Lore Theory! Why We Have Time Skips!

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So, one thing that really bugs me in massivecraft lore is- the backstory time skips. People alive one day but just skip ahead 8 months to become a student level mage. So I came up with a theory based off of some old lore. So here is what happened:

A group of time mages gathered from around the world to fix the mistake they had made: their own magic. The mages realized that the magic was far too powerful and had the possibility to ruin time if one became powerful enough. The time mages gathered in a circle and began casting as heavily as they could. An elder stood in the middle performing some unknown ritual and with a flash, the man disappeared. This man had travelled far back into the past to the time the magic was created. He told the person creating it that it would ruin the future and the person creating the magic completely stopped. Though, the mages blindness caused their fear-the timestream had broken. Without time magic, there was no reason, or way, that someone could/would go into the past to stop time magic from being created if it had never been created-creating it again. The timestream itself was too confused to comprehend this and it eventually released the stress by slowly creating time skips to make up for the stress on the stream. @Lore
 
Roleplay fun is more important than you being bothered by someone else performing a small time skip to make roleplay more accessible. Like get over yourself.
 
I do get slightly ... not.... i hate to use the meme but TRIGGERED! Not really but it does feel a little odd to know a character then have them suddenly be like "Its been 8 months man!" when they talked three days ago. It feels weird. Especially for jailed characters, who have been in for a month but its been 30 minutes...

But, at the end of the day, its pretty much just to skip to the fun parts.

I even entertain an idea- more of a hope maybe- that we might one day have a server-wide timeskip by say, 10 years. It would be a logistical nightmare for staff, but if it could be pulled off it might allow for some interesting stuff. IDK im like, its 1:30 AM atm i need to sleep so im a bit derp with my braining skills
 
I do get slightly ... not.... i hate to use the meme but TRIGGERED! Not really but it does feel a little odd to know a character then have them suddenly be like "Its been 8 months man!" when they talked three days ago. It feels weird. Especially for jailed characters, who have been in for a month but its been 30 minutes...

But, at the end of the day, its pretty much just to skip to the fun parts.

I even entertain an idea- more of a hope maybe- that we might one day have a server-wide timeskip by say, 10 years. It would be a logistical nightmare for staff, but if it could be pulled off it might allow for some interesting stuff. IDK im like, its 1:30 AM atm i need to sleep so im a bit derp with my braining skills
that would actually be kinda fun or we could have a thing where we have an event where a bunch of time mages appear and bring everything back in time and we could make the texturepack look like old grey television or something...
 
that would actually be kinda fun or we could have a thing where we have an event where a bunch of time mages appear and bring everything back in time and we could make the texturepack look like old grey television or something...
I meant more like, the 10 years happened, but we just kind of. skip ahead. for story/progression .