CHRONOS– The Time Keeper

Status:  1st Generation Elder God

Level:  10000

Avatar:  Aarint

Chronos is the power of temporal time and fate. It is said that he was the first god to come from Ome-te Llest’s truth song. According to teachings of a now extinct race of high elves, the cult of Zervanism, it was always night at the beginning of time and the elves were forced to live in perpetual fear from the denizens of Pharastus that stalked the night. It was the cult of Zervanism who worshipped Chronos wrongly as the maker of light and darkness, creator of the day and night.

During the first Great War Pharastus’ followers removed this specialised cult from existence. The cult of Zervanism would always travel together in a great warband carrying Chronos’ words and teachings to the other elves. This proved to be an excellent way of protecting the religious tomes from the terrible creatures in the darkness, that was until the whole cult was duped into drinking from a plague ridden well by Mamaiurians, Pharastus’ greatest priest and soon to be avatar.

Mamaiurians appeared to the cult as Chronos himself promising great visions of the future should they drink from the well of souls (now located in the great Cymriian City of Kelladif. Mamaiurians had laced the water with a powerful hallucinogenic (scraped from the back of Rackorack, the great world serpent) and had summoned and bound a terrible plague/death Daemon Istu, to the well. Istu perverted the waters so badly that after the cult had drunk their fill the water clogged and dried forever more. This proved to be Istu’s undoing as he became trapped in the solidifying hallucinogenic mud. The Hallucinogen sent the mighty Istu into a chaos-induced dream, where it is said that he lies to this very day.

This God now has no followers and grants no boon to those who do try to follow him.

Chronos is burdened with all the knowledge of what has been and will ever come to be. This knowledge he stole from Ome-te Llest. He was discovered (or was he allowed to find this knowledge?) and Ome-te Llest said, “Child, if ye seek knowledge then lo let thee have it.” Instantly Chronos aged from a young man into an old cripple with long flowing beard, from the burden of knowing what is to be. With the great punishment his mind and body took he vowed never to part with his knowledge; but created three avatars that were to see that Ome-te Llest’s dream came to be. These three avatars are Tempora, Demios and Silurian.

SYMBOL

A sand timer

WORSHIP

Apart form the now defunct cult of Zervanism there is no worship to Chronos. Since the strange disease that wiped out the cult there has been no attempt to revitalise his worship. Now a days there are very, very few mortals or even immortals that can remember Chronos and the cult of Zervanism.  

TEMPLES

None

HOLY DAYS

None

FRIENDS AND ENEMIES

None

CULT REQUIREMENTS

None, anyone may attempt to follow Chronos but there is no Boon or reward for doing so.

STRICTURES

None