Volcano Gods

The Volcano Gods are Fire, Ash, and Stone. They are often called Sigrid, Darka, and Lodril. Not a religion in themselves, they existed throughout the world in various pantheons, with significance and number of roles dependent largely on distance from the nearest Volcano.

Worshipers of the volcano gods have been known from Old Grehk, Cagilan Empire, Darka, and predating Darka in Perdan

A normal altar to the Volcano Gods is a stone fireplace. Sacrifices are burned, and the ashes are scattered. All three gods are often honoured at once.

Sigrid

Fire, usually takes on the aspect of a fiery-haired young woman, and her dominion is Fire, Light, Warmth, Justice, War, Passion, and Destruction. Sigrid is often served by warriors and bards, and all homes seek her blessing of warm comfort, while fearing her wrath.

Lodril

Stone, the first of the volcano gods, The heat without light, Progenitor of Sigrid and Ash, The Smith, God of toil and strength. Lodril is often served by peasants and craftspeople, the solid folk of the earth. His blessing is stability, durability, and often found on cornerstones or hearths.

Darka

Ash, Sigrid's brother, is usually depicted as a dark haired and pale complexioned young man, in dark clothes or a hooded cloak. His dominion is Darkness, Death and The Dead, Silence, Cold, Intelligence, Cruelty. He is often served by assassins and thieves, but also cold calculating merchants and politicians.

Darka is not considered an explicitly evil god, for as Sigrid in her extreme is Destruction, so too is Darka's Death often associated with rebirth, or reincarnation. From a sermon by Valglin, Priest King of Darka: "Where Ash falls heavy, there is death, Yet where he touches but lightly, bounteous growth"

The Darkan Heresy

Darkanism as it has recently developed, has stressed the violence of Sigrid and shifted her to being the goddess of destruction, and Darka, Ash, a good god of life. Investigations into the reason for these aberrant roles is not yet concluded.