The Origin of Kronos
Disclaimer: This is probably extremely non-canon, and if I don't miss
my guess, it's probably already been at least partially resolved in
some supplement or other. With that said, here's my take on the origin
of Kronos.
Yves watched, a sigh escaping his immortal lips. Even he could never
have foreseen this. Slowly, he shook his head. Lucifer. Free will
gone bad.
He could feel the Symphony twisting around him even as he watched
Michael throw the Morningstar from the gates. Something... new.
Something different from what he, Yves, had always known. Like
Destiny, but... not.
Yves whispered softly. He Named. "Fate."
The word reverberated throughout the Symphony. "Reverberated" did not
begin to do justice to the effect, though. If such things had existed
then, it could have been compared to a tone-deaf teenager strumming on
a badly-tuned electric guitar, connected to a massive amp and a bank
of speakers that would have put Kiss to shame. Yves sighed again.
Unpleasant, but necessary.
It was then that the second oldest being in Creation felt something
twisting inside himself. A single tear fell from his angelic eye.
It had come to this, something even Yves could never have known. He
raised his head, and his eyes caught an angel, an Ofanite of Gabriel's,
burning with unholy fury as it Fell from the skies. These were
desperate times, and they called for desperate measures.
He looked straight ahead, and again he Named. "Kronos."
Instantly, he was looking himself in the eye, and in that moment, he
saw all the darkest possibilites for the perfect Symphony, all the pain
and anger and hatred that was to come. The things that were no longer
part of himself, but now something different.
The other Yves began to change, the darkness within him beginning to
spread to his features. The face that reflected purest kindness and
wisdom contorted in rage. Before the newly-created Kronos, lord over
Destiny's darker half, twisted reflection of a shining form, Fell, Yves
looked him in the eye and whispered, "I'm sorry."
In a moment, he was gone. And somewhere in Heaven, the oldest of
Archangels cried.
The theory here is that when Lucifer fell, Yves *had* to create Kronos
out of himself to prevent his *own* Fall. This, to me, explains why
Kronos is not really a Balseraph, but the same type of being Yves is,
only Fallen (mentioned in the GURPS conversion, but absent from the
original core rules).
Furthermore, in my campaign Yves and Kronos together represent a link
to the mind of God. That is, Yves is not omniscient now, but WAS
before the Fall, and had to sacrifice that when evil came into being
in order to save his own soul. Basically, anything Yves doesn't know,
Kronos will, and vice-versa (there will of course be overlapping areas
in their knowledge). Kronos is not aware of this, but Yves is.
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