Aeva

Aeva is one of the genderless twin Gods of Reality, alongside their twin Ytar. When Aeva was born from the Void, their first act was to sing. Their music was the first thing in the World that had an order and a pattern to it; and the first thing that changed, marking the beginning of linear time. Though this was necessary for the World to begin, it also gives Aeva an ominous reputation, for the beginning of time was also the beginning of entropy, which guarantees that death and destruction must come to all things. Aeva takes on a three-faced form, gazing into past, present, and future simultaneously.

As God of Time, Aeva receives worship from those who seek to forestall its ravages, postponing death, illness, or decrepitude by one day more. When the end comes, Aeva solemnly oversees the dissolution of the soul into the Void. Not all of Aeva’s roles are so grim; they’re also the protector of procrastinators, musicians, horologists, and broken-hearted lovers. Aeva’s favorite Incarnations are singers and other musicians, though they sometimes take on the more macabre roles of hospice nurses, gravediggers, crisis hotline volunteers, and executioners. Most of Aeva’s Incarnations travel outside Atlantis, where they can escape the baleful reputation associated with them.

Aeva’s Scions are almost all Chosen; the God feels uneasy bringing new life into linear time. Their Scions tend to be steely and reserved, ready to do whatever’s necessary even if it’s unpleasant — leading bloody revolutions against oppressive governments, providing counseling and therapy in the aftermath of tragedies and disaster, amputating a limb to save a patient, investigating criminal conspiracies at great danger to themselves, and the like.