Ištrauka

''“Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.”''

Origin
The flow of time is the pushing and pulling force of nature. It compels change, both progression and regression. It dictates the speed at which the forces of nature act, and without it the world would be static and the forces of nature would be unable to act. Ištrauka, the god of time, is the second oldest of the deities, being the twin goddess of Nihili. Though Nihili claims to be older, Ištrauka would ask what this even means without her presence having been there to dictate that. After the birth of Ištrauka, the stasis brought by her elder sibling was no longer inherent, and the world was allowed a chance to change. The two siblings, at the time, were the only things present to experience time and its whims, but the gods’ experience of change put an end to the stasis that befell the world when solely under the domain of her sister Nihili.

Concept
In the presence of her sister, Nihili, time flows the strongest. Where there is no presence and no being, there is the highest potential for change and change comes the fastest. When only in the domains of Nihili and Ištrauka, one begins to flow like time itself, in a constant state of change. Time is nearly ever-present, interacting with the domains of all other gods in nearly all of their forms. The only known exception to this is the void in the reaches where even time herself can not beat her drums and keep the universe on pace. All other domains seem to exist wholly within the grasp of time, never being able to escape the flow of time to the ticking of her clock. Time is both ever-changing and constant. Though the changes brought by the flow of time are nearly indecipherable and even Ištrauka herself can not know what is to come, it is constant in many ways. Patterns emerge in the changes when you look for long enough, and the repetition of these patterns seems constant and inevitable, happening time after time like clockwork. Ištrauka can read these patterns easily, and though she can’t read the future, she is incredibly capable of reading the past, seeing the patterns and providing guidance to those who seek it.