Time

Father Time is the primordial personification of the linear progression of the universe and serves as the father of the seven Endless. Born from the union of the void and the first spark of existence, he resides in a realm beyond the traditional multiverse alongside his counterpart and estranged consort, Mother Night. While his children represent the various aspects of consciousness and experience, Time represents the objective framework that allows those experiences to occur. He is often depicted as a distant, massive, and somewhat indifferent figure who views the entirety of history as a singular, unfolding event rather than a series of moments.

In the grand cosmic hierarchy, Father Time acts as one of the few beings who commands absolute respect from the Endless, including the eldest, Destiny. His power is fundamental; without him, the concepts of change and consequence would cease to function. He made a notable appearance when Dream sought his counsel during a crisis that threatened the very fabric of reality. Despite his immense authority, he remains largely detached from the day to day affairs of gods and mortals; he exists as a silent observer to the beginning and the inevitable end of all things.

Appearance: Time has fair skin. He has brown colored eyes. Long, wavy blonde hair flows past his shoulders and blends into a thick, wavy blonde beard that reaches the middle of his chest. He wears a dark green robe with deep vertical folds. A tan shoulder piece with a gold-colored inner lining is draped over his right side. The green fabric covers his arm to the wrist.

Personality: Father Time is a cold and meticulous bureaucrat of the universe who is entirely consumed by the mechanical progression of seconds and eons. He is not a warm or nurturing figure. He is a literalist who values the structural integrity of the timeline over the emotional needs of those living within it. He is often irritable when interrupted by the trivial concerns of gods or mortals, treating the collapse of reality more like a technical glitch in a grand machine than a tragedy. His existence is defined by a relentless and indifferent focus on his task, making him one of the most distant and emotionally unreachable entities in existence.

His relationship with his consort, Mother Night, is famously strained and marked by a deep and ancient estrangement. They represent the two halves of the universe’s origin, yet they rarely see eye to eye on the fate of their children or the cosmos itself. As a father to the seven Endless, he is notably detached and dismissive. He does not offer comfort or paternal guidance to his offspring. Even when his son Dream sought his help during a multiversal crisis, Time responded with annoyance and a complete lack of empathy. He views his children more as byproducts of his union with Night than as individuals, maintaining a hierarchy where even the eldest, Destiny, is merely a subordinate to the ticking of his father's clocks.

Father Time wields absolute chronokinesis, as he is the literal personification of the linear progression of the universe and the architect of all causality. His status as the progenitor of the Endless grants him a specialized form of omnipotence that allows him to govern the objective framework of existence, a power that even his eldest children must obey. He is completely immortal, having existed since the birth of the first spark of creation and destined to remain until the final second ticks away, making him a fundamental and inescapable constant of reality.