ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Wait, wait, did the Paradox Mage unlock change? I thought that you never got a chance to enter the portal before your future self appears -- when I did it, he just appeared the instant I entered the last level of Daikara. (Or second-to-last, whichever it is.) Ack, I misspoke there, I meant to say &...

Playing a Dwarf Temporal Warden on my last life, I made it to the Daikara and into the portal so I figured "welp, might as well make this last life count and unlock Paradox Mage" so I let Future Me go to town. He hit me with Quantum Spike and... I died. No unlock notification, no Future Me...