LuisCarlos17f
Legend
I was trying to imagine how would be my own version of Dark Sun, and it occured to me.
Miragewave.
Everybody knows about the mirages in the dessert, and some body tells legends about mirage showing fabulous palaces inhabited by genies. There are even stranger stories about being trapped within those mirages, and not seen again... or at least not in the same way. These stories tell about traders traveling across the dunes of the dessert when they are caught inside misterious sandstorms, and later when their travel ends... they realises something is changed. Some times are little details, like windows from the house in certain street, and others, the change is too radical, for example after returning their home he discovers his first wive is alive, having surviving that horrible accident years ago, but there aren't the children by the second marriage. In other tales the mayor of the town is a different person.
The truth beyond this is more complicated. Some sages theorize when a time dragon is living in a zone for a time, or there are action by chronomancers, then the reality itself is altered in some strange way. Some times planar portals to a "reflection domain" are created accidentaly, in the form of (sand)storm and mirages, and involutary victims are sent to the other side. The good new is with the right help they can return to their original home, and with a piece of luck, with some valious information or special reward.
Other theory is the miragewave is a reaction by the universe itself to try some possible time-paradoxes. When a zone start to suffer too many time paradoxes then a miragewave is created. Some sages compare this like a broken dress made by lots of different patchs, and usually a patch is being replaced with other. These tell when there are too many time-travelers altering the timeline, the zone can become a demiplane. If they are lucky, this will be next to the Feywild or some Heavenly plane, but some times the end is within the Shadowfell, next to an infernal plane, or suffering a planar invasion from the Far Realm.
Some oracles tells some "miragewave" domains are created by the gods to punish some sin with a timeloop to suffer the same fate time after time.
Miragewave.
Everybody knows about the mirages in the dessert, and some body tells legends about mirage showing fabulous palaces inhabited by genies. There are even stranger stories about being trapped within those mirages, and not seen again... or at least not in the same way. These stories tell about traders traveling across the dunes of the dessert when they are caught inside misterious sandstorms, and later when their travel ends... they realises something is changed. Some times are little details, like windows from the house in certain street, and others, the change is too radical, for example after returning their home he discovers his first wive is alive, having surviving that horrible accident years ago, but there aren't the children by the second marriage. In other tales the mayor of the town is a different person.
The truth beyond this is more complicated. Some sages theorize when a time dragon is living in a zone for a time, or there are action by chronomancers, then the reality itself is altered in some strange way. Some times planar portals to a "reflection domain" are created accidentaly, in the form of (sand)storm and mirages, and involutary victims are sent to the other side. The good new is with the right help they can return to their original home, and with a piece of luck, with some valious information or special reward.
Other theory is the miragewave is a reaction by the universe itself to try some possible time-paradoxes. When a zone start to suffer too many time paradoxes then a miragewave is created. Some sages compare this like a broken dress made by lots of different patchs, and usually a patch is being replaced with other. These tell when there are too many time-travelers altering the timeline, the zone can become a demiplane. If they are lucky, this will be next to the Feywild or some Heavenly plane, but some times the end is within the Shadowfell, next to an infernal plane, or suffering a planar invasion from the Far Realm.
Some oracles tells some "miragewave" domains are created by the gods to punish some sin with a timeloop to suffer the same fate time after time.