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9	->''The Burrow was like being in the television store of the Gods, which honestly, it kind of was. Gina looked around at the thousands of monitors in awe. While Alix hung out with her often, she was particular about letting people into the Burrow. Gina had only been here a couple of times, and this was the first time Alix hadn't bothered to blindfold her. "Is all this going on right now?"\
10	Alix chuckled. "Sweetie, right now there's no such thing as 'right now.' In here, we stand outside of time. This is everything, everywhere."''
11	-->-- ''Fanfic/TheMiraculousWorldOfCalineBustier'', "What To Do When You're Grounded"
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13	Unlike tropes where travel between two worlds has a fixed time relationship like [[YearInsideHourOutside passing faster on one side]] or even when the relationship is [[NarniaTime loose, vague but still exists]], the Place Beyond Time is, as the name would suggest, a place that is defined by the fact that it has no internal sense of time nor a sense of when it should be accessible to the regular world. When a character enters such a place, they may meet another from their world's past or future who also, from their own point of view, has just stepped inside. Often, they can also leave to any point in time.
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15	The trope is often described quite literally as beyond time as though one has made a fifth dimensional movement to step outside normal time. Thus, the Place Beyond Time may also be a PocketDimension. Sometimes the Place Beyond Time is actually a particular time -- it is 10:42pm on the last day of the universe's existence, but it will remain so as TimeStandsStill, so the reason why people can go there and exit at any time is because getting there is time travel anyway.
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17	In a TimeTravel story, people in the Place Beyond Time can expect to have {{Ripple Effect Proof Memor\|y}}ies, and to be immune to timeline changes making them RetGone. Also expect TimeTravelTenseTrouble if trying to discuss what's happening in the [[MeanwhileInTheFuture normal world]]. There can also be more than one.
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19	See also ArcadianInterlude, JustOneSecondOutOfSync, VoidBetweenTheWorlds.
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22	!!Examples:
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25	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
26	* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': The Null Realm is an endless void with no time or matter. It is where the Tournament of Power is held.
27	* In ''Manga/GetterRobo Armageddon'', this is where the protagonists [[spoiler:eventually end up in order to eternally fight the [[EldritchAbomination Invaders]]]].
28	* Ayato and Haruka end up in a place like this in ''Anime/RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio''. In fact, Ayato himself is this trope, having become the [[PowersThatBe Observer of Time]].
29	* In ''Anime/{{Suzume}}'', the Great Wyrm dwells in the Ever After, the realm of the deceased where the past, present, and future exist simultaneously in a moment of twilight. [[spoiler:Suzume meets her past self due to this and initiates a StableTimeLoop.]]
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32	[[folder:Comic Books]]
33	* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
34	** ComicBook/DoctorFate's headquarters, the Tower of Fate, is a nexus of parallel realities and exists outside of conventional space and time.
35	** The Rock of Eternity in the ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}[=/=]Captain Marvel'' cosmology. As of ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', the Rock occupies the relative center of the Orrery of Worlds, outside [[TheMultiverse the 52 universes]] of the Orrery.
36	** Vanishing Point, a base that exists during the last possible moment in the universe, right before entropy ends everything. While not ''technically'' outside of time, it is suspended in a null-time bubble (so that the last microsecond doesn't tick over and implode everyone inside, naturally) and is the favored base of operations for time travellers.
37	** The Linear Men had it first and acted as the TimePolice for the DCU. They eventually became {{Knight Templar}}s and got disbanded.
38	** Vanishing Point was then taken over by the Time Stealers, a group of time traveling criminals. They got kicked out.
39	** Currently occupying the station are ComicBook/BoosterGold, Rip Hunter, Skeets, and Goldstar, who have taken over TimePolice duties. Vanishing Point got blown up in ''The Return of [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]]'', which didn't faze them much -- they just took up residence in the station from right before when that happened. [[TimeyWimeyBall Don't think about it too hard]].
40	* In the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic story ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoMagazine403To405TheStockbridgeChild The Stockbridge Child]]'', the Tenth Doctor and Maxwell Edison are shown [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tardis/images/d/d3/After-Universe.jpg/revision/20170417055339 a vision of the after-universe]], from which the Lokhus hails.
41	* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
42	** "Limbo", the home of Immortus (and possibly some other folks like the Time Variance Authority). One of the depictions of the Axis of Time (see below under Western Animation) matches it exactly. Note: not (usually) to be confused with either of two other Limbos in the Marvel Universe, which have different spacetime-related properties. One of those other Limbos (associated with the demon Belasco and the sorceress [[ComicBook/XMen Illyana Rasputin]]) has non-linear time. Doctor Doom once pointed out that can't be the real Limbo because time still exists in it, even if it behaves oddly.
43	** The Crystal Palace, home base of the ComicBook/{{Exiles}}, is situated outside the multiverse.
