Domains: Blade discipline, the sworn companion, the single cut that resolves what the thought had begun.
Era of ascension: Great Expansion (~1,900 BSD). Cohort: current. Khravobi rose late in the Expansion, with the formalization of the Shontobi sworn-pair discipline as the elite military tradition of the southern Slavic-adjacent clans — when the long custom of training swordsmen in bonded pairs became a doctrinally codified order with its own oath-house.
Worshipped by: Shontobi sworn-pair swordsmen, the oath-house masters who pair the candidates, the second-sons who inherit a dead brother's blade and the obligation that came with it. Oznak blade-mastery competitors share his rites in a reframed inflection: where Shontobi worship treats the blade as the discipline that completes the sworn-pair bond, Oznak worship treats the blade as the test of skill that ranks the practitioner against all others in the camp. Khravobi accepts both prayers; Shontobi and Oznak elders agree on this and on little else. (The worships edge is authored downstream on the worshipper, not here.)
The discipline Khravobi presides over is the cut, not the cleverness of the cut. Solas is the daemon of wit, of finding the unexpected answer; Khravobi is the daemon of the answer that was always going to be the cut, and of the swordsman whose training is the slow erasure of every motion that is not the cut. The Shontobi oath-house teaches that a sworn pair has finished their training the day they can each take the other's stance — the way each carries his weight, the angle of the off-hand, the breath-pattern that precedes the strike — without conscious effort. The two swordsmen are not the same swordsman; they are the discipline that recognizes itself across the gap of two bodies. The bond is the discipline. The cut is what the bond is for.
The sworn-pair rite is the foundation of Khravobi's worship. Two Shontobi candidates, at the close of their training, stand at six paces in the oath-house courtyard and exchange a single cut each, the cut they have practiced ten thousand times together, taken at full speed against the partner's bare forearm. The cuts are real. The scar each candidate carries from the rite is the visible token of the bond. An oath-house master will not declare a pair complete until both scars have healed cleanly and both candidates have reported that they can read the scar on the partner's arm the way they read the partner's stance. A pair whose scars do not heal cleanly are returned to training. A pair whose scars heal but who cannot read each other after, and the masters can tell, are unmade by the oath-house and given to other partners, which is the rare quiet shame of the Shontobi tradition.
When a sworn brother dies, the surviving partner is required to keep the dead brother's blade and to carry both blades for the rest of his life. The surviving partner is not given a new sworn pair; the bond is treated as still binding, and the cut the dead partner would have made is held to be the surviving partner's obligation to make in his place. The lore-handle the Shontobi oath-house keeps is: "the blade is a discipline; the sworn companion is what the discipline is for." A swordsman who has lost his sworn brother and who fights well in the years after is held to be carrying the dead brother through the cut, and the carrying is the proof the bond was true.