Kalivastana

Kalivastana is the Vishan deity of time, and the patron of the Vishan Elves.

History
According to the Vishan creation myth, Kalivastana was the first to be thrown out of balance by Shivearis. When Shivaeris came out of the formless nothing, Kalivastana was impacted by the sheer chaos, and time itself careened out of control, disrupting the other elements and throwing them into chaos, awakening the others. Kalivastana, having been able to recover first, defended the other gods from Shivaeris as the endless one sought to consume them. Because of this, Kalivastana is honored as the eldest, wisest, and most stable of the gods.

As Shivaeris was locked away, along with the gods, his jailers, Shivaeris formed its own people, the Elves, into what they are now, but its grapple with Shivaeris tainted the gift of the elves, their immortality, into a perversion, leaving few pure of form. The rest became the Touched Elves - timeless and near ethereal to most other races, but able to learn much from seeing so much life.

Ritual
Kalivastana holds under it's domain Time, and all things associated with it, be they long or short, have rituals associated with it. Harvest rituals and graduations of magi in particular are blessed by Kalivastana.

Although Kalivastana is the patron of the Elves, the balance of the Tetratheon requires that humans, the favored race of Zurvanyx, serve as priests of Kalivastana, while Kalivastana's favored race, the Elves, serve as priests of Zurvanyx. According to temple doctrine, this helps to keep the forces of space and time in balance, by forcing the deities of the opposing elements to rely on one another's domains completely for worship.