A personification of objective, or false-time, as opposed to subjective, or real-time. Ancient (pre-Expansion) humans pictured time as a straight road or “line” that mortals walked from birth to death (see: Time Lines), hence the expression, “You’ve come to the end of the line.” At the end of the line stood a tall and lanky, some might say skeletal old man, robed cowled, with a long grey beard and a long grey sickle. As the individual neared the end of his/her/their line, Father Time would raise his mighty sickle and cut her/him/them down. In the cycles before Running In Place and other means of life extension were readily available, this murder was seen as a mercy killing. A variation on this view of Father Time is found in the Brand New Testament of the March Baptists. Father Time is said to be a malicious, hunch-backed demon, brother to Lucifer. FT follows behind you from birth to death, rolling up your line as you go until you reach the end and, having no line behind you on which to retreat, fall into the Watery Abyss of the Anti-Zed.