Six Pillar Gods

The **Six Pillar Gods** are a pantheon of dragon deities worshiped throughout the Other World.

## Background

In the beginning, the world was inhabited by seven powerful entities. The world existed in a cycle of death and rebirth, perpetuated by an entity known as the Chaos of Many Tentacles. The cycle repeated for 34,684 years until one of the entities, the Gold Dragon who rules over the skies and wind escaped the cycle of death.

Fearing death most of all, Gold gathered five of the remaining entities; the ancient dragons that were each capable of drawing the raw magic of the world: the Red Dragon who rules over flames, the Blue Dragon who rules over water and ice, the Green Dragon who rules over earth and vegetation, the White Dragon who rules over light and life, and the Black Dragon who rules over darkness and death.

In a battle of survival, the six dragons united to defeat the Chaos of Many Tentacles to end the cycle. After a thousand year battle where they were nearly defeated and devoured countless times, the dragons defeated the entity. The world had changed, allowing new lifeforms to develop, which the dragons, now known as the Six Pillar Gods, shepherded and guided.

Each of the dragons chose a territory. Black, the dragon that was the very essence of death, chose the shattered moon that orbited the Other World to be her domain. Her powers, though weakened after the death of the dragons' enemy, could still kill with a single touch. If this happened to her enemies, she wouldn't have given it a second thought, however the killing of innocents made her fear that she would be no better the Chaos of Many Tentacles, the thing she hates the most. To prevent this unneeded death, Black chose to exile herself. The moon is very rich in magic, but has no life for her to extinguish.

Many centuries later, a door to the Western Restaurant Nekoya appeared in the middle of Red's treasure hoard. She passed through it and her favorite meal was beef stew. Red declared Nekoya a part of her territory and considers it to be her greatest treasure. Every Day of Satur, she goes to the restaurant and enjoys the beef stew, as well as takes a large heavy pot of beef stew back home with her. She is under an agreement with the Master of Nekoya that she not come in until all the other costumers have left.

Later, a door appears in Black's territory as well. She passes through and her favorite meal becomes the chicken curry. Since she does not have a vast treasure hoard like Red, she earns her meals by working at Nekoya as a waitress named Kuro.

## Three Oaths

At the inception of the defeat of the Chaos of Many Tentacles, the Six Pillars Gods signed a pact known as the Three Oaths, plus an unspoken rule:

1. They would not fight each other.
2. They would not directly concern themselves with the conflict between their followers.
3. If the chaos was born once again, they would cooperate with each other and destroy it again no matter the cost.
4. They must know where their territories and holdings are. Trespassing was not prohibited, but taboo.

## Strength

Each of the six dragons is exceptionally powerful; the members of the Four Heroes, who ended the centuries long war between humans and demons by slaying the Demon King and Demon God, were scared stiff by the mere presence of Kuro and didn't even want to image what could happen if she were to get angry. Even the Half-Elf Alexander, who is known for being reckless and arrogant, admitted he wouldn't dare try to pick a fight with her.

Kuro was also unaffected by the singing of Sirens.

The faith of the Six Pillar Gods is well established throughout the Other World. Devotees and worshipers are able to call upon their patron gods' powers; the Mermaid priestess-in-training Arte was able to pray to the Blue God to calm a raging storm, as well as give herself the limbs of dragons in place of her fishtail. A more advanced level of prayer to the Blue God can grant dragon wings.

## Trivia

* According to Selena an ancient elf, the Six Pillar Gods were not originally gods, but are the successors to the Gods of Olden Age, who abandoned the Other World for another world to escape the supremacy of the Chaos of Many Tentacles.
* Nekoya is technically Red's territory as well; however, she will not deny her comrades the chance to eat the delicious food there. So she allowed Kuro to visit as well, plus giving her some form of companionship with the Master and Aletta.