[spoiler] alright, cool. [/spoiler. "Tempests are beings, cousins to Psions, that can manipulate time. We can stop it, speed it up, slow it down, among quite a few other things. I am one myself. As are you. You just slowed down time when you grabbed my sword. To any other person, you would've looked like you did it with super speed. But I'm immune to time effects."