Ihstar

God of Trees and Time, Ihstar is patient and meticulous. He can also often be stubborn and dismissive, especially towards ones he deems overly emotional.

Artifacts

A long lost artifact of Ihstar is the Complete Chronometer. This device has kept perfect measurement of time since it's creation, displaying all measurements of time across ten circles of measurement. In a rare bit of ironic humor, Ihstar himself would ay that the Complete Chronometer is "lost to time", one of many artifacts or devices that was lost during the Sundering of The Fey Crisis.

Even for the few souls still aware of such a device, it is of little importance to the average resident of T'sara, and little more to the scholared, academic mind. Most aggree, if it were found, it would likely just sit in an archive or museum piece somewhere, rather than be of any good.

Holy Books & Codes

Ihstar has issued a dictation for the measurement of time to all of T'sara, the Correct Chronological Calendar, marking the official marcation of time. Curiously, Ihstar provided a structure for time, but did not assign names. As such, months can be granted vastly different names depending on culture.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Ihstar is commonly depicted as a series of ten concentric circles. This is either to mark cyclical nature of the various stages of time that he created, or indication of growth rings of the great trees that he has created. Both understandings are common, though it's unclear as to what the original intention was.[

Holidays

The creator of days has not dictated a day of worship for himself. Ihstar however has kept precise measurement of all other Holy Days. His meticulous nature trying to ensure that there is some semblance of order has failed in this regard, as his Godly siblings have simply claimed the day or days of their liking. Although he has encouraged mortals to celebrate the new year, as life should be enjoyed, he has made many a reminder that the "beginning" or "end" of a year, like that of a circle, is purely an illusion, that may be started as one chooses. Some have taken his bidding to heart and celebrated the new year at times contrary to his instruction.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Ihstar commonly takes the appearance of elvish men, their kind being the most commonly associated with living among trees, as well as living long lives.

Identifying Characteristics

Ihstar will often appear with a distinct shade of brownish hair, typically short and scraggly. His eyes are most commonly green in color, though some have claimed that in the season of Utum, they can be seen in the unusual colors of reds, golds, and browns.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

In what seems a cruel twist, little is known of the chronology of Ihstar and his works. What is known is that he created all of the trees and forests of T'sara sometime after Phoenicia created the concept of life, but before Varissa would create the Elves who would live among and even inside them.
The first trees were massive compared to what would come later. Dozens of feet long, with roots deep in the body of the ground, and what would appear to be miles high, these Mountainroot trees would continue to impress and amaze the mortals who would later witness them. For now though, he just wanted to show a baseline. Whether he would be aided by Khalee's insight of diversity leading to beauty, or whether he personally wanted to experiment before her edict is not clear.

It would not be until after the work of The Six Sisters that Ihstar would create the work that he was most known for: Time. Such creation is complex to understand to account for. There were days and nights before Ihstar's creation. Things happened in a series of events that would be roughly considered to be past, present, and future. Some have argued that Ihstar only created a measurement and structure for time. Ihstar himself insists that he did create time, and that it's impossible to measure. before him, a day may as well be a year.

Education

People wrongly believe that because Ihstar is God of time, that he know everything that occurred. He has made no claims to such knowledge, and those whom pray to him or seek him out with questions about the past are often disappointed. Likewise, there is also a common false perception that because Ihstar is so analytical and being the master of time, that he has intimate knowledge of the future. He is particularly perturbed by such claims, and by those who come to him with such requests.

Failures & Embarrassments

Ihstar's creation of time and it's measurement made sense to him, with all measurements being a multiple of a 6 or 12, along for a strong visual representation of time on the same concept of a circular plane. As it turned out, such a system was not easily understood by the mortals, who abandoned Ihstar's measuresment of time beyond the year, which began to be measured in tens. It has so long and so complete that only his original chronometer still shows the correct system. Showing the modern residents of T'sara how he planned for time to be measured at this point would create more consternation than it's worth, and as such has abandoned the issue.

Mental Trauma

Ihstar was dismayed to see how easily his concept of time would be corrupted by another. Death, the horrid corruption of all, created by Dineth the Destroyer, would rely heavily on time to extract it's toll from all living things, sooner or later. Although he has come to recognize with the current balance of the cosmos that death as become a necessity, he rejects his brother's idea that all things must come to an end.

Circles, as the Time Father is fond of using for his metaphors, do not end, nor do they start. Time does not end. Space does not end. Life only ends because Dineth made it so, and uses Time as a means to do it.

Morality & Philosophy

Many of the Gods find Ihstar loathsome because he seems stubbornly opposed to taking much of any stance on anything. He worked with the other Gods to combat the Fey Crisis as a measure of self preservation, but since than, has seemed at all times to advocate for Gods to merely spectate and see their work unfold naturally, without help or interference. Acts of good or evil make no difference to him, and contemplating major decisions frequently takes inordinate amount of time.

Personality Characteristics

Likes & Dislikes

Although Ihstar appreciates Elves living in his creation, the trees and forests of T'sara, he is less appreciative of Humans and their behavior. Trees and wood were never intended to be carved up and made into homes in the way that most human cultures do, or use them as a means of heating. He looks the other way, for now, but having seen how the humans of Khartoum decimated the forests to fuel their industry, among other cases, he is beginning to wonder how long before they devour everything they can.

Vices & Personality flaws

Ihstar has a superiority complex that rivals Vhrishka. While the latter also has the problem of being a glory seeker, Ihstar is more insular and reluctant to associate with any mortal or God that he believes to be below his caliber; which is nearly everyone.