Narn Hundore, First Guildmaster of Tiamat
In it's formative days, the draconic nation of Kundar struggled with many tensions as the huge city slowly took shape. Kobolds and Dragonborn by sheer volume made up the dominant cultures and, as a result, the dominant religions as well. As the city swelled in population, tensions rose between different groups, and while many found common cause in the nation they were building, the conflict between the congregations of Bahamut and Tiamat was the first great divide that threatened to topple the rising Kundar.
Could Kundar be said to be a draconic nation while it rejected one of the two great dragon deities? If Bahamut or Tiamat were rejected, a huge percentage of the city's population would have been ostracised. Some spoke of needing two separate cities, and conflict was rife in the streets. Could Bahamut's unflinching justice and Tiamat's unending greed permit each other to coexist?
The high priest of Tiamat at the time was Narn Hundore, a commanding older kobold who had risen due to both their devotion and their survival instinct. High Hoarder Hundore, as they were known, would forever be revered for finding a way for the church of Tiamat and the entire city of Kundar to survive.
The Five-Headed Serpent despised her Platinum counterpart for his rigidity and sense of the right, and so if there was to be peace, it was up to servants of Tiamat to be flexible. Her followers needed to operate amicably in a society while still holding true to their beliefs - forever seeking wealth to please Tiamat. So Narn advocated a new focus amongst the local priests - a shift from acquisition at any cost to acquisition within bounds - dropping theft so openly from their tenets to focus on trade and mercantilism.
It was not an easy, or a quick change, nor was it immediately trusted by the followers of Bahamut. Within a few years though, the majority of the wealth of the city was flowing through the churches of Tiamat, and they had to concede that doubting the change was only going to lead to unnecessary conflict.
To this day, the single great temple to Bahamut overlooks much of the city of Kundar, and the largest courthouse sits adjacent to bask in the Platinum Dragon's Divine Justice, while the five smaller temples to Tiamat serve as focal points for trade in the city - often hosting markets in and around their walls. Narn is revered as one of the greatest leaders of the faith for navigating this impasse and enabling Kundar to thrive and become an economic powerhouse, and the tributes to Tiamat have only grown each year.
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