Archives of Nethys
Whereas the other Eldest are individual entities, Shyka is a chorus. Long ago, the first Shyka called together all those who would one day hold the title in a grand convocation. There, those who form the Many agreed to share their reigns across time, flickering in and out of one another's chronological existences so that they all might experience a sampling of eternity.
Although Shyka's incarnations retain slight differences in personality, their pooled knowledge and memories from this shifting over countless eons mean that the Many shares one voice and one will. The Shyka present at any given location or event can shift without warning, their appearance changing wildly between ancestries both familiar and unknown on Golarion. To avoid paradoxes, there's never more than one Shyka in any given instant. There was a Shyka present for the beginning of the multiverse, and there is a Shyka, even now, present at its end. Though Shyka claims to be merely a guardian of time, they've been known to subtly nudge the course of events in line with their own inscrutable goals; scholars speculate they might be shifting the timeline away from branches that would bring disaster. They clash on occasion with less-flexible temporal arbiters, such as time dragons, yet they remain on good terms with some such former foes, hinting that perhaps their alterations aren't so great a deviation after all.
Shyka makes their home in the House of Eternity, a mountaintop palace with as great a multitude of temporal incarnations as Shyka themself and that shifts just as abruptly; some visitors have encountered the castle in early stages of construction, while others have found it in ruins. Within, Shyka maintains a vast library, including manuscripts penned by their different incarnations. The castle contains a trophy room of relics and souvenirs from events across the timestream. Shyka often hires agents to retrieve such items, rarely explaining why— though they've admitted that at times, the mission itself is what gives the item significance. Some trophies come from civilizations that are otherwise completely unheard of, and scholars speculate that they've been retroactively erased save for this single vestige.
Followers of the Many are those interested in time in all its forms, whether chronomancers attempting to master the art of time travel or reincarnated samsarans connecting with their past lives. Shyka frequently offers aid to other fey or mortals in exchange for their service at some point in the future. To those they favor, they might offer visions of what's to come or even the chance to alter the past.
Category Eldest
Edicts Learn from the past, leave hourglasses in unusual places, give random gifts, create ephemeral things
Anathema Willingly tread where time does not pass
Areas of Concern Entropy, reincarnation, time
Religious Symbol Broken hourglass
Sacred Animal Hive animals
Sacred Color(s) White
Pantheons/Covenants Pillars of Knowledge
Devotee Benefits
Divine Attribute Dexterity or IntelligenceDivine Font harm or heal
Divine Sanctification none
Divine Skill Occultism
Favored Weapon light mace
Domains decay, disorientation, fate, time
Cleric Spells 1st: anticipate peril, 3rd: haste, 7th: time beacon
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