The Time Vortex

The Time Vortex is an underlying plane to the entire reality, opening up to the Gates of Ascension in some places. It is the conduit through which can be reached any time or place. It can only be accessed by ripping into the skin of the universe, which must then be able to be sealed, lest the Time Winds devour everything in that universe. It along with the Gates of Ascension and the deepest of Lower Planes are protected from Purges because of a film of exotic matter, only breachable via an Iron Key or the powers of a Realm Master. It is visually a horizontal vortex of blue flame with touches of green lightning, which are the Time Winds, and are the flames produced when Time Energy touches Huon Energy, and the latter of which is destroyed. The limitless amounts of Time energy in the Time Vortex will destroy anything that enters it, unless made out of Tardisinian materials or shielded to within an inch of its life. It is not unknown for rifts to exist in universes into the Time Vortex, which when sealed can be used to enter the Time Vortex without making a rip in space, and can make races evolve faster and into divine forms due to the constant background Time Energy. Many sinister beings have manifested and evolved, over time being a major threat to reality. When a being sufficiently evil develops, it is cast into the Time Vortex by the ancient lights. Most of these beings are somehow immune to the time winds, and continue there, only trapped. When a being is imprisoned, it is brought back to the beginning of the universe, and placed in the time vortex at its creation. These evil entities have the ability to breed with each other, and so produce vile offspring. Natural selection takes place, coupled with the fact that the entities become more and more monstrous over time. Since this they have become elderich abominations from lovecraftian horror, only knowing the shifting flames of their prison and their vile parentage. After nearly an eternity of time, the elderich horors sit in the time vortex, waiting for the time when a rift can open and let them back into the world.