Codex

Drollaróth

Daemon

Domain: agriculture in the reborn world, the first ploughing, breaking new ground; dead cohort (Craggus era); the god of the founding cut, killed mid-furrow.

Type
Daemon

Domains: Agriculture in the reborn world, the first ploughing, breaking new ground.

Era of ascension: Age of Craggus (~43,000 years ago). Cohort: dead. Died: Lost Ages (~30,000 years ago), when the Laughing Plague emptied the fields mid-furrow and the new-ground breakers died at the handles of their ploughs.

Worshipped by: The farmers of the Craggus era who broke ground in places the Long Winter had buried — the pioneering edge of the recovering agricultural cycle, distinct from the established farming Aedorath had been goddess of in the previous age — and the religious orders that handled the consecration of newly cleared land. No living culture maintains his worship. (The worships edge is authored downstream on the worshipper, not here.)

Aedorath was the continuous cycle: planting, harvest, gratitude, repeat. Drollaróth was the first cut of the plough in soil that had not been turned in fifty thousand years. The Long Winter had ended the Golden Age agriculture entirely; the Craggus era's farmers were not maintaining a system — they were starting one from a buried, ice-killed, half-thawed landscape, and the founding ploughing was a religious act before it was an economic one. His doctrine treated the first furrow in a new field as the act that consecrated the field; subsequent harvests belonged structurally to Aedorath's restored worship, where her cult had managed to reestablish itself, or to local agricultural gods where it had not. He owned the founding cut and nothing after.

His priesthoods were small but ceremonial. A new field's first ploughing was a public event in the rebuilt towns — the priest walked behind the lead plough, the furrow was blessed at every length, and the field was named at the rite's completion. The named fields are still legible in some Craggus-era place-name strata where the soil was farmed continuously enough for the names to survive.

The Plague emptied the fields. New-ground breakers were among the most heavily affected by it — the work was social and outdoor and brought workers from multiple households into proximity for days — and the records suggest entire founding teams were lost on single fields that the Plague reached during the rite itself. The furrows were left unfinished. The named fields kept their names; the rites were never completed. His cult ended in the same generation as most of the rest, in mid-act, which his doctrine had treated as the worst possible interruption a worshipper could suffer.

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