The Anvil of Time, also called the Heart of Pablo, is an astral plane and mountain where the ages of the world are stacked one on top of another: the place where duality entered the world, the origin of Minaya and the prison of Elías the Son.
| Type | Place (astral plane) |
| Access | Astral only |
| Houses of the Cycle | ☯ House of the Twin Cosmos · ☷ House of the Descent |
| Spanish entry | Yunque del Tiempo |
Description
On its slopes the ages lie like geological layers and coexist rather than pass. Climbing reaches a different era on each level, descending goes back, and whoever stays on one level is trapped in its era. Its secrets include the knowledge of the Blue Book (and the Eisagogika), written from here, the Towers of the Heart and the keys of the Apocalypse. Whoever enters must be ready to face Kronamon on his own plane.
History
- In the first era of the archive, Pablo appeared on the Anvil playing with a deck of many things on the mountain of fire, bringing duality into the world: Dual Magic, the two incompatible orders of heaven, the wheel of Pablo.
- In its deepest layers arose Minaya, half-drow proxy of Eilistraee, later central to the gestas of Torregrises.
- Elías the Son and the Unnameable were imprisoned on other levels, frozen in their era.
- Later they formed a triad with Arian, who joined from outside, to seek the Rod of Infinity. The triad’s act replaced Pablo’s own designs for the Rod and set off the conflict of the Supreme Ones that closes the cosmic cycle.
- The Templars reached it in an astral incursion during the revelation of the Supra Father.
Conflicting accounts
- It is the plane where the consciousness of Kronamon resides in his incarnation as Pablo.
- Another statement has the consciousness of Paulus of Alexandria residing here in his incarnation as Kronamon, and calls Kronamon the son of Pablo.