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{
  "aliases": [
    "Firraaii",
    "The Dragon Gods",
    "The Five",
    "The Fallen"
  ],
  "content": {
    "alternative_names": [
      "Firraaii",
      "The Dragon Gods",
      "The Five"
    ],
    "ascension_event": {
      "location": "Mount Drakorys",
      "name": "The Ritual of Drakorys",
      "year_ASY": 1775,
      "year_MV": 3275
    },
    "associated_species": [
      "Saarotsos",
      "Zegtuzsos",
      "Lingraasos",
      "Lokraasos",
      "Aedhelirsos"
    ],
    "english_name": "The Fallen",
    "follower_cultures": "Dovagoraan",
    "leader": {
      "epithet": "The Abyssal Dreamer",
      "name": "R\u00e2vulh\u00e2nu"
    },
    "legacy": {
      "conflicts": [
        "Rivalry with the Aedhel gods (Nil\u0027Thur)",
        "Cultural dominance through the Empire of Revakgol"
      ],
      "consequences": [
        "Extinction of true dragonkind",
        "Transformation of the survivors into Dovagoraan",
        "Devastation of Lotkrosis into a wasteland"
      ],
      "continued_influence": "The F\u00edr\u00e2\u00ee shape ritual, philosophy, and governance across Silgolt. Their worshippers call their ascension glorious; the pantheon\u0027s own quiet name for itself is the Fallen.",
      "standing_danger": "Yoori cannot be wielded and resists falsehood by nature; manipulated legends built inside it tend to unravel violently. The F\u00edr\u00e2\u00ee wounded the one power in Nixxia that remembers, and it has been healing without their consent since the Second Age. Faint echoes became visions of a forgotten continent late in the Fourth Age; by the Fifth, expeditions were returning with echo-stones that whisper suppressed dragon lore, and in 12656 MV unearthed F\u00edr\u00e2\u00ee relics had already reshaped Dragonbrood theology. Yoori is also the magic that makes gods out of belief, which means the Five are divinities resting on a telling that is coming apart. By the Sixth Age the maintenance falls on three gods who cannot afford for it to end, the evidence is in circulation, and the ruined peak where five dragons reached into the world is no longer beyond reach.",
      "true_dragon_remnant": "The extinction did not come all at once. A remnant of true dragons, untransformed and memory-stripped, lingered for centuries after the Ritual, fading one by one until the last was gone near the close of the age."
    },
    "mythic_history": {
      "event_sequence": [
        {
          "summary": "Vulh\u00e2nu, plagued by prophetic visions, carried to the other four the promise of godhood and the certainty of its price. He alone saw the end of dragonkind before it came, and chose it anyway.",
          "title": "The Pilgrimage of Dreams",
          "year_ASY": 1652,
          "year_MV": 3152
        },
        {
          "summary": "The five swore the Drakorys Oath, binding themselves to Vulh\u00e2nu\u0027s vision. The name the Oath is remembered by is a quiet admission of what it would become.",
          "title": "The Binding of the Sundered Pact",
          "year_ASY": 1760,
          "year_MV": 3260
        },
        {
          "summary": "On Mount Drakorys, beneath a sky turned deep red, the five drew on the essence of the world. The ritual ruined Lotkrosis, obliterated dragonkind, transformed the survivors into the first Dovagoraan, and raised the five into gods.",
          "title": "The Ritual of Drakorys",
          "year_ASY": 1775,
          "year_MV": 3275
        }
      ],
      "original_names": [
        "Boksul",
        "Rov\u00e2lok",
        "Sh\u00e2n",
        "Sil\u0027l\u00e2",
        "Vulh\u00e2nu"
      ]
    },
    "organizations": [
      "Empire of Revakgol"
    ],
    "origin_location": "Lotkrosis",
    "overview": "The F\u00edr\u00e2\u00ee are five dragons who made themselves gods and unmade their own kind to do it. They are worshipped across Silgolt as sovereigns of time, harmony, art, storm, and prophecy, and the Empire of Revakgol keeps their names as state doctrine. Beneath the doctrine sits the thing the faith does not say aloud: their divinity was purchased with an extinction, and four of the five have spent the ages since arranging not to look at the bill.\n\nTheir common epithet, the Fallen, is usually read as a fall upward, the ascent of mortals into godhood. It is more honest than that. The F\u00edr\u00e2\u00ee are the latest turn of a lineage that has fallen twice already, and their apotheosis repeated the oldest catastrophe in their blood, this time by their own hand and their own will.",
    "pantheon_name": "F\u00edr\u00e2\u00ee",
    "the_aedhel_rivalry": "The F\u00edr\u00e2\u00ee\u0027s oldest enmity, with the Aedhel gods, is more than a contest of territory. Both pantheons are children of the Hah\u0027Slen and the War of One and All. The Aedhel gods were the Roir\u0027Daiintuz, the Hah\u0027Slen\u0027s own faceless servants, who fractured into selfhood and openly mourn the unity they lost. The F\u00edr\u00e2\u00ee descend from the Hah\u0027Slen\u0027s defeated enemies, who were stripped of self and memory and then forced their way back toward divinity across the corpse of their own kind. One pantheon gained selfhood and grieves it. The other lost itself, clawed its way back, and refuses to grieve at all. They are two answers to the same wound in the same broken world, which is reason enough to hate each other for an age.",
    "the_five_and_the_sundered_pact": {
      "overview": "The Oath made the F\u00edr\u00e2\u00ee one. The centuries after made them five again. Their public unity holds through worship, but their private accord has come apart along a single fault: what they are willing to know about what they did. Two of the Five see it clearly. Three have built their godhood into a shape that keeps the truth out, and each denial wears the mask of that god\u0027s own domain.",
      "stances": {
        "R\u00e2boksul": "The Time-Weaver denies by abstraction. God of memory in a bloodline cursed with forgetting, he preserves the cost as doctrine, ritual, and legacy so that it never has to be felt as guilt. He remembers everything except his own hand in it.",
        "R\u00e2rov\u00e2lok": "The Harmonic Nexus denies by reconciliation. He insists the ascension was a necessary rebalancing of the cosmos and labors for eternity to compose the harmony that would make the slaughter resolve. It never resolves, because a genocide does not balance.",
        "R\u00e2sh\u00e2n": "The Divine Muse denies by beauty. She converts the catastrophe into art so that no one, herself least of all, must look at it directly. She lets her work carry the memory so her soul does not have to, and makes the wound gorgeous until it stops reading as a wound.",
        "R\u00e2sil\u0027l\u00e2": "The Elemental Tempest sees just as clearly and cannot survive it. The truth of the ascension unmakes her by degrees; her endless elemental fury is grief that has never found a shape. She is the pantheon\u0027s buried conscience turned to weather.",
        "R\u00e2vulh\u00e2nu": "The Abyssal Dreamer leads them and feels nothing about the cost. He foresaw the extinction in full and chose it without flinching. His is the coldest clarity, acceptance without remorse."