44	** ''ComicBook/RiseOfThePowersOfX:'' Krakoa's No-Place has developed into one of these. [[spoiler:Professor X and Cypher use it to try and prevent the various Sinisters in their attempts to become Dominions.]]
45	* The Time Police in ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' is headquartered in Time Ø, a "location" outside the timestream. There's no ground there, so the headquarters and prison itself is a massive space station. For a bit of a BilingualBonus, Ø is a letter that only exists in four closely related languages[[note]]Norwegian, Danish, Faroese, and some Sámi dialects[[/note]], making it "outside" the normal alphabet.
46	* The Castle Beyond Space and Time in ''ComicBook/PS238'', which can apparently only be reached by powerful time travelers -- and Zodon and Tyler, by accident.
47	* Creator/ValiantComics' first company-wide crossover, ''Unity'' (not to be confused with the team of the same name in the 2012 continuity), was centered around the Lost Lands, a place that exists outside of regular time and space where dinosaurs, robots, aliens and other strange elements co-exist.
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50	[[folder:Fan Works]]
51	* In ''Fanfic/MementoVivere'', a VideoGame/FinalFantasyX fanfiction, the Farplane is the time gateway of this story.
52	* In ''Fanfic/TheParselmouthOfGryffindor'', the state of being one enters ''while'' turning a time-turner, sometimes known as the Land of Never Time, the Void Between the Worlds or the Time Vortex, is akin to this.
53	* ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReturnedFromExtinction'' has [[spoiler:[[TomatoInTheMirror the Park itself]]]], which exists in a sort of parallel world connected to Earth via [[Series/{{Primeval}} anomalies]]. The area is also implied to have had anomalies opening there for a '''''long''''' time, as there is an entire civilization there made up of people who have been stranded by time portals.
54	* In ''Fanfic/ShatteredSkiesTheMorningLights'', The Lighthouse is a crystalline structure floating in the VoidBetweenTheWorlds, a sanctuary for {{Magical Girl}}s and their friends [[Franchise/SailorMoon from]] [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura five]] [[Anime/PrettyCure different]] [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha parallel]] [[Franchise/MadokaMagica universes]], fleeing the [[ApocalypseHow destruction of their homes]].
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57	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
58	* ''WesternAnimation/TwiceUponATime'': Most of the denizens outside Din have no concept of time, because the Cosmic Clock doesn't affect them. Synonamess has to explain to Ralph exactly what time ''is''.
59	-->'''Synonamess:''' ''(on the Rushers)'' They don't have the ''time'' to be friendly.\
60	'''Ralph:''' ''[confused]'' What don't they...?\
61	'''Synonamess:''' ''Time''. They have watches, or clocks on their wrists, which tell them the time they don't have because they are always rushing, and...\
62	'''Ralph:''' ''[now UTTERLY confused]'' I'm getting... what is time?\
63	'''Synonamess:''' Two o'clock. Four o'clock. Five o'clock.
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66	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
67	%%* The Machine from ''Film/{{Contact}}'' could be described this way.
68	* In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', the Dark Dimension is identified this way. [[spoiler:Exploited by the eponymous doctor, who brings [[TimeMaster time magic]] in the form of a GroundhogDayLoop to the dimension to defeat Dormammu, who has no concept of time, let alone any control over it.]]
69	* The Nexus in ''Film/StarTrekGenerations''. Kirk is trapped inside it and presumed dead, but when Jean-Luc Picard enters it decades later he meets up with Kirk who from his own point of view had just arrived there. Told that they can go anywhere in time and space should they choose to leave the Nexus, they stop the villain Soran before he can even execute his plan to blow up a star.
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72	[[folder:Literature]]
73	* The Edge of Time from ''Literature/AeonLegionLabyrinth'' where all time overlaps. The Edge of Time appears like a grainy blue haze where people and moving objects in normal time turn into a blur of afterimages. There are two huge energy anomalies there as well, the Beginning of Time, a huge mass of swirling temporal energy that is the source of all time. And the End of Time, a shadowy vortex that tears apart anything that gets close. No one returns from the End of Time. Those who go to the Beginning of Time [[CameBackWrong come back wrong]].
74	* In ''Literature/ChangeWar'', the Recuperation Station is an R&R spot for weary soldiers in the Change War. The war is fought across vast reaches of time by soldiers from all eras. This is the Little Time; the station is outside the usual flow of history in what is known as The Big Time.
75	* As put in ''Literature/ConfessionsSaintAugustine'', {{God}} lives in an eternal Today, where all tomorrows and yesterdays occur simultaneously.
76	* ''Literature/CityBeyondTime'', naturally, of the "particular time" variety.
