Chronurgy and Time Studies

"Chronurgy", also known as "Time Studies", is a brand-new field of arcane magic, pioneered by the brilliant Dr. Koppel Schleppen, and the name of an academic department at Yalevard University dedicated to the academical study of the same, not coincedentally also headed by Dr. Koppel.

It is the only one of its kind in the world. "Department" may be a generous term, as it is in fact made up of Dr. Koppel, an irascible and aged physics professor who left his previous department in a huff, and three put upon graduate students.

The Department was treated as a goodnatured joke by most other serious faculty at Yalevard University for a long time.

To be fair, a lot of what the Department seemed to produce, and continues to produce, is empty liquor bottles, heaping piles of dreamweed ashes, intellectual garbage, and treatises filled with philosophical gibberish that is nigh incomprehensible even by Gnomish standards. Koppel's half-cocked theory of "vibrating strings" may fall into one or both of the latter two categories, although he continues to heatedly insist that his theory is a work in progress and will fundamentally change how everyone views and understands the "Cosmere" (another theory of Koppel's that is again, generously put, yet to be fully developed).

Notwithstanding its small size, the department has, in fact, made several important discoveries over the last few decades, the implications of which are only beginning to be realized. They have developed new ways of understanding time, and even twisting it, developing a few new spells in the process. This has earned them a measure of grudging respect from many of the other faculty.