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The Keeper of the Last Record

Cronus was an ancient god of passing things: footsteps fading into dust, names worn from stone and deeds thought safely forgotten.

Some call him a god of time. The Mouthpieces dispute this. Time moves without judgment, they say, while Cronus remembered. Every hand laid upon the world entered his keeping. Every door opened, every vessel disturbed and every monument defaced became another line in an immeasurable ledger.

In the present age, those who live beneath his lingering vigilance have given him a simpler name: the Watchdog. Though the god is dead, his record still watches over the works of living hands.

No surviving account explains who killed Cronus. Only his epitaph remains consistent:

The hand has perished. The record continues.

The Unfinished Ledger

Cronus is dead, yet fragments of his sight persist in certain written books. These are known as Ledgers of Cronus.

A true Ledger does not predict the future or restore the past. It reveals the wounds that time has covered: who placed a stone, who took from a vessel and whose hand altered a sign.

Whether the Ledger is a divine relic or merely the final habit of a dead god is unknown.

The Vigil That Remains

Cronus left no guardian behind. His vigilance is said to dwell within the Ledger itself, preserving the bond between a work and the hands that shaped it. Because of this, another player’s work may resist an unfamiliar hand. Those whom its maker has trusted are recognized by the record and permitted to act. Others find that the world remembers an ownership they cannot see. Some believe this protection is only an echo, endlessly repeating the final duty of a dead god.

The Prayer of Cronus

The stolen Prayer of Cronus carries Swift Sneak II and Soul Speed II. Those bearing it move swiftly through the deep places and across the soil of the dead. To an observer, the bearer appears unnaturally swift. To the bearer, it is the world that seems slow.

“To hasten is not to conquer distance, but to steal from it the moments it was owed.”

Beliefs

The few traditions associated with Cronus teach three things:

• Nothing done to the world is truly erased
• Time may bury a name, but it does not absolve it
• To uncover an old deed is to awaken a small part of the god who recorded it

For this reason, Cronus is invoked by archivists, witnesses and those seeking the truth of a place. He is rarely worshipped. It is considered unwise to attract the attention of something that continued watching after its death.

A Common Warning

Do not ask whether Cronus can see you.

Ask instead whether he has written your name yet.