Rhezerya

**Rhezerya**, also known as the Dragon of the Night among other titles, is a dragon and a deity worshipped in Sephailend by very secluded reducts. She was part once of the Prism Pantheon, betrayed them and scattered from their influence and reach, as she had taken haven on the Underworld. She has formed her very own cult, as she is mainly revered by tieflings, which is said they are her children and grant them all her love and protection.

## Rhezerya, Dragon of the Night

### Aliases

The Eighth DragonThe Dragon of Night

The Mother of Fiends

The Betrayer (by Prismatic followers and the Prism Pantheon)

Our Lady Mother (by tiefling followers)

## Physical description

### Gender

Female

Rhezerya is represented as a very beautiful woman with long, outward horns and an scaled tail ended in a spade form. Her hair is black as night, long and wavy, and her eyes are severe but kind, brilliant pupils in a dark sclera that shine like stars. Her skin is also dark as night with purple and green hues, silver freckles all along her face and arms. She has clawlike hands and feet, which rarely touch the ground, and black dragon wings unfurled on her back. Her representations in statues and other holy imageries includes a skull on one hand to represent death and rebirth, and a scepter on the other, to guide her people through the night. Her dragon form is of a black dragon, keeping the horns and tail's shape, of five meters and a half. It is said her scales are obsidian-like.

## Personality

Aloof and mysterious, Rhezerya is said to have both wisdom and beauty alike. Even if she has a very maternal side when it comes to her children, she has also put distance from them, allowing them to grow to their heart's content. Like all dragons, however, she is prone to mood swings and prideful bouts, but she manages to have them on check the most. Her detractors say she is cunning and hard to trust, as she is capable of making the void swallows everything if she is wronged somehow. She likes to not explain things to her followers right off the bat but to put critical key information and clues for them to follow, as she enjoys critical thinking and to put pieces of logic together.

## History

Most of what is known of Rhezerya by the general public are the stories told by her priestdom, which is of dubious veracity. Legends say her place of birth is in the locality of Umberhaven in Mulmouth, which has a chasm and an underground city below the wastelands that surround the area. It's said that such chasm was formed when she emerged from the primordial egg on the depths of earth and rose to the surface in glorious flight.

## Cult

Cult to Rhezerya is exclusively practiced in heavily populated tiefling locations such as Umberhaven or the tiefling community in Myrcyra, a city in Kyros. It is so intrinsically drawn to them that it is not heavily prosecuted by faith enforcers of the Prism Pantheon; however it's frown upon and tieflings that openly practice Rhezerya's faith are not well regarded among the Prismatic followers. In fact, tieflings as a whole are outcasts and have an infamous reputation as fiends and cunning, untrustworthy creatures by the general populace anyway, so it doesn't make much difference if Rhezerya is worshipped openly or not.

Followers of Rhezerya often have a crescent moon facing upwards that resemble her horns as a holy symbol.

### Rhezerya's Chosen

It is said the more draconic features (scales, dragon-like horns, wings, etc) a tiefling has, the more favor they have from Rhezerya, a "Chosen" from the Goddess. These individuals are often considered "pure-blooded" and part of tiefling's high society. Some of them are also sorcerers that, among other things, have necrotic breath as a weapon; the most powerful of them can even shapeshift on dragon-like forms.

Truth is that other devout followers of Rhezerya also receive similar boons, as her clerics and paladins can also conjure necrotic breath as weapon and can cover themselves with obsidian scales as natural armor, among other powers.

## Known followers

* Sitri, High Priestess of Rhezerya in Umberhaven
* Agape
* Xanthos, Paladin of Rhezerya