice cannot offer. Not only that, living juice will permanently enhance a chronomancer's powers and abilities, neutralising the effects of Time Ripped.Dead Juice
Dead juice is much easier to access, hence why it is more commonly consumed than living juice. Just a few millilitres of dead juice will enhance a chronomancer's abilities for a few days, silencing Time Ripped during this period. Dead juice allows the consumer to view future events, for a short amount of time. These future events cannot be altered.Chronomancy
a) Alter future events as if the user was there? b) Could somebody be Time Ripped multiple times with this juice? Could somebody be Time Ripped multiple times without the juice, or is that prohibited by physics or just too traumatic and debilitating to attempt twice? If somebody is Time Ripped two or more times, what happens? c) are interdimensional nets more like butterfly nets or trawl nets? (I would assume the latter, but butterfly nets are the first thing I thought of)
a) yep! b) I suppose someone could be time tipped multiple times, if they kept drinking living ael juice and then altering time. I imagine doing this several times would eventually kill the person permanently, though. c) I bet there are different kinds! I was picturing something along the lines of a butterfly net, but giant trawl nets would also be very cool.