Dr. Elara Voss
🧬 Dr. Elara Voss – The Temporal Scientist
Tradition: Sons of Ether
Essence: Questing
Arete: 5
Tags: Chrono-Engineer, Quantum Theorist, Time-Touched Genius
Note: Elara believes Madison sits on a temporal fracture—a chronospiritual faultline intersecting the Tellurian. She’s trying to fix it—with or without permission.
📜 History
🧪 Temporal Origins
Dr. Elara Voss was once a brilliant theoretical physicist and fringe engineer at MIT, who awakened during a paradoxical experiment involving tachyon fields and harmonic light delay. She was recruited by the Sons of Ether in 1973 and soon began charting nonlinear magickal interference patterns across resonance zones.
Her specialty:
- Time-flow modeling in unstable realities
- Simultaneity paradox analysis
- Metaphysical echo containment
Elara joined the New Avalon team in the early 1980s to help stabilize dimensional feedback loops caused by repeated near-breaches of the Capitol Node.
⏳ The Fracture and Erasure
In late 1984, Elara attempted an experimental intervention into timeflow using a temporal feedback lattice. The experiment failed catastrophically.
- The explosion caused a local paradox breach.
- Her existence was erased from the team's collective memory.
- Her lab remains untouched—but no one remembers building it.
- Fragments of her memory surface throughout Madison and New Avalon as temporal echoes, cryptic recordings, and ghostlike apparitionsGen Con Event.
Now, she manifests occasionally:
- Mid-conversation with no memory of beginning
- Appearing in dreams of scientists and mages
- Writing formulae no one else understands
📡 Why It Matters Now
Elara has confirmed that time is bleeding around Madison. Events are happening out of order. Some people may have already died—and not yet realized it.
“I’ve seen the glyph before. In the future. In the past. It doesn't matter. What matters is, it happens. And we have a choice—to fracture with it or collapse it into meaning.”
She believes:
- The Nameless is not just an entity, but a recursive temporal error.
- The First Reset did not erase the timeline—it forked it.
- She may have been the one who caused—or prevented—it. Multiple times.
⏰ Paradigm: “Time Is a Mutable Equation”
Elara sees time as a negotiable variable, not a fixed line.
- Time is an expression of belief, enforced by collective memory and metaphysical harmonics.
- Magick is the act of solving for different values of cause and effect.
- Paradox is not a punishment—it’s resistance from reality’s memory refusing to be overwritten.
She doesn’t break the laws of physics—she rewrites their coefficients.
🔧 Practice: Chrono-Engineering
Elara’s magick uses scientific instruments, geometric projections, and time dilation chambers.
Instruments:
- Quantum metronome (for synchronizing flow state)
- Harmonic node lattice (mapped across buildings)
- Multi-phase resonance goggles
- Temporal code notebooks that rewrite themselves
- Recursive holograms of herself offering alternate suggestions
🔮 Sphere Proficiencies
- Time 5 – Complete mastery of temporal loops, echoes, acceleration, rewind, stasis
- Correspondence 4 – Fold space across temporal instances
- Matter 3, Forces 3 – Reality structure reinforcement
- Prime 2 – Feed temporal constructs with Quintessence
🧠 Traits and Capabilities
- Intelligence 6, Wits 5, Perception 5
- Science 5, Technomancy 4, Occult 4, Rituals 3, Expression 3
- Paradox Resistance (Special Trait) – Her echo-state grants +2 against paradox backlash
🗝️ Secrets and Meta-Lore
- Erased, Not Gone: Elara may exist in multiple versions simultaneously—each trying to prevent different futures.
- Digi-8's Error Log Contains Her Name—but it shows as both “Creator” and “Threat.”
- Her Last Words Before the Fracture Were:
“We’ve already won… we just have to remember how.”
🎯 Role in the Chronicle
- She will appear mid-scene, offering incomplete prophecies and fragmented code.
- Her presence triggers timeline bleed, where characters may:
- Receive memories of actions they haven’t taken
- Relive conversations from earlier sessions
- See ghost versions of themselves or others
- If stabilized, she can:
- Provide the ritual geometry to rebind the Third Anchor
- Collapse the loop
- Or trigger the Second Reset