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Amberfeather
Sorry I wasn't able to reply earlier. I think Parallel Present is a great name, I'll update that. Also, I love what you have for the Indigenous Lifeforms, I'll add that to the Region Information too.
As for the lore, I'm thinking there should be at least one story about the creation of the deity and the Flight. For the rest, I imagine it to be similar to the Bounty of the Elements series, with possibly a Tempus dragon as the main character? Though I haven't gotten much farther than that with lore planning. You can reference anything from Timebender's personal lore in her bio, though that's a bit outdated and I'm planning to rewrite that.
You don't have to reference her lore, but if you do decide to reference her lore, the new version will be pretty much the same. She still starts out as a Skydancer named Noctella, trains to be Exalted, and becomes one of Lightweaver's most trusted advisors as well as one of the most powerful Exalted dragons to exist in the Beacon of the Radiant Eye. This is where I'm changing it.
Noctella is sent on a mission to investigate reported sightings of the Lightweaver's Emperor. While on the mission, the common dragons begin to see her as a deity, with the major factor contributing to that being that they've never seen such a powerful dragon before. This inspires Noctella, who begins practicing the magic of one of the Forbidden Elements: Time. The Time magic eventually begins to transform her appearance, and when Lightweaver finds out about Noctella and the Forbidden Element, Noctella escapes into the world, becoming known as Timebender. From that point on, her entire lore is the struggle to hide from Lightweaver, who wishes to destroy the new deity, and to expand and control a new Flight that is rising to power.
On a side note, the Forbidden Elements are all those elements in The Runestones of the Arcanist which do not have a flight (poison, time, etc.). These elements had flights, back during the creation of the world. However, those deities turned to the Shade, causing their flights to lose their elemental status. The deities of the remaining flights removed them from the legends and histories of Sornieth, so as not to spread bad influences within their own flights. However, there are scrolls containing information about these former flights in Arcanist's possession.
While she is investigating the Emperor rumors, Noctella (Timebender) meets a thief, who somehow managed to sneak past the guards and steal the Time scroll. This dragon, who is later found out to have been Shade-touched, sells the scroll to Noctella, which, combined with the impression she has on common (non-Exalted) dragons, leads her to begin the practice of Time magic.
(If you're wondering why the Time banner doesn't have gold like in Runestones of the Arcanist, it's because the element was "rediscovered". Also, I'm planning for Signum [in the WIP tab in my lair] to be the one that sells her the Time scroll, but that can always change.)
Another idea, in case you're worried that the credit might make it look messy or unprofessional or anything like that, maybe credit could be put in some sort of list of contributors to the time flight and what their ideas were?
In total, there are twenty lifeforms here. If anyone has the guts and imagination to add more, please do, as all the official regions have like a bajillion indigenous lifeforms and I like consistent fanmade content, lol. If you're curious about what type of food each lifeform is, then just follow this simple pattern. It starts with meat, then seafood, then insects, then plants, then the pattern repeats.
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