Drakha

One of the five chief deities in the Pantheon of Thylia, called the Progenitors. All races and faiths on Thylia recognize the influence of these five. They are universally believed to have had something to do with the creation or founding of the world.

The Founding
The era known as The Founding is obscured by myth and legend. The role of Drakha during this time is the most obscure of all of the Progenitors, although most sources agree that he worked with his peers rather than against their aims. He later began to work counter to the decree of the other Progenitors and became known as "the Corrupted." It is said that this corruption began with the so-called "binding of the Quirk," a work of Alswer that enabled the mortal races to use magic. Drakha disagreed with this and voluntarily left the pantheon or perhaps was banished.

During the Daemon Wars, most of the gods remained aloof and separate from the dealings of mortals until the end of the era. Drakha, however, took it upon himself to lead a Daemon cohort and openly sought to destroy life upon Thylia. He sought to destroy all Quirk-life (as his followers called Quirkbound beings) including other (non-follower) Daemons. He began to be worshipped as the god of death, destruction, and decay. What few teachings of his that exist in the modern era indicate that he thought that binding mortals to the Quirk destroyed their freedom, and thus they were no longer worthy of life. Toward the end of the wars, before the other Progenitors entered they fray, he disappeared from the scene. It is unknown what happened to him.

Worshippers
As the god of death and destruction, Drakha is generally hated by all of the races. He does, however, have followers amongst the darker elements of the various peoples of Thylia. Some conflate the demigod Malanoki with Drakha, although there are numerous references to emnity between the two of them during the Daemon Wars. Many of his worshipers believe that his intent was not destruction, but a cleansing of the world and a return to pure logic and science as the rule rather than magic. There is a sect among the Quirkless that argue it was Drakha, not Alswer, that created them and put them into their long sleep to rise, not at a time needed as the Alsweri teach, but when the world was cleansed of the Quirkbound. He also has a large, although subversive, following among the Covenant. His cult here teaches that he was the father of Tek, and his return will bring about the salvation of Paedwa.