Faendor

The Allfather (by dragons)

The Great Enemy (by Tiamat cultists)

Ziuna (wife)

Faendor the Emberheart is the brother of Enottáe, the ancestor God of the dragons, and a God of conquest, destruction, healing, freedom and wild magic. A deity of total chaos, he is worshipped widely across the world by many different peoples - unlike his sister, whose existence no one outside Varnia even knows about. He is particularly beloved among the Na'tari and those Xholorians who worship Gods rather than spirits. He is naturally also the primary deity of the Dragons, regardless of which dragonflight they hail from. Faendor and Ziuna are also the only Gods to have sired another God together: Kord.

## History

Most of Kranos considers Faendor the first God, as only the Varnians know of his sister, Enottáe. Once Faendor emerged, he created the first dragons in his own image and took flight with his children to travel the world. He taught his children the value of absolute freedom, as well as to destroy and sow chaos in order to make room for creation, rejuvenation and eventual order. This doctrine remains a core belief of followers of Faendor today and is known as the Faendoric Cycle. It would not be long before Faendor met the Goddess Ziuna, with whom he would sire Kord the Stormlord, the first and last of the Emberheart's children to be a God themselves.

Faendor and his draconic children were the first to engage in the War of the Firstborn against the extraplanar threat. The dragons fought long and hard, and the taxing nature of such prolonged warfare brought painstakingly obvious differences between chromatic and metallic dragons to Faendor's attention. His chromatic children gradually began to disregard the latter part of the cycle, instead reveling in destruction, total chaos and avarice. In contrast, his metallic children seemed to respect their father's teachings, but would only pursue chaos and destruction when absolutely necessary in order to spare the non-draconic beings they had grown so fond of. Finally, his gem dragon children abandoned the cycle altogether, valuing only total freedom and pursuing their own selfish goals in a similar way to their chromatic siblings. Once the War of the Firstborn was won, Faendor attempted to reunite and reeducate his children, but to no avail. It was during this time that Faendor discovered that his chromatic children had been tempted and corrupted by his eternal rival: Tiamat, an evil five-headed Dragon God/Archdevil that had come to Kranos in pursuit of Faendor. Faendor and Tiamat had fought long before Kranos even existed, and Tiamat finally managed a victory against her hated foe by turning some of his own children away from, and sometimes even against, him. Enraged, Faendor began to wage an eternal war on Tiamat. Eventually, both Faendor and Tiamat would abandon Kranos just like all godlike inhabitants of the world would, but their war is far from over.

## Worship

As the so-called "First God", Faendor is worshipped everywhere and is likely the single-most worshipped God in Kranos.

Faendoric worship usually revolves around adherence to and acceptance of the cycle of destruction and creation. Offerings to Faendor are usually burnt in his honour, and his most important temples tend to be grand marvels built in mountains or cliffsides. Smaller temples, however, tend to be decorated with obsidian, which is believed to be the only 'holy' thing he left behind. His priests wear red, black and blue robes to signify the fires of destruction, the ashes they leave behind, and the ensuing waters of creation and life.