Domains: Giant-blood inheritance, sea-storm endurance, the body that remembers — through pain — what it was bred from.
Era of ascension: Great Expansion (~4,100 BSD). Cohort: current. Krazhaya rose during the long Qord'ik migration along the Slavic-tradition coasts, when the storm-broken lineage stories the Qord'ik told about their giant-descended grandfathers consolidated into a single patron the migration camps could pray to together.
Worshipped by: Qord'ik storm-line elders, the bone-readers who measure new children for the long-arm and the heavy-brow that mark the inheritance, the deep-water rowers who pull the great Qord'ik storm-galleys through swells no smaller-bodied crew can take. Qord'ik does not share Krazhaya with any other living culture; the giant-blood claim is doctrinally exclusive. (The worships edge is authored downstream on the worshipper, not here.)
Krazhaya is the daemon of the inheritance — the trace of giant in the Qord'ik body that surfaces irregularly, generation by generation, in the shoulder span, the bone-density, the cold-tolerance, and the high seizure-rate of the line. The bone-readers measure each new child at the year-mark and again at puberty, noting which traits have come through and which have skipped. A child whose measurements show the inheritance strongly is dedicated to Krazhaya's service before they can speak in their own defense. A child whose measurements show nothing is, in older doctrine, returned to ordinary Qord'ik life; in newer doctrine, the absence is read as the giant in them sleeping rather than missing, and the child is given a vigil-rite to perform at puberty in case the inheritance wakes.
The Qord'ik storm-galleys are Krazhaya's worship in motion. A Qord'ik crew of thirty-six rowers — the precise number is doctrinal, not practical — pull the great storm-galleys through the deep-water swells of the migration coasts during the winter storms, when no other people's vessels will leave port. The rowing is the prayer. The crew chants the giant-grandfather names in time with the oar-stroke, and the chant is the giant in the rower waking enough to take the pull the rower's own body could not take. A crewman who is broken by the row — heart, lungs, back — is not failed by the daemon; the daemon is held to have measured the crewman, and the answer is the answer. The galley-priest reads the name into the crew-roll at the next year-turning, alongside the names of the giant-grandfathers.
The lore-handle Qord'ik bone-readers carry is: the storm is your grandfather; survive it and you become a kind of giant yourself. The doctrinal corollary is that a Qord'ik who has lived through three winter rowings of the storm-galleys has earned a title and a measurement-mark — a notch cut into the long bone of the forearm, the cut bound and let scar — and the carrier of three marks is a person the camp turns to for the questions giants would have answered, if the giants were still here to ask.