Ramarkan

—Haskalonn, Priest of the Dragon

Ramarkan is the Void God of Tyranny, Dragons, and Destruction. Part of the Trinity, Ramarkan is the god of might and father of dragons.  His creations are the most powerful, and he revels in the destruction of all that has been built.  His name was given to him mortals, for like the rest of the Trinity, he does not identify with a name.  His creations build new kingdoms on the ashes of the old.  Tyrants over rubble.

## Manifestation

All Void gods manifest differently, either as the incomprehensible mass of Void and raw conceptual form they are in the infinite black, or as a form more recognizable to the mortal eye.

### True Form

Ramarkan's true form is that of a great wyrm, impossibly large, whose form is overwhelming to comprehend, and with wings stretcehd across the horizon. Each tooth is a great spire, each scale a cliff-face. His draconic visage contains six great, flaming eyes. Growing from the dragon's head and aligning his skull is a unique headdress of black iron, half helmet, half horrible, spiked crown.

### Mortal Form

Ramarkan does not take a mortal form, for any form less than his own is disgraceful to the power he wields.

## Personality

Ramarkan is a Tyrant beyond all others. He seeks to destroy all things, and rebuild them in his image. The slavery of all existence, the subjugation of all peoples. Ramarkan would break them, crush them, melt down their identities, their cultures, their will, until they were nothing but tools. Despite his power and great potential for violence, Ramarkan is no mindless brute. Although he revels in destruction, the building afterwards is just as important. His horrid body is suited to bringing ruin, but his mind is a great logistical force, capable of running his dark domain and managing all his subjects. There is no worse lord than he, for his punishment is severe, his orders harsh, and his judgement absolute. There is no satisfaction until all reality bends the knee, and feels Ramarkan's monstrous claws pressed down upon their neck, choking the life from them.

## Creations

Ramarkan, more than any other malevolent Void God, focusses on creation. After the Destruction he brings, Ramarkan would rebuild the world in his image, and to do so, he requires more than merely slaves and melted cities.

### Dragons

The greatest of Ramarkan's servants, Dragons are immortal, immensely powerful sentient beasts. They have four legs, a singular head, and (usually) two wings. Dragons grow stronger with time, their dark and cruel intellects growing ever more suited to domination. Dragons are innately capable of shapeshifting into a mortal form. In the modern era, most Dragons have broken free of Ramarkan's will. However, it is likely that one day, they shall again submit to the Tyrant.

### Draconics

Draconics are any non-dragon, non-sentient creature created by Ramarkan.

#### Drakes

A four-legged, non-sentient draconic monster with no wings. They cannot breathe flame. Drakes were created to serve as mounts for the Draconic Legions.

#### Wyverns

A two-legged, non-sentient draconic monster with two wings. They can breathe flame, or other substances. Wyverns were created as war-beasts for the Draconic Legions.

#### Zmeys

A three-headed, four-legged draconic beast, Zmeys hold many similarities to dragons. They are sentient and long-lived, but much less intelligent, and lacking the ability to transform. They were created to serve as the honor guard for powerful Dragons. These days, they only dwell in Vivichega, where they have entered into a symbiotic relationship with the local pantheon. They guard sacred places and offer advice, though their three heads each say different things.

#### Ood

Miniature wyverns, growing to a three-foot wingspan. They are non-sentient draconic monsters that cannot breathe flame. They were created as scouts for the Draconic Legions. Hunted across the world for the paralyzing toxin in their saliva and the unique, elastic material in their wings, the Ood now only inhabit the Ekt.

### Dragonborn

The Dragonborn are humanoid dragons. They were created as foot soldiers in the legions of the Dragon. Their natural scaled armor and draconic breath makes them powerful shock troops.

### Kobolds

Kobolds are diminutive humanoid creatures resembling small, runtish Dragonborn. They are wiry and hunch-backed, with long snouts and wide eyes. Kobolds were created as slaves for the Dragons, to preform the base labor necessary to construct black fortresses and forge entire armories of weapons and armor. Their lives are expendable in every regard to their Draconic lords, and so the short-lived Kobold tends to be entirely helpless against authoritative command. In Draconic society, they occupy the lowest level, save that of non-draconic slaves, who they are immensely cruel towards.