77	* After winning the final battle against evil in the last book of ''Literature/TheDarkIsRising'' series, ''Literature/SilverOnTheTree'', most of the Old Ones go outside of time.
78	* In ''Literature/TheDarkTower'', all interdimensional travel seems to work like this, with the caveat that the two most primary worlds (Roland's world and [[RealLife the real world]]) don't allow for TimeTravel; you can enter those worlds at any point in history you want, but once you have, even if you leave and come back, it's absolutely impossible to get to an earlier point in time.
79	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
80	** The house of [[TheGrimReaper Death]] acts like this, such that a man due to die in seconds can "live" there indefinitely. The home of Time herself also uses this, unsurprisingly. And many {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s can move between the seconds on the Discworld proper.
81	** ''Literature/{{Eric}}'' states that gods and demons both exist outside of time, and can travel through it fairly freely (the current king of demons visits the end of the universe). In theory, this should make them omniscient, but there's so much going on in reality that keeping track of it all is nigh-impossible.
82	** From ''Literature/IShallWearMidnight'', [[spoiler:Eskarina Smith]] seems to be able to create and/or use... an area outside of time, but time still passes in the real world. Possibly. Needless to say it wasn't exactly explained with any detail.
83	** As explained in ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', the History Monks live on a mountain separate from the normal flow of time, where it is [[spoiler:or rather was]] always the same perfect spring day.
84	** In ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'', the pyramids of Djelibeybi distort time so that, while people go about their lives, and there is a yesterday and a tomorrow, the days that pass by are all fundamentally the same day, which has held the country in cultural stasis for over 7000 years. [[spoiler:The destruction of the pyramids finally allows the country to start to move towards modernity.]]
85	* The protagonist of "Literature/TheDreamsInTheWitchHouse" theorizes that the teleportation through the angles of space could be used to travel outside the Einsteinian time-space continuum into somewhere where time doesn't flow as normal, allowing the traveller to remain there unchanged, and return after decades or centuries without ageing. Judging from the fact that the 18th century witch Keziah Mason is still alive, and visiting Earth briefly every year, he got it right.
86	* The Reverend Mothers in the ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' novels are able to enter a spice-induced trance in which time effectively stops, allowing them to transfer memories, consult with their maternal ancestors, alter their body chemistry, and see through time. [[spoiler:When Paul Atreides takes the Water of Life, he gains this ability to such an extent that he experiences the NOW -- "The future and the past! All at once. All the same".]]
87	* In ''Literature/TheEndOfEternity'', Eternity exists outside of time, and the people living there perform Reality Changes to direct the course of history in the normal world.
88	* This shows up in ''Literature/HumanityHasDeclined''... as part of a scheme from the fairies to get more sweets. They have priority issues.
89	* In the ''Literature/HyperionCantos'' novels, billions of people regularly travel through the farcaster network, which permits instantaneous travel across light-years of distance. Those who pass through a farcaster appear physically the same as when they entered, with no memory of any passage of time. However, subjectively they spend an arbitrarily long interval within the network, [[spoiler:during which time the [=AIs=] are able to harness their minds for raw computing power. To enhance the efficiency of the minds so used, they also torture those in the network in a virtual reality simulation: the Tree of Pain]].
90	* ''Literature/JohannesCabalTheNecromancer'': The PocketDimension is caught in an endless moment where its prisoners lose all sense of time and go through the same motions and any change -- even beating a man to death -- slowly undoes itself. Johannes breaks the spell by MacGyvering a clock to bring time back in, which evicts him [[YearInsideHourOutside only thirty seconds]] after he entered.
91	* ''Literature/TheLicaniusTrilogy'' has the city of Zvaelar, which was ripped out of the timestream by a malfunctioning attempt to travel back in time. Everyone who enters Zvaelar arrives in the city at the exact same moment, regardless of when in the regular timestream they departed from, and if someone escapes Zvaelar they return to the exact moment they left the timestream. Time ''within'' Zvaelar, however, is cumulative, so if someone were to spend three months within Zvaelar, leave, and then return, they'd arrive three months after everyone else.
92	* The Wood Between the Worlds in ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' is a place so timeless that humans are in danger of falling into deep reverie if they stay too long.
93	* Monerva in ''Literature/TheMapToEverywhere'' is a permanently-sinking city at the bottom of a magical whirlpool. The protagonists realise it's also one of these when they meet people in the city who are heroes of various legends detailing their ''escape'' from Monerva, but for them, [[MindScrew the escape hasn't happened yet]]. [[spoiler:When the whirlpool is destroyed and the city evacuated to escape the Iron Tide, everyone returns to the point in time they left in the first place, beginning all the legends.]]
94	* James Mallory's {{novelization}} of ''Series/Merlin1998'' claims that the [[MagicalLand Land of Magic]] exists partially outside time. Humans do not grow or age within it, and to the [[TheFairFolk the fairies]], twenty years ago in the mortal world can seem like only yesterday, though they are aware that time is passing differently there.
