Xaelion Additions 2.1.0-beta.1 — Kahnos, God of Time (first preview)

A first look at the fourth character: Kahnos, the God of Time. This beta brings his form, his halo, his transformation and his flight. His 50 divine and 20 ceremonial powers are listed but not yet manifested; they arrive in the next updates.

Kahnos

• Become Kahnos with /kahnos become. A great golden clock assembles on the ground around you, gears circle faster and faster, a pillar of light rises, and he is revealed in a burst of light and a shockwave. /kahnos become instant skips the ceremony, /kahnos revert lets the form go (it breaks apart into shards of light).
• Awaken with /kahnos awaken: a clock the size of the sky assembles overhead, descends, and becomes his halo, which grows a second ring of numerals.
• His form: long layered white hair, a clockwork crown, white, gold and navy robes over many hanging layers, golden pauldrons and bracers with blue gems, a starry cape, clock pendants on fine chains, fully jointed fingers, and the Chronoscepter, a golden staff crowned with a ringed clock-crystal. Hair, cape, sleeves, robes and chains all move with him, stream behind him in flight and sway in a soft divine wind.
• The Great Chronological Halo floats behind him: Roman numerals, celestial inscriptions, ticking hands, meshing gears, hanging chains, drifting shards of a broken clock face and turning astronomical rings. It reacts to what he does: it speeds up, stops and even runs backwards.
• Gestures: pointing, snapping, raising a hand, two-handed casting, reading a timeline, summoning, judgment, teleporting, opening a rift, the ultimate, a bow, arms folded while he hovers, sitting, and any of them played in reverse. The staff floats at his side whenever he needs both hands.
• Five flight modes (press G to change, Sneak + G to go back): Ascendant Levitation (slow, stately hover), Temporal Glide, Chrono Acceleration (afterimages trail behind him), Moment Skip (he seems to skip from one moment to the next) and Eternal Velocity (the fastest, with light streaking past the edges of your view). Flight works like normal flight underneath, so it is smooth in multiplayer and nothing is teleported. Kahnos takes no fall damage, and if he lets the form go in mid-air he drifts down slowly.
• Cinematic camera for the transformation and awakening. Press Backspace to skip. Other players only see the spectacle in the world; their camera is never moved unless they turn on "watch others' cinematics".
• Timeline tools for admins (/kahnos timeline ...): save a snapshot of an area, preview it and restore it later, spread over several ticks so the server never stalls, with an undo, protected areas and a confirmation for big restores.

Settings

• Only operators can become Kahnos by default (server config kahnos-server.toml; you can also list exactly who may).
• Client options: cinematic camera, watch others' cinematics, reduce flashes, screen shake, particle density, and "always shader-safe effects".
• Server option flightSpeedMultiplier if fast flight outruns chunk loading on your server.
• Works with shader packs (Iris / Oculus): his body uses the normal entity rendering and every glow and effect switches to shader-safe drawing automatically.

Seraveil, Zephyra and the Xaelion creatures are unchanged in this version.

Flashback: this version adds a new entity and new network messages, so recordings made with 2.0.0 or earlier will not replay correctly with it. Keep a copy of 2.0.0 if you want to watch old recordings.