T'kalia

A Monument to Eternity

He never moves, never so much as flexes a muscle. Just stares with those dead, flat eyes. Sand forever pours from tear ducts that went dry millenia ago. He's remained in that location so long that whole colonies of giant fungi have populated his body where it touches the ground.

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— The Tower Duo; A history of Rak'tos and T'kalia

Broken, frozen eternally in his moment of agony, and overshadowed by his greatest failure the incomplete Comprilith; T'kalia remains on one knee in central Enqua as a 250m tall monument to grand aspirations and the inevitability of time. His body is icy blue, and appears to be in a perpetual state of decay, as portions of his flesh bubble and rot, yet vanish before ever reaching the ground. Strange time-defying sand pours from his eyes and the chest wound from which his very own spear sprouts; a third arm erupts from his back, the entry wound, and coils around that spear as strange crystalline objects hang motionless around him.

T'kalia was once the god of Time and Information, undertaking the grand project of building The Comprilith with Rak'tos. T'kalia waded through the eras for information, while Rak'tos shifted space to store all knowledge inside the structure.
It is considered one of fate's cruelest jokes that the T'kalia seemingly ran out of time before the Comprilith was ever completed.

All the Time in the World

Most records from before the war state that T'kalia had a unique method of experiencing time, compared to other beings that experienced it linearly. Yet he did not have complete omnipotence over time; rather he had a greater awareness and appreciation for it. Time was a vessel, and T'kalia used it to learn all he could. He was always slow to speak and rare to respond, his observation instead focused on however he perceived the flow of time around him.
However, there was always one that could break him out of his reverie and focus his attention on the present: Xiuthan, the god of growth and decay. The Time that T'kalia held so dear was ever present in the cycles of life and death that Xiuthan embodied, and thus the love T'kalia felt extended to Xiuthan herself as well. However, for whatever reason, these feelings never blossomed into a relationship between the gods. To Xiuthan, time was merely a tool with which she practiced her craft; because of this, T'kalia could never be more than just a fellow god.

Scraps from The Comprilith

Small pieces of the floating crystals around T'kalia have been collected. They are quite cold to the touch and resist gravity, floating in space wherever they are let go of.

Some mushrooms from T'kalias legs were found growing in an old library room. The entire area was declared a bio-hazard and was mysteriously burned to ash.

Long before the Seven Day War, when T'kalia's love was strong and he still had power in his body, he crafted the most wondrous gift for Xiuthan; a tree imbued with his power over time. In this tree flowed a crystalline sap that would trap any sounds spoken near it, quietly playing them back for the rest of time. It is said that this tree contained T'kalias first confession of love.

— Kazcallen folk lore

Birth

Born on the 7th day of the 19 Days of Creation.

Kill Count

Killed none during The Seven Day War.

Death

Died on 4th day of The Seven Day War.

Killed by

Killed by Xiuthan in accidental rage.

Present-day Power

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Movement

T'kalia never moves, and never shifts positions. He remains so perfectly still that it seems as if he's just a statue -- one that appears to perpetually leak temporal sand, and be in an infinite state of decay.

Creation and Destruction

Portions of his body appear to rot off, only to vanish in the blink of an eye, as T'kalia remains broken in time itself. Sand endlessly pours from his dry eyes and abdomenal wound, yet never seems to run out, and never overfills the piles at his feet.

Awareness

Behind his unchanging, sandy coloured eyes, some say that you can see a semblance of awareness lurking, yet most agree there seems to be no evidence to prove this.

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The Comprilith

Contrasting to how he thought of Xiuthan, T'kalia's relationship with Rak'tos was completely the opposite; The Tower Duo worked exclusively as project partners, and shared no emotional connection. Whether it was a quirk of their personalities or some deep misunderstanding between the two, there appeared to be a cold barrier between them broken only by the the shared goal of completing The Comprilith.
It's not fully known when construction, or even planning, first began on the Comprilith; yet it had been worked on for thousands of years before The Seven Day War brought the entire project to a halt. The plan was to use T'kalia's power over time to find all information that would ever exist within Cathedris, and use Rak'tos's control over space to form that into knowledge that'd fill the tower. Yet it remains unfinished, and just as broken as its two creator gods that remain nearby.

Frozen at His End of Time

Tempella, Spear of Time

A few hundred meters long and said to be containing grains of the past, present, and future inside, Tempella was what T'kalia used to guide himself through time. It's said he could use it to stretch a moment into an eternity, or make any amount of time pass by in the blink of an eye. Currently the spear remains embedded within T'kalia himself; stabbed through his spine and jutting out from his abdomen, pinning T'kalia physically and temporally within his final agonizing moments.

Maximum Potential

T'kalia had a base, constant awareness of large portions of time; however a lot of this information came in at once, and thus was often confusing, jumbled, or clouded. With Tempella, he was able to pinpoint small instances and hone in on them, greatly increasing the accuracy with which he explored the timelines.

Current Power

It's thought that Tempella in combination with T'kalia's own endless agony are the source of the temporal sand that endlessly pours from his wound and eyes. The spear's ability to focus time have instead intensified T'kalia's final moment so strongly that the very essence of twisted time pours from him as a result.

The carnage, the death, it was so unnatural. It drove her wild. She began to unravel. T'kalia tried to calm her. He left his spear at her feet, in the hopes that she'd see that violence isn't the end here. Yet as T'kalia began to walk away, Xiuthan picked up the spear and hurled it back in a fit of thoughtless rage; the spear flew true and found it's home squarely in T'kalia's back.

— Day 4 of the Seven Day War

Industry

Ever piling at T'kalia's feet is the key to untold wealth and knowledge -- should it be harvested, stored, and used correctly. Temporal Sand flows infinitely from T'kalia, pouring into piles that never grow or shrink over time, no matter how long it's been or how much has been harvested. The organization dedicated to the exploration of the Comprilith and Categorization of the findings from within have contracted a portion of the Legion to collect this sand for them; it's stored in glass jars, where depending on the amount within, it will last for up to 3 days.
However, that's not the only reason why the Legion has set up camp around T'kalia's legs; with him being an unmoving, temporally frozen God-husk, he provides an unparalleled opportunity for Ichor extraction in order to fuel Catalurgy and Catalurgical experimentation. In the case of Dimiti, another stationary God-husk, Ichor extraction is still dangerous because of the abundance of Rendlings that form from him. However with T'kalia, there are no Rendlings to worry about; at least, not in the traditional sense. The fungi that have colonized his lower extremities release spores at an astonishing rate, which seem to be perfectly suited to grow within the warm, moist environment of human lungs, where they accelerate the aging process of the new host's internal organs, resulting in their untimely demise.

Timeless Worship

In modern times, T'kalia still sees a large amount of worship. While his followers are most often people from Theah Prieah or other countries on the continent of Enqua, a large portion of scholars and students pray to him regularly as well. Additionally, small pleas and offerings to T'kalia are made on a daily basis around the world, in the form of people wishing for a moment of time to last just a little bit longer.

T'kalia bless me and let this moment never end.

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— A small happy prayer.

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