The Chromatic Gods

NAMMU

Domains: Death, War
Portfolio: Discord, Savagery, Slavery, Destruction, Hate, Fear, Chromatic Dragons
Alignment: CE
Alias/s: The Chromatic Desolation, Herald of the Dark
Symbols: Dragon Claw on Fire
Nammu is the embodiment of evil and nihilism and the father of all chromatic dragons. It is said that in the beginning he deeply resented his own creation and the misery of existence, so when The Spiraling Dark reached out a knowing tendril, Nammu tore a path of destruction through the new world. He fought endlessly against the valiant Danha, his philosophical counterpart, for much of primordial history. He relished in the suffering and pain he caused and through this process found a zest for life and he realized that he no longer resented being born. He turned from The Spiraling Dark and became his own god of a sort- one whose purpose was not the end of all things- only the end of civilization and the laughable notion of order. He rained terror on all that dared hope, all who attempted to build a better world. The conflicts between Nammu and Danha shattered the first world and killed all the first dragons which originally came in a much wider assortment of colors. All the dragons that exist now descend either from Nammu or Danha, who ripped off their own scales off and planted them as seeds, watered with their own blood. Thus the draconic race was reborn in the shattered remains of the First World. According to many, after another long period of war (this one including Giants), he was destroyed ultimately by Danha and his metallic children. Other's claim he couldn't be destroyed but he was put into some kind of sleep or trap- his body locked away and guarded by Kishar. Nowadays Nammu is considered by some one of the Old Gods (much like his first master The Dark Heart). His worshipers are not widespread- at least not among the dragonborn. There are dragonborn barbarian tribes and groups of kobolds in some areas that still remember him and would love to bring him back into power.

ERESH

Domains: Death, Trickery
Portfolio: Tyranny, Punishment, Manipulation, Absolute Power, Enslavement
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Alias/s: The Great Enslaver
Symbols: Whip or Cat-o-Nine-Tails, Crown & Skull

Eresh is the most hated and feared in the entire draconic pantheon. She is supposedly the actual daughter of Nammu (as opposed to one of the chromatic dragons born of his scales), and no less cruel and sadistic as he was, (her mother was a nameless black dragon in most myths). Out of all Nammu’s children over the eons, Eresh was the only one born to proper godhood. When Nammu was banished from the material realm by Danha, Eresh saw the opportunity to eclipse him and in many ways stole most of his worshipers. She did not seek to raze all of civilization- but to dominate it through cunning and manipulation. She was the first of the dragons to procreate with humanoids to create half-dragons and dragonborn who in turn could infiltrate the ranks of her enemies. Her worshipers and children worked from within a given civilization to seize power through trickery and once that power was won they oppressed and dominated their people, enslaved and tortured their enemies and the weak and then looked for the next area to expand their empires to.
Eresh is called the Great Enslaver because there was a period of time when she had conquered and enslaved nearly half the main continent in ancient times. The metallic dragons were nearly annihilated during this time until they too began procreating with humanoids to save their species and mount a rebellion against Eresh’s tyrannical reign. They did succeed in this (in some stories she was only defeated because she enslaved her own dragonborn children and they rebelled), and Eresh was banished much like her father, to another plane. Her worshipers, mostly chromatic dragons and dragonborn, have never stopped working tirelessly to return her to the world and pick up where they left off. They have not forgotten the times when they nearly ruled all and they hunger for it still. These Cults of Eresh are widespread but also there are several large country-islands full of dragonborn (particularly black, blue, and red) dedicated to returning her to her former glory- The Chromatic Isles.
Eresh is depicted as a mostly black dragon with opalescent rainbow scales on her underbelly and wings. Her eyes were coal black like her fathers and her features were long and snake-like a lean. She is often depicted in a humanoid form- but not as other draconic gods are- she is sometime depicted as a human or elf, as she so often paraded around as one. This humanoid was generally a gorgeous female with angular features and long black hair that grew white at the ends. Her eyes were still coal black.

Temples to Nammu & Eresh

Most temples to these deities are found in hidden cult compounds on the Chromatic Isles and the isles of Ilvare. There are also some kobold and lizarfolk worshipers that lie on the far opposite side of the world, the swampy east coast of Arna, who have erected their own altars and temples.