Nawida

**Nawida the Grey**, brother of Ayu’nama, Lady of the Earth, is the cold and mercurial ruler of the world’s seas worshipped by the ice trolls as one of the Emneraki Loa.

## Lord Nawida

### Former Title(s)

God of Mountains
 Loa Protector of Zul'Drak

### Alias(es)

The Grey
 Nawida Storm-Eater
 He Who is The Tempest

### Relatives

Mam'toth (son)
 Ayu'nama (sister)
 Ofasa (nephew)
 Mor'thek (nephew)
 Vek'vezur (great-nephew)
 Adalat (great-nephew)

## Myth

In legend, Nawida manifests only when the sky broils into a thunderstorm within the furthest reaches at sea. He takes the form of a titanic troll striding across the tides, his white hair a long shroud that trails in his wake, entwined with ages of seaweeds and kelp. His proud form of rugged muscle is dappled by hills of barnacles, fields of algae and wastes of nestled mussels.

It is said that once he was the God of Mountains and ruled closer to the heavens than any of the Nama’kai. For indeed it was he, in the early days of the Second Aroda, that first met and welcomed the trolls into the world, granting them a valley between his peaks where they would come to build Zul’Drak, the City of Dragons. There in his youth he oft meandered the city alongside the trolls and it came to be that he fathered a son, Mam’toth, who chose to dwell forevermore in Zul’Drak.

Hundreds of years passed until another came to Nawida’s domain, a sinister and sly creature known as Mor’thek, who, like Zaradan’s sons, brought his children into the world in search of a home. But Nawida grew wary when he saw Mor’thek’s spawn: a multitude of hissing, skittering, giant spiders with fangs the length of lances and beady bloody eyes that glowed with malice.

Nawida’s doubts turned to fury when the trolls revealed to him that Mor’thek’s children had already trespassed in his realm without his leave and in secret, began to prey on the trolls under his protection. He stepped forth to slay Mor’thek for his impunity, with legions of vengeful Drakkari at his back. As the trolls made battle against the mythical beasts of old, Nawida clashed with Mor’thek in an epic duel that lasted seven days and seven nights. But before Nawida could deliver the last blow, Mor’thek gave him another dreadful revelation: he himself was one of Ayu’nama’s children and thus blood-kin of Nawida. To kill one another would be to invite eternal shame, so Nawida was forced to stay his hand.

The following night, he cast Mor’thek and his ilk into the far-flung hollows of the mountains, declaring that would be the only home he would ever grant them. Yet Mor’thek was a wily being and he was able to plot his way out of his prison. Once freed, Mor’thek exacted his revenge by reaching the skies with a single claw and rending the clouds open. In an instant, all the water they held poured below, drowning the earth. Only Nawida’s mountains were left safe in the ensuing flood.

Day by day, the waters continued to rain and soon even the mountains may have been lost. Faced with this terrible doom, Nawida chose to descend his granite throne, lowering himself within the raging tempest as he began to swallow the hurricanes and the typhoons, the deluge and the alluvion until the waters receded and the earth emerged again.

Following this deed, Nawida’s skin turned grey and white like the clouds, his hair paled and he felt that his lungs burned in the fresh breeze of the surface. His new domain became the seas, which both he and Mor’thek had created with their actions. He guarded the tides fiercely and filled them with many new creations. Hence that day in the many turns of the ages he has grown merciless and aloof, and it has not been rare for him to whisk many a troll into his watery halls so that they may serve him, whether they wish it or not.

## Worship

The trolls have long sought to purchase the good will of Nawida through varying acts of reverence. This often consisted of sending ships into the open sea filled with precious stones with the deliberate goal to sink them in his honour. Before great voyages, it was not uncommon for the most daring of trolls to even surrender some of their dearest possessions, such as family heirlooms or animal companions, or in the most extreme cases even sons, daughters and wives so that they may serve Nawida. In exchange, it is believed Nawida would provide the adventurer with his protection, ensuring their ship may sail swiftly and unencumbered through his kingdom.

Since the collapse of the Drakkari Empire, the cult of Nawida has been largely forgotten, save by the ice trolls who still dwell on the isles and the southern coasts of Northrend.