Editing Traveler/Introduction (section)

=== What Is A Traveller? ===

A Traveller is born when a person attempts time travel and succeeds- building a real, bona fide Time Machine. Maybe they unknowingly tapped into a Wellspring, or perhaps another Traveller helped them, knowingly or accidentally. However, their understanding of time is necessarily flawed; the Time Machine simply can't swim against the currents of time and invariably gets destroyed.

But the person, they can survive. Maybe she was good at piloting, or he was lucky and found a calmer patch of the Stream... but they still survived, stranded into an unfamiliar time that, yet, they know as if their own.

Soon, every Traveller finds out that they have no more place in their original time- all their existence was burned up and turned into Aion by the Time Machine to allow Time Travel. They're just another stranger in a familiar land.

A Traveller's power is measured by their '''Inertia''': basically, it's how important they are to the Stream of Time. Every action they take is closely regarded by the forces that control the Stream, and as they grow in power Travellers find out that, for them, there's no such thing as a deed with no consequences. A low Inertia Traveller may be able to steal something or kill someone without changing the Stream too much, but as their Inertia rises forgetting to nail a horseshoe may well lead to the downfall of a great kingdom...