Cult of the Dragon¶
Contested
This page is named in the open question Pravustiratel's death and the Cult of the Dragon. The cult's purpose rests on the 2018 account that the Dark Gods killed Pravustiratel; the 2023 lore says that account is what "everyone thinks" and is false.
The Cult of the Dragon is the cult of Pravustiratel, the Obsidian Primal Dragon who became a god. It holds the Rushing Void, a great chasm of the Underdark, with black drakes and a black dragon (S199), and its ultimate goal is to reunite the dead dragon's spirit, heart and body (S143). In the Fifth Age it works with the cultists of Teneb'Vari in Etterwood to raise a red bone dragon from the skeleton and claw of Vixseranyol (S052).
Purpose¶
"Pravustiratel is dead, Torn asunder in a great ambush by the Dark Gods during the Fae Wars. Her spirit they could not contain and roams Gor'Turra. They hid her Dragon's Heart and scattered her bones.. Should her spirit, heart and body be re-united … This is the ultimate goal of the Cult of the Dragon" (S143). The heart is "a crystal made of Kalamite" held by Necatus, "which he took when he killed her", and with it "Necatus could kill Pravus at any moment, though only a true God/Einar could pull it off". The whole skeleton is not needed, "only about 25%", and the devils of Asmodeus have been collecting the bones too, for Asmodeus "wants to bring Pravus (and the Dragons) in on his side" (S143). The spirit's haunt, the ruins of Gor'Turra, and the Faewild Wars have their own pages.
Holdings¶
In the Underdark of the Broken Sea, "Cult of the Dragon (Pravus) : controls the Rushing Void … huge underground chasm. Black Drakes, Black Dragon" (S199, S200). The Rushing Void is described under Geography. The cult was already a plotline of the Rivenlands in the Sancturi campaign's planning (S133).
The red bone dragon¶
In the forbidden forest of Etterwood, the cult has allies. The cultists of Teneb'Vari "have acquired an artifact. One of the claws of Vixseranyol. They are using it with an ancient dragon skeleton to animate a red bone dragon. Cult of Dragon is working on this", and "Teneb'Vari has a secret pact with the Cult of the Dragon (Pravustiratel's Cult)" (S052, S053). The claw, each finger "the size of a small table", had been kept in the Shrine of Kae'Ferrel by the god Moros (S053). The heroes of the Proturan campaign found scourged kobolds and Boreal Elves "trying to animate a dead dragon" in the tunnels below the shrine and carried the claw away (S055, S056, S057). The primal red dragon Vixseranyol, herself an old ally of Pravustiratel, has her own page.
Earlier accounts¶
The Dark Gods' ambush is the cult's own article of faith, and the later lore turns it over: "Everyone thinks Pravustiratel was betrayed and killed by the Dark Gods … when in fact he made a secret pact with Sharuvas and is now the Chosen of the Divine" (S112). The 2018 notes also give the dragon's alliance with Asmodeus terms the cult would recognise: that she be "made Broodmother of all Dragons", that her dragons' "Mithis blood streams are uncorruptible", and that the two "work together toward the death of Necatus and the Imperium" (S143). The Eldritch Allannia "sees Pravus and Asmodeus as the real threats that they are" (S147, S141). The 2018 notes write of Pravustiratel as "she"; the histories and the 2023 lore say "he".
Gap
No source names a leader, a rite or a holy symbol of the Cult of the Dragon, says how many belong to it, or explains where its black dragon came from.