Domains: Mourning, ancestral remembrance, legacy.
Era of ascension: Age of Craggus (~44,000 years ago). Cohort: dead. Died: Lost Ages (~30,000 years ago), when the Laughing Plague created grief so immediate and personal that Mernath's structured mourning rites were abandoned in favor of raw survival.
Worshipped by: The communities of the Craggus era that organized themselves around remembering what had been lost in the Long Winter — keeping the names of the dead, maintaining ancestor records, refusing to let catastrophe become silence. No living culture maintains her worship. (The worships edge is authored downstream on the worshipper, not here.)
Mernath's rise was a direct response to the Long Winter's destruction of Graelith's libraries — someone had to fill the function of organized memory, and she became the patron of that effort. Her worship was archival as much as emotional: to grieve properly, in her theology, was to keep a record. Among the lost things her order gathered back was the anchor-vessel rite of the binders the God War had slaughtered tens of thousands of years before her — the method that once seated daemons into vessels, legible by her age only as dead liturgical texts no living hand could still perform. She assembled it into something that could at least be studied, though never again worked at scale. The Laughing Plague created too many dead too fast for her rites to absorb, and the records were again lost.