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#1 Furion

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 05:27 PM

I never found any topics on this god through the search.

What's everyone's interpretation of D'rek, the worm that gnaws at the heart of the world? What does this mean? What do his/her priests do? What warren is he/she master of? Either I missed the info given, or SE never gave any in the first place?

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 06:14 PM

I tend to think of D'rek as similar to Nidhögg from norse mythology, the dragon/serpent that gnaws at the roots of Yggdrasil (the world tree) and will eventually help to start Ragnarök.

What I remember about D'rek is that she/he/it is associated with autumn and decay, and that atleast some of the rituals dedicated to D'rek seemed to involve crippling and killing of animals, and generally just seriously unplesant. (Doesn't Banaschar mention something about it at one point?)
Either way D'rek got seriously upset about something a while ago and ended up killing of all the priests and such.

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 07:08 PM

I think of D'rek as the antithesis of Burn. I could be way off though. There's not much information about D'rek himself (pretty sure D'rek is described as a he by banaschar).

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 09:59 PM

D'rek is the god aspected to decay. Therefore I view her aspect as midway between Death and Earth

Tayschrenn (who was a highpriest of D'rek once) said something about the acceptance of Death

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 11:31 PM

Yeah and iirc they mention the season of d'rek or something similar, where everything rots and such

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 11:43 PM

Sciz, on 24 July 2010 - 11:31 PM, said:

Yeah and iirc they mention the season of d'rek or something similar, where everything rots and such

So far I've got:
1. God of decay, not to be confused with poliel, goddess of pestilence and disease
2. Killed worshippers for some vague reason
3. Worship involves inflicting suffering on others.
4. Both Banaschar and Tayschrenn used to be worshippers.

Anything else?

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Posted 25 July 2010 - 02:13 AM

the reason she/he (its a worm hey? who cares what gender it is) killed their priesthood is because they demanded the power of blood, the elder way, and also, though this is less clear, because they associated with the CG or something like that. quote is in BH if anyone cares to look it up

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Posted 25 July 2010 - 03:28 AM

Aren't some worms hermaphroditic?

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

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Posted 25 July 2010 - 04:21 AM

worrywort, on 25 July 2010 - 03:28 AM, said:

Aren't some worms hermaphroditic?

Is d'rek physically a worm?

Perhaps a corruption of the word wyrm....

Hm, maybe d'rek was once a simple dragon?

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Posted 25 July 2010 - 04:24 AM

Aren't some dragons hermaphroditic?

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

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Posted 25 July 2010 - 04:27 AM

worrywort, on 25 July 2010 - 04:24 AM, said:

Aren't some dragons hermaphroditic?

Are they? o.0

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Posted 25 July 2010 - 03:02 PM

I have a vague recollection about D'rek being present in Banaschar as remarked upon by Curdle and Telorast in I think RG. Although what this means is beyond me.

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Posted 25 July 2010 - 04:54 PM

Yeah, it seems that D'rek is dwelling inside Banaschar's guts because he's his last priest.(Tayschrenn having given up).

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Posted 26 July 2010 - 04:03 PM

Didn't one of the glossaries (GotM, maybe) say D'rek and Poliel were sometimes the same?

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Posted 26 July 2010 - 04:12 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 26 July 2010 - 04:03 PM, said:

Didn't one of the glossaries (GotM, maybe) say D'rek and Poliel were sometimes the same?

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worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.

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Posted 26 July 2010 - 04:56 PM

I thought D'rek was a She. Also , I thought that she killed her preists becasue they had allied with the Crippled God....

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Posted 26 July 2010 - 05:33 PM

It's said that D'rek can be both a he or a she depending on his/her followers. And yeah I also understood that he/she killed his/her priests because they had allied with the CG.

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Posted 26 July 2010 - 10:20 PM

D, on 26 July 2010 - 04:12 PM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 26 July 2010 - 04:03 PM, said:

Didn't one of the glossaries (GotM, maybe) say D'rek and Poliel were sometimes the same?

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Posted 27 July 2010 - 08:57 PM

Bauchelain the Evil, on 25 July 2010 - 04:54 PM, said:

Yeah, it seems that D'rek is dwelling inside Banaschar's guts because he's his last priest.(Tayschrenn having given up).

I just so happened to come upon this paragraph on my RG reread [from Banaschar's POV]:

The Worm of Autumn stirred in his gut; an immortal parasite and he its mortal host. The goddess was within him once more, after all these years. Again, no surprise. After all, I'm the only one left. Yet D'rek remained as no more than a presence, a faint taste on his tongue. There had been no battle of wills; but he knew it would come. The goddess needed him and sooner or later she would reach out and close a cold fist about his soul.
[p. 504 in the trade paperback]

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