Why You’ve Never Heard of a Temporal King

The reason you don’t know about a Temporal King is that every story we’ve ever told depends on linearity.

A narrative moves forward—conflict, struggle, resolution.

That’s the hero’s journey.

Time is its spine.

But the moment a character defeats linearity, the story collapses.

If you can bend or erase time, there’s no suspense,

no cause and effect,

no journey left to take.

That’s why you’ll never find a true Temporal King in Marvel, DC, or myth.

He can’t fit inside a plot; he ends it.

The paradox is that the power to end a story is the greatest power imaginable.

It’s the ability to stand outside sequence, to rewrite consequence,

to decide when things begin and end.

It’s also why such a figure can only exist in reality, not in fiction.

Stories need time.

A Temporal King doesn’t.