Table of Contents

Introduction

Character Creation

Spells

You get new spells as they are listed on the Character Progression Tables. You also get one bonus spell from years 1-5 based on the type of spell of your wand core. For example, by Year 5, a wizard with a Unicorn Hair wand core will know 5 extra charm spells, one of each year level. Wandless Magic

When you gain a 2nd-year, 3rd-year, and 4th-year spell for your wandless magic, you can choose from the list of spells you already know. If you do so, replace the spell with a new spell from its year level.

You're All Set!

If you've followed this step-by-step guide, you will have a 1st-year character ready to begin your foray into the wonderful world of HOGWARTS!

Example Sheet

Included is an example sheet for Gonzo G'nache, a 1st-year Hufflepuff student who has just completed his sorting hat ceremony.

Quirks

The first step to creating a character is to choose a quirk that provides something special or unique about your character, something that justifies them being a major character in the story you are about to tell together. The GM might also assign your character additional quirks based on the events of the plot (such as being bitten by a werewolf).

Choose a quirk based on the flavour, not on the mechanics. Don't worry about what the mechanics mean until you've finished your entire character. Keep your focus on the storytelling, not on meticulously constructing the most powerful character you can.

Many of these quirks are forbidden at Hogwarts. You can still pick a "forbidden" quirk, but you will need to keep that quirk hidden, as if it is discovered, you may be expelled.

House Elf Companion

A house elf is indebted to you. He or she follows you around and attempts to help you out in any way it can. At Hogwarts, house elves stay in their own quarters at night and their movements around the castle are heavily restricted.

Your house elf occasionally helps you with your problems, potentially adding a boost die to your checks at the GM's discretion.

Obliviated

Your memory was permanently erased by a powerful casting of obliviate. You woke up on the Hogwarts Express with no memory of who you were or how you got here.

The GM will later assign you a second quirk when your character discovers the reason your memory was erased.

Parseltongue

You can speak the language of snakes. While this quirk is not forbidden, it does make others suspicious of you.

Prophet

You receive vague premonitions of the future. Work with the GM to provide your character with interesting metaphorical visions of what horrors are to come in the year.

Scar

You have a scar across your forehead from an attempt on your life as a baby. The great wizard who failed to kill you with the killing curse is now inextricably linked to you. Your scar burns when you are exposed to those tainted by his evil presence, and your dreams are haunted by his specter. Your scar makes you a legendary hero, the One Who Lived.

You can upgrade an ability die when making a check to identify signs or agents of evil.

Stolen Wand

You possess a wand stolen from a much older and more powerful wizard. It is a better wand than you could ever hope to own, but it is not yours, and it knows it.

At character creation, pick three spells to add to the spells you know: one 4th-year spell, one 5th-year spell, and one restricted spell.

Whenever you roll a backfire die for a spell cast from this wand, the spell backfires on a blank or on an advantage.

This quirk is forbidden.

Undead

Through dark magic, you were brought back from the dead. You are practically impervious to pain and barely realize when you have been wounded.

You gain three ranks in the Resistance talent.

This quirk is forbidden.

Unforgivable

Your conscience is forever tainted by casting an unforgivable curse. You are equally haunted with regret and enticed by the power you felt when you cast it.

You know one of the three unforgivable curses (avada kedavra, crucio, or imperio) and either your Charisma or Courage scores increase by 1 at character creation.

This quirk is forbidden.

Veela

Through your veins swims the blood of the veela, a race of seductive monsters that are said in legends to have led sailors to their watery graves.

At character creation, your Charisma score increases by 1 and you gain a rank in the Charm talent.

This quirk is forbidden.

Werewolf

You suffer from the curse of lycanthropy. Under the light of the full moon, you transform into a terrible half-human, half-wolf hybrid that fights with unnatural strength and cannot be killed. Your clothes and equipment don't transform with you. You return to your human form at dawn, retaining no memories of the night time.

In your hybrid form, you retain your Courage, Dexterity, and Perception scores. Your Brawn becomes 5, your Charisma becomes 1, and your Intelligence becomes 1. You can't benefit from talents. You can't speak. You don't remember your life as a human.

This quirk is forbidden.

Witness to Death

You have watched someone you know die. With this sorrowful knowledge, your third eye has been awakened to many melancholy truths, such as the nature of the thestrals that guide students to Hogwarts' gates, or the sadness of the ghosts that wander Hogwarts' halls.

