Cult of Dhun'Vhas

The Cult of Dhun'Vhas is a religion that almost reflects the ancient ways of Volvarians more than other points of Volvarian history. A religion focused around worshiping dragons and fire, and seeking to find their strength in replicating their strength and ferocity. Many mages seek to learn chaos magic, fire, or lightning magic to capture the ferocity and destructive power that many of the dragons they worship hold. 
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== Overview ==
The Cult has seen its reach spread to all of civilized Volvar, a religion dedicated to the worship of the Broadwings of their homeland and Dhun’Vhas, seeking to emulate them through practices of various magics and what outsiders would call extreme rituals and rites of passage that are common within the culture. There are also branches of the Cult that put more focus on fire’s power and how dragons are merely fire given form, these became known as the Pyrecallers, and several Houses had dedicated them to this ideal.
It had risen to the forefront of society during the reconstruction in the wake of the Thinning. When tales had spread of another plane with dragons the size of mountains, the Volvarians had flocked to the idea of returning these old, ancient gods to the world and granting them their strength as they did in the past. The Cult would solidify itself in society as it gave many citizens of Volvar jobs and would seek out areas of great turmoil and offer aid and protection against the dangers brought along in the world. It would not be long until the Dragonpriests of Dhun’Vhas accompanied and blessed many Dragonguard excursions, and would find themselves amongst the sailing mercenaries that would travel the world.
According to the Dragonpriests, Dhun'Vhas is a massive dragon, rivaling mountains in size and capable of calling forth storms with his roar, and causing galewinds with a flap of his wings. His flames created the lands of Volvar for their people and they seek to once again become capable of connecting with Dhun'Vhas children in the ways their ancestors had in the past, through the dragon charms. These charms are believed to be holy symbols, the knowledge of their creation passed to ancient Volvarians by Dhun'Vhas themself, and many of their tales claim that the originals were forged from the World Dragon’s blood. Dhun’Vhas would craft sons and daughters from various lands and elements, making the first of each of the various dragons across the world. The most notable in Volvar being the Broadwing, and more recently, Stormwing, a variation of Broadwing brought on by the Thinning that conjure small thunderstorms around them.
Category:Religions