95	* ''Literature/TheMessengerSeries'': There is a valley that is reached from the moor where Favour dwells, and is reached via a rocky descent through fog. It exists out of time and, within the fog, the Lord of the Moor's servants attempt to prevent messengers from reaching Favour. As long as a messenger is loyal to Favour, the Lord's evil will not reach them. From this valley, Favour can take his messengers to any place and time.
96	* The eponymous eatery in ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'' functions as one of these, though the bubble of null-time {{technobabble}} in which it resides is apparently capable of moving forwards and backwards in order to let its patrons watch the universe end. It also apparently doesn't stop people taking advantage of a CompoundInterestTimeTravelGambit in order to afford the bill.
97	* ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'': Screwtape tells Wormwood that {{God}}'s nature as a being outside of time explains how His being TheOmniscient does not conflict with free will: God knows what will happen because for Him, the Past, Present, and Future are all Now. "And obviously to watch a man doing something is not to make him do it."
98	* ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'': The House of Foryx from book 4, ''Queste''. People who entered at different Times -- even centuries apart -- can meet inside, and the only way to leave in the same Time you arrived is for someone to come with you and wait outside. Otherwise, you'll end up in a random Time. It is even [[LampshadeHanging called]] "The Place Where All Times Do Meet" because of this.
99	* ''Literature/{{Skyward}}'': The [[EldritchLocation Nowhere]] exists outside of regular space and time, touching on everywhere and everywhen at once. Notably, this means that the delvers (who exist in the Nowhere) are technically able to read the future (though that same achronal perspective gives them a lot of trouble understanding causality, so this is not as big an advantage for them as you'd think).
100	* ''Literature/TheSwordOfShannaraTrilogy'': The [[PrisonDimension Forbidding]] from ''The Elfstones of Shannara'' was a place where the demons of the world were sealed away. A black and completely empty void that was thrown together in a hurry and as such time does not exist there. This also explains why the demons are still alive by the time the story takes place after untold millennia as since time didn't exist, they neither aged nor died from things such as starvation.
101	* The titular Time City in ''Literature/ATaleOfTimeCity'' exists outside of time, from where it can observe the history of the normal world and visit any point in it. However, time does pass inside of it, and it is subjected to echoes from its own future on a daily basis. At the end of the story the city catches up to the events causing them.
102	* The Metal Island in ''Literature/TestOfMetal'', where it is somehow always Now.
103	* In Creator/GeneWolfe's ''The Wizard Knight'' books, time exists at different speeds throughout the different realms.
104	* Timeheart in ''Literature/YoungWizards'', although you can't get there until you die. (At least, not permanently. Wizards are allowed to visit every once in a while.) This is also the reason why the Lone Power continues to be the main antagonist of the series even after [[spoiler:its redemption]] in book three: as an eternal Power that exists outside of time, dipping into physical reality wherever and whenever It pleases, causality doesn't have quite the same effect on It as on mortals, and Its evil self is/was/will be causing trouble at various points in history regardless of what happens in the present. [[spoiler:The effect of its redemption was to fix the influence of its evil self to a finite amount. As the other powers are infinite, or -- well, at least a much larger finity -- the net effect seems to be that it's slowly decreasing, and the universe gets gradually better. Sure, it'll take a bajillion years, but eventually there's a happy ending.]]
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107	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
108	* The titular InnBetweenTheWorlds in ''Series/BarKarma'' is located "before space and behind time".
109	* Time inside the House in ''Series/BeyondTheWalls'' seems to pass normally -- ''if'' it even passes, that is -- but it [[spoiler:doesn't matter when you entered it or how long you spent there, it will always send you back towards ''your'' time, if you manage to leave]].
110	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
111	** The Doctor's home planet, Gallifrey, home of the Time Lords, is often described as being beyond time. As of 2013, it is also described as being in a pocket dimension.
112	** The white void (and possibly the Land of Fiction) from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber The Mind Robber]]".
113	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E5WarriorsGate Warrior's Gate]]", a strange creature forces its way into the TARDIS, steering it to a white void occupied only by the ruins of an old building and a spaceship. This empty space is a gateway to the past and future.
114	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E12ArmyOfGhosts Army of Ghosts]]", the Doctor describes the VoidBetweenTheWorlds as a "dead space" where time and space don't exist as we understand them.
115	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall Spyfall]]", the nowhere-place the [[spoiler:Kasaavin]] come from is implied to be this. [[spoiler:When the Doctor is sent there from 2020, she encounters the future Ada Lovelace visiting from the year 1834 within minutes.]]
