Background:
Born not into night or dawn, but into utter silence, Nyrian came into the world already missing something every other mind knew, the realm of dreams. As a Kalashtar, she was severed from the dreaming tide, her soul quiet where others churned. Yet the gods of creation, Izanami and Izanagi, noticed the stillness in her before anyone else.

She was raised among the lands of Kaigahara, specifically on Naminojima. From her earliest years she read the old sutras before she could properly speak, traced the spiraling cosmograms before she knew their names, and walked the shrine halls as though she had lived them a thousand times before. She was shaped for understanding.

And then the visions began.

They did not come in dreams. She had none. Instead, they struck her while waking:
The sky splitting like paper,
A shrine half-submerged in salt water,
The shadow of a serpent swallowing a sun she did not recognize.

Her elders feared madness. But the twins of creation do not waste breath. One night, while she meditated beneath the shrine’s sacred sakura, the world stilled entirely. Not wind. Not birds. Not even the petals dared to fall.

In that perfect stillness, time uncoiled.

The gods appeared to her not in shape, but in feeling. Izanagi’s steady hand, Izanami’s cool breath, a harmony of creation and dissolution. They wove their voices into her mind:

“You who do not dream shall witness what dreamers cannot.”
“The future is fractured. Walk our path and bind its threads.”

When the world resumed, Nyrian’s eyes were full of shifting reflections, as if countless possible moments flickered behind them. She understood then what the others could not: her lack of dreams was not a loss. It was the very reason the future had space to speak.

From that day forward, her role within the Pantheon became undeniable. She became their prophet, ritualist, and keeper of all forbidden knowledge, the one who charted the unseen dangers rather than confronting them head-on. While her companions , Nyrian whispered curses that bent inevitability, delayed death, or unraveled an enemy’s fate before they even struck.

She learned to read time the way others read scripture, painfully at first, each vision a migraine of fractured possibilities. But with discipline and prayer, she learned to nudge a moment, to slow a blade, to hasten an ally’s spark of inspiration. Never enough to break the world… just enough to keep it from breaking her group.

Her final calling came during a great convergence ritual, when all four clerics sought guidance for the path ahead. As her companions chanted, Nyrian felt herself pulled sideways. Past the moment they stood in, past the shrine, past the world. She glimpsed the pantheon gathered in silent watchfulness… and beneath them, a roiling darkness clawing at the strands of fate.