Deities of the Phoviverse

Kairos

Known by the majority as the Whenvern, Kairos is the Dragon God of Time, constantly making sure that time as we understand it continues to flow forwards. Kairos travels across the universe, destroying paradoxes before they happen and obscuring the deeper workings of the universe in order to prevent the creation of time machines and other time-altering apparatus. Known to be proud and stubborn, Kairos sees himself above all others, knowing that the universe could not exist if it weren’t for him. Because of this attitude, he welcomes worship with open arms, almost demanding that mortals appreciate his existence.

Kairos takes many forms, his most common being a massive blue and silver dragon, his front arms sporting a pair of wings, each a kilometre long from the membranes in his sides to the tips of his clawed fingers. His head is adorned with three crystal horns, and a series of spikes runs down the back of his heavily armoured body. While Kairos prides himself on his size and power, he often shrinks himself down to confront mortals. This smaller form is much more elegant, with smoother plating and scales that shine like diamonds.

Epani

Epani is a colossal monster, the Panelix of the Universe and Creator-Defender of Space. Epani roams the universe, creating new stars and destroying gravitational anomalies that could damage the fabric of time. She is often spotted at the edge of nebulae, creating new stars and clearing space around them so they can grow larger. Epani also spends time around black holes, minimizing their effects on their nearby environments, while carrying away any debris from white holes and worm holes at the other end.

Often described as a being akin to the terrifying monsters of the sea, Epani takes pride in her traumatizing looks. Her heavy head is filled with thousands of needle-sharp teeth, while her large, finned arms are tipped with gigantic claws capable of tearing suns apart with ease. Her long, snaking body is black in colour but studded with red and silver armour plating, and twists round into a long tail, tipped with a large, while-like fin which propels her through her domain. Epani is so large that a trail of asteroids and comets follow her, drawn towards her by her immense gravitational pull. Epani also has a secondary form, a more delicate, feminine form, which she uses while approaching mortal races. While she keeps the large claws and the glowing lure, she appears with webbed fingers and a Temthan-like form but without any scales.

While Epani does not attract as many worshippers as Kairos does, she has a small following across the universe, who consider her to be a goddess of battles, expansion and war.

Sini

The Creator of All Life, the Allbirther Sini (sometimes stylized as Yisini among races that shy away from her) is a gentle being sworn to the duties of populating the universe with love and life. She is the Controller of Evolution, spending her time creating single-celled lifeforms which then grow and adapt to their environments. While Sini is known to create fully functional beings, she often just creates the very basics of a species, allowing them to grow and evolve into a new race over time.

The Allbirther cares deeply for all species she creates, but she rarely interferes with any of her creations. The only times that she may intervene are when a species gains high levels of intelligence, at the very least reaching interstellar travel, at which point she will visit a race’s leaders and give them a task: to find a way to make themselves immortal. This is Yisini’s true goal, to create a species of beings that can stop themselves from dying and live forever.

Sini is also often called the Life Serpent, due to her snake-like looks. She would best be described as a long, Naga-like being, the top of her body down to her waist being incredibly similar to that of her favourite race, the Temthans. Everything below her waist consists of a long, black and purple scaled tail, which grows as long as Yisini desires.

The Allbirther is open to the idea of beings worshipping her, but is not really bothered what mortals do either way, she is more interested in them finding their own path towards immortality.

Despite the opposing duties between her brother and herself, Sini feels most at home with Arkay, and will happily make time for the youngest deity.

Arkay

Known by many names, Arkay, often named Arkadin among races that fear him, is the Thantophor, the Lord of Death. He is in charge of all that dies within the universe, decomposing and decaying everything in his path so that it can be renewed, recycled and reused once more. While Arkay is vilified by the majority of mortals and is considered lesser than his sibling deities, Arkay takes his duties seriously, knowing that without him, Sini and Epani would both quickly run out of materials to create new life and new space. Despite this, Arkay dislikes his duties as the God of Death and Decay, and hopes for a time where intelligent species break free from the cycle of life and death and discover immortality.

Unlike his siblings, Arkay presents himself as a very small being, standing at just over two metres tall. His body is physically similar to that of an unusual Skyavok, with large, thick, yellow plates of armour covering his chest, groin, arms and legs. He also has a heavy plate that runs across the top of his head, forming a sharp point, while more plating runs down his back and tail. Arkay has been seen with horns and a skeletal pair of wings, but during his few meetings with mortals, Arkay will change his looks to appear less threatening, or will simply mimic the appearance of the race he is communicating with but with a black and yellow motif. The Thantophor will often carry a gun-staff with him, adorned in silver and gold decorations and tipped with a sharp blade.