Dūradarśanath, The Watcher of All Paths

Dūradarśanath, The Watcher of All Paths

Domains & Aspects:

Time, fate, possibility, inevitability and the infinity of timelines. Dūradarśanath perceives all branching outcomes at once, his sight burdened by knowing every outcome of every choice.

Symbols:

An hourglass with fractal branches of sand flowing outward; an unblinking eye pierced by three intersecting lines.

Realm:

The Spiral Observatory, a paradoxical tower spiraling upward and downward at once, each chamber lined with mirrors reflecting endless versions of reality. To gaze into one is to see not what is, but what might be or what might have been.

Personality:

Detached, cryptic, sorrowful. To some mortals, he seems passive and uncaring, but in truth, he is weighed down by all of the varying paths he can see, while not being able to see his own. Periodically, he will emit an energy that finds random or susceptible humanoids that grants them premonitions. His followers often worship him to get glimpses into the future or to find “a better path”. The followers that know of his sorrow conduct rituals and give offerings to help ease it, half of the time with hopes of getting something in return. If someone presents him with something without expecting something in return, his personality lightens up. He enjoys good company and a good conversation when he can, as it lets him take a break from seeing all paths at once. He has a love for apples and reading fictional books.

Appearance:

His true form is a giant brain with a large eye and six smaller eyes circling around it, with a giant heart diagonally fused to it from beneath, connected and surrounded by flesh colored tendrils and tentacles, with all of it fused to what looks like the mouth of a whale. He sometimes appears as a human male with pinkish grey tinted skin, medium length, wavy brown hair and red eyes.