Abilities

There are six abilities in the game.

• Brawn
• Charisma
• Courage
• Dexterity
• Intelligence
• Perception

Your score in each ability corresponds to how many ability dice you roll when making a check. For example, if your Brawn score is 3, you roll 3 ability dice when making a check that relates to your Brawn.

Talents

Each ability has four talents associated with it. Each rank in a talent allows you to upgrade one ability die into a proficiency die. For example, if you have a Brawn score of 3 and 2 ranks in Sports, you roll 1 ability die and 2 proficiency dice.

If you have more ranks in a talent than your score in the associated ability, you instead add one ability die to the check. For example, if you have a Brawn score of 1 and 3 ranks in Sports, you roll 1 proficiency die and 2 ability dice.

Dexterity

• Flying. You expertly use a broomstick.
• Quick Draw. You draw your wand. In duels, this check determines who goes first.
• Skulduggery. You engage in unethical practices like picking locks or setting traps.
• Stealth. You remain quiet and unseen.

Intelligence

• Cunning. You concoct an elaborate web of lies, half-truths, and misinformation.
• Memory. You recall obscure information relevant to your situation.
• Research. You research old and eldritch knowledge.
• Scripture. You take detailed notes, sketches, diagrams, and charts.

Perception

• Alertness. You listen for hidden people and react to sudden danger. In monster encounters, this check determines who goes first.
• Detail. You carefully scan a small area for important details.
• Insight. You read a person's face to determine if they have ulterior motives.
• Observation. You watch a large area for broad impressions and key features.

Supplies

As a first year student, you are required to have the following supplies. These supplies are necessary for certain aspects of life as a student in Hogwarts.

Wand Cores

The core of a wand determines the kind of magic that the wand is best suited to casting.

Choose a 1st-Year spell of the wand's associated type to learn when you receive the wand from your GM. You also learn one spell of the associated type from each subsequent year at Hogwarts (for example, when going into your third year, you learn one 3rd-Year spell of the associate type).

Houses

As a first year student, you don't receive a house at character creation. Instead, you are given a house by the GM during the sorting hat ceremony.

The sorting hat recognises inner strengths within you that you may not have realized were there yourself. As such, receiving your house makes you aware that one of your abilities is lower than it should be.

You can't increase an ability score above 3 in this way.

Spells

Year of Entry

Your group may agree to start in 2nd year or later, rather than 1st. To accommodate this choice, the following table shows what resources you have available to you at character creation. The chart tracks cumulative totals.

To clarify talent ranks, at first year, your talent ranks are determined by your ability scores. For each subsequent year, you add one rank to three different talents of your choice. You can increase your talent ranks to a maximum level equal to your year level in this way, but quirks, pets, and other effects can increase them higher.

Character Progression Table (Cumulative)

Magic

Spells

Spells are organised by the year in which you learn them at Hogwarts. More spells become available to you up until 5th year, at which point all spells become available and you can focus your final years of study on mastery.

Noink

Charm

You permanently make invisible a short message you have written in ink.

Backfire. The words reappear after 7 days.

Nox

Counter-Spell

You extinguish the effects of lumos in a wand.

Backfire. The effects are extinguished only for a few seconds.

Pack

Charm

Objects you have arranged in front of a trunk or other piece of luggage pack themselves neatly inside if they can fit.

Backfire. They just jam themselves in there with no regard for neatness.

Petrificus Totalus

Curse

A human's legs and arms become locked to their side for one minute. The target usually falls down.

Backfire. The effects last only for a few seconds.

Point Me

Charm

Your wand is lightly and insistently pulled in the cardinal direction North for one minute.

Backfire. The direction is random.

Quietus

Counter-Spell

A human's magically-magnified voice is reduced to its normal volume.

Backfire. The effects return after only a few seconds.

Quaff

Jinx

You compel a human to drink from a cup in front of them. This spell has no effect if the liquid in the cup is harmful.

Backfire. The target doesn't open their mouth and the drink splashes all over their clothes.

Reparo

Charm

You mend a small object. If constituent pieces have broken off, they fly back together and reform.

Backfire. The object is mended incorrectly and takes on a different form or function.

Sonorus

Charm

You amplify a human's voice for one minute.

