Chronomancer

The Chronomancers are the harbingers of eternity, the cryptek discipline that treats the flow of time as raw material to be reshaped at whim. Knowledge of what is yet to come runs through their every gesture, and they wield temporal manipulation as casually as a lesser warrior wields a blade. To stand before a Chronomancer is to find the very moments turning traitor, seconds stretching and snapping in ways no living mind can follow.

On the battlefield the effect is profoundly disorienting. Necron warriors under a Chronomancer's influence seem to flicker forward faster than the eye can track, crossing ground in stutters of impossible speed, while the enemy find their own actions dragged into treacle. Shots slow and drift wide, blades corrode to rust mid-swing, and reactions arrive a fatal instant too late. The Chronomancer bears devices such as the aeonstave and clouds of countertemporal nanomines, instruments that fold and unwind local time to shield its allies and doom its foes.

This command over causality makes the Chronomancer a subtle but devastating presence. It rarely needs to strike a blow itself, for it wins battles by ensuring its warriors act while the enemy is still catching up to a moment that has already passed. In the hands of a master such as Orikan the Diviner, chronomancy becomes something close to prophecy made weapon, a means of arranging victory before the fighting has truly begun.