116	* ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'': The Lapseless Room, whose occupants are shielded from the flow of time, though it is in sync with the normal world. [[SixthRanger Burai]] must stay here when not in battle due to having a [[LivingOnBorrowedTime drastically reduced lifespan]]. [[spoiler:This is because his suspended-animation cave collapsed on him millennia ago, and Daizyujin couldn't be arsed to have Clotho fully restore Burai's life force, instead just having Clotho restore a few days' worth so that Burai would have time to help restore Daizyujin's ability to combine with Dragon Caesar and King Brachion.]]
117	* In ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', both the Temporal Zone and the Vanishing Point are said to exist "outside of time and space", where the effects of changing history aren't always felt. The Temporal Zone appears to be a naturally occurring green void, while the Vanishing Point appears to be an artificial pocket dimension created by the Time Masters.
118	* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', [[spoiler:the FlashSideways are actually the afterlife, or the prelude to one, which doesn't exist in any time or place]].
119	-->[[spoiler:'''Jack:''' But why are they all here now?]]\
120	[[spoiler:'''Christian:''' Well, there is no "now" here.]]
121	* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the Bajoran Prophets reside in a more abstract, time-exempt area of the Celestial Temple (which is also known as the Bajoran Wormhole).
122	* In ''Series/TwinPeaks'', time in the White/Black Lodge can move forward, slow down, or even move in a non-linear manner.
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125	[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
126	* Some circles believe the Underworld from Myth/ClassicalMythology is outside time, which is why the spirits there can be met to divine the future. It's also why heroes can travel there without any apparent time change on time restricted quests.
127	* Some philosophy states that {{God}} exists in one of these, except that it also isn't a "place" in any conventional sense. Because He created everything, including time, He must exist outside of it. Also used to answer the "What did God do before he created the universe?" question. (Specifically, it would mean the question is poorly formed; the word "before" would not accurately describe any relationship between God and the act of creation.)
128	* Linked to the PrimordialChaos, with usually ''water'' being the trope here, since according to many people the cosmos started in a sea of unformed water. Other versions use simply darkness, or [[CosmicEgg an egg]], or other things.
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132	* ''[[VideoGame/ProPinballTimeshock Pro Pinball: Timeshock!]]'' has The End of Time, which can only be reached ''after'' saving all of existence and as a prelude to starting the game's WizardMode.
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135	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
136	* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' has Faerie, you get taken there, you escape and come back sometime after you escaped based on how strong memories and ties you have to the real world. There are some vague limits of some hundred years though, and what you remember must actually be there, you won't return to the old family house after the old oak with the swing that you remember sitting at the day you were taken was chopped down.
137	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
138	** The Far Realm, a plane heavily influenced by Creator/HPLovecraft, is often placed outside of standard cosmology, resulting in no portals to/from it, and is inherently insanity-inducing to all non-natives (natives being immune to the effect because they are insane by mortal standards from the very beginning). It is stated that there is no time in the Realm, at least not in common sense.
139	** The Temporal Energy Plane, mentioned as an optional plane in the 3rd Edition ''Manual of the Planes'', is for the most part an eternal gray sandstorm that is timeless in regards to biological needs, but has a dangerously erratic relationship with Material Plane's time -- sometimes [[YearInsideHourOutside days spent on the Temporal Energy Plane equate to seconds passing on the Material Plane]], other times it's the opposite, so visitors can emerge [[YearOutsideHourInside centuries after they departed]]. The only real features of the plane are freestanding [[GroundhogDayLoop time loops]] that trapped Temporal travelers may be able to use to exit the plane, by resolving whatever's keeping the loop going, and a legendary structure called the Citadel of Eternity in the very eye of the temporal storm, a place said to be the physical incarnation of time's beginning or end, and might lead somewhere outside it, such as the aforementioned Far Realm.
140	** [[WordOfGod Keith Baker]] has mentioned two places that can apply in ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'': The Astral Plane and Xoriat: The Realm of Madness. In the Astral Plane, time moves alongside the Material Plane, but no one ages or needs to eat or drink and, more crucially, if timeline ever changes, anyone and anything in the Astral Plane is immune from those changes. In this setting, this is where the [[spoiler:Gith]] come from. Xoriat is similar to the Far Realm in comparing influences to Lovecraft, but is on this list because it exists outside the flow of time and is a "canonical" method of time travel by messing with the [[AlternateTimeline Maze of Reality]].
141	* ''TabletopGame/FengShui''[='s=] Netherworld is a lot like this, with Innerwalkers heading there for the first time getting {{Ripple Effect Proof Memor\|y}}ies, as well as a bit of TimeTravelTenseTrouble. Time (such as it is) in the Netherworld tends to pass normally though.
