What Is the Temporal Loom & What Does It Do?

Loki season 2 introduced us to the Temporal Loom, and episode 3 further revealed its technical mechanics. But many MCU fans still have a few doubts about what it is and what it does. So, here’s a breakdown of the Temporal Loom in Loki season 2.

What is the Temporal Loom in Loki season 2?

As revealed by OB, the Temporal Loom is the heart of the TVA where raw time is refined into a physical timeline.

Once He Who Remains designed the Sacred Timeline’s narrative after creating Miss Minutes, he used the Temporal Loom to intertwine infinite multiversal timelines into his Sacred Timeline. That’s how he prevented more Kangs from coming to life in the multiverse.

But after his demise, nobody was left to guard the multiverse and multiple branches began to break out of the main Sacred Timeline. Ultimately, it allowed projects like Shang-Chi, Doctor Strange 2, What if…?, and Spider-Man: No Way Home to take place by creating an open multiverse that doesn’t necessarily follow the Sacred Timeline.

What does the Temporal Loom do in Loki season 2?

The Temporal Loom uses temporal energy to bind raw time into the physical Sacred timeline that He Who Remains designed.

In simple terms, He Who Remains used the Temporal Loom to shape time and bend it to his will. This way, he took away the free will of trillions of people and put them on a predefined path.

However, in Loki season 2 episode 3, Victor Timely gave us a more technical explanation for what it does exactly. He said that his prototype Temporal Loom “inverts the Temporal Decay of the electricity flowing through it, lowering its entropy, and gathering it into fine threads of power, which it then weaves into elegant ropes of voltage.”

Similarly, the TVA’s bigger temporal loom uses energy from raw time and weaves its fine threads into the sacred timeline. That’s how the chaos from particles (infinite timelines) is transformed into order (the Sacred Timeline).

But the energy from so many new branches created after He Who Remains’ death overloaded the Temporal Loom, which could only be fixed by Victor Timely’s “Throughput Multiplier.” It would widen the Loom’s graspability, stabilize it, and allow it to work even with the added Temporal energy from the infinite new branches.

For more updates, find out more about Balder and Zaniac in Loki season 2.