Domains: Salt, the chain, the broken human.
Era of ascension: Great Expansion. Cohort: current. Kuzvarakt rose with the Kuzagt's consolidation of the Bonnetaz salt-flat economy and the development of the religious doctrine that organized chattel slavery was a craft to be conducted on theological terms.
Worshipped by: The Kuzagt, in the overseer-houses and the camp-shrines that abut the working salt-pans. The slave-caravans crossing Kuzagt territory pass through small wayside altars where the overseers, not the captives, leave offerings. (The worships edge is authored downstream on the worshipper, not here.)
He is the patron of the chain. The Kuzagt break with the Druidic ancestor pantheon is total; an elf clan that worships Eluvarin Aelweir does not worship Kuzvarakt, and the inverse holds. The Kuzagt traded the inheritance of the elven dead for a patron whose doctrine licensed the work they had already chosen to do. The Druids regard this as an apostasy older than living memory and decline to acknowledge the Kuzagt by their ancestral elven name. The Kuzagt regard the Druids' position as sentimental.
The cultural inflection is the body of the overseer. Kuzagt drink the fermented blood of broken captives in measured rites, wear armor of cured human leather, and embed gemstones in their own skulls at intervals marked by the patron's calendar. None of these practices is gratuitous in their account; each is a contractual exchange the patron's doctrine names explicitly. The blood is the captive's contribution to the patron's salt-economy. The leather is the chain made portable. The skull-gems are the overseer's surety, posted against the patron's continued favor, and an overseer who loses the favor loses the gems first — by means the priesthood arranges and the captives sometimes witness. The patron does not ask for cruelty as an end. He asks for the chain to be kept, the salt to be drawn, the human to be broken, and the count to balance.
The Bonnetaz salt-flat camps are the cult's working temple. The pans are the altar. The captives are the offering, processed across a working life into salt the patron's overseers ship to markets that do not ask where it came from and pay accordingly. The Kuzagt doctrine that "humans are lesser beings" is not framed as contempt but as theology — humans are the substance the patron's economy works on, the way iron is the substance Krunites's miners work — and treating the substance as a peer would be a doctrinal error. The grim weight of this is that the Kuzagt do not understand themselves as cruel. They understand themselves as devout. Their captives, predictably, do not concede the distinction.