Time Elapsed

I conceived of a species for my D&D game called the Tachonyds. This is a species that travels precisely backward in time from the players' perspectives. The strangest thing is, the characters never encountered this species; the whole thing was a footnote in the lore that I made up for what The Phoenix was doing in the dormant age between captains. Today, I wondered about why I might have done this, and two pathways formed:

Science: There are an infinite number of ways that time can presumably be measured in experience. Our whole hyper-dimension might be filled with universes moving step by step in their unique directions, each considering their own direction to be "time," in a giant echo chamber, without even realizing it. The Tachonyds are the species, in this context, that will be colliding head-on with our universe, and this path is entirely predictable already, based on the starting conditions. On this level, the significant specifics balance to a simple Newton's Cradle. You would also simply experience them as being around, as they try to measure this and communicate the issue in a stable way.

Religion:

Matthew 22:30

At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.

Strip marriage out of this equation, and this verse describes a species with an equivalent outcome; the angel's reality is the reality on a collision course with ours. It would not surprise me at all that Bard's Tongue let slip an outburst such as a direct translation from species to species (in terms of core function), from one codex to another (The Bible to my personal structure of Faith). It does place emphasis on the significance of this, however, and the significance of keeping it hidden up until now.

Which is more important: love or existence?

The issue is that neither exists without the other, fundamentally, meaning that these terms can be set diametrically opposed to a fundamental level. This is a wicked act, and may also fundamentally define wickedness. If this critical concept is painted as an analogy on the stage of life, it would be like the angels in heaven.

There is a double-edged sword here that is difficult to describe, but it involves currency. When love is crystallized in this way, there will be no issue of wickedness (touching this image wrong will shatter you), and the pieces will concur that the path is correct, like iron filaments aligning to a real yet invisible field. This is an unbalanced and presently unbalanceable force, and there will be a counter balance at its crystallization. 

~As an aside, one might say "death" to balance love here, biblically, but strength is not the whole story, it is also prioritization. We are not looking for a figure 8 equation, or a game won, but an eternally stable and evolving process. This likely is "The mystery of God," but how can you fit something like that on a scale?~

You must essentially make three moves at once, crystallizing love, identifying and crystallizing the counter force, and balancing the scales. If current and currency are treated as aligned, then all of this must occur simultaneously, or the voltage will exceed conceivable capacity on one side of the wires or the other. I imagine that, from a human perspective, this will feel like climbing a mountain (calculate: love) only to realize that you must now use the entire image and structure of that mountain to launch yourself into space, and no one has any idea how to do that or what that image looks like. 

Song of Songs 8:7

Many waters cannot quench love;

    rivers cannot sweep it away.

If one were to give

    all the wealth of one’s house for love,

    it would be utterly scorned.

I wonder what one might be able to give all the wealth of one's house for, in place of love. If we need a balancing force for this scale, then this blank space wondered about opposite love must be something. Currently nothing can contend with love, but this will not always be the case. What will it be then?

An answer bubbled to mind, nonsense almost certainly: "Transfigurate Gate. Then the image is unique but also directly congruent: Do not try on living things." It feels like the Schrodinger's Cat line in the sand.