Virseth

Virseth, also known as the Dragon of the Sun, is also the First Dragon and deity of the so called Prism Pantheon, a religion now extended throughout all the continent of Sephailend.

## Virseth, the Dragon of the Sun

### Aliases

The First DragonThe Dragon of the Sun

Father of All

Our Radiant Reverence (by Virseth followers)

The First Creator

The Scorching Wrath

Damokles Leukós (mortal guise)

### Relatives

Alecto Leukós (elder daughter)Thalía Leukós (younger daughter)

## Physical description

### Gender

Masculine

Virseth, in his humanoid semblance and as he is depicted by his worshippers and scholars, resembles a tall, severe man with long, flaming red hair, twisted dragon horns, and red eyes, burning like the sun itself. In one of his clawed hands he holds a sphere, radiant, representing the sun and the world itself under his care. His dragon form is of six meters tall, with red scales resembling rubies.

His physical appearance as Damokles, his former mortal vessel, was of a male tiefling, tall and gaunt.

## Personality

It is said Virseth's personality is very much like the sun he represents, being as warm and caring on a good day and unforgiving and suffocating on a bad one. He is passionate, brash, arrogant and quick to judgement, and he almost never considers giving second chances if slighted. That could be said from any god on the pantheon, but in his case is drawn into a fault. However, he can be generous and cares for the things and people he truly cherishes, like his own daughters, even if it comes to a point of overprotecting them, but spared no expenses if he must for their sake. He gives light to the world and can very much burn it if he feels threatened.

## History

Most scholars pinpoint Undrith in the Empire of Telindrath, or at least its surroundings, as the place of Virseth's birth. The city itself has this as something to be proud of, having built among the ashes where Virseth burst into flames and born as he was.

It is widely known that, even if they all form part of the same pantheon, Virseth doesn't really get along with his fellow dragon-gods. In fact, he has a long feud with Naldyr, Dragon of the Seas, ongoing through millenia. That is why in Naldyr's realm, the sun doesn't reach, and Virseth despises the ocean itself, as it is one of the things he cannot oversee.

Naldyr wasn't the only being he punished, as he dispatched punishments whenever he felt he was offended. He made no distinctions between mortals and gods at that, the tale of stripping one ancient god of Freyr of his domains and even his identity for aiding Kalyna, the daughter of Faenthie and Ishkandar, the Sovereign of the Underworld to meet a haunting one few remember, if at all. That same god, fallen into oblivion, was the guardian of the Underworld's gates for a long time. The motives of doing so was because he regarded Kalyna as dear as if she was his own daughter as well.

Rhezerya was the first of the divine dragons that disapproved openly of Virseth's actions, as he and the Prism Pantheon conquered and stole other gods' domains for themselves, displacing the old faiths for their own. She never saw eye to eye with him even when she was on his side, and even accused him of being shortsighted and conceited, as if the cautionary tale of the Frost Dragons' demise in Revontulet didn't matter to him. So she parted away from all of them, cut all ties from them and formed her own religion in the Underworld, giving birth to the race of tieflings. Virseth always saw that as treason and dubbed her "The Betrayer" from that day forward.

Many centuries later, Virseth assumed the guise of a male tiefling, Damokles, to attempt to mock and counter Rhezerya for having created an entire race devoted to her. He also sired two daughters, Alecto and Thalía, tieflings as well, whom he claimed he raised on his own, even if the truth was there was hired help to care for them both as their "mothers" and servants when he had to get absent for divine affairs. They lived on Telindrath until a rare illness was found on Alecto, his eldest, as she had received what Virseth thought was the ultimate insult on him: a blessing from Naldyr, making her bound to the water and the sea as a result. So from that day on, he condemned Naldyr to a prison under the sea, as punishment for slighting him like this, and they left Telindrath, installing themselves on an estate in Kandos, one of the many portuary cities in Kyros, and he kept a watchful eye over them both, until the two girls reached early adulthood, in which, for different circumstances, both also turned their backs on him because of his overprotection. The estate burst into flames when Alecto left, and neither Damokles nor the rest of the Leukós family was heard of on Kyros' tiefling society ever again.

## Cult

Because he is part of the Prism Pantheon, and the head of the pantheon itself, worship of Virseth is practiced widely throughout all the continent of Sephailend. It is especially extended and popular throughout the Holy Empire of Telindrath, where it's said he was born so long ago. His priesthood typically wear red robes, and use a pendant that symbolizes the burst of flames as a holy symbol.

Sunflowers and strawberries are also things typically associated with him.