Minor Gods

The Path Less Travelled

Dracōnem is lush with draconic and divine patrons - however, various cultures and communities worship Gods aside from those in the Covenant and the Court. While these minor deities cannot anoint mortals like Gods of the Court or Draconae, they are deities all the same.

The All-Mother, The Wing'ed Spirit

The diety of the ikar people. The All-Mother is the sum of all Valkyries who have fallen in the past, their souls combining with the Spirit and resting in the mountains while they await the Sleeping Rancour's arrival. When the great evil becomes the Waking Conquest, the Wing'ed Spirit will separate into the thousands of souls that comprise it and band with the living clans to dismantle their ancient foe. 

She is a great power representing all ikar women in positions of leadership, including mothers, group leaders, cooks - but especially Valkyries. It is said that the Sleeping Rancour wounded the Wing'ed Spirit gravely in their first bout, in the abdomen. The wound was so severe that it fragmented amongst all women to bear a part of the burden, as an explanation for the various cycles of menstruation, including bleeding and pain. Those who bleed are 'temporarily' bearing the wound from the All-Mother, allowing her respite until it is time for her to fragment into the various souls she comprises once more. As such, when one's cycle comes around for the month, they are bidden to rest and rejuvenate, dotted on my the men of the clan until the bleeding has stopped and the symptoms have passed.


The Sleeping Rancour/Waking Conquest

It is unknown where the Sleeping Rancour originated from. It is unknown where it resides. But it is known that its strength gathers exponentially and that in its very core, it is a thing of evil and corruption. Ikars believe that the Sleeping Rancour will eventually wake and become the Waking Conquest, tearing through Dracōnem and enslaving its people. When it does, the All-Mother and the living clans will vanquish it, destroying its being so completely that perhaps there was never a being to begin with.

In return for the great strike it left on the All-Mother, she dealt it a blow to the Sleeping Rancour so severe it was forced into total unconsciousness, so powerful as to affect all living things - this is their spiritual understanding of sleep, that they are waning in consciousness due to the All-Mother having struck the incarnation of evil in a way that it inadvertently affected all life alive or to ever live afterwards. Those who, magically or otherwise, do not require sleep are therefore given special consideration as spiritually important figures. 

Vazin

Vazin is the moon itself, according to the vhuket. They believe she controls water and the night, guiding the waning and the waxing of its phases, the turning and the tilting of its ring, and the tides and the waves of the sea. She is often depicted as a humanoid silhouette with a crescent or ring crown to reflect Aether's ring, leading to the jewellery of the vhuket to be adorned with rings and crescents traditionally.