The Wyrm of Despair
Group (Pantheon): The Void Covenant
Domains: Nature, Hunt, Winter, Fire
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Nyssara's holy symbol is a dragon's claw clutching a burning, golden gemstone, representing greed, power, and dominance. The gemstone appears cracked yet still shines brightly, symbolizing both destruction and enduring strength. Followers wear iron or gold versions of the symbol, often set into jewelry or engraved into their weapons and armor. Some elite warlords even brand it into their skin as a mark of favor.
Nyssara's faith is a brutal hierarchy based on power and dominion. Her temples, known as Draconic Bastions, are more like fortresses filled with treasure, warriors, and sorcerers vying for control. There is no room for weakness, and challenges for leadership are often fatal.
The High Scaled One
The supreme priest of Nyssara's faith, considered her living emissary on Thaloria. They hold power through cunning and might, ruling with brutal efficiency.
Draconic Lords
Warlords, dragon-priests, and powerful conquerors who have claimed vast territories and amassed great wealth in her name. Each rules independently but acknowledges the High Scaled One's divine favor.
Chosen Fangs
Elite warriors, dragon-blooded knights, and enforcers empowered by dark pacts. They are Nyssara's claws, sent to destroy her enemies or secure lost treasures of great power.
Wyrmcallers
Mystics and dragon-sorcerers who commune with ancient draconic spirits. They perform brutal rituals meant to awaken latent draconic power in themselves or others.
Sarynthrax the Gold-Hunger (past)
Role: Draconic Warlord
Legacy: Sarynthrax led the Burning March, a campaign that shattered five mortal kingdoms and claimed their wealth for Nyssara's great hoard. Legends say his skull still rests in the Molten Vault, where his soul guards the accumulated riches of a hundred lifetimes.
Drathax Soulbinder (past)
Role: Wyrmcaller and Dread Prophet
Legacy: A dark mystic who led the Fall of Emberstone, using forbidden dragon-summoning rituals to unleash ancient wyrms upon the world. His corrupted spirit is said to haunt the ruined city, still calling out for forgotten dragons.
Queen Velandra Blackwing (past)
Role: Draconic Sorceress and Tyrant
Legacy: A mortal queen turned dragon through a pact with Nyssara. Velandra ruled through terror and greed until her eventual destruction in the Dragon Wars. Some believe her spirit still guards her fallen empire's hoard, bound by Nyssara's will.
Valithra Nightscale (present)
Role: High Scaled One
Legacy: The current High Scaled One and ruler of the Obsidian Bastion, Valithra is a cunning dragonborn sorceress whose hunger for power and conquest is unmatched. She is rumored to seek Nyssara's Eternal Flame, and artifact said to grant true draconic immortality.
Kareth the Flameborn (present)
Role: Chosen Fang Commander
Legacy: A warlord and black-dragon-blooded general, Kareth leads Nyssara's conquests in the Broken Wastes, where he has subjugated countless tribes. His cursed blade, Scaleshred, devours both flesh and magic alike.
Nyssara's faith dominates regions ruled by warlords, tyrants, and dragon-blooded dynasties. Her temples are treasure-filled fortresses hidden deep within Ashen Peaks, The Scorched Reach, and Stormspire Keep. Ambitious rulers seeking power often invoke her name, offering vast sacrifices of gold, blood, and fire.
Nyssara's faith has bitter rivalries with Theris (justice), Talandra (order), and Vara (light and healing), whose followers see her as a corrupting force. However, her cult frequently allies with the followers of Naeris (shadows and secrets) and Malachor (destruction) when conquest and power are mutually beneficial.
Despite her divine withdrawal, Nyssara's hunger for wealth and dominance continues through her mortal followers:
Nyssara, known as the Wyrm of Despair, is the ancient Goddess of Dragons, Greed, and Strength. She embodies the relentless pursuit of power, wealth, and dominion. To her, strength is both survival and domination -- those who are strong take what they desire, while the weak serve or perish. Her influence is felt in tyrants' ambitions, treasure hoards amassed through conquest, and the insatiable hunger for dominance that corrupts mortal souls.
Nyssara is often depicted as a colossal, majestic dragon wreathed in shimmering black and violet scales veined with molten gold. Her claws are sharp enough to tear through mountains, and her piercing eyes glow with a fiery hunger that cannot be quenched. Her wings stretch like dark stormclouds across the skies, spreading fear and inevitability wherever her presence is felt.
Nyssara's presence looms over every mortal ambition, every lust for power, and every gleaming treasure that tempts the hearts of rulers. Her worship is both a curse and a path to dominance.
"To hunger is to live. To conquer is to endure."
Source: Homebrew, 2024.
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