Gaasham (The Architect)Source Draconic Codex
pg. 29In the days of Old Koloran and Ninshabur, the name Gaasham was exalted in song, from the highest ziggurat to the lowliest homesteader’s hearth. He was the muse on the wind who enkindled the hearts of architects and builders, promising them a path toward their grand works and opuses. Gaasham guided their chisels and accepted their praise, ever hopeful to craft a work which might withstand the doom that haunted him since the early days of creation.
Gaasham was conceived in the minds of
Apsu and
Sarshallatu for a role other than the one he would inherit. He clung within his shell too long, fearful of what would be asked of him, fearful of his finite form in the presence of beings so far grander than himself, and fearful of the fallibility that might see him shame his progenitors. Swaddled within his egg, he mistook the cacophonous sounds which rattled through his being as the thunderous songs of his mother, only to emerge to find the desolation inflicted by
Dahak upon all of creation.
Apsu was the first to gaze upon his second laid (but late to hatch) son, and his eyes were filled with a stern pity. All Gaasham’s fears coalesced and were promptly cast aside. He was granted the mantle of Architect, to serve as successor to his brother Dahak, now condemned to the role of destroyer. Gaasham embraced this new role and, with it, all the doom which is preordained to befall all usurpers. Gaasham would serve his father, and all that he would build would be consigned to ruin.
The first mortal worshippers of Gaasham were found in Ghol-Gan, who gleaned the Architect as a zetogeki lizard with an eggshell obscuring all but one of its eyes. He would be carried to distant shores and reinterpreted like all the gods of Ghol-Gan. As joyous sun became hateful oppressor, so too would Gaasham be seen as the herald of the caverns of Reguare—and after the fall of the Starstone, as though he were Dahak in the flesh.
In modern days, Gaasham is viewed by most as little more than an esoteric deity worshipped by early civilizations before their seemingly inevitable decline. Some dragons, as well as the dragonets who claim him to be their progenitor deity, view him as a god of personal potential and perseverance. To worship Gaasham is not to supplicate at an altar but to make grand works and carve an enduring legacy in the face of any doom yet to come.
Category Dragon GodsEdicts build when it is asked of you, foster growth in others, meditate upon your actions
Anathema act without thinking, hesitate in the face of destructive forces, refuse to change your ways
Areas of Concern construction, self- actualization, legacies
Religious Symbol a bronze oval, half-oxidized
Sacred Animal draft lizard
Sacred Color(s) bronze, eggshell, teal
Devotee Benefits
Divine Attribute Constitution or Intelligence
Divine Font healDivine Sanctification can choose holy
Divine Skill CraftingFavored Weapon jaws or
light hammerDomains cities,
creation,
dragon,
toilAlternate Domains change,
perfectionCleric Spells 1st:
object reading, 5th:
wave of despair, 9th:
resplendent mansion