Chronos

### Aliases

Eternity, Aeon, Cronos, Zen, Clockwork God, Khronos, Chronus, God of Time and Space, Disciple of Father Time

## Physical description

### Gender

Male

> There is no need to worry, my beloved. Why should you, an immortal goddess of the highest order, care about the fate of mere mortals? Clean your tears, beloved. For even if I don't understand your mercy, I will still save them, as long as it makes you happy. Now smile, after all, you are the most beautiful when you smile.
>
> Chronos to Ananke.

**Chronos** is the Primordial God and the second personification of time and space while also being the 2nd-in-Command of the Protogenoi, the Greco-Roman Primordials. His wife is Ananke, the primordial goddess of inevitability, compulsion, and necessity.

## Overview

Chronos is the first creation of Khaos and the husband of Ananke and her Roman counterpart Necessitas. He is said to be the personification of time and eternity and the lord of the Zodiac. Chronos was confused with, or perhaps consciously identified with, the Titan Cronus in antiquity due to the similarity in names.

His name means the word "time". He is the student and will later on be the successor of Father Time.

## Appearance

He was initially portrayed to possess an incorporeal figure as a serpent with three heads; one of a man, the second of a bull, and the last of a lion Chronos is also portrayed as an old, wise man with a long, grey beard, similar to his mentor Father Time. Chronos is also a God of Death along with being a guide to the afterlife. His connection with Death, had accidentally had many beings mistaken each identity with the other.

He was depicted in Greco-Roman mosaics as a man turning the Zodiac Wheel.

## Personality

As the primordial personification of time, Chronos is a very serious entity for the sake of the multiverse. He is very adamant about his purpose of protecting the flow of time and will do anything to fulfill that purpose.

## Powers and Abilities

As the second-in-command of the Protogenoi, Chronos is unbelievably powerful primordial surpassing all his fellow creations of Khaos among the other pantheons. Being the personification of time and successor of Father Time, he proved to be among the most powerful entities in the entire multiverse capable of rivalling the likes of Calur and Yog-Sothoth.

## History

If he knows who or when the eternal clock was wound, Chronos does not tell, but upon the first stroke, he came to be. Emptiness was the ocean, then, and his only companion was Ananke, Queen of Fate. Together, their powers divided the vastness into heaven and earth and sea and sky. Thereafter, Chronos became an observer, the watchman of infinity.

## Myths and Legends

In the Orphic cosmogony, the unaging Chronos produced Aether and Khaos, and made a silvery egg in the divine Aether. It produced the hermaphroditic god Phanes who gave birth to the first generation of gods and is the ultimate creator of the cosmos.

Pherecydes of Syros in his lost Heptamychos ("the seven recesses"), around 6th century BC, claimed that there were three eternal principles: Chronos, Zas (Zeus) and Chthonie (the chthonic). The semen of Chronos was placed in the recesses of the Earth and produced the first generation of gods.

Chronos already was confused with, or perhaps consciously identified with, the Titan Cronus in antiquity due to the similarity in names. The identification became more widespread during the Renaissance, giving rise to the allegory of "Father Time" wielding the harvesting scythe.

## Quotes

> Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives!
>
> Chronos.

> You wander an ephemeral dream… Your transience affords uncompromising power… What is your life…? What is your death…?
>
> Chronos.

> Three main problems with being old: First, my memory is not what it used to be. Also my memory is not what it used to be.
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> Chronos to Zeus.

## Gallery

Clockwork God PQ.png*Chronos as the Clockward God* (Art from Persona Q)Chronos by cicros dcg5olz-fullview.jpg*Chronos' Older Appearance* (Art by Cicros)Chronos Saint Seiya.png*Chronos' Time Form* (Art from Saint Seiya)Chronos (Next Dimension) aparência original.png*Chronos' Incorporeal Form* (Art from Saint Seiya Next Dimension)
## Trivia

* The original meaning and etymology of the word Chronos are uncertain.
* Chronos might also be contrasted with the deity Aion as cyclical Time.
* In some Greek sources, Kairos is mentioned as a brother of Chronos. However, other sources point out that it is his son.
* For the orphics, Chronos is the father of Chaos.