General Vishaan

**Vishaan** was a powerful Temué godborn that possessed powers of Time, Past, Present, Future, and Void, born before the First Simultaneity. He was also an accomplished martial artist and military strategist, earning him the title of general. When the Heralds were born, Vishaan was one of the Temué experienced enough in time-based godborn powers that he was elected to train the Heralds in their use. At one point, he worked together with Guru Rhosyn, another pre-Simultaneity Temué godborn experienced in the mental powers relating to Dreams, Thoughts, and Memories, to teach the newborn Vanadevata how to use the full scale of her powers. During this time, Vishaan developed romantic feelings for Rhosyn, and when she decided to follow her student to settle in the eastern lands of Asherah and spread Temué influence, Vishaan accompanied them to stay with his love interest, even though she had declined his advances. When Greater Lord Vanadevata found and nurtured the Ashavadda and transformed the Amaravati desert into a verdant rainforest, General Vishaan educated a few of the fledgling nation's inhabitants in his fighting styles to serve as the Temué's enforcers, becoming the first Mahamatra.

When Guru Rhosyn passed, Vishaan went into exile with a broken heart to a valley in western Amaravati. There he researched the limits of the power of time, and by combining the powers of Verdos and Perios to unmake the past, accidentally transformed himself into the Withering, a malign, void-like disease that consumed every form of life. His mind and spirit still persisted within the disease however, and he could establish a connection with those infected by the Withering. The disease was set to consume the entirety of Amaravati, but Greater Lord Vanadevata sacrificed herself to limit the Withering's influence to what would then become the desert valley of the Vishani.

General Vishaan persisted in the form of the Withering for thousands of years, being present for both the Darkening and the Betrayal. He witnessed Siwa's ascension to godhood and realized in that moment that only by becoming a God could his dearest Rhosyn's soul be returned from the Void, but he lacked both the wordly experience, physical form, and connection to all the lights of the Gods to perform such an ascension, and began conceiving a plan to attain all three. Through his connection to Cerbus, Vishaan foresaw the birth of Greater Lord Vanadevata's reincarnation, the Lesser Lord Aranyani, and the occurence of a Simultaneity during the 12th anniversary of her inauguration as Herald of the Ashavadda.

Eventually the Withering infected Raja Sangh, High Priest of the Grovekeepers of the Ashavadda, and Vishaan deceived him into joining forces to harvest 25 thousand years worth of memories and experiences from the citizens of Ashavadda City. During the Simultaneity created by Elser Vios and the Cult of The Nameless One, The Raja absorbed these millenia worth of knowledge and experience into his body and began to channel the lights of the Gods through the Lesser Lord as a conduit, but Vishaan betrayed him and withered away the Raja's physical form so that the general could appear in his full might once again.

Vishaan nearly completed his plan and would have ascended to godhood if it wasn't for those meddling Champions of the Ashavadda.