SENWOSRET TIME-KEEPER
Desert ScholarsChronomancer and Calendar Keeper
"Time is the desert's true ruler. I merely read its edicts and try to keep its calendar.""
Identity
- Residence
- The Great Library of the Sands
- Civilization
- Desert Scholars
Appearance
• Physical: Ancient and time-worn with eyes that seem to see through time itself. His movements are slow and deliberate. • Clothing: Robes covered in time-sigils, heavy with chronometric devices, and a pendant bearing the hourglass of time. • Distinguishing Marks: His skin has a subtle shimmer from time magic exposure; he never seems to age, though he's ancient.
Relationships
- Family - None living; outlived them all through his time magic
- Allies - Other chronomancers who share research, officials who rely on his calculations
- Rivals - Those who would misuse time magic, officials who fear his power
Personality
- Traits: Obsessed with time, surprisingly patient despite his obsession, deeply concerned about temporal stability, terrifying when angered
- Mannerisms: Checks his timepieces constantly; speaks of events in multiple tenses; touches his hourglass pendant when using magic
- Voice: Echoing and distant, as if speaking from multiple times at once
Backstory
Senwosret discovered his time magic as a child when he accidentally aged a flower to dust. He has spent sixty years studying time and maintaining the desert's calendars. His temporal calculations are never wrong.
Daily Life
Spends mornings calculating temporal events, afternoons maintaining the library's chronometers, evenings studying time magic. He rarely leaves the library, considering time itself his only companion.
Secret
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Story Hooks
- 1 The temporal anomaly is growing stronger, and he needs help finding and stopping whatever is causing it.
- 2 Someone has learned of his time magic and is trying to force him to change the past.