NOTE: If you find the introduction unclear or confusing, that’s okay. You are welcome to skip down to the next section to where the books are available or simply read the blog on this site where stories showing the Kairos in action are regularly presented.

A brief Introduction:

In the deep past, the old Titan Chronos, the ancient Greek god of time, had a terrifying vision of the end of the world. He knew his own children were seeking to rise up and cast him down into the deepest pit of Tartarus, but before that could happen, he worked tirelessly to create what he was able to make in order to prevent his terrible vision from becoming reality. One of those creations, perhaps his last and greatest creation, was the Kairos, the Watcher over history, the Traveler in time—one among the gods to watch over time and follow after him.

Kairos is a Greek word that refers to event time, or as the Kairos calls it, history. Chronos ruled over chronological time, the strict linear progression of minutes, hours, days, years, the procession of the seasons and the stars. Kairos time is all twisted up in the human condition, in memory, and in the written record. Thus, Chronos is the ancient god of linear time where the Kairos is more the god of event time, or as the Kairos prefers, the Watcher over history or mostly just the Watcher. The Kairos is tasked to make sure history turns out the way it is written, or the way it will be written, and that is not so easy when everything and everyone appears to be trying to drag the human race off track and ruin the future.

Made out of human flesh and blood, the Kairos was originally designed to inhabit two bodies at the same time, one male and one female, but with only one consciousness between the two bodies. That is, one being in two persons. This proved too difficult at first for such a young consciousness, and Chronos felt sure he failed, but at the last moment, before Zeus and Zeus’ brothers and sisters caught him, out of an act of desperation, he placed the Kairos into the hands of unknown “others.” Chronos wanted to keep the Kairos out of the hands of the gods to come, and he hoped these others might find a way to succeed where he failed.

The others decided to make this essentially flesh and blood being fully mortal, not immortal like the gods, take turns living as a male or female, and limit the number of years of a given life in order to have the Kairos born in different places and in different cultures around the world, wherever history faced the greatest danger of being ruined. In this manner the Kairos has been trapped to live one lifetime after another throughout history, sometimes as a man and sometimes as a woman, whatever the need.

The Kairos often calls these mysterious “others” friends in the future and believes they must be angels of the Most High–the source of all things. Sometimes, the Kairos is overwhelmed with self-pity, feeling like one trapped on a merry-go-round with no way of getting off, sometimes calling herself/himself nothing more than an experiment in time and genetics, resenting being forced to live again and again without rest, and being forced to go through all the pain, suffering, and loss of death without being allowed to go to heaven.

The curious thing about the Kairos is he/she is not bound by time in the way we are. The Kairos is born each time without any memory of any other lives. It is generally only after the personality is set and well tied to a particular time and culture, often around puberty, when the time walls that separate the Kairos’ various lives come tumbling down and the Kairos is able to remember and even form a mental link with some other lifetimes.

Thus, for example, the current life of the Kairos, Glen, a male, is strongly connected to the Princess, a female, who is a Greek Princess from 228 BC. That connection extends to Diogenes, a Macedonian warrior who fought side by side with Alexander the Great, and Doctor Mishka, a product of the University of Paris who got her baptism in surgery on the Russian front in the first World War. Alice and the Captain are from the future, while Gallena and Martok are two alien lifetimes from the far future… The Kairos is a very complicated person.

Most curious is the Kairos’ ability to “remember” future lives. Remembering the future is the only logical way to say and understand it. That may be what old Chronos had in mind, that in remembering the future, in knowing how history turns out, the Kairos might be driven to do everything possible to be sure the future turned out the way it was written, or would be written.

What the gods did not anticipate, however, was eventually the link between the Kairos’ various lifetimes would become strong enough to where she/he could actually, physically trade places through time. It can only happen because time is relative, not entirely inflexible. Apparently it has to do with exchanging the same genetic code with basically the same genetic code along with some equivalent flesh and blood.

It is like a form of time travel that does not disturb the timeline since nothing is substantially gained or lost in the exchange. Thus the name the Kairos is sometime called: the Traveler in time, or just the Traveler. I am certain the alien Martok, a mathematical engineer from the far future, might explain how it all works by showing the math, but that won’t help most people.

All you need to know is when the young Princess is about to be slaughtered by a mercenary, she is able to suddenly vanish and be replaced by a fully armed and armored Macedonian warrior who is more than a match for the hapless mercenary…  But that is a story for you to read.

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There are presently three books of the Kairos published in 2025, the Kairos Alpha trilogy. These books tell the story of the origin of the Kairos, why the Kairos is counted among the gods even when living a strictly mortal, human life, and when and how the Kairos first learns how to trade places with other lives in the time stream. The Kairos struggles at first, sometimes just to stay alive, but the Kairos always believes the days of peace and quiet are just around the corner. The Kairos is still waiting for that time.

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To learn about the Kairos, you might begin with the Avalon Prequel, Invasion of Memories, a SF/F adventure where you can read about the Kairos in action and duress in many different circumstances and get a good story besides. Invasion of Memories will give a good overview of some of the lives of the Kairos, the Watcher over history, the Traveler in time.

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Of course, Invasion of Memories is also the prequel to the Avalon series, and as such it introduces many of the characters that will become the travelers from Avalon. The Avalon series, a trilogy of trilogies, 9 books in all, begins around 4500 B. C. under an ill fated tower and moves step by step, through time gates and across dangerous time zones, back to the twenty-first century.

To find all these books (with many more on the way) look under the author’s name M. G. Kizzia at your favorite e-retailer. They are all reasonably priced at under $5USD for the e-book and under $25USD for a print on demand trade paperback edition. As the books become published in 2025, the universal book link will be connected to each individual cover above so one click will take you to a page with links to every retailer where the books are available. Thank you for reading about the Kairos. Please continue to read the free stories and books printed weekly on the blog, and remember, reviews are always appreciated.

Happy Reading — MGKizzia

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