Domains: The broken spear, defiance against the unmaking, the war that should not have had to be fought.
Era of ascension: Seventh Dawn (~180 SD). Cohort: rising. Crystallized in the late phase of the Dark Ages, among the surviving foot of the Athatgarun and Raiyurna coalitions who fought through the Deoric attempt to wake the titans and lived to see the attempt fail.
Worshipped by: The remnants of the broken-spear orders — small warrior-monastic houses descended from the Titansworn-war veterans, scattered between the Athatgarun and Raiyurna heartlands and the steppe-edge enclaves where defeated irregulars resettled. The cult has no central institution, and there has never been more of it than there are veterans' great-great-grandchildren willing to keep its discipline. (Worshipper edges deferred; no concrete-entity anchor yet exists.)
Vrazhdaya is the daemon of the spear that was already broken when its bearer raised it. The handle is not metaphor. The broken-spear orders preserve a literal practice: an initiate is given a wooden haft with a snapped or notched iron head, and the cult's catechism is the recognition that this is what the war was — an instrument insufficient to its task, lifted because the alternative was unmaking. The cult does not promise victory. The orders that survive teach that the daemon honored the spear specifically because no victory was reasonably available, and the spear was lifted anyway.
The veterans did not call themselves a religion. The first generation called themselves the ones who had stood. The cult emerged across the next two centuries as the descendants of those veterans gathered, recited what their grandparents had done at the late battles, and discovered that a small and steady prayer had begun to attach itself to the recitation. By 230 SD the rituals had stabilized. By 800 SD half the recitations were already lost and the orders were small.
The daemon is older than Tiira but smaller, and the smallness is not an accident. The cult requires a population that has been continuously taught its discipline, and that population thins generation by generation. A broken-spear order today is twenty or thirty initiates in a stone hall in the Athatgarun back country, or a handful of irregulars' descendants in a Raiyurna market town who meet on a particular night each month. The cult has not converted outward. Vrazhdaya's worshippers consider the discipline non-transferable — you cannot teach it to someone whose great-grandparents did not stand at the late battles, because the recognition the daemon honors is the recognition that you were going to lose and stayed anyway, and that recognition has to be earned by the family that earned it once.
Where Ghet's Dark Ages ascension was one being's act of self-liberation against a mortal master, Vrazhdaya's was a mass refusal to flee an existentially larger threat. Ghet's domain is the moment of break. Vrazhdaya's is the moment of stay. Ghet's worshippers act. Vrazhdaya's hold ground.