Backfire. The amplification is painfully loud for anyone who can hear it.

Wingardium Leviosa

Charm

You levitate a small object for one minute. You can control the object's movement through the air.

Backfire. The object levitates uncontrollably higher and higher.

2nd-Year Spells

Expulso

Curse

You cause a small object to violently explode, potentially causing harm to those around it.

Backfire. Half a dozen more objects nearby also violently explode.

Ferula

Healing

You set a human or animal's broken bone with a magically-conjured bandage and splint.

Backfire. The bandage and splint are applied improperly and must be fixed by hand.

Frigoriflam

Charm

A flame's heat is nullified, rendering the fire harmless to animals and humans. The flame still burns objects.

Backfire. The flame roars and spreads quickly if left unchecked.

Limax Vomite

Hex

You force a human to vomit a slug. The target vomits another slug every 10-20 minutes for the next few hours.

Backfire. You vomit slugs instead.

Mobilicorpus

Hex

You levitate a human a few centimeters above the ground for one minute. You control where they float.

Backfire. The target floats in random directions uncontrollably.

Objectum Mutatio

Transfiguration

You turn an object into another object of the same size for one hour.

Backfire. The effects last only for a few minutes.

Obliviate

Curse

You erase a human's memory of the past few minutes. Powerful wizards can extend the amount of memory that is erased.

Backfire. Your memory is erased instead.

Oppugno

Hex

If cast immediately following a transfiguration spell that conjured objects or animals, they become hostile to a target of your choice and attack them.

Backfire. The conjured objects or animals become hostile to you instead.

Perpendiculum

Jinx

You cause a human to trip.

Backfire. You also trip.

Protego

Counter-Spell

You create a magical shield that reflects jinxes, hexes, and curses back at their caster, making them the target of the spell instead of you. The shield lasts for one minute or until it is hit with a jinx, hex, or curse. This spell can be cast quickly in response to a wizard casting a jinx, hex, or curse, shielding yourself immediately; to do so, you must succeed on a Quick Draw check.

Backfire. The new target of the spell is randomly determined.

Protero

Charm

Speak the name of an object within 1 metre of you. It flies to a spot you determine within 100 metres of you.

Backfire. It flies off in a random direction.

Reducio

Counter-Spell

An object or animal that has magically increased in size returns to its normal size.

Backfire. The effects return after only a few seconds.

Regularis Figura

Counter-Spell

You cause an animagus or transfigured object to take its normal shape. Objects or animals created through a transfiguration spell disappear into nothingness.

Backfire. The effects return after only a few seconds.

Rennervate

Counter-Spell

You awaken a human or animal that has been magically put to sleep.

Backfire. The effects return after only a few seconds.

Rictusempra

Jinx

A human becomes overwhelmed as though they were being violently tickled.

Backfire. You also feel as though you are being violently tickled.

Serpentsortia

Transfiguration

You conjure a small non-poisonous snake that slithers from the tip of your wand.

Backfire. You conjure a dozen snakes, one after the other.

Silencio

Charm

You silence an object, animal, or human for one minute. This can be cast to quickly prevent a wizard from uttering an incantation; to do so, you must succeed on a Quick Draw check.

Backfire. You are silenced instead.

Tarantellegra

Jinx

You cause a human's legs to dance uncontrollably.

Backfire. You join them in the dance, as though you were partners.

3rd-Year Spells

Expecto Patronum

Charm

An incarnation of your innermost positive emotions bursts forth in a bright explosion of light from your wand, pushing back creatures of evil, such as dementors. The spell usually takes the form of a burst of light, but with sufficient positive emotions, it can also take the form of a spirit animal, a patronus, unique to you. Furthermore, with one hundred percent of your positive energy poured forth into the spell, it explodes in a 50-metre sphere of pulsing magical light emanating from your patronus.

Your GM determines the form that your patronus takes. Your patronus can also be used to travel long distances and deliver messages in your voice.

Backfire. The energy returns quickly to your wand due to insufficient positive emotion.

Flagrate

Charm

You leave a fiery mark on an object that leaves a burn in the shape you have drawn.

Backfire. The object catches fire.

Impedimenta

Jinx

You prevent a human or animal from moving closer to your position for one minute. If you move, the effects end.

Backfire. You can't move for one minute.

Impervious

Charm

You enchant a small object to repel substances such as water or effects such as heat.

