Caligin

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Caligin.
The deity of the night sky, darkness, warfare and honor in battle. A combination that raises eyebrows. 
Some ask how a deity of the dark and mystery can also govern over honor. They are bound by their single-mindedness. There is no inherent good or bad in dark and light. Neither shadow nor sun holds an intrinsic meaning of good or evil. Light illuminates. Dark conceals. Light scalds. Dark soothes. There are infinitely more facets to each than just good or evil. 
Caligin is one of few deities found in both Pantalan and Pyrrhian mythologies, despite the former's best efforts to wipe their name from history. This makes them one of the most complex deities to study, and thus have two parts to their file.
This analysis was written by Forest, a scholar of the deities. The passage strives to be as objective as possible, however no text can truly be written without a bias. Take heed.
|-|myth=
:Caligin is, in the simplest sense, a constellation. Immortalized in the stars, along with all the other heroes of old. They existed long before canon begins.
:A child of the two bravest people Caligin has ever known in their lengthy lifespan, they have always striven to make the best possible choice for the most people. It was their selflessness that took them in the end.
:They were a hero, one of the greatest. They fought the demons in the dark, the ones that dragonkind had no protection from, for there was no light, no fire, no sun. They were one of the first warriors. This was their purpose- they have devoted their life to it. The protection and preservation of dragonkind. Gifted with flame and a sharp gut sense, they fought the monsters simply because they could, and it woul dbe the right thing to do. But the brightest flames go out the quickest. 
:In the end, they saw the fight for what it really was: futile. There was no chance if dragons were to try and defeat the monster in its land. So in the end they gave up their flame. They gave up their light. They sacrificed their essence into the sun, birthing another creature entirely from inside themselves. The sun goddess took her own form, a separate entity entirely. She would wake, and the world would, too, and the demons would disappear, cowed into the shadows and underground. When she slept, the world would, too, and the heroes would fight the monsters that returned with the dark. As for Caligin? They were nothing but a shadow.
:But the gods looked down on them and smiled. They were one of the first heroes, and for their bravery they were placed among the stars, immortalized there forever. 
:The bedtime story of Caligin ends there, but their yarn certainly does not. This aspect of their story is nothing but that- a story. A tall tale. A fairy tale to teach children, a mythical figure that is everything a good dragonet should be. Brave. Selfless. Kind. Historians have gone through ancient records of sightings, and they have unfolded the rest of the story.
:Caligin's ascending to the role of the deity of night is murky. Some argue that they had turned themselves into a god with the birth of a goddess; that they had taken one magical form away, leaving themselves the polar opposite, thus becoming a god. Others claim that it was in the ancient deities- the ones who had placed them into the stars. They were immortalized by holding the brightest star in the heart of their constellation, and by becoming the first goddess of night. Before, there had been no need for one- without a day, there was no night, only endless dark. But now there was a need, and the gods saw it fitting for them to take the part.
:They walk the earth at the dead of night, stopping to see the world for the darkest hour. They fight the demons that come at midnight to sneak into the homes of sleeping dragons, and they defend us to this day.
:They say that Caligin is not only a night deity, but also that of battle. Fitting, after their endless life battling demons. Whereever there is war, there is Caligin. They fought in the War of the SandWing Successions, some say, and in the Tree Wars. If you ask the right people, they will tell you a story of a dragon colored the deepest of blues, with lighter accents. You'd never look at them straight-on, somehow. Your gaze would always slide off like oil on water. But if you saw them out of the corner of your eye, you'd swear their eyes were stars.
:And that is how we know- despite the common disbelief around myths these days, Caligin still roams.
|-|Pyrrhian=
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Like all deities, Caligin has two forms- one mundane, one mythical.
Caligin's mundane form is the one they had in their mortal life. A NightWing-SilkWing hybrid, colored in shades of blue with hints of purple. The star-like speckles came later.
Their build is more similar to a SilkWing. NightWing teardrops mark the center row of their SilkWing scales, bright white and almost glowing.
|-|Pantalan=
In Pantalan mythology, Caligin is a banned figure. No one speaks of them, and their name is erased from history. Caligin is the patron deity of the banished, the ones who live on the savannahs in dishonor.
Caligin was a member of The Beast Queen's hunt before leaving--some legends claim that they were banished, however the original source could not be found.
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