Eryx, The Withering Hand

Where Chronis safeguards the passage of time and the preservation of fate, Eryx embodies its inevitable decay. They are the slow unraveling of all things, the certainty that nothing lasts forever, and the whisper of ruin that erodes both empires and gods alike. To Eryx, time is not a measured procession—it is a tide of entropy, consuming all that was and all that will be.
Eryx is not an indiscriminate force of destruction but rather the principle that all things must come to an end. They are the silent decay of forgotten ruins, the death knell of civilizations past, and the weight of history pressing down upon the present. To mortals, they are feared as the bringer of inevitable oblivion, yet to those who understand their nature, they are simply the final breath of existence—the last, inescapable truth.

Personality & Mythos

Eryx is not cruel, nor do they revel in destruction. They do not create, nor do they seek to undo purposefully. Instead, they embody the reality that all creation carries within it the seeds of its own demise. They speak in whispers carried by crumbling leaves, in the sigh of ancient bones turning to dust, and in the quiet acceptance of a world slipping toward entropy.
Legends say that Eryx rarely manifests, for their mere presence accelerates decay—structures collapse, flesh withers, and even time itself falters. Those who claim to have encountered them describe a being neither young nor old, shifting between countless stages of existence, their form in a constant state of disintegration and renewal. In one moment, they are skeletal and frail, in another, they are whole yet crumbling, their presence dissolving into a cloud of dust before reforming anew.
They view all struggles against entropy as futile. Every empire, every monument, every grand design—no matter how resilient—will one day fall into ruin. They do not intervene in mortal affairs unless something attempts to defy the natural decay of existence. Those who seek immortality, who halt destruction unnaturally, or who twist time to preserve what should wither earn their direct and merciless attention.

Divine Domains

• Time
• Entropy
• Destruction
• Death

Divine Classification

Deity

Religions

• The Heralds of Ruin

Realm

The Crumbling Epoch

Church/Cult

The Heralds of Ruin

Ruled Locations

• The Crumbling Epoch