Dagasi

Byselon

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**Dagasi** is a village on the Sleetwarden Lookout mountain. It's the only permanent settlement on the otherwise barren mountain.

Dagasi is known for devout religious worship and a juxtaposition between their material finery and their macabre scavenging lifestyle.

## Description

Population: 300

Dagasi is built on a clearing on the mountainside. The majority of the buildings are made of stone or metal. There's an unusually high concentration of religious buildings, shrines, and altars. The stonework is elegant and well made.

The aarakocra of Dagasi used to practice sky burial; the dead were left in remote crags of the mountain for scavenging animals to eat. The Flock of the Ascendant leaves their dead (and unborn) exposed on altars and places of religious significance, often with entrails leaking onto carvings in the stone.

## History

Originally a temporary mining town established by dwarves, wandering aarakocra took over the ghost town after the mining boom faded. A lot of dwarvish stonework can still be found in the village.

The aarakocra of Dagasi put great emphasis on religion and culture. Life revolved around the temple, which worshiped Sehanine, an aspect of Selune.

For many years, the aarakocra lived as hunters and scavengers in the frigid cold. They often offered shelter to miners in exchange for a share of the ore. Due to the abundance of gemstones and precious metals and lack of nearby settlements, the aarakocra made ceremonial use of the minerals rather than trade them. Holy symbols and arcane focuses were often elaborate, lavish crafts.

Around 600 PR, in a particularly brutal winter, an upstart priest named Alcor claimed to have received a sign from The Albatross that the aarakocra were worshiping the wrong deity, and that it was only "proper" for them to worship an avian god.

Sehanine was almost always uninvolved with the aarakocra. Clerics would receive spells, and occasionally priests would receive omens, but there was never more than that. Alcor received direct guidance from the Albatross, and made it known to Dagasi. He claimed that the Albatross would be able to keep Dagasi safe through the winter storm if they stopped worshiping Sehanine and accepted their rightful ruler.

At first, the people were reluctant to follow Alcor, but as conditions worsened, they were drawn to his message. Once the upstart had amassed a collection of followers, he usurped the high priest and took over in a bloody conquest.

Seeing nonbelievers as unworthy of flight, he had their wings clipped and burned. In order to nip what he saw as heresy in the bud, Alcor collected the eggs of those he deemed lesser, and had them smashed onto an altar; an offering to the new god. Hatchlings after this point were indoctrinated into Alcor's Flock of the Ascendant: a new sect of aarakocra who properly recognized their rightful god and creator.

Dagasi is now littered with bloodied shrines, altars, effigies, and other items of devotion to their new god, the Albatross.

## Government

The church is the government, with Alcor and his priests calling all of the shots.

### Hierophant

Alcor, an aarakocra cleric that looks like a bearded vulture with piercing, white eyes.

## Notable NPCs

### The Old Faith

**Corrith** was an aarakocra priest who looked like a griffon vulture. He is "buried" on a spire west of Dagasi, and died 5 years before the Flock of the Ascendant took over.

### Flock of the Ascendant

**Alcor** is an aarakocra cleric that looks like a bearded vulture with piercing, white eyes. He wears an elaborate, multicolored crown that frames his face, as well as large ornate robes that make him look bigger than he actually is.

## Locations

### Inner Dagasi

#### Moonlit Temple

A large plaza with stairs leading to a basement. The plaza features many shrines and altars, as well as a stone lectern. The walls of the plaza are marble monoliths with religious scriptures engraved into them.

The basement contains a hearth and more altars.

### Outer Dagasi

#### The Winding Ridge

The road leading to Dagasi. It is poorly maintained and has many missing sections.

## Trivia

* probably not literally the north village from Hyper Light Drifter
	+ i'm so sorry alex preston i literally just ripped the north out of your game and pasted it into dungeons and dragons

### Things for Ravenloft

#### Mist Talismans

A feather or bone from a sacrificed aarakocra, a stone fragment from a monolith, a piece of eggshell, a holy symbol of Sehanine