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Message: <blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 6949173" data-attributes="member: 12377">Reverse causality: To get an effect in the present, and their magic reaches back in time and changes the past. This requires certain sacrifices on their part, to match the new past. The ritual components of the magic consist of forcing elements of the present into the proper arrangement -- their magic then changes the past to make that arrangement arise naturally without being forced.E.g., to charm the dragon, they re-wrote the past so that one of their mages raised that dragon from a hatchling; of course this meant that the mage in question was not available to help defend the tribe at some point, leading to further losses. So the ritual component of the spell was the sacrifice of some of tribe's warriors; in the new, altered past, those warriors were killed in battle.This form of time-bending is inherently unpredictable and dangerous. It's theorized that one reason causality reversal is so rare is that anyone who practices it long enough eventually screws up and erases themselves from history.</blockquote>