Domains: Jungle flame, the controlled burn, the green-fire dialogue, the cycle the jungle has always known and the gnome flame-callers participate in.
Era of ascension: Great Expansion (~3,900 BSD). Cohort: current. Bexlex rose during the Neka enclave's deep settlement of the Nekanzi Jungle interior, when the gnome flame-callers' burn-cycle practice (long understood by the jungle itself, recently understood by the gnomes) became formal worship.
Worshipped by: Neka flame-callers (the trained burn-priests who set and time the controlled burns), the seed-readers who track which species are coming back into which burn-rings, the canopy-watchers who maintain the warning-network during the fire seasons. Ezuri canopy-dwellers share the rites in a reframed inflection: where Neka treats the burn as a spell (fire-as-craft, called and dismissed), Ezuri treats the burn as a courtesy the canopy must respect (fire-as-neighbor whose passage the canopy must not impede). (The worships edge is authored downstream on the worshipper, not here.)
Bexlex is the daemon of the dialogue between fire and plant. The Flame Twins, Jingu and Kiev, are abstract daemons of fire itself, the event and the substance. Bexlex is specifically the daemon of fire as a relationship with green-life: the slow understanding that some plants need to burn to seed, that the jungle's old growth requires the periodic clearance only fire can do, that the cycle is the cycle and the worshipper's task is to participate in it correctly rather than to oppose it or to abandon it. Neka doctrine teaches that the jungle is not afraid of fire because the jungle grew up with fire and knows what fire is for. The fear is a foreign idea, carried in by polities who never lived inside a forest old enough to need the clearance.
The burn-cycle Neka observes is a four-year rotation across the enclave's holdings. The Neka flame-callers walk the perimeter of a planned burn-ring at the appropriate season, drop seeds of the species that will benefit from the burn into the ring, and set the fire from the windward edge in a pattern the village-priests have been taught for two thousand years. The fire is allowed to do what fire does. The flame-callers do not control the burn after lighting; they watch it. The watching is the worship. A flame-caller who tries to redirect a burn, who panics, who breaks the patient observation, who reaches into the fire to save a section they did not mark for saving, is held to have failed the daemon by failing the dialogue. The village does not punish the failure; the village simply takes the flame-caller off the rota for a season and lets them recover.
The lore-handle the Neka seed-readers carry, recited at the laying of seeds into a planned burn-ring, is: "the jungle is not afraid of fire; it grew up with it". The doctrinal corollary is that the worshipper who has come to fear the fire has lost the worship. Neka flame-callers consider this the hardest part of the training and the part most apprentices fail: the recognition that the fire is not a tool the flame-caller wields but a participant in the burn whose movement the flame-caller is permitted to witness. Bexlex accepts the witnessing. The seeds open. The new growth rises.