Mortius

Mortius (pronounced Mort-Eus) is the  Cardinal God of Timeand one of the original Ten Gods known to Djorig Pantheon. Mortius is the least known of the Cardinal Gods, an enigmatic figure, always standing just out of sight, never known until its too late. Mortius’ realm of the Deserts of Eternity stands outside the normal understanding of Mortals, holding the totality of the Sands of Time, and said to be unreachable without surrending oneself to the damnation of existing outside the natural order.

Rarely depicted as he is, Mortius often is shown in the form of an elderly clockmaker, aged and withering, surrounded by clepsydras, hourglasses, and sundials. Mortius isn’t oft worshiped by mortals; his machinations often feared by those who cannot witness eternity in its entirety. Though some seek his favor and through it the control of the forbidden art of Chronomancy, those attempts rarely come to fruition, no known records exist of any mortals that have sucessfully broken the laws of time; though such mortals must have existed, if nothing else for the discovery and spread of the arcane spell Time Stop.

War of Divinity
At the Dawn of the Age of Divinity, before the creation of the Prime-Material Plane and when Primordials roamed free, from the aether of the Astral Sea came ten entities. These self-fashioned Gods came into conflict with the Elder Primordials, and sought to bring order to the universe around them. Leading them was Akaene, the Firstborn. The battles of the newborn Gods and the Primordials were devastating, ripping portions of the Astral Sea open. However, the disorder of the Primordials proved to be their downfall. The siblings were able to isolate and defeat each of the elder beings, as while together the Primordials were indominable, alone they were only a difficult foe. In the final battles, the Cardinal Gods failed to destroy Primordas, the mightiest of the Primordials, and were only able to separate portions of Its essence. They used what remained of Its power to create a new realm, aiming to forever seal away their greatest foe.

The Cardinal Gods started to debate how they would divide their newly conquered realm, but their squabbles started cracking the very foundations they just formed. From the darkness came a figure unlike any they had seen, a being cloaked in flame and shadow that was neither Divine nor Primordial, holding in its hands a scroll of gold and vellum. The being spoke with civility and decorum, informing them that the adversary they fought so valiantly to seal would eventually be reborn if they did not take careful steps to ensure the stability of their newly created realm. Ashmedae referred to himself as a curator of order and divided the fundamental forces between the younger gods as a neutral party. No recollection states exactly what was said, but a contract was formed, a Divine Mandate, one that would ensure the everlasting sealing of the First Adversary and balance of the Inner Planes.

Divine Mandate
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