Balanx: Wardens of the Hour

Neutral watchers of history. They never strike first, but time pays back.

How They Fight Abilities Skills & Spells Restrictions Balanx of Algoron

Divine Servant Alignment: Neutral Power: Threads In Algoron: 2

The Balanx are the most mysterious of the servants of the gods. Created by the neutral gods, they are watchers and recorders of history throughout time. Balanx are blue skinned, with almost insect looking wings. They are forbidden to interfere with mortal affairs, or with anything that could influence future events.

How They Fight

Balanx never strike first, but anyone who attacks one finds that time itself pays the damage back. Part of every blow a balanx takes is held back as Temporal Debt and paid off slowly over the next few rounds, so a sudden burst becomes a slow bleed and a balanx is very hard to cut down quickly.

Holding back those blows, and unmaking foes with ENTROPY, gathers Threads of time. A balanx spends them to hand its whole debt back to its attacker with RECKONING, wind back the last moments of a fight with REWIND, lift a foe out of time with STASIS, or pull its own strength and its foe's toward the middle. Nothing is hidden from a balanx's sight: blindness, darkness, invisibility, masks and disguises.

Let them come to you.
Watch your debt fill, and answer with ENTROPY.
RECKONING or REWIND when the moment is right.

Add %F to your prompt to watch your Threads, and %J for your temporal debt. Type divine to see your rank and power, and help balanx for more.

Restrictions

May never strike first at a mortal or a mortal's pet. Anyone who attacks a balanx, or its group while it stands with them, is marked by time and may be answered for the rest of the fight and a while after. Any other creature is fair game.
Wields only staves and cannot use shields.
Barred from global channels.
Balanx are bound by the rules for remorts.

In-game help: DIVINE, THREADS, TEMPORAL DEBT, ENTROPY, FORESIGHT, GAZE, TIME SLIP, ANCHOR, WARP, REWIND, RECKONING, STASIS, EQUILIBRIUM, HOUR OF RECKONING, VIEW, FOCUS, TOUCH

At a Glance

Serves: The Gods of Neutrality
Ranks: Lesser Balanx, Greater Balanx, and a single Head Balanx who speaks for the gods
Threads (0–100): Holding back blows as Temporal Debt, and every ENTROPY that lands. It fades when there is nothing to fight.
Arms: Staves only, and no shields. Cloth cloaks only, and no neck or wrist items.
Resistances: Fire, cold, lightning, poison, holy and unholy power all do two-thirds of their harm.
Abilities: 32 skills and 66 spells by level 51

Abilities

The gifts that set balanx apart, by the level they arrive. New abilities start barely known: practice them.

Level1

Temporal Debt Passive

Part of every blow you take is deferred and paid over the next few rounds: a fifth of each blow at first, two-fifths by level 51, more for greater balanx and the Head Balanx.

Level5

Entropy

The balanx's attack: turn the years loose on a foe. Time cares little for armor, so even a foe that resists it suffers. Every hit that lands gives Threads.

Level5

View & Focus

VIEW finds any mortal in the realms. FOCUS (level 10) sends your sight to follow one.

Level10

Foresight Passive

The first blow aimed at you in every fight misses, because you saw it coming, and you dodge more often throughout.

Level15

Gaze

Fix a foe with the weight of the ages. Unless they resist, they lose a round.

Level15

Time Slip 20 Threads

Step sideways out of the moment, free of lag, a daze, a demon's pin or a knockdown. It is the one command that gets through while you are lagged.

Level15

Time Stop & Warp

ANCHOR (or time stop) marks a point in time. WARP returns you to it, carrying along companions who stand with you and aren't fighting, and gets you out of a fight once it is a couple of rounds old.

Level21

Haste & Slow

Quicken yourself or a companion; at level 40, slow a foe.

Level30

Rewind 60 Threads

Wind the moment back. On yourself, your health returns to where it was three rounds ago and your debt is wiped away; on a companion, their health returns.

Level35

Reckoning 40 Threads

Hand your whole temporal debt to your foe at once. The more they hurt you, the harder it hits.

Level40

Stasis 50 Threads

Lift a foe out of time for two rounds (three for the Head Balanx). They can't act, and nothing can harm them: a pause, not a free kill.

Level45

Equilibrium 50 Threads

You and your foe each move a quarter of the way toward the middle of your two healths: a comeback when losing, a squeeze when winning.

Level51

Hour of Reckoning 100 Threads

Every foe in the room takes back the damage it dealt you and your group over the last five rounds. It comes round about once every half hour.

Any

Touch

Grant a follower the blessing of your patron god.

Skills & Spells

Everything balanx learn on the way to level 51, from the game's own class and group files. Highlighted rows are the abilities above.