142	* [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace The Warp]] of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' is a maelstrom dimension of psychic energy, in which time inside doesn't always correlate to what's happening in the material universe. Ships traveling through it can arrive much later than planned, as in the case of a 13th millennium spaceship that unexpectedly materialized in the 33rd millennium, or in rarer instances, vessels may arrive [[TimeTravel before they departed]]. The timeless nature of the Warp has also allowed the original traitor Space Marines who lost the Literature/HorusHeresy to continue their campaign against the Imperium over ten thousand years after their defeat.
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146	* A strange version of this occurs in ''VideoGame/{{Achron}}''. There's a section of the timeline that's hard to reach if you don't already know of its existence: a completely empty version of the map you're playing; a region in the future where causality from the present never reached. This is probably the only ''mechanical'' version of the place beyond time. (Other video games simply create an extra, perfectly normal level and give it some backstory.) It's known universally among players as "the Beach". It's also completely emergent from the timeline mechanics in such a way that the creators [[GoodBadBugs probably didn't foresee its existence]]. The community is still on the fence as to whether this should be removed from the final game or [[AscendedGlitch kept in]], as it has a few strategic consequences. (It's possible to smuggle units across hostile borders by shunting them through the Beach.)
147	* [[spoiler:The Dark Place]] in ''VideoGame/AlanWake''. [[spoiler:It seems to be the only reason that Thomas Zane has spent 40 years there without losing his marbles.]]
148	* The scientists in ''VideoGame/TheBreach'' think that [[EldritchLocation the Yellow dimension]] is one of these, although [[ApocalypticLog they die too quickly to find out for sure]].
149	* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'':
150	** The Dead Sea is a chunk of an alternate future stuck in temporal stasis, allowing you to walk around on a frozen, raging tsunami.
151	** The (B)end of Time returns from Chrono Trigger as a secret area housing a {{superboss}}.
152	** The Darkness Beyond Time, where paradoxical timelines are discarded. [[spoiler:The Dream/Time Devourer, a [[FusionDance merger of Lavos and Schala]], waits here to consume all time and space.]]
153	* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' has the End of Time, a metaphysical area that doesn't exist in any time period, but is connected to all of them.
154	* The body of the titular EldritchAbomination, Chzo, from ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos''. Chzo is formed like a literal mountain of flesh, and his specialty is to ability the see into past, present and future at the same time. Trying to exit Chzo's body after entering it may cause you to end up in any period of time, all time periods at once, or no time period at all.
155	* [[TimeMaster Faceless Void]]'s home dimension, Claszureme, in ''VideoGame/Dota2''. His ultimate ability ''Chronosphere'' [[TimeStandsStill freezes time in an area]] by opening a rift to Claszureme, allowing this property to leak into the real world.
156	* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', this is essentially where [[BigBad Alduin the World Eater]] is banished to by the Ancient Tongues [[spoiler:invoking the power of an [[TomeOfEldritchLore Elder Scroll]].]] Over four thousand years later, he comes back again, and now it's the task of the [[PlayerCharacter Last Dragonborn]] to put him down in a more permanent fashion.
157	* Irem in ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' and ''VideoGame/SunlessSea'' is an example. Was an example. Will be an example. It's the result of someone founding a city right where reality ends and the world of dreams begins, in a way that makes it possible for you to visit it and return with zero problem when it hasn't even been founded yet, but will be (and you will have been there). Time's grasp on the place is iffy, to say the least, and when you bring port reports from Irem back to London, the clerk taking them gets someone else to listen and goes to have a headache in the next room rather than deal with the TimeTravelTenseTrouble. In fact, writing the port report involves you finding the report then trying to work out where it came from and when you wrote it. In ''Fallen London'', once the Evolution storyline is completed, a bold player character can directly dive into the threads of destiny and start both exploring, altering and even profiting off the many possible futures London can hold; navigating between them is a lot like navigating dreams. Granted, one ''can'' come apart in the process and need to be pulled back to Irem without one's treasures from another time, and not all of those futures are pleasant; they go from a simple, ruinous BadFuture, to the [[EldritchLocation great indistinguishable morass of threads that end in your various ignominious deaths]], to [[spoiler:no future at all, where everything is ''gone'' and the [[RealityWarper Law]] has been passed: "No Thing Shall Be"]].
158	* ''Franchise/FateSeries'':
159	** The Throne of Heroes in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' exists beyond time, which allows Heroic Spirits to be summoned to and from any era. This becomes an important plot point regarding a certain knight in red...
160	** ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': One of King Solomon's Noble Phantasms gifted to him by God was a "temple" that exists outside of time, similar to the Throne of Heroes. This temple becomes pivotal to the game's plot, as truly repairing the timeline requires taking it down before history's incineration becomes irrevocable and [[spoiler:Mash's revival is only achievable because of its existence outside of time.]]
