Domains: Silence, the seen gesture, the sight-bond.
Era of ascension: Great Expansion. Cohort: current. Vaeloten consolidated as the Rakiten completed their abandonment of spoken language and the gestural register that replaced it acquired ritual weight, then religious weight, then a witness.
Worshipped by: The Rakiten, in sight-bond communities where shared sightline is the precondition of worship. The pan-Rakiten Kro Shiik Convocation makes its annual deliberation a collective rite of this kind, conducting all business in open sign so that every tribe with a sightline is a witness. Any sign-language tradition descended from Rakiten contact (there are a handful, mostly trade-pidgins in coastal cities) preserves a residual reverence even when the practitioners no longer know what they are honoring. (The worships edge is authored downstream on the worshipper, not here.)
The spoken form Vaeloten is not the patron's name. It is the Rakiten-second-language transliteration of a sign: a precise hand-shape held in a precise position relative to the signer's chest, with a specific eye-line. The sign is the name. The sound is what outsiders write down because the alphabet they brought does not record gestures. Rakiten priests do not correct outsider pronunciations because the pronunciations are not wrong. They are not even of the same kind as the name. They are the noise the name makes when an outsider asks for one.
He is the patron of the sight-bond. A Rakiten community is bound by shared sightline; speech is abolished as unnecessary rather than forbidden, and prayer is the same. Worship is conducted as a continuous low-frequency gestural register among those present, witnessed by everyone with a sightline and unwitnessed by everyone without one. A Rakiten priest is one who can hold the sign-form of the patron's name steady for the duration of a rite without breaking eye contact with the congregation. This is more difficult than it sounds. Apprentices spend years failing.
He is not a communication daemon in the general sense. The cultural inflection is silence specifically: the presence of an alternative the speech was suppressing, not the absence of speech. Outsiders sometimes confuse the patron with deafness, which he is not. The Rakiten can hear. They have decided that hearing matters less than seeing, and Vaeloten is the one who agreed. A trade-pidgin descendant in a Drachman dockyard preserves the patron's residue as a habit of looking the other signer in the eye before the gesture begins. The dockworkers do not know why. The patron does not require that they know.