Backfire. Instead of the substance being repelled from the object, the object is repelled by the substance, causing it to be flung violently away on contact.

Incarcerous

Hex

You restrain a human with magical ropes for one minute.

Backfire. The ropes are not tied very well and can be easily escaped from.

Ingressum

Charm

You prevent sounds and objects from entering or exiting a room or container for one minute.

Backfire. The effects last for only a few seconds.

Liberacorpus

Counter-Spell

You free a human or animal from magical restraints, such as those from the impedimenta spell. The target is freed without harm being done to them; for example, if they are held aloft in the air, they are lowered gently to the ground.

Backfire. The target is freed, but you fall under the restraining effects yourself.

Orchideous

Transfiguration

A bouquet of beautiful, pleasantly fragrant flowers bursts forth from the tip of your wand.

Backfire. The flowers are ugly and smell bad.

Remedium

Healing

You cure a human of a minor nonmagical sickness, such as a cold or a sinus infection.

Backfire. The target sneezes uncontrollably for one hour.

Respirabulla

Charm

A bubble of air forms around a human or animal's head, allowing them to breathe comfortably for one hour.

Backfire. The air in the bubble has an unpleasant odour.

Riddikulus

Charm

You compel a boggart to take the form of something you are concentrating on.

Backfire. The boggart instead takes the form of your greatest fear.

Scourgify

Charm

You clean an object of visible grime.

Backfire. The amount of visible grime is doubled.

Sentis Incommodum

Hex

You cause a human to develop stinging red welts that are painful, itchy, and inflamed.

Backfire. You gain red welts instead.

Stupefy

Hex

You knock a human unconscious for one minute.

Backfire. The effects last only a few seconds.

Tenaxi

Charm

You adhere one object to another indefinitely. The effects have the strength of regular adhesive glue.

Backfire. You accidentally adhere the wrong objects together.

Videodolum

Counter-Spell

For one minute, you can see objects, animals, or humans that would otherwise be hidden through magic.

Backfire. You see objects, animals, or humans that are not there.

Volatus

Charm

You imbue an object with the ability to fly when commanded by a wizard.

Backfire. The object develops a bratty personality.

4th-Year Spells

Nitor

Jinx

You momentarily dazzle a human by flashing colourful lights in their eyes.

Backfire. Everyone in a 10-metre radius of you is dazzled, including you.

Piertotum Locomotor

Charm

You imbue an object with the ability to move of its own accord for one hour. It follows your commands.

Backfire. The object does not follow your commands.

Portus

Charm

You imbue an object with the powers of a portkey. Portkeys can be found in the Objects of Power section.

Backfire. The object immediately activates, teleporting you instantly.

Reducto

Curse

You disintegrate a small object, or burn a human-sized hole in a large object.

Backfire. You are knocked backwards by the sudden burst of heat and energy.

Relashio

Hex

You create a burst of hot sparks that causes a human to drop what they are holding. This spell can be cast quickly to prevent another wizard from completing the casting of a spell; to do so, you must succeed on a Quick Draw check.

Backfire. The sparks cause everyone within 10 metres of you to drop what they're holding.

Sanamente

Healing

You soothe the mind of a troubled human, bringing them peace through meditation for 1 hour.

Backfire. The target's anxieties return worse than before.

Specialus Revelio

Counter-Spell

You force an object to reveal its magical properties, which emanate from the object as a shadowy echo. If the object is a potion, its ingredients are also revealed.

Backfire. A random unrelated magical effect is revealed instead.

5th-Year And Over Spells

Legilimens

Curse

You reach into the mind of a human and pull out specific memories, thoughts, or emotions for you to read.

Backfire. You are overwhelmed by the contents of their mind.

Occlumens

Counter-Spell

You shield your mind from magic, such as from spells like legilimens and obliviate, for one minute. You can cast this spell quickly to prevent a wizard accessing your mind; to do so, you must succeed on a Quick Draw check.

Backfire. You transmit your thoughts to everyone nearby for ten seconds.

Prior Incantato

Counter-Spell

You target a wizard's wand. A shadowy echo of the last spell cast from that wand emanates from its tip.

Backfire. A spell randomly chosen from further back in its history appears instead.

Repello Muggletum

Charm

You enchant a building or room to repel muggles for 7 days. Muggles find themselves unable to perceive the room or building with their normal senses and feel magically compelled to leave if they stumble inside. They retain no memory of the place.

