Chronos

**Chronos**, also known as **Khronos** or **Chronus**, is the Primordial deity and personification of time venerated by the Greeks and Romans, and the second-in-command of the Protogenoi after Khaos.

## Overview

Chronos is the first primordial born from Khaos, recognized by the Greeks as the personification of time and space, as well as being considered the god of eternity and cycles, and the god responsible for turning the Zodiac wheel. He takes his job as the god of time very seriously, and swears to protect the flow of time. He was eventually taken under the wing of Father Time, becoming his student and future successor. He was often confused and conflated with the Titan Cronus, mostly due to their similar names, however neither of them have any connection to each other.

He acts as the second-in-command of not just the Protogenoi, but the primordials in general.

He is the brother-husband of Ananke, the primordial goddess of inevitability and necessity, both of whom serve an important role in Orphic cosmology, where they were believed to be the very first beings that emerged at the dawn of creation.

## Appearance

Chronos takes on the appearance of an old, bearded man with gray hair and wings sprouting from his back. He is also usually seen wielding a scythe and hourglass in his hands, similar to his mentor. In Greek mosaics, he is depicted as a man holding the zodiac. In much earlier depictions, he was seen as a serpentine being with three heads, that being of a man, a bull, and a lion.

## Personality

While mainly acting indifferent and detached from creation and mankind, if provoked enough, he can and has been seen to become very enraged towards creation, mankind and other species, such as demons, dragons, angels, fallen angels and Gods alike. When concerning Ananke and humans that he is fond of, he is shown to treat them with love kindness and even protectiveness, even if they are in Hell, facing Archdemons and even other creatures.

However, despite all of that, Chronos is known only by select primordial's to be hanging around mankind very often, with him also sometimes even intervening in some human lives and even sometimes blessing curtains humans he finds amusing and gets along with.

## Powers and Abilities

**Aspect Separation:** Chronos can separate, divide, fission, etc. the aspects of anyone/anything including personalities, powers, consciousness, etc. irreversibly/permanently. This doesn't simply divide Chronos into separate entities/parts but rather removes/separates aspects that make up Chronos instead.

**Composite Deity Physiology:** Chronos can form a physical body formed out of the energies and bodies of divine entities and access the abilities of each individual being that make up Chronos' physical form. Chronos can also access the knowledge of these individualistic gods to gain vast amounts of knowledge as well as raw divine energy.

**Creator Deity Physiology:** Chronos with this ability either is or can transform into a Creator Deity, the creator of planets, solar systems, cosmoses, universes, and/or even the Multiverse/Omniverse. This power allows one to create anything on a divine level and may or may not be a Monotheistic Deity Physiology, which is the Supreme Being of all of Creation.

**Time Deity:** Chronos with this ability either is or can transform into a time deity, a god or goddess who can control time on a transcendental level that far exceeds the abilities of normal users of chronokinesis. They can manipulate time at planetary, galactic, universal, multiversal or even omniversal levels, thus making them extremely powerful and unbeatable.

**Father Time Physiology:** As an archetype, Father Time is a personification/entity of time that focuses on the flow of time, passing of the years, birth, death and aspects of time by embodying it in the form of the father, and normally is an older looking humanoid male with a powerful sickle, an hourglass and sometimes a pair of large wings. However, this does not apply to every father time archetype in description, but they are always some forms of temporal entity-type being.

## Myths and Legends

Chronos is a figure from Greek antiquity, thought as the personification and god of time; his name means "time" in Greek. He played a prominent in Orphic cosmogony; in one version, Chronos was the first being, who formed Aether, Khaos and the silver cosmic egg, which later gave rise to Phanes, the god of life and creator of the universe. In another version, Chronos emerged at the beginning of creation with the goddess Ananke, and their serpentine bodies coiled around the primordial egg, before promptly crushing it to form the Earth, the sea, and the Heavens.

He was frequently either confused or conflated with the god Cronus, thanks to their similar names. This conflation eventually gave rise to the later image of Father Time.

## Quotes

*"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." = Chronos to Zeus.*