What is it made of?
One moment cannot show the whole body. Records describe parts of the Roc crossing the same region in different ages, so time itself becomes part of what observers are trying to map.
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Great Beast Codex · Recognized order 07
Chronal Roc
A colossal winged Great Beast tied to time displacement. Its routes can repeat across different ages, not only across different places.
Time displacement · recurring routes · impossible arrivalGreat Beast · Order visualization
Chronal Roc at living cosmic scale
A colossal winged Great Beast tied to time displacement. Its routes can repeat across different ages, not only across different places.
- Order domain
- Time displacement · recurring routes · impossible arrival
- Visible body
- The part seen may not be the whole Beast
- Separate size label
- Scale class is recorded separately from order
Order identity
What makes this kind of Great Beast recognizable?
A colossal winged Great Beast tied to time displacement. Its routes can repeat across different ages, not only across different places.
What happens when it enters history?
A wing may cross a system today while its shadow was recorded on the same world thousands of years earlier. Finding or following the Roc therefore depends on when as much as where.
Field knowledge
What an encounter leaves behind.
- The same shadow recorded in different historical ages
- Signals arriving before they were transmitted
- Old observatories matching a modern sighting exactly
- Route clocks disagreeing while local clocks remain stable
- Navigation windows opening in the wrong era
- Historical records becoming vital survival tools
- Attempts to intercept the Beast before or after the present
- Civilizations arguing over whether a sighting is new or simply returning