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Drøm the Patient-Mountain

Daemon

Domains: mountain-shoulder, the slow weight, the patience of stone; current cohort; Hill Giant patron of what waits.

Type
Daemon

Domains: Mountain-shoulder, the slow weight, the patience of stone.

Era of ascension: Great Expansion (~5,500 BSD). Cohort: current. Drøm rose early in the Expansion among the hill-folk of the high country — a patron whose pool grew not from temples but from the daily fact of giants sitting still for weeks at a time, watching weather come and go off the shoulders of mountains they shared shape with.

Worshipped by: The Hill Giants. The Silzar ogres of the plains, who count their mammoth-cannon migrations in his name; their seasonal songs invoke him as the one who taught the herd to wait out a blizzard rather than push through it. The Groyza swamp-ogres read him through the lowland-fall-of-mountain aspect — that the patience of stone reaches even where the stone has been ground down to silt. (The worships edge is authored downstream on the worshipper, not here.)

Craggus was the mountain-king, and the giants do not deny it. Craggus is dead and was pan-cultural, and the hill-folk needed a patron of their own that did not require a tongue they no longer spoke. Drøm is what the giants kept. He does not act quickly. A giant who prays to him for action is misreading the prayer; one prays to him for the strength not to move yet, to let the weather pass, to let the small-folk's argument burn itself out, to be where one already is for another decade. The Gorger giants — universally hostile, with no shared institution — do not worship him. They share no patron with anything.

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