Time Stone

**Time Stone**, also known as the **Jewel of Time**, is one of the six Infinity Stones. It has the power to manipulate time, granting its user precognitive visions and even the power to travel through time.

## Summary

The Power Stone is one of the Infinity Stones, six primordial crystals of immense power created by the Four Great Seraphs that can be considered singularities in their own right. Sometimes after the Big Bang, Gabriel caused the Stones to be scattered across the growing universe, causing the Earth-based deities to lose track of some of the most powerful artifacts in existence.

At some point in time, the Stone was found by Agamotto, the first wizard and Sorcerer Supreme, who fashioned a containment device to better wield its dangerous power. When he founded the Masters of the Mystic Arts, he forbade the usage of the Stone and Time Magic as a whole across the mortal world, fearing the catastrophes Entelecheia would bring as retribution. He then entrusted the relic to the Masters who swore an oath to protect the Stone with their lives as it'd ultimately became their chief weapon against mystical forces that seek to invade and destroy Earth.

Thousands of years later, during his training, Stephen Strange began to read the Book of Cagliostro and learned of the Stone's power. Seeking to push himself, he started to test its power though he was stopped by Wong and Karl Mordo who warned its powers were contrary to the natural order and the slightest misuse could result in an endless time loop.

When the Hong Kong Sanctum was destroyed and the Singularity began to assimilate with the mortal world, Strange used the Stone to rewind the destructive events and save Wong, only to be stopped by Kaecilius before the Sanctum could be fully restored. At wit's end, Strange flew directly into the Singularity to confront Dormammu, trapping the demon in a time loop that Strange would only break if he acquiesced to the human's bargain. Half-annoyed and half-amused by Strange's actions, Dormammu withdrew from Earth with Strange returning the Stone to its resting place in Kamar-Taj soon after.

## Appearance

The Time Stone appears as an unpolished green-colored crystal the size of an adult's fist.

## Abilities

The Time Stone is the Infinity Stone that embodies the complexity of time, thus making it among the most powerful artifacts in the world. At its core, it has a near-absolute control over the flows of time, though because of the danger the Stone possesses, its power can only be safely harnessed through a special containment device known as the **Eye of Agamotto**.

When contained within the Eye of Agamotto, the Stone's power manifests as green runes of energy surrounding the wielder's arm and wrist. Manipulation of time then occurs primarily through the conjuration of a green mandala-like magic circle in the wielder's hand. The magic circle acts as a rudimentary "dial", and the manual turning of the magic circle with the wielder's hand enables them to "scroll" both backwards and forwards through the flow of time, allowing them to specifically select the exact area to manipulate without affecting those outside its selected range.

Due to the selective nature of the Stone's power, it can be use to individually alter the timeline of individual objects or events, reversing them to a previous state, or sending the object forward into a future state, one does not necessarily have to occur in the current timeline, or would occurs regardless of any potential breaches in causality. Notably, this disregard for causality also allows for the spontaneous formation or erasure of matter in order to conform with the established timeline.

However, due to the Stone's control over causality and probability can easily prove too much for anyone who does not have the required knowledge and ability to use it, potentially resulting in the wielder's death and a danger to the natural order. Misuse of the Stone's abilities could potentially result in unstable openings and breaks in the space-time continuum, temporal paradoxes, time loops, or even risk of completely erasing the wielder from existence.

However, this can be used to the wielder's advantage, as the Stone can be used to deliberately loop segments of time through the formation of a literal energy loop over the wielder's wrist. Upon the wielder's death, the timeline will revert back to the initial formation of the energy loop, allowing the wielder to begin a new iteration with the memory of all previous timelines.

Notably, celestial and immortal beings, beings whose origins associated with the concept of [Time], beings born or descended from Time deities, or beings affiliated with the Singularity which is a world without time, are immune to effects of the Time Stone to some extent.

## Forms

### Eye of Agamotto

The **Eye of Agamotto** (時間の魔王の棺アイ・オブ・アギャモットー, *Ai obu Agyamottō*), also known as the **Casket of the Demon King of Time**, is a divine construct created millions of years ago as a containment device for the Time Stone. According to Shemhazai, while popularly believed that it was created by Agamotto alone, the truth was that he had helped from the Grigori in order to do it, with blueprints and prototypes of the artifact still remaining in the Grigori's Department of Special Technology.

The artifact allows the wielder to use the Stone's power without having to touch the Stone, thus protecting them from its eldritch influence. It also serves as a monitor, restrainer, and controller of the Stone's powers, allowing the wielder to use the Stone on a specific scale with the right amount of accuracy, as well as being imbued with special angelic runes to prevent unneeded consequences and paraxoses when using it for Time Magic.

## Trivia

* According to Shemhazai, he changed the Stone's original color from orange to green since "Bronze with orange just doesn't look good. Bronze with an emerald shade of green, however? At least *that* I could work with."