The Stone of Life & Time is one of The World Stones; extremely powerful, 10-dimensional primordial artefacts preceding the creation of the world itself.
Powers
- Heal any injury in seconds (quantum overwrite from a parallel reality)
- Time manipulation
- Visions of the past & future (4th dimension), even alternative worlds (5th & 6th dimensions)
- Slow down time
- Speed up time
- Reverse events, make it so events never happened
- Age stasis & reversal
- Grant inanimate objects/husks true life & awareness
- Boost awareness, intelligence, creativity, and love
Full potential (with other Stones)
- Create entirely new, living, breathing and self-aware creatures
- Bring people back to life
- Enlightenment
- Access to near limitless intelligence/creativity (a requirement for a mortal to create a complex world)
- Creating a world (specifically, its time-axis and conscious existence)
History
The Stone of Life & Time was thought to be destroyed by The Elder around 25 years after the creation of the world. However, he was entirely unable to destroy the stone no matter how much he tried. Instead, he decided to hide the Stone in a secluded lake at the center of an uninhabited forest, overrun by monsters.
The Stone of Life & Time was ultimately found by Kiryu Ardoladd while he was lost, wandering the Lost Forest after losing his memory and washing ashore on its coast. He wandered deeper into the forest and found the lake where millennia ago the Stone had been hidden.
The Science
The Stone of Life & Time is an immensely complex 10D Hyper-Horn-Torus with a white-hole singularity at its core (= the opposite of a black hole), which functions like a receiver tapping into the 0th dimension (= the foundational unbound nothingness of the Universe) and its infinite point-consciousness-field in order to grant the stone itself, and whatever is affected by it, consciousness (and by extension: self-awareness, intelligence, creativity, and Love/”goodness”). The Stone’s own consciousness (yes, the stone itself is intelligent and aware) is analogous to a 10th dimensional accretion disc of pure consciousness, swirling out of the singularity.
As for the time-manipulation, visions of the past/future/other realities, and of course “healing”, the Stone of Life & Time achieves this by connecting to the 4th, 5th or 6th dimensions.
By connecting to the 4th dimension (= this universe with both past and future visible in the present), the stone can grant visions of the past/future to the wielder, as well as manipulate local space-time bubbles to slow/speed-up time. Reversing time (and by extension “healing”) is ultimately impossible by manipulating the 4th dimension due to paradox-generation (e.g., the Grandfather Paradox), hence requiring the higher dimensions and alternative mechanisms.
By connecting to the 5th dimension (which according to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics includes every possible course of action in THIS universe), the stone can heal any injury. The Stone of Life & Time achieves this by essentially rewriting a bubble of space-time at the quantum level, copying over (via quantum entanglement) and collapsing the quantum wave function within the host universe to match that of a donor universe. In practice, this equates to the stone looking through every possible parallel world, finding one where an injury never happened, and rewriting a bubble of space-time to the exact same state as within the donor world.
Whereas technically the 6th dimension (which includes every starting position arrangement of the universe, i.e. every CONCEAVABLE universe), would allow the stone to change the shape of your body to whatever conceivable form, looking through and copying the quantum state from the 6th dimension is a lot harder (and takes more energy) than merely rewriting it to a state from another parallel 5th dimensional analogue universe. While beings like Atlas can utilize this ability, mere mortals cannot.
The World Stones 