Quantum Realm

Biodata

Locations and Functions

• Time Variance Authority branches — The Authority operates branches in the Quantum Realm. Its headquarters is elsewhere, outside the Multiverse 78 239.
• River of time — Qin Yi accesses Earth-616’s timeline from within the Quantum Realm and uses it to visit earlier points in time 194.
• Quantum travel — Travelers select points in time from the Quantum Realm, though a group attempting to reach its own past instead arrives in Qin Yi’s universe 83.

Story Role

• A rebellion strips the Time Variance Authority’s Quantum Realm branches of their property and destroys more than half of the Authority. Its equipment is largely repaired within days 78 105.
• Qin Yi repeatedly takes Infinity Stones collected by the Authority, including hundreds he retrieves from the Quantum Realm to help restore Howard and Maria Stark’s bodies 78 154.
• After returning from the Quantum Realm, Qin Yi wonders whether time passes there at a different rate from time in other universes; he does not establish an answer 79.
• While investigating his missing past, Qin Yi enters the river of time from the Quantum Realm. He visits earlier moments but cannot find his past self at the points he checks 194.
• The Quantum Realm’s Time Variance Authority disappears when the Multiverse vanishes 255.