Codex

Tytheraxi

Daemon

Domains: agony as purification, the bleach of long pain, scars-that-cleanse; current cohort; Tytheri patron of suffering turned inward.

Type
Daemon

Domains: Agony as purification, the bleach of long pain, scars-that-cleanse.

Era of ascension: Great Expansion (~2,400 BSD). Cohort: current. Tytheraxi crystallized late in the Expansion, after the Tytheri retreat to the Agony Stones — a tribe that had been driven out of arable country and chose to make a virtue of the rock they were forced to live on.

Worshipped by: The Tytheri orcs. Their elders bear the longest pain-scars in the orc world: lattice patterns of slow burns and re-opened cuts that take years to mature, each one understood as a debt the world owed the bearer and which the bearer has personally collected. (The worships edge is authored downstream on the worshipper, not here.)

Sainu eats pain inflicted. Tytheraxi receives pain accepted. The Tytheri do not cruel their neighbors — the violence is turned inward and ritualized, and a warrior who strikes outside the rite is shunned. They say the world made a mistake when it ran them off their old country, and that the mistake is being slowly cleaned, in their own skin, one season at a time. When the last scar is added, an elder walks into the Agony Stones and does not come back. What returns is not the body. That is what Tytheraxi keeps.

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