Domains: Iron, industrial discipline, the lit shaft against the dark.
Era of ascension: Great Expansion. Cohort: current. Krunites rose as the Uline consolidated their underground network into a coordinated extractive system and the practice of marking new veins with a spoken prayer became, in a long generation, a clan-religion.
Worshipped by: The Uline, and miners across the shared underground network where the Uline chain-ventilation infrastructure carries breathable air past the territory of any single clan. Diaspora miners who have worked an Uline shaft once will still whisper the prayer at any new vein, regardless of where they are next employed. (The worships edge is authored downstream on the worshipper, not here.)
The cult's defining gesture is the first-ore rite: the brief whispered prayer at the moment a pick strikes new ore for the first time, marking the vein as begun. The prayer is a count, not a poem: three words, four at most, naming the vein, the shift, and the carrier. The ore that is struck without the count is hauled out unblessed; the Uline do not stop the work, but they do not name the shaft after the patron either, and a nameless shaft is one the shadereavers reach first.
He is not Krondeum. Krondeum owns the finished article, the named hammered thing brought to a clan-hall fire; Krunites owns the raw beginning, the vein-strike before any craft has touched it. The two patrons are two ends of the same metallurgical chain and the worship is sequential, never overlapping. A Uline miner who finishes a shift moves to a hammer and prays to a different name. The shadereaver-defense theology, which holds that the heavy iron blade is itself a religious object, a wedge of patron-blessed metal kept between a shaft-mouth and the dark, sits on top of the extraction-rite as a doctrinal layer, not as a replacement for it. The blade is blessed because the ore was blessed at the strike.
He shares the underground with Aurigeum, the Aureum sun-patron, only by accident of geography. The two cults disagree on what defeats the shadereaver: light or iron, faith or steel. The Uline say steel, and prefer not to discuss the matter further. The Aureum, predictably, are happy to.