Backfire. The target repels both muggles and wizards.

Revivify

Healing

Immediately after a human or animal dies of unnatural, nonmagical causes, you bring them back to life on a successful Quick Draw check.

Backfire. They are permanently scarred by their experiences, mentally and physically.

Sensamagna

Charm

Your natural senses are heightened for one hour. You can see in all directions at once, you can hear whispers as loud as a scream, and your sense of smell is good enough to track the scents of individual creatures.

Backfire. You suffer from sensory overload.

Restricted Spells

These spells are not made available to students at Hogwarts through regular channels, and you can't select them through your wand core, wandless magic, quirks, or other features unless they explicitly say you can. They can only be learned by secretly researching them in the Restricted Section, practicing them in secret in places like the Room of Requirement, or by being taught by a specialist.

Some teachers may decide that the crisis calls for some spells being introduced to students so they know what they might be up against. These special classes do not usually include a practical component.

The use of restricted spells is an indicator that a student is practicing the Dark Arts. Being caught could mean expulsion.

Levicorpus

Hex

You flip a human upside down and hang them aloft by their ankle for one minute.

Backfire. You drop them on their head after a few seconds and the effects end.

Morsmordre

Curse

You trace a tattoo of evil on the arm of a human, a Dark Mark. For the effects of the Dark Mark, see its section in Quirks.

Backfire. The target's skin blisters and burns where the tattoo is applied.

Muffliato

Hex

You cause a loud buzzing in the ears of a human, deafening them for one hour.

Backfire. Everyone within 30 metres of you develops buzzing in their ears, including you.

Necromancum

Healing

You reanimate the corpse of a human or animal. The corpse has no mind of its own and follows your commands.

Backfire. You can't control the corpse. It wanders aimlessly.

Sectumsempra

Curse

You slash your wand in the direction of a human, as though you were slicing them with a sword. Deep gashes appear in their body where your wand would slash them.

Backfire. Instead of gashes, you completely sever bits off of the target's body.

Squibify

Counter-Spell

You permanently remove the ability of the target to use magic.

Backfire. The target regains their magical abilities after 7 days, and you permanently lose yours.

Taboo

Charm

You designate a word or phrase. For the next 7 days, when that word or phrase is spoken anywhere in the world, you know the exact location of the speaker.

Backfire. You are no longer able to speak the word or phrase yourself until the effects end.

Variant Spell Rules

There are two variant rules which may make casting spells more interesting and challenging for your party. The GM should discuss these rules with the players to better suit the kind of challenge that they want to face in the game.

Potions

Potions have particular magical effects when drunken. Usually, the brewing of a potion is handled by a Research or Scripture check and the identification of a potion is handled by a Memory or Scripture check. Like spells, a potion's effects may backfire (roll upon drinking), which are a representation of the risk of incorrectly mixing ingredients as well as the chaotic nature of magic in general.

The potion's ingredients and instructions are assumed to be handwaved, as the story that is told as a result of the potion is more important than the specifics of how it is made. Some ingredients may be mentioned for their story potential.

• Common. These potions are learned and mastered by all students at Hogwarts. They usually take an hour or two to brew and require success on a medium ability check.
• Rare. These potions require specialised study or training. They usually take weeks or months to brew and require success on a hard ability check.
• Restricted. These potions are not made available to students at Hogwarts through regular channels. They invariably take many months to brew and require success on a hard ability check.

Common

Rare

Restricted

The ingredients and instructions for restricted potions can only be learned through research in the Restricted Section, experimenting in secret, or by being taught by a specialist. The brewing of a restricted potion is an indicator that a student is practicing the Dark Arts. Being caught could mean expulsion.

Objects of Power

Objects of power have a variety of strange and wondrous effects. These are divided into common items that might be found around Hogwarts and legendary items that are one-of-a-kind. Legendary objects of power are items that witches and wizards have died to obtain, or been killed by jealous rivals just for possessing them. Such is their power.

Deluminator

Flicking the striker of this lighter absorbs the light from nearby light sources, extinguishing them. Its wielder can choose instead to release all of the light collected by the deluminator in a flash of brilliance that stuns everyone that can see it.

