Daiā

The Daiā are the dragons, the children of Hhargtkle, whose homeland is the continent of Mok. Their name carries weight beyond the merely draconic: the Daiā honorific is the elevation above mortal rank granted to the greatest, the title by which Þordil the Great was raised as the Son of Stone.

Their history turns on a sundering. In the War in Heaven, the three dragon-princes of Hhargtkle’s line broke apart, the event remembered as the Fracture of the Daiā. Oglethar sided with the goddess Prignam, alongside his son Moothgar and the Dai’dou. His brothers Niverine and Ættiraxes sided with the mortal Emperor Raeus, and for choosing a mortal over a god earned the slur Doghul, “the beast that knelt.” Oglethar slew Ættiraxes in that war, the first fratricide among the children of Hhargtkle.

From those broken lines descend the Daiā peoples of the present: the conquering Drakhul of northern Mok, the isolationist Doghul of the south, and the Dai’dou of Oglethar’s line, now hunted to extinction. Apart from the great dragons of Mok dwell the Jubdaiā, the small, child-like dragons of Raetun, who carry the Daiā name in a gentler key.

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• Dai'douThe dragons of Oglethar's line, who sided with the goddess Prignam in the War in Heaven; hunted to extinction by Bæurn Serpent-bane, the last of them Maerxsikyst.
• DoghulThe dragons of southern Mok, descended from the princes Niverine and Ættiraxes who sided with the mortal Emperor Raeus in the War in Heaven; called 'the beast that knelt.'
• DrakhulThe dragons of northern Mok, the conquering imperial people of the Daiā; worshippers of the sun-god Saeiligarkeuss, seated at Yyingrigotl, who twice invaded Raetun.
• JubdaiāThe small, innocent, child-like, fleshy dragons of Raetun and master craftsmen; bound in symbiosis to the Yvitkhain, with whom they mine and refine the radioactive depths of Nurrheim.