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An immortal soul is often one that is lost, floating in time without meaning or purpose. But what if their purpose was time? What if that being found meaning in the passage of time, and dedicated their life to documenting it?

This is what Adam thought when he first began to grow bored of the years passing by like days, decades like weeks, and centuries like years. What if I could capture time, display it, and even capture it in my hand? The man who knows time is all-powerful, and the man who controls time is even more so.

Adam was born in a dark and damp cave so long ago that time has forgotten who birthed him or where he even originated. The only way Adam and his peers could tell the time was by peering out of the entrance of their cave and watching where the sun was in the sky. This was not satisfactory for Adam. When he was a child, he would spend his days watching the shadows that the sun cast upon the earth move as the day went on. Eventually, he learned to use these shadows to help him tell the time.

After some years, Adam decided that it was time for him to set out on his own. He ended up in Egypt, where he used his knowledge of the shadows of time to assist Egyptian scholars in the invention of the sundial. After this revelation, Adam began traveling the world, obsessed with time and how it was measured by different cultures around the world. He was there when the first grandfather clock was assembled and assisted in its transformation into a mechanism so small that it could fit into one’s pocket. Unfortunately, even though this pocket watch could be kept safe on one’s person, it could not display its magnificence and power like the glorious watches that came before it.

In Adam’s opinion, a personal watch was best stored in a more convenient place, wherein it could be gazed upon and admired by yourself and others. And so, in time, Adam invented the wristwatch. It was his proudest invention; Adam delighted in watching the hands on his wristwatch tick-tick-tick to a new time. Adam’s newest watch went everywhere with him- he crossed continents with it, explored oceans and new horizons. It went with him to every event, every celebration, every important moment in his life.

Adam knew that there were others like him; mortal beings entranced by the passage of time and obsessed with documenting and observing it. As he traveled, Adam gathered these people. They exchanged letters, telegrams, phone calls, and texts. His group of time admirers eventually came to call themselves the Wrist Tribe, after the wristwatch that they all admired so. To this day, many members- including Adam, if you can manage to find him- of the Wrist Tribe keep the organization going strong. They meet to discuss the latest fashions in wrist and other watches, always starting and ending their meetings by the sounding of their heirloom clock, one of the first grandfather clocks ever made by Adam. As long as time continues to march on, so will the Wrist Tribe and their clocks.