## Realm

Outside of Lumoris, in the depths of the Void, lies the private domain of Ramarkan. This barren expanse exists paradoxically, within the Void-Form of Ramarkan, and him within it. As with all Void Gods, his realm is a manifestation of all that he is, a perverted pocket of reality that exists solely by the laws of its Void God.

The Realm of the Dragon, the Tyrant's Red Crown, The Dominion of Dragons, all are names applicable to this place. It is a barren land, of cracked red stone. The skies burn forever, and the land is painted in the shadows of craggy, tooth-like mountains. The mountains are indomitable, impossibly large, and throughout the skies fly draconic beasts uncounted. In the lands between mountains lie only ruins and wasted battlefields, the remnants of uncounted millions of souls, hundreds of civilizations. Fallen cities and toppled citadels, melted by dragonfire.

Atop each peak stands a Draconic Spire, a monolithic black fortress of iron ruled by a Dragon and filled with its slaves and soldiers. War lasts forever in this haunted land, unquestioned, unbowing tyrants seeking domination over one another. Their wars crush mortal victims beneath them, over and over, souls of the Dragons' victims trapped, crushed beneath iron boots, again and again. Forever.

And yet, even these tyrants fear. For occasionally, there are crackles of red lightning, and with their fel light one can see a terrible shadow. A wing, stretching across the whole of the horizon, flattening mountains in its wake. The petty realms of Draconic Tyrants, crushed in an instant. For above even the most powerful of Draconic Lords is Ramarkan. At the horrible center of this land of tyranny lives the Great Dragon, in an impenetrable dread fortress that casts great shadows on the land for uncounted miles around it.

### Throne

Throne is the name of Ramarkan's citadel. It is an impossible structure, spikes and jagged shapes, larger than mountains and filled with labrynthian passages and rooms. At the center of it all is the Dragon's chamber, a colossal room floored in Dragonscale and at its center, a horrid, mishappen throne of molten metal, the souls and remains of those the Grand Tyrant has subjugated. It thrums and screams, burning with the agony of those cast down.

## Servants

Servants of the Dragon are often those who have either been broken by his authority, or foolishly seek their own authority by rising through the ranks of his tyranny. Even these would-be tyrants however, acknowledge that they themselves are mere subjects of Ramarkan.

### Champion

Ramarkan's Champion is the Great Wyrm, Tygarion. All Void Gods have a Champion, a powerful being who carries out their will and symbolizes their domains and personality. Tygarion is, in that regard, a perfect Champion. He is the most powerful of Dragons, immense in size and with an overwhelming command.

### Religion

The worship of Ramarkan takes the form of the Cult of the Dragon. This cult is hierarchical, based around Tyrants and Subjects. Cults often have Dragonborn and Kobold members, although rarely, ordinary mortals may lead segments of the Cult, known as Domains. Dragons are to be obeyed without question. The end goal of the Cult is to bring about the Destruction of the world, and the creation of a new tyranny.

## Relations

Ramarkan obviously does not work well with other gods.

### The Trinity

Ramarkan takes a key part in the Trinity, a group of three bestial Void Gods who seek destruction and slaughter in Lumoris. Unlike most other Void Gods, the Trinity is capable of working together, with a vague respect shared between them. Bar'Kagal and Sarkil serve as loose 'allies' to the Tyrant, though the three are not above conflict with one another should their goals demand such.

#### Bar'Kagal

Bar'Kagal is, to Ramarkan, a God without ambition. Although Bar'Kagal is always seeking better prey, the God of the Hunt refuses to see anything beyond his next kill, beyond the Hunt as a concept. Bar'Kagal's hunters are incredibly effective, but are too distracted by the games of their 'Hunt' to carry out the most efficient action.

#### Sarkil

Ramarkan views Sarkil as a fool, a simple-minded brute who seeks only pointless slaughter. However, Ramarkan can respect the efficiency of Sarkil's creations in killing, when the God of Monstrosities can make something that can manage to survive at all.