The Grief of The Goddess- By Koraki Saros Kanosis

Introduction

In Aldaria on the border of Lenagaard there is a mountain known as Sorg's Mount. This mountain of Sorrow has been veiled in mist since many elf kind can remember. When people from the region both elf and Gaian tried to find the source they would get lost in the mountain and become stricken by grief. When they would finally return they recounted visions of a woman crying in the mountain. Soon legends spread of a goddess who fell in love with a dragon but when he was slain she in her grief turned herself into a mountain. 

Why a Mountain? Some say it is because Dragons prefer high mountains. That she wished to provide a safer space for other dragons to hide with in her which is why she cursed the mountain with her grief. Others say she is not the mountain itself but that he died in this mountain and she now haunts the place of his death. 

The truth is a little more complicated, the grief is that of the Goddess Mika, keeper of records and Goddess of Lost Time. So in part the myths are true, a goddess has cursed the mountain with her grief and sorrow.

Summary

Once there was a Goddess of the land who loved a Dragon of the air. Every day she would sit and watch as he flew above the green meadows. Every day he passed over her without a glance but she held hope he would someday return her love. 
One day she saw him carrying eggs toward a mountain and she followed him. There he transformed from a dragon into a man with large feathered wings. He greeted her and told her he knew she had been watching him then asked her if she wished to be his companion. 
For many years the couple spent happy days together and in secret they gathered abandoned dragon eggs. She eventually asked why he did this and he told her his fear that dragons were being targeted by another of the gods. A god of destruction. She confronted the gods and the one who had been in secret slaying the dragons denied it, none would confess. When she returned to her lover he was stricken ill by the very one he said had been killing his people. In grief she watched him and their eggs die.
In her grief she sealed herself away in the mountain he was slain in and clouded it with the mist of her tears.

Historical Basis

The odd thing is the basic myth is similar to the actual historic event of Kyrazosanz demise. Though the lover he had was not Mika but Aldra his wife. There were rumors he was having an affair with Mika which he did not dispel but they were not founded in reality but in the insecurity which Aldra held.  Kyrazosanz and Mika were gathering eggs which they did just before Aldra's death call their own children. This was done because the celestial Iova began misdirecting his anger toward his father and brother toward all dragons. 
After Kyrazosanz was driven mad and Aldra slain Mika fled to the temple of time. There she hid until Kyrazosanz himself was dead. When she learned of his death she wailed and abandoned her duties at the temple and sealed herself in the Ryoja Fell mountains cursing the cave she dwelled in with her grief so that none would find her.

Variations & Mutation

In alternate myths it claims the goddess is the mountain rather than sealed into the mountain.

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• Sorg's Mount: Grief of the Goddess - By Koraki Saros Kanosis