Retrocausal Paradox

A temporal disturbance caused by the Hazard Squad using the Portal Caves within the Inverse Spring to travel back to the past. The most obvious changes taking place after their visit to Saint Mary Vincent in 2012. By preventing the Corrupted Armillaria from infecting the guests at the retreat, significant changes were made to those whose lives were affected by the incident. Exactly how much of the current timeline was affected is impossible to know, as the hunters are the only ones who experienced it and can therefore only identify changes they may know about.

## Known Changes

Significantly more supernatural creatures exist in the current timeline compared to the original one, since the Hazard Squad was able to put a stop to the indiscriminate hunting done by Talamh Dei.

An abundance of material on witchcraft that did not survive into the present of the original timeline is now well preserved thanks to the hunters eliminating the leaders of Wardin Tir and preventing the execution of over 400 witches during the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597. Millicent Battersby is historically regarded as the Mother of Witchcraft.

Without intervention, the small child Dorcas Crocker would have lived a brutal life, barely surviving in an abandoned home after her mother was killed by Warden Tir. Due to Millicent's (hesitant) kindness, having taken her into the village to find someone to look over her, she is slightly less evil.

Delia Lovejoy's parents left the cult before they had been completely indoctrinated. They never died "mysteriously". They did, however, just end up joining a different cult instead.

Constantine Yaruga never became infected by the fungus, and without gaining its abilities, did not become obsessed with the collection and hoarding of supernatural creatures.

Jarsten Kimblew never became infected by the fungus and grew up with a mush clearer mind, confident that the psychic gifts he possessed were his own and not a side-effect of the fungus.

Jarsten Kimblew, Nana Hazard, Hugo Paxton and Veronica Sterling have a hazy memory of meeting the current Millicent Battersby, Taffy Bhatt, Delia Lovejoy and Edna Rose Edison-Hasselback and being told about P.I.E. at that time.

Selena Hunt, who had been abducted as a child to be sold at the Hunt Ball Auction, was not purchased by Mr. Yaruga; she was instead rescued by The Red Council, where she received abundant support, training, and a career. Later, learning that she had a niece who had been abandoned by her family, she relocated to Sterling Mansion to oversee her upbringing. Veronica Sterling was never abducted and grew up strong, confident and bold.

Ava Sterling, Eliza Sterling, and Stormy were not captured and killed by the remnants of Talamh Dei after leaving town in 2009 to search for Charles Easterling. They returned to Saint Mary Vincent in 2013 with a plan to make the Hazard children servants of the Sterling Clan. Nana Hazard, who has unwittingly become Pack Leader by that time, was able to fight off her mother at the price of great personal injury, in order to protect her siblings. The attack prompted intervention by P.I.E. and The Red Council, introducing Veronica Sterling, Hugo Paxton and Nana Hazard to the union for the first time.

With Veronica Sterling by his side nearly every day, Hugo Paxton did not develop the blind romantic devotion to her ideal in the same way he had when she was missing. Though he certainly harbored romantic feelings towards her in this timeline as well, he felt no real pressure to act on them and was content to maintain the status quo instead of upending the long established tro made up of Hugo, Nana and Veronica.

When it became known within werewolf circles that Hazard Pack was being led by a "child", Nana was forced to prove her worthiness by participating in the Pankration event during the Lykaia games, a sort of coming of age ritual for werewolves. Nana won the event, and became infamous in lycanthrope circles for her relentless and brutal fighting style. Though gaining such a reputation has continued to serve her well, she has never taken any joy in this success.

Max Hazard, who had been abducted by an unnecessarily sexy Necromancer was freed by P.I.E. after Wadim Yonescu listed the job with P.I.E. as a favor to Nana. They became close friends after his release, and Max encouraged Wadim to adopt a more positive attitude toward life.

Nana never killed Constantine Yaruga. Therefore, she never fought Selena Hunt (they get along pretty well, actually) and never required the assistance or protection of Hector Paxton. She also never received a six month suspension allowing her to idle the time away in Saint Mary Vincent for a half year. The close friendship that Nana and Hector cultivated in that time, therefore, never existed, although they have always been casually friendly. They were good friends when they were younger, but stopped being close the summer of his junior year when he confessed his feelings for her and she told him that, "The people we are right now can never make that work," and left to join P.I.E. almost immediately afterwards without any further discussion.

Because none of that happened, Hector did not join ESSPR in order to prove himself without getting under the feet of his friends in P.I.E. and is not having a difficult emotional time dealing with the fact that the girl that he has a crush on (again) is also a man-eating werewolf. Hector is as angry and directionless as ever.

Hugo Paxton never decided to retire from P.I.E. in order to stay by Veronica's side, because the current Veronica would never leave P.I.E. or require a guardian. Nana did not become sullen and withdrawn at the thought of losing her best friend and partner and having to rethink her life strategy.