Time Knifed!

Recent studies by the xhaosanologist Lucretia Britt describe a strange phenomenon where several Planewalker have been experiencing anomalies in reality when they Plane Shift. The condition has not yet been given an official scholarly name, but the affected test subjects colloquially refer to the condition as "having seen the time knife" or simply "being time knifed."
The affected group, known as the F-Team, includes Amabel Aranrhod, Seymour Sesame, Orpheus, Sen, and Callalilly Oakenheart. Ganbold Tsuv appears to be subject to the effects of the "time knife" as well, but insists he does not experience its effects. Their first reports of this experience stem from an encounter with the Pumpkin King. After the group defeated the Vadderung and the Void in combat and freed the Pumpkin King from imprisonment at their hands, he bound Ganbold as his Fool of the Fey and showed the entire group a vision of infinite universes—tied together, branching apart, cutting through each other at angles and fraying into chaos where they were cut.
Since this incident, the group has described a strange sensation occurring in their brains, followed by a slight alteration in the events of the universe from what they remembered. As wizards and academics, Amabel and Callalilly have been the most heavily involved in documenting their experiences and the differences between events. Most notable and trackable changes between the timelines seem to be related to the outcome of world-changing events from roughly the past three to six months (for instance, the fate of the Battalion of Degenerates in the Cave of the Banished Scholars and at the Day of Ascension).
The F-Team is the first well-documented case of this phenomenon, but a few earlier reports suggest similar occurrences around the same time. A small band of Rangatiri in the Western Woods displayed some confusion between their travels, insisting that certain recent events (for instance, a few pivotal battles with the Prostomurakhim) happened differently than they did. Further to the north, a band of previously-unknown adventurers known as the Linnunrata V have described uncovering and defeating covens of Dreibachan war mages in Draxhaven using dangerous temporal experiments to rapidly speed the growth of young chromatic dragons by sapping life force from metallic dragon eggs. They claimed to have slain the green dragon Grywnradh the Green and the Death Knight Dicent Éxni in the process, both of whom have been seen alive within the last several weeks by Scaladosian scouts. While stretching the truth is not an uncommon pastime among adventurers, each member of the Linnunrata V has described the same version of events under compulsion from a Zone of Truth.

"Something about these blasted woods seems to tie one's memory in knots. There are points along our interminable journey where I distinctly recall particular horrors—an Aboleth-infested pond, for instance, or the lichen-wrapped bones of a Minotaur standing upright and motionless within a strangler fig—of which my veteran guides had no recollection in the slightest. Now, I admit I may no longer have quite the strapping figure or devil-may-care attitude of my younger years, but this aging halfling's memory is as sharp as ever (as are his moment-to-moment notes, diligently taken even amongst the endless onslaught of horrors). Were these simply too mundane to remember for heroes as powerful as these? Or is my unblemished recollection a function of the famous luck of the Jaunts?"
—Merriweather Jaunt, "The Homesick Halfling's Guide to the Verlorenwode"

Type

Supernatural