161	*** Chaldea ends up becoming one at the end of the prologue due to being the only place that survived the incineration of human history. However, time still flows within, and it will be destroyed as well after a year if the Singularities aren't fixed.
162	*** The Throne's timeless nature ends up being a minor gameplay mechanic: due to the way the [[AllegedlyFreeGame Summon system]] works, it's entirely possible to summon certain Servants long before they're encountered in the story, or even end up with a situation where you face an enemy Servant [[MirrorMatch with that Servant in your party]]. Exaggerated with the presence of Servants from {{Alternate Universe}}s, particularly those coming from [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse Lostbelts]].
163	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'':
164	** Valhalla, the iteration of the Unseen Realm that forms a significant part of the ''Franchise/FabulaNovaCrystallisFinalFantasy'' mythos, which doubles as an afterlife as well. It is where the Goddess of Death, Etro, resides and contains the Chaos from leaking into the Visible Realm (i.e. the world of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII''). [[spoiler:In the end, Etro dies by [[BigBad Caius']] machinations, causing Chaos the flood the world of Gran Pulse, merging the two realms together and reducing it to a [[TimeCrash Timeless]] Isle-sized continent called Nova Chrysalia in ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII''.]]
165	** In a variation, the Void Beyond is a location that exists between the Time Gates used for TimeTravel throughout ''XIII-2'' (and the Historia Crux by proxy). Serendipity (a giant casino city floating in the sky) and the Coliseum (where the DLC battles take place) are also part of this realm, with the Arbiter of Time (the Coliseum's overseer and [[spoiler:a former knight of Valhalla]]) describing the latter as a domain that "exists outside the march of time" [...] "beyond life and death."
166	* Parodied in ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', where Zagreus believes it's eternally 7:48 in the Underworld after having a ''sun''dial installed in the very sunless House of Hades.
167	-->'''Sundial, Imported:''' Tells time using Helios' flaming chariot ([[DidntThinkThisThrough not included]])
168	* The Realm of Darkness in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' has no time in comparison to the Realm of Light. [[ActionGirl Aqua]] is trapped there at the end of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', and ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts02BirthBySleepAFragmentaryPassage'' has her experience ten years in what seems like mere hours. Notably, ''0.2'' has her take advantage of this -- in the remains of [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} the Castle of Dreams]], she manipulates the "time" in the clock tower to rebuild a broken bridge.
169	* The final battle of ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFightersXIII'' against [[spoiler:Evil Ash]] takes place in [[BlankWhiteVoid a white void]] that is presumably the space between both ends of the time gate Saiki was attempting to open in order to [[SealedEvilInACan free]] {{Orochi}} in the past.
170	* The final boss [[spoiler:Demise]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' is said to be beyond time and space, and the arena he and Link do battle in is presumably this as well, considering that [[spoiler:you can travel millennia into the future to stock up on gear and he doesn't destroy the world in impatience or presume you chickened out if you do]].
171	* The Velvet Room in the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' games, which is always described as a place "between dream and reality, mind and matter", where time passes much differently than in the real world.
172	* The final dungeon of ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'' is described by the BigBad as "a place existing outside of space and time".
173	* ''VideoGame/RiskOfRain2'' features several hidden zones in which time, [[DynamicDifficulty which is a core game mechanic that influences difficulty]], does not pass. One of them is even called the Bazaar Between Time.
174	* In ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', places and people stolen by the Time Eater are trapped in a BlankWhiteVoid that serves as the game's hub. At the end, the past and present versions of Eggman are stuck there with no way out and nothing to do but bicker for a good long... er, "time."
175	-->'''Classic Eggman:''' What time is it?\
176	'''Modern Eggman:''' It's the exact same time as when you asked earlier, and it'll be the exact same time when you ask later. THERE IS NO "TIME" HERE!
177	* In ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', Eientei was once a limited version of this, where entropy/aging did not exist and there was "no history", due to Kaguya shielding it with her power over eternity. The [[HiddenElfVillage Lunar Capital]] has similar traits.
178	* ''VideoGame/WizardWithAGun'' has the Tower, a place that's safe from the apocalypse that the world experiences over and over again, where those trying to prevent it can rest, prepare, and reset the world for another try.
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182	* ''WebAnimation/RetardedAnimalBabies'' justifies its NegativeContinuity in one episode by revealing that in the real timeline, the babies grew up and become successful adults (somehow). Cat became a genius scientist, but he also grew bitter and cynical about the CrapsackWorld and wanted to go back to being young and stupid forever. He created a Physical Law Usurper that created the continuity proof pocket reality outside of normal space and time which acts as the setting for the rest of the series. He explains all of this to Donkey's grandchildren to reassure them that they won't be erased from reality by a time paradox when their grandpa leaves the timeline.
