Tempus Fugit Update
This is a little aside from my NaNoWriMo planning posts, I just wanted to share a brainwave I had in my world-building. I’ve been having a lot of fun outlining this story and probably the best part has been discovering parts of the world the seem to appear from nowhere. Sometimes I love my weird and wonderful brain.
One of my most recent breakthroughs in my world-building for Tempus Fugit was the discovery that some people are born with a talent for a magic called morphreia and they are usually called morphs instead of their proper title of morphrei. If these people embrace the talent and train hard, they are eventually able to change their face and form and appear as someone other than who they are. Morphs are only able to take one other face and this takes a lot of energy to maintain.
The common perception of morphs is that they are untrustworthy, even those they are really no more dishonest than any other group of people. Many who are born with the talent do not develop their gift due to pressure and their family and society at large. Most morphs who use their inborn magic train in secret and unknown to those without the talent for morpheria is that there is a clandestine network of morphrei that helps to train and support morphs in a world that is rather hostile towards them.
Many people think that morphreia is a dying magic because morphs find it better to pretend that they are not morphrei. The underground network of morphrei (called Fray) works to promote the interests of morphs while at the same time helping them to conceal themselves in plain sight.
An aspect of morphreia that is all but unknown to common folk is that the time creatures and the futures they bestow have a blind spot for morphrei. The futures shown by time creatures only show the face that the morphrei was born with and never the one they have learned to take.
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