All of the Effects described below leave temporal disturbances in their wake; the bigger the Effects, the bigger the disturbance. Other Time-savvy characters can sense those disturbances (typically with a Perception + Awareness roll), and may be waiting to see what happens if and when a time-traveling character emerges from the temporal stream.

Generally, a temporal disruption looks like a ripple or wave in the “fabric” of time and space. Such ripples and analogies may have inspired the Tapestry metaphor as a model for Creation. Some mages detect temporal fluxes as “ghost-sounds” from other times, as ticking clocks, or as the sensory echo of things that either have occurred in the past, or are likely to occur in the future. Matrix-style “bullet-time” could mark areas where time either speeds up or slows down for a few seconds, while a feeling of déjà vu creeps in around smaller or more subtle disruptions. Really massive, vulgar fluctuations may cause stutters, freezes, and other supposedly impossible alterations to the local reality; in such cases, a Paradox backlash is almost certain to occur, and may already be in progress…