Compiled by a mad observer — someone who believes he belongs among Laplace's researchers, or at least yearns to. This is the work of several days spent alongside a very patient AI, in the hope that someday, somewhere, it helps somebody make sense of the Storm.
What this is: a fan-made research log of every confirmed emanation — when it fired, what it overwrote, and where it sits in the story. Not a walkthrough. A dossier.
How to use it: read top to bottom, in order. The Disclaimer and Storm Terms below are easy to skip if you already know the setup — but every other section builds on the one before it, and each one has its own short instructions at the top telling you what to do there. Follow those, section by section, and you'll end up at the Observatory Console with everything you need to actually use it.
• Unofficial fan project. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Bluepoch.
• Compiled + cross-checked by me from in-game material and community sources (credited in References).
• Covers Chapters 1–13. Spoilers throughout.
Not time travel. Nothing "travels" through the years between — 1966 doesn't pass through 1965, 1964... it just stops being 1966.
A recap of an in-universe Q&A segment, plus what happens to the people the Storm takes.
• Arcanists aren't automatically safe — need to resist mass hysteria (Storm Syndrome) or have ritual protection, or they get reversed too.
• Urd is the one confirmed exception: reincarnates every emanation, eventually remembers being Urd.
• The Foundation tested the Grandfather Paradox directly: poisoned a tatzelwurm in 1929 using venom collected from that same creature in 1930. Result — just a dead worm. No contradiction, no paradox.
• Per Medicine Pocket and Regulus (1st-anniversary "Storm Science" livestream segment): no record exists of anyone meeting their own past self, not even after small jumps. Not confirmed impossible going forward — just never observed.
• People reversed by the Storm aren't restored as who they were — they're recreated as who they'd be in the new era, with a different identity and life. Vertin is the one confirmed exception who stays herself across every jump.
• An artificial version has been deliberately triggered once: side story 2.4, Last Evenings on Earth, where Ulrich tests candidate materials from the Regulus satellite as immunity mediums. It works properly in Chapter 10 as the Regulus Record, buying a few minutes against a full emanation.
The words this page leans on hardest, explained the way we've been using them here — not a copy of anyone's wiki entry.
| Term | What it means on this page |
|---|---|
| Emanation | Our word for one occurrence of the Storm. Eleven confirmed so far, numbered in the order they happened. |
| Original | The real calendar year, ticking forward normally. Never resets, never skips. |
| Phenomenal | The year a struck region gets forced to display instead. Has no relationship to Original beyond "it changed." |
| Overwrite | What actually happens, instead of travel: a place's Phenomenal value gets replaced, all at once, no transition. |
| Regression / Advance | Whether an emanation's Phenomenal value moved earlier (regression) or later (advance) than what came before it. |
| Reversed | What happens to a person or object caught in the overwrite — rebuilt as whoever they'd be in the new era, not restored as their old self. |
| Storm Syndrome | The warning sign: mass hallucination and panic roughly a day before an emanation hits. Not everyone who feels it survives what follows. |
| Immunity Zone | Anywhere built or blessed to skip an overwrite entirely — the Foundation HQ, Vertin's suitcase, 37's island. None are perfect or permanent. |
| Artificial Emanation | One that didn't happen on its own — deliberately triggered by Manus Vindictae or, once, tested on purpose by the Foundation itself. |
| Arcanum / Arcanist | The magic and the people who use it. Arcanists generally survive an overwrite better than ordinary humans, but not automatically. |
| Foundation | The St. Pavlov Foundation — studies the Storm, shelters people from it, has never once solved it. |
| Manus Vindictae | The faction trying to force the world backward "in the right order" — and the only group confirmed to have caused an emanation on purpose. |
| Laplace | The research institute this page is pretending to be a printout from. That's the joke, but they really do study the Storm in-universe. |
| Timekeeper | Vertin's title. The only person confirmed to stay herself, memories intact, across every single emanation. |
| IDM Computer | 37's device for logging Original/Phenomenal pairs as they happen — the in-game source this whole page's framework is built on. |
What it is: six linked views of the same eleven emanations — a timeline, two side charts, an interval chart, a drift chart, and the record they all report to.
How to use it: click any numbered mark, bar, or dot in any chart below. Every other chart updates to match, and the Detail Record at the bottom fills in with that emanation's full story. Drag the timeline to pan, use the zoom buttons or "Full" to see everything at once.
Where this page's information actually comes from, in case you want to go check it yourself.