Ish Kaman
Ish Kaman is a Primordial God, the Elemental Lord of Stone, the Shade God of the Peaks, the Everstill. Ish Kaman likes things permanant and unchanging. Things should be as they were. Ish Kaman guards the Shadelands, maintaining it as a copy of the static unchanging parts of Adragal, providing shape and structure to the plane. Ish Kaman is slow to anger and forgives easily, but once roused becomes explosively angry, to the point of rage. When the Everstill moves the world remembers.
Beliefs and Worshippers
Worshippers of Ish Kaman follow their Gods temperment. Peace and forgiveness but not pacifism. Followers are known to go into uncontrollable rages, often channeling this into combat as barbarians and skalds. Some followers try to follow their god into stillness, taking vows of silence and practicing extensive meditation. Ish Kaman has little to no views on morality and many worshippers find it easy to follow other gods in addition to Ish Kaman without conflicting beliefs.
Masks, especially those made of stone or procelain, are holy implements or used for rituals and religious practice, allowing one to appear unmoving and stolid. Mining and digging in excess is discourage, and more generally any action that is largely disruptive to its environment is looked down upon.
The bonds of kinship, wether by blood or choice, are paramount. They are seen as the pillars on which people build themselves and the rock that holds society steady and together. Forswearing aid of a kin in need is an affront to Ish Kaman. Being declared kin is a great honor and not done lightly. It is a permanant, irreversible declaration.
Pactsworn goliaths are the primary worshippers of Ish Kaman, and few others have joined as those of the faith rarely prosteltyze or travel. Small enclaves of faith exist around all of Adragal though, as many find the gods solidity and camraderie comforting.
Depictions
Ish Kaman is usually depicted as a face protruding from stone or lava. Older depictions are crude but seem to show him as a giant elemental, a vaguely humanoid silhouette the size of a mountain without a head, having a face on the chest.
History
Ish Kaman was, is, and will always be. Along with the other Primordial Gods, Ish Kaman has been present throughout all of history. Ish Kaman is said to have shaped the lands of Adragal as part of an ancient pact with Shamal.
When the ancient things from the unwritten realms sought to devour the world, Ish Kaman and the other Primordial Gods repelled their offensive and banished them and the memories of them from this plane. Few know anything about this part of history, and fewer still have more than an inkling of the truth. When the bones of the ancient things began to poison Adragal from where they lay, forgotten and buried, the Everstill collected them and bound them with a shard of his divinity, creating a new god, Kamakavaki.
When Rajuul made a pact with the Summer Court, the world fell into chaos as the wars of the fae spilled over into the material plane. More gods became involved, igniting the Divine Wars. The extremists from the courts of Summer and Winter went on to create the upper and lower planes and found new Gods from the followers they could collect from the material plane. The rest of the Primordial Gods had to intervene before the mortals of the material plane were eradicated in the Divine War.
When Kamakavaki was slain in the Divine War, the Everstill was moved to action. Rajuul had crossed the lines, slaying a god, endagering mortals, and allowing the taint of the ancient things to spread once again. The Shade God of the Peaks raged and went to war with Rajuul. Empires crumbled as volcanos erupted and the land shook and sundered.
In the end, the war was only contained after Rajuul was censored by the combined force of the other Primordial Gods and the Tears of Talia. The Divine War still rages on, but the material plane is now a demarcated zone of peace.
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