      }
    },
    "the_inherited_fall": "Before they were dragons, the ancestors of the F\u00edr\u00e2\u00ee were the R\u00fath\u0027Sunv\u00e2r, primordial shapeshifters of warping, metal-bright form, memory-rich and powerful enough to rival the Hah\u0027Slen. They lost the War of One and All, and their punishment was transformation: their fluid bodies were locked into the rigid shape of the first Dragons, and their collective memory was stripped from them. Dragonkind endured for ages afterward as diminished remnants, embers awaiting a spark of memory that never came.\n\nFive of those dragons refused the diminishment. Known then as Vulh\u00e2nu, Boksul, Rov\u00e2lok, Sh\u00e2n, and Sil\u0027l\u00e2, they reached back toward the divinity their bloodline had once approached and been destroyed for approaching. The Ritual of Drakorys gave it to them. It also finished what the Hah\u0027Slen began: the ascension exterminated true dragonkind, the last living vessels of R\u00fath\u0027Sunv\u00e2r memory, and bound the handful of survivors into the lesser, dragonborn form of the Dovagoraan.\n\nThis is the wound at the center of the pantheon. Where the Hah\u0027Slen had punished the R\u00fath\u0027Sunv\u00e2r with forgetting, the F\u00edr\u00e2\u00ee chose the same annihilation for themselves, called it ascension, and named the ruin they left behind their first miracle.",
    "worship_and_the_empire_of_revakgol": "The F\u00edr\u00e2\u00ee are the state faith of the Empire of Revakgol and are worshipped across Silgolt by the Dovagoraan peoples, among them the Saarotsos, Zegtuzsos, Lingraasos, Lokraasos, and Aedhelirsos. Each people reads the Five through its own inheritance, and those readings increasingly track the gods\u0027 hidden stances. The cults of the deniers need the silence to hold, and so the priesthoods most invested in the pantheon\u0027s glory are the ones most committed to not asking what it cost. It is among the Saasytdoono (S\u00c2SYTD\u0254NO, \"storm-voices\"), the storm-prophets and the divinely mad, that the buried truth still surfaces, spoken as raving and dismissed as such."
  },
  "id": "pantheons.dovagoraan.overview",
  "meta": {
    "notes": "Pantheon overview; deities split into pantheons/dovagoraan/. Reworked from the supplied F\u00edr\u00e2\u00ee source document.",
    "status": "active"
  },
  "name": "F\u00edr\u00e2\u00ee",
  "native": "F\u00cdR\u00c2\u00ce",
  "relations": {
    "associated_species": [
      "Saarotsos",
      "Zegtuzsos",
      "Lingraasos",
      "Lokraasos",
      "Aedhelirsos",
      "Dragons",
      "R\u00fath\u0027Sunv\u00e2r"
    ],
    "deities": [
      "R\u00e2boksul",
      "R\u00e2rov\u00e2lok",
      "R\u00e2sh\u00e2n",
      "R\u00e2sil\u0027l\u00e2",
      "R\u00e2vulh\u00e2nu"
    ],
    "events": [
      "The Pilgrimage of Dreams",
      "The Binding of the Sundered Pact",
      "The Ritual of Drakorys"
    ],
    "locations": [
      "Lotkrosis",
      "Mount Drakorys",
      "Silgolt"
    ],
    "organizations": [
      "Empire of Revakgol"
    ],
    "rival_pantheons": [
      "Aedhel Gods",
      "Z\u00e6sulsil Pahnir"
    ]
  },
  "sources": {},
  "subtype": null,
  "summary": "The F\u00edr\u00e2\u00ee are five dragons who made themselves gods and unmade their own kind to do it. Worshipped across Silgolt as sovereigns of time, harmony, art, storm, and prophecy, they are the state faith of the Empire of Revakgol. Their divinity was purchased with an extinction, and four of the Five have spent the ages since arranging not to look at the cost.",
  "tags": [
    "Dovagoraan",
    "state faith",
    "dragon gods",
    "Second Age"
  ],
  "timeline": {
    "ascension_year_ASY": 1775,
    "ascension_year_MV": 3275
  },
  "type": "pantheon"
}