A Cordial Invitation

Fate looks at the possibilities you've presented and rolls their humble die to determine your fate.

Fate has rolled an 8 on a 8-sided die.

The universe frowns. The mere idea of a mortal changing the fabric of time makes them shiver. They ask Fate to roll again.

Fate has rolled an 8 on a 8-sided die.

The universe accuses Fate of tampering with the die. For surely even they know someone like you cannot be handed such great power.

Fate only shrugs. "The dice have chosen it. I cannot change their mind."

They move on, and roll the dice again to determine your nickname, and your name.

Fate has rolled a 2 and a 1 on a 5-sided die.

And this is here where we go back to our story, dear reader. Your story, that is.

You look at yourself in the mirror. You are Catherine Terrer, also known as "Noot" to your friends. Your magic, when the universe chose to give it to you, was the ability to bend time in certain ways.

From a very young age, you've been warned against using your powers. Though your magic was powerful, and this branch came easy to you, all magic came with a price. If you push yourself too hard, you could mutate or worse. You've since learned to be careful with what you do.

You clear your throat. "I am Catherine Terrer, also known as 'Doot'. When I was born, the universe saw it fit to give me power over time. I've been careful to use it wisely. It's my pleasure for me to meet you all."

You lock eyes with yourself and nod. You've practiced your speech enough. You'd have to trust yourself to act well around nobles. Hopefully they won't want your head.

You look around your room. Do you want to search for something to bring first, or should you meet the guard outside now?

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Author's NoteFirst off, since the dice say time related powers, I just wanted to say: please don't time travel!! Both for in-universe and out of universe reasons.
In-universe, the stress of going back in time will kill you unless you get a nat20.
Out of universe, I doubt I'd be able to write a good story that isn't meant to be centered around time travel. And it gets realllllly messy too.

I'm sorry if this seems unfair to anyone! I didn't expect anyone to choose time powers, or the dice to pick it, which might play by slightly different rules than the ones I already made.

Just to clarify several other things:

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Clarification1. Anything we do, time magic related, will automatically force us into a roll. If this was anything other than time magic [except divination or future seeing, which is kind of like time magic if you think about it enough], small tasks would automatically be a succses.

Most of the time however, you'll be forced into a roll, unless whatever magic you're doing won't really affect the plot or a character. [Like using your magic to hold something for example]

2. When rolling for succses [magic wise],
20 = Best possible outcome
15-19 = Great outcome
11-14 = Good
10 = Ok
6-9 = Backfire, may cause whatever we were doing to break
2-5 = Mutation will begin
1 = Basically death.

3. To other people, trying to do time magic would require them to get a 20 or they'd automatically mutate or die. In case if it looks like we're too nerfed! No one else can do what we do.

If this sounds super unfair, you're free to tell me! Or if time magic sounds constrictive and everyone agrees on that, I have no problem retconning this and rerolling again.

Things we can do with time magic that isn't time travel by the way: stopping time in a certain area [like pausing time on a object falling is fine], reversal [You could possibly turn bread back into dough, then into the ingridients, or a chicken into an egg] anddd other stuff you can think of! We can also use it to check the time without a watch but I mean that's kind of dull. But that is an option.

Oh and Arcanuse, I like the prose you did for this!!! It's really nice and well thought-out ^o^!! Would've been real neat to see!