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186	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
187	** The Furthest Ring, which is a space filled with {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that links all universes and their timelines together. To further complicate matters, most of those who are there, who are any combination of either really being there, asleep and dreaming under special conditions, or dead, have dream bubbles where they can navigate through their memories, which causes time to either go forward or backwards. It's to the point where one would have to have mastery of time and/or space or near-perfect omniscience just to be able to navigate it without getting lost. [[spoiler:Fortunately, [[SuperpowerLottery our heroes have all three]].]]
188	** Although the chronologies of each universe -- including the game sessions -- are linear, they exist entirely independently of each other. As a result, each is basically a place beyond time from the perspective of each other.
189	* Timeless Space, aka the "Oceans Unmoving", in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''. There's no telling what point in time you'll arrive, either on the trip there ''or'' on the trip back (it's implied that a somewhat crazy god is deciding that). People from all across the timeline coexist there simultaneously, those who manage to escape can potentially wind up centuries before they were born, and if you go there twice you can meet your previous self. It's believed, in-story, that a person who ends up in Timeless Space, leaves, and comes back, will enter at the same "time" as they did the first time, thus they are able to coexist with themselves. The "Twin-fit" stems from the danger of having such a twin; if you're seen walking around with yourself, people will assume you managed to leave somehow, and will do ''anything'' to get you to spill your guts. And sometimes end up, er, spilling your guts in the attempt.
190	* What little we've seen of it, the headquarters of The Time Line Authority, the TimeCops from ''Webcomic/TRULifeAdventures'' would appear to be a place beyond time.
191	* The Khert in ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'' is a BackgroundMagicField believed to be the divinely engineered metaphysical infrastructure for all reality, existing outside time and space. When [[spoiler:Duane]] enters it in spirit, he sees one of his earlier visits occurring in the distance and witnesses memories that have yet to occur in the real world.
192	* In ''Webcomic/{{Widdershins}}'', the Hotel Gula becomes one of these for a while, drawing people from across the building's centuries-long history into an alternate version of the hotel to cater to a powerful spirit of Gluttony.
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196	* TheMultiverse of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has the Time Room, a central, hypercube-like structure all other dimensions orbit whose time wave emissions allow for the flow of time. It is hosted by an [[TheOmnipotent all-powerful being]] named Prismo who grants guests wishes that transport them into a timeline where it comes true.
197	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' has the [[MonsterOfTheWeek villain of the week]] use a magic hourglass to TimeTravel. Breaking it creates a portal to a place outside time. Its effects on the characters who are pulled in are even more anachronistic than [[RealityWarper Genie]]'s shapeshifting.
198	* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' has such a place as an important plot point: [[spoiler:Maltruant]] wants to go to when time didn't exist yet to shape the universe [[InTheirOwnImage in his own image]], but it's easier said than done, as not even [[TimeMaster Professor Paradox]] can journey there.
199	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In the ChristmasEpisode, the Lesser Holidays try to banish SantaClaus to February 33rd, which does not exist, implying something like this.
200	* This occurs in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' when Stewie's time travel device malfunctions and places both him and Brian outside of Space and Time. In this location, they are able to break all of the rules of physics, even becoming literal musical notes at one point.
201	* In ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'', the titular dimension is so far beyond time that spacetime itself is stagnated, like a giant pool of still water. Any organic life that ends up there is slowly poisoned just by physically existing inside of it. All timelines flow into it, and its possible to find alternate versions of both people and entire planets floating around in a sea of ancient stars.
202	* [[spoiler:The Unknown]] in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' is eventually revealed to be an afterlife-realm existing outside of time, hence explaining all the AnachronismStew in the series.
203	* Nullville, from the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' GrandFinale. A colourless version of Danville with the streets littered with spoons, capri pants, oranges, and wild tigers, in addition to everything that drops in later, like fridges and almond brittle. Anything that ends up there via a spacetime tear gets [[RetGone retroactively erased from the main universe]]. To make matters worse, the main universe is stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop that is getting smaller and smaller. When that loop shortens into nothing, Nullville will be erased.
204	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': "[[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS4E11AWorldBetweenWorlds A World Between Worlds]]" introduces [[spoiler:the titular location, a mystical [[SentientCosmicForce Force]] realm that can only be accessed through certain portals, such as the one in the Lothal Jedi Temple. All times and places meet in the world between worlds, which allows for travel between them. This allows Ezra to rescue Ahsoka from what would have been her death on Malachor two years before]].
205	* The Axis of Time in ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', through which all time travelers pass, and in which time itself doesn't exist.
206	* ''WesternAnimation/ZakStorm'': In TheBermudaTriangle, people and objects from all across human history meet and mingle. For example, Crogar is a viking boy from the Dark Ages, Caramba came to earth in the 1950's and Zak used to live in the modern day before ending up in the Triangle. If one were to leave the triangle, they would end up back in their own time.
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