Tempus is an agent of Immortus. He claims to have existed in his own dimension, a "chronal continuum," a "world existing outside the time we know but obviously paralleling our own," since the "beginning of eternity", unchanging. The ennui of his existence has given him a desire for his own death. Immortus, however, claims to have created Tempus himself, fashioning him from "the very ether of Limbo."