I am quite certain that this blockage of divination and even scrying is being caused by the presence of an entity known as a zeitgeist. It is an entity drawn to a realm - or to a specific time, as the case may be - by the practice of chronomancy. If you recall your most rudimentary lessons in resonance, the strange but usually harmless manifestations that occur in areas where certain strong paradigmatic magics are practiced, you may have heard that sometimes resonance can attract the attention of supernatural and other unusual beings. In the case of chronomancy, there is always the small risk that a zeitgeist arrives...theoretically.

I regret to say there has never been any empirical truth that such a being even exists, and is not merely an act by the Material Plane itself to set wrongs right, due mostly to the fact that chronomancy is almost entirely a lost art. Our own island of Amia, in fact, had only one magician known to practice chronomancy - Montgomery d'Cordor, the former Duke of what is now the Commonwealth of Cordor.

Generally speaking, most rote spell formulas and divine invocations meant to deal with spirits would, again theoretically, cease to affect a zeitgeist. These spell formulas are designed specifically to deal with entities that inhabit persons, places, or things. The zeitgeist primarily inhabits a "when", an unrecognized vector by the vast majority of spells.

My sources indicate that the anomalies began and originated within Cordor. And both the government and the people are slowly becoming aware of strange occurrences. Archaic accounts of a zeitgeists arriving at the site of incredible chronomancy describe them as beings that are locked into a sensible, but ultimately futile attempt to rectify the crimps and wrinkles that remain for a time after the practice of chronomancy; it is akin to finding a bump in a rug, applying pressure to flatten it out, and creating two bumps at either side, or merely shifting the disturbance in the rug in some other direction.

These same archaic accounts, pre-dating even the Rise and Fall of the Netherese Empire, characterize the zeitgeist as an entity that reaches backwards through the past and forwards through time and tries to pull everything together into the present at random and chaotic intervals as an attempt to normalize the passage of time. The repeated and exponential creation of anomalies eventually stack and spin out of control, and....again, purely theoretically....the outcome of such a disturbance could have catastrophic results.

Is it my belief that we need to be deeply concerned, or to encourage widespread panic by spouting baseless, unfounded doomsday prophecies? No.

Is it my belief that the Mystran Monolith should step in to offer aid and oversight to the Commonwealth's Ministry of Magic in the unexpected and unfortunate absence of its Minister, Collin Reyes, a former pupil of mine, in an attempt to conduct research and provide any necessary damage control? Yes.

Time is a dimension and aspect of magics not often explored, and for very good reasons.. Most whom dabble in it, loose all concept of time, which is needed for linear beings concept of reality and life. Birth,life,death and so on.. All mages whom dabble in Chronomancy and timetravel, eventually loose this grasp, seeing birth, life, death and all things related to time as one single thing, not past present and future. Like a hallway of doors they can enter and exit as they please.

Time cannot be comprehended or written down into books, like other aspects of magic, or dimensions of the multiverse, as it cannot be fully comprehended, not even by the Gods. It is my belief that any and every possability that can exist, does so, within another version of our world, planes and so on. Creating an infinite number of possible outcomes and bringing some sense of order to all the chaos of life, by branching out any and all directions it can and may go. And what I believe, this creature is doing, is moving trough these "other" universes. This making time, as any other plane or dimension that can be seen and moved to, like portal travel. However as such things is innately impossible to comprehend for those who see it as linear. I believe my view of it is flawed, but may be a good guess, at best.

It is possible that the creature Meriam describes could be drawn to Toril, and Amia. It'd most likely require a large amount of timetravel or chronomancy. Which makes me concerned, as a strong temporal and/or transplanar resonance would be needed.

Resonance is magic of a place, attuning to the ways magic is wielded around it, to try and simplify it. Is something I have a good familiarity with, based on my race and siphoning abilities. And who's been practicing chronomancy, a quite risky secondary spell school, is my main question. Not how to remove this creature. The creature is most likely from a time, we cannot perceive, or may be from a dimension and/or plane we have no knowledge of. And it is my theory that the only possible way to stop it, is to both negate planar travels with a dimensional lock, thus we -may- have a chance at locking it from traveling trough time as a dimension. And we would most likely need a temporal stasis. Both of whom can be easily avoided, if the creature predicts our actions.

What we need to do, is localize who has been meddling with time as a chronomancer, within Cordor, and attempt to stop this person. To progressive life, time gone, should stay gone and not meddled with or changed. This can alter our existences, lives and being. Spells relating to future or the flow of time, are not of worry, as timestops and divinations are quite common. However affecting past time, can have disasterous consequences.