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Draconic Mysticism, the Void, and the Kralori

Posted on December 24, 2024

Just to expand upon my previous post with some bits from Cults of Terror:

The Void is the mystic origin of the universe. This preexistence is said to be indescribable. “It is less than Nothing, Formless beyond Emptiness,” says a Kralori poem. The mystics claim that the dragon-powers manifested themselves in the void by becoming committed and entangled with the world which was yet to come, and in those actions created the barrier shimmering between the perfect void and our understanding of it. The Kralori religion (which is based on Draconic belief) suggests that the void is a state of bliss which should be sought after in every way possible and that even the briefest experience of it will bring about belief, though not understanding, thereby incorporating the individual harmoniously with the cosmos. This unknowable force is nowhere presented as hostile.

The vast spiritual empire of eastern Genertela clung to the mystic secrets of the universe as being the most important. The dragons are said to have been their teachers; the dragons of Dragon Pass were either worshippers of or proof of the mystical way.

Kralori are very loyal to dragons. Dragon neutrality in the war of law and chaos is well-known, and their constancy in this is legendary. But in Kralorela, dragons have been known to rise to aid the people, a unique situation which raises only more questions.

Kralori philosophy considers all of creation a mistake, or at least that it is a mistake to worship it or consider it real.

In the Second Age, the God Learners determined that Gbaji is known by the Kralori as a great psychic liberator, since Illumination frees the person from entanglements with the worldly. The Kralori preference or acknowledgement of one of the chaos gods was a dilemma which has plagued or delighted foreign visitors. Those Jrusteli who wished to save the Kralori from their godless ways were balked because the people often wholeheartedly embrace that god yet stoutly resisted all the other chaos creatures and temptations. Most foreign exploiters claimed that they were freeing the land from its archetypal enemies, though conditions would be worse for the people they rule than for those they have not yet conquered.


Jeff Richard

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