They are not "born" like a person, they are made. By what? The enigma force of course! People, places, whole civilizations rise and fall and inevitably fade from living memory. Lost to the mists of time, but you know who/what doesn't forget you were here? Time itself. Time plucks a version of you in a time and place and that version of you at that age emerges from the sea of time... as a time-traveler. Not a ghost. Not a clone. Not a resurrection. A person made from time’s memory of who you were. Time-travelers are living echoes of history, bound to space-time because they are made from it. Because they originate from time’s memory, time-travelers experience past, present, and future differently from ordinary beings.

The thing is, you couldn't even be born yet and your cosmic copy is already walking around. The enigma force doesn't see future and past, it's always present. That means the enigma force doesn’t wait for you to live, die, become legendary, or be forgotten. It sees the entire existence of a person, civilization, or event as one complete shape. To it, “not born yet” and “long dead” are just human/microsian ways of describing positions on a line. A person’s entire existence forms a complete temporal imprint. When such an imprint becomes significant, unstable, or necessary, the enigma force may draw a specific remembered version of that person from the sea of time and give it physical form. Because the enigma force does not distinguish between past and future, a time-traveler may emerge before their original self has even been born. They are not future selves. They are living temporal echoes, real beings created from time’s memory, capable of making their own choices once they enter the world. This is why the time-travelers codes forbids interference with the natural flow of time. Their very existence proves that time is alive, layered, and fragile. To alter it carelessly is not merely to change history- it is to damage the very force that gave them life.

Time-travelers have no memories of the person they were copied from. They are their own person from the moment they emerge. And the universe treats them like they were always there. When a time-traveler appears, reality itself quietly adjusts. It does not matter if they did not exist yesterday. Once they emerge, history says- They have always existed. Records appear. People remember meeting them. Their guild has a place for them. Their name was always spoken. Not because anyone is lying. Because time itself has edited them in. Time-travelers do not die from old age, but they can be killed... When killed, they are erased entirely from the timeline. No one remembers them, even other time-travelers. All records, evidence, and traces of their presence vanish.

Where this gets spooky, what happens to events they changed? If a time-traveler influenced history, time has to compensate. It backfills. Events rearrange themselves around the absence. Another cause replaces them. Another person gives the warning. Another accident opens the door. Or, if no replacement can hold the shape, the event changes entirely. The timeline does not remember the time-traveler. It only remembers the result- if the result can survive without them. That means a time-traveler’s death can quietly rewrite huge pieces of reality without anyone knowing anything changed.

To summarize. Every time-traveler is both - One, a person