The Decadent Flame

The Light Unending, the Earthly Sun, Skin of the Day, Sliver of Splendor, the Fang of the Lion

The Decadent Flame was a sin against itself. For the way of fire is the way of passion. For the way of fire is the way of action. for the way of fire is the way of splendor.
When first the sun birthed it, the it was cruel. It plundered and reaved, it murdered and slew. But as soon as it grew the faculty to know itself, it found the effort was too great to bear. It exacted tribute of the men of the Valley, and contented itself to thoughtless consumption.
And then the Lion roared.

— from the Myulahai

Divine Domains

Fire, Ravenous Hunger, Thoughtless Consumption

Holy Books & Codes

The Myulahai

Divine Symbols & Sigils

A Flame, the Sun

Tenets of Faith

Feed the Hunger of the Light. Feed it by Labor. Feed it by Flesh.

Divine Goals & Aspirations

To consume unto perpetuity.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

During the final battle of the War of Shadow, the Warrior of the Godeaters struck thrice against the Enthroned Shadow with the full power of the blade Aztarnak. While the first carved a trench into the earth, and the third slew the Shadow's avatar, the second flew wide and glanced off the surface of the sun. This carved off a small piece, which fell to the earth in the valley of the River Nim, where it left a sizable crater.
Flush with divine breath from the sun itself, and liberated from the weight of Pennak's lingering identity inherent to the celestial bodies, this fragment began to develop an identity all its own. The first thing it knew was hunger. It roved about the valley as a firestorm, burning everything it came across to ash in an impossible quest to satisfy its hunger.
In time, it developed enough intelligence to hear the entreaties of the people of the valley. They came to an arrangement: the Flame would not harm the people of the valley, or their property, and they would bring it tribute to satiate its hunger into perpetuity. The Flame agreed, and traveled back to the crater where it had landed.
Thus was the arrangement for three centuries. Some offered the flame worship, some of these became priests, and some of these studied the Flame to glean a deeper understanding of its nature, the successors of which the Nimeans would name Myuval. The Flame, a thing of spirit as well as substance, ate their devotion and their interest as well, and so encouraged all of these things. Thus would be its downfall.
The Flame was not given to thinking in times where it did not need to. It was capable of thought, but energy directed towards such a complex endeavor exacerbated ts hunger, and since its followers handled the process of tribute it didn't need to think. As such, the Flame willfully abandoned its own mind. This left it vulnerable.
A man called Malorr entered its priesthood, and came to understand its nature as deeply as any man ever has. Malorr reasoned that, because the Flame had abandoned its mind, a strong will could dominate its power, and bind it to a suitably strong vessel. Malorr spent eight years pursuing such a vessel—beast or plant flesh were not suitable, as they would burn; metal and stone were not suitable, as they would melt. It is unclear what substance he settled on, but he returned to the Valley of the Nim with his vessel, a spear which he called the Fang of the Lion.
After eight days of fasting and meditation, Malorr leapt into the fire with the Fang. The onlookers thought him mad. But they were surprised when they saw the Flame's light dimming. Malorr emerged unscathed, with the Flame bound to his weapon. He established a new order in the Valley of the Nim, the Lavan—the Lordship of Summer, sometime called the Summerland Empire—with himself at its head, as the Lavanārr—the Lord of Summer.
Malorr wielded the Fang of the Lion in his conquests of the Yolunā to the east, and when he accepted the vassalage of the Ngavarrā to the south. After his death, the Fang of the Lion would be the traditional weapon of his successors. Not all were strong enough to actually wield it without dying, but even possession conferred a degree of legitimacy. As such, it played a role in a number of succession crises. Including the last.
It was the tool of Malor Lavanār III in enacting the Sundering of Ngavar. This cataclysmic mistake killed him, and his family, and destroyed his palace. But the Fang survived.
The chain of events which followed, leading to the Folly of the Sumemerlords, in which it made a descendant of the first Malorr named Amalak, a contender for the position of Lavanārr against the other factions involved. In the final battle, against the Stormqueen Morgal, Amalak dueled the Stormqueen personally, and lost.
The Fang was lost following the battle, swept away by the last great wind of Morgal's storm. But wherever it rests, the Decadent Flame remains imprisoned.

Divine Classification

Greater Power

Circumstances of Birth

Cleft from the sun in the conclusion of the War of the Shadow.