Kagutsuchi
The deity of fire is one of the most divisive and confusing deities depending on who you ask. It seems there are two different mythical Kagutsuchis by region.
In Nalchaa Kagutsuchi was the last child born of Izanagi and Izanami and at his birth he was engulfed in flames that consumed Izanami & burned her to her mortal death. Izanagi slew him in a rage and thus sent him with Izanami to the land of the dead, The Yokai Realm, where he would stay but never grow. Dying as a child meant he had never experienced life or gotten to mature, and while many dead can experience spiritual growth as the living can their forms often stay as they were in death forever. Kagutsuchi had died a newborn babe, his mind was that of a child and always would be. This is the explanation for the forms of elements in the world: Stone and steel are strong and sturdy, water and wind are vast, oft calm, but violent when they unleash their wrath, yet fire is ghostly, inconsistent, and unpredictable.
Kagutsuchi has a small set of attendants who see to his needs including the lesser deities Jizu, goddess of child care, and Kaiken, god of pyromancers. It is in Jizu's image that Kagutsuchi's priests and priestesses carry staves adorned with golden rings as it is believed the clattering of the rings brings him joy. Izanami coddled him in their dead realm for many years but with his full powers he grew into a great and terrible god in his own right, the Lord of Fire could spawn infernos, elementals, and curses upon the material plane is the stars misaligned. He was widely venerated and feared until his downfall in the First Epoch, yet through some lost accord between his mother and Nesidth he has been brought back at a weakened controllable state.
In Casway the tale is quite different: the fire giants' goddess is called Kagutsuchi as well and is she too is the god of flame yet also of metalworks, bravery, and beauty. In their legends she was born as Filennia in a time before all fire giants were immune to fire. She was a talented smith who worked in the volcanic rivers flowing from Mount Mospel and as she trained to use the same weapons she crafted to better improve them she became a skilled warrior. Her skills lead her with many other fire giants to join conquest of Nalchaa with a force of 600 Caswaiin giants lead by Grima*, the queen of the eldritch storm giants, where they marched along Nalchaa's east coast crushing all in their path as they searched for the capital. The invaders had little intel of prize and were consistently mislead until Grima was finally felled in battle on the southern peninsula. There Filennia swallowed some of her friend's blood and obtained her divinity and her new name.
While followers of one fate denounce the other Fire God consistently the scholars of Omiokane's Temple say both deities are recorded as wholly separate and real beings.
Nalchaa
Casway
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