Bazzel

[Bazzel] is the overdeity of Time in Codex. He has always existed, although not always in his current form.

=As an adventurer=

Bazzel born into the world as an orphan to a childless couple of dwarven librarians. His mortal form was one of the monster races created by the Undina, a bugbear. He began to travel with a group of adventurers following an accident that burned down the library. Traveling more for the thrill of adventure than for any sense of gain, Bazzel was unaware of his heritage until an encounter with an artifact called the Chronosapphire. As the shards of the artifact merged in his presence, something within him awakened.

His adventurer allies joined him on several journeys through the past of Codex, believing the powers of the sapphire were dragging them back and forth. In reality, Bazzel was subconsciously using his divine powers to fix several kinks in the timeline. Eventually coming to the grand Tower of Fate in the seas between the continents, they stopped the machinations of the crazed human necromancer Lysander, who was attempting to recreate an ancient spell to steal a divine spark and become a god himself. With the spell having no target, it oriented back on Bazzel and restored him to godhood.

=Kinks in Time=

A long running theory of clerical followers was that the adventures of Bazzel were necessary to fix mistakes in the timeline. These errors in the timeline were created, they believe, by the creation of the Unnamed God, erased from reality by Anake. No longer tethered in the timeline, the Unnamed God snuck up behind Bazzel and made a soft noise, making the deity of Time look behind himself for the first time. Looking in the wrong direction, time skipped several times, until errors began cropping up. The Unnamed used Bazzel's time as a mortal to re-engineer his own powers. While still not capable of having followers, the Unnamed had gathered the might to begin picking at the Abjurewall.

Bazzel solved the majority of the time errors, although kinks do still occasionally manifest. Most of these are brought to his attention by his mortal high priest and his chief petitioner, the founder of the town of Monarch, Nekohank.