Lvl	Name	Type	Group
1	Cure Light	Spell	Healing
1	Swim	Skill	Basics
1	Ventriloquate	Spell	Illusion
3	Faerie Fire	Spell	Divine Weather
4	Detect Evil	Spell	Divine Utility
4	Detect Good	Spell	Divine Utility
5	Astrology	Skill	Basics
5	Entropy	Skill	Balanx
5	Hand to Hand	Skill	Basics
5	Illumination	Spell	Divine Creation
5	Lore	Skill	Basics
5	Parry	Skill	Basics
5	Refresh	Spell	Healing
5	Second Attack	Skill	Basics
5	View	Skill	Balanx
5	Word of Recall	Spell	Divine Utility
6	Cure Blindness	Spell	Curative
6	Detect Magic	Spell	Divine Utility
6	Fast Healing	Skill	Basics
7	Climbing	Skill	Basics
7	Cure Serious	Spell	Healing
7	Detect Poison	Spell	Detection
7	Light Foot	Spell	Divine Enhancement
8	Bless	Spell	Benedictions
8	Detect Invis	Spell	Divine Utility
8	Kick	Skill	Basics
9	Know Alignment	Spell	Detection
9	Protection Evil	Spell	Protective
9	Protection Good	Spell	Protective
9	Protection Neutral	Spell	Protective
10	Armor	Spell	Divine Utility
10	Enhanced Damage	Skill	Basics
10	Focus	Skill	Balanx
10	Foresight	Skill	Balanx
11	Detect Hidden	Spell	Divine Utility
11	Giant Strength	Spell	Divine Enhancement
12	Disarm	Skill	Basics
12	Fireproof	Spell	Protective
12	Mountaineering	Skill	Basics
12	Poison	Spell	Divine Maladictions
12	Summon	Spell	Transportation
12	Third Attack	Skill	Basics
13	Blind Fighting	Skill	Basics
13	Blindness	Spell	Divine Maladictions
13	Cure Disease	Spell	Curative
13	Dodge	Skill	Basics
13	Infravision	Spell	Divine Enhancement
14	Cure Poison	Spell	Curative
14	Spellcraft	Skill	Basics
14	Weaken	Spell	Divine Maladictions
15	Cure Critical	Spell	Healing
15	Gaze	Skill	Balanx
15	Locate Object	Spell	Detection
15	Meditation	Skill	Basics
15	Riding	Skill	Basics
15	Time Slip	Skill	Balanx
15	Time Stop	Spell	Balanx
16	Farsight	Spell	Detection
16	Identify	Spell	Divine Utility
17	Gate	Spell	Divine Utility
17	Plague	Spell	Divine Maladictions
18	Call Lightning	Spell	Divine Weather
18	Curse	Spell	Divine Maladictions
18	Fly	Spell	Divine Utility
18	Remove Curse	Spell	Benedictions
19	Herbal	Skill	Basics
19	Waypoint	Spell	Transportation
20	Sanctuary	Spell	Divine Utility
20	Self Projection	Spell	Illusion
21	Faerie Fog	Spell	Divine Weather
21	Haste	Spell	Balanx
21	Heal	Spell	Healing
22	Energy Drain	Spell	Divine Maladictions
22	Mass Invis	Spell	Illusion
22	Teleport	Spell	Transportation
23	Lightning Bolt	Spell	Divine Weather
24	Dispel Magic	Spell	Divine Utility
24	Frenzy	Spell	Benedictions
24	Proximity Dispel	Spell	Protective
26	Cancellation	Spell	Divine Utility
26	Fourth Attack	Skill	Balanx Legacy
28	Peek	Skill	Basics
30	Portal	Spell	Divine Utility
30	Protection Cold	Spell	Protective
30	Protection Fire	Spell	Protective
30	Rewind	Skill	Balanx
32	Pass Door	Spell	Divine Utility
35	Nexus	Spell	Divine Utility
35	Reckoning	Skill	Balanx
35	Shield	Spell	Divine Utility
37	Tornado	Spell	Divine Weather
38	Mass Healing	Spell	Healing
40	Slow	Spell	Balanx
40	Stasis	Skill	Balanx
40	Stone Skin	Spell	Protective
45	Equilibrium	Skill	Balanx
50	Sanctify	Spell	Benedictions
51	Hour of Reckoning	Skill	Balanx

Balanx of Algoron

The 2 balanx seen in Algoron this past year, highest level first.

Name	Lvl	God	Gender	Hours	Last Seen
Ankabasanu	51	Sebatis	Female	716	5/19/2026
Zyphros	51	Kwainin	Male	150	10/6/2026