Religion

Religion and spirituality is a common recourse in the world of Kuselada. The major religions seem to have developed separately after the Fall of Tinch and the first ascension of Tiamat, and now the pantheons of Abbatchtka and Osuvanne are vastly dissimilar.

First, the daughters of Cerethys flew, burning their wings on the stars above and scalding the moons. Second, the brothers fought and the mountains grew. Third, the mother passed, her final gift the rainbows in the sky. Fourth, the dragons fought.

—Criskira Klalkikarduud, Chosen Avatar of Sapphiros., The history of Tiamat, Volume one.

Creation Myths

Texts found at the Ruins of Qi'Frayne led religious researchers to understand more about the creation of the world.

The Raw Firmament

Potential. Hope. Conflict. Despair.

Peace. Hatred. Love.

The Pillars of Creation reflect all that is in the world. Angfarmere Estefarrale Likkvateril Mithralesind.

From the titan's breath the divine took form: Of wingéd beast, of cunning mind, of wrathful power.

Each perched upon a pillar of stone: of gold; of platinum; of jade; of sapphire.

But regency comes with a price.

Selfish, lesser breaths from Diato, the titan's brother: Jealousy, rage, envy, hatred, death.

Each took roost amongst the land: Cerulo the blue, beneath the watery deep. Malac the green, in the forest mountains. Cwelgar the black, in deepest caverns deep. Erathian, the red atop the restless volcano. Diato ravager of the winter lands.

The titan fought her brother, causing mountains to rise and valleys to sunder. Continents broke apart from the pre-divine battle, maelstrom drained the oceans until the battle stopped. The titan and Diato grievously wounded attending the destruction. From Titan's last breath were borne hope and fear, malice and forethought and light and darkness, settling into the prime material plane below.

Of the titan's final site, nothing remains.

Dwarves claim his last whispers are heard deep beneath the earth. Elves claim they are whispers in the wind. Dragonborn listen but nothing is heard bar the surussus of wings. Genasi laugh at all others, and claim ownership. Gnomes tinker, and try to unravel the divine tapestry. Halflings accept the life and food.

Abbatchtkan Pantheon

Abbatchtkan worship is primarily of the draconic deities known as The Nine. Throughout the history of the world, the Nine have all been a combination of three parts making one whole divine being: an Aspect, an Avatar, and a chosen Champion. Only through defeating all three parts was a draconic deity considered destroyed. It was rumoured that the group known as The Joeshoes was involved in stopping the ascension of an evil divine entity known as Tiamat; that in preventing this event (twice!) the members of the group grew close to the aspects and became the chosen champions thereof.

This is pure speculation on this humble author's part, and I beg the pardon of these frankly marvellous heroines and heroes.

The Chromatic dragons of lore are:

Colour	Name	Avatar	Champion	Notes
Red	Erethian of Rage	Unknown	Morrison of Calmore
Blue	Cerulo of Flight	Unknown	Unknown
Green	Malac of Ichor	Raiph	Unknown
Black	Cwelgar the Insidious	Ser Baranthorn	Traintel
White	Diato the father	Unknown	Unknown

The Metallic Dragons of lore are:

Colour	Name	Avatar	Champion	Notes
Gold	Tamarand the Defender	Firin	1. Hugh Joshuan 2. Seraphine
Platinum	Bahamut the Good	Carmina	Domash Scalethorne
Emerald	Xavarath of Balance	Kea	Emmeline Feeney
Sapphire	Sapphiros the Lost	Gwendalyn	1. Innblastur 2. Criskira