‌Stratified Era (Stacked Epochs) - Core Concept

Imagine the multiverse as a stack of transparent films, each layer a parallel timeline. Civilizations "leap" between layers using entropy-powered bridges, but each jump leaves ghostly "echo civilizations" behind, piling up like sedimentary rock. Time travelers pay a price: new memories physically crystallize in their brains ("mnemonic crystallosis"), eventually freezing their minds.

Factions wage "causal wars" using bizarre weapons:

‌Paradox Mycocultures‌: Self-replicating microbes that eat logical consistency
‌Butterfly Restraints‌: Devices that lock key historical events in place
The result? History becomes a scrambled palimpsest—every record contains conflicting versions of reality, like a book endlessly rewritten by rival authors.