Exploding Snap Cards

This deck of cards can be played similar to the game Snap. The loser’s cards burst in a puff of smoke and are temporarily destroyed, reforming on the next dawn with the rest of the pack.

Floo Powder

This magical dust transports the user through the Floo Network, a set of fireplaces connected through magical leylines. To use it, you must throw the dust at your feet and clearly state your destination. If used incorrectly, you will be randomly transported to another fireplace in the network.

Gillyweed

Eating gillyweed lets you breathe underwater for 1 hour.

Golden Snitch

This magical flying ball darts manically around like a hummingbird.

Howler

Using a howler, you record an angry message and send it through the owl network. The envelope folds itself into a mouth and screams your message at the recipient.

Invisibility Cloak

This cloak has been enchanted to render its wearer totally invisible. The wearer can still be detected through other senses like hearing and smell, or through magical sensors like a probity probe. You add a boost die to any check made to hide from others. Common invisibility cloaks lose their potency after only a few uses or if they suffer even minor rips or tears.

Mokeskin Pouch

This pouch can only be opened by its owner.

Omnioculars

This magical double-spyglass can zoom in and out at great distances according to the watcher’s whim.

Portkey

A portkey is an object enchanted with the portus spell. A portkey is linked to a specific location, transporting people to that location when a parameter is triggered (usually touching the portkey or uttering a password).

Probity Probe

When this rod is waved in front of a human or object that has been enchanted to conceal its identity or deceive others, the tip of the rod glows brightly.

Quaffle

This magical ball is enchanted to resist the effects of gravity.

Remembrall

When you hold this glass sphere, red liquid swims within if you have forgotten something important.

Revealer

Using this rubber on magical invisible ink renders the ink visible.

Sneakoscope

This glass spinning top leaps upright, spins wildly, lights up, and lets off a high-pitched whistle if in the presence of deception or criminal activity.

Trunk of Holding

This normal-sized magical trunk contains 30 square meters of space within. Some wizards prefer their trunk of holding to take the form of a suitcases or purse.

Wizard’s Chess Set

This enchanted chess set functions as regular chess, but the pieces come alive and murder each other when they are captured. Destroyed pieces reform at dawn each day.

Legendary

Invisibility Cloak

This cloak has been enchanted to render its wearer totally invisible. The wearer can still be detected through other senses like hearing and smell, or through magical sensors like a probity probe. You add a boost die to any check made to hide from others. Unlike its common variant, this unique legendary invisibility cloak is unbreakable and does not lose its potency over time.

Marauder’s Map

This detailed map of Hogwarts shows the location and true identity of everyone within its walls, represented by footprints.

Mirror of Erised

When gazing into this mirror, you see a representation of your greatest desire, visible only to you. The mirror can be enchanted to store objects which can only be retrieved by those who see them as their greatest desire.

Pensieve

This large silver bowl contains the memories of wizards who extract their own memories with legilimens and place them inside, taking the form of a swirling silver liquid. A wizard can plunge their head into the bowl to experience a memory for themselves, walking around as though they were there. The pensieve accurately reflects the past, meaning that an observer can potentially experience details that the original source of the memory did not remember. Powerful wizards like Dumbledore routinely search their own memories in the pensieve for information that they might have missed.

Philosopher’s Stone

This stone restores the youth of its holder.

Ravenclaw’s Diadem

This silver diadem appears to its chosen hero in times of great need. Wearing this tiara makes the owner irresistibly charming. Their Charisma is set to 5 and they add two boost dice to any Charisma check.

Resurrection Stone

This stone returns a dead human to life. The target of the stone is stripped of emotions and affection and dies again after 7 days unless the stone is used continuously on them.

Slytherin's Locket

This golden locket appears to its chosen hero in times of great need. The wearer can summon and control snakes at will, creating potentially hundreds of snakes of the wearer’s choice, each of which follow the wearer’s command. The locket can also be used to control reptilian monsters such as dragons and basilisks.

Sorting Hat

This magical black hat is sentient and can read the wearer’s innermost thoughts and desires. At Hogwarts, the sorting hat determines a student’s house by declaration.

Time Turner

This magical timepiece, taking the form of a clockwork hourglass on a necklace, allows the wielder to travel back in time. To do so, they must wind the hourglass back a certain number of hours (maximum twenty-four hours). The wielder can only remain in the past for up to five hours, and they are unable to change the future, as their actions in the past have already occurred.