Regean & the Tidecoil Sanctum
“In the vale of ash and ember, death sings not to end—but to transform. Even dragons shed their scales, and witches turn grief into spellwork.”
Alignment: Neutral Good
Realm of Influence: Dragons, Second Chances, the ocean, and Resilience
Current Status: Dragon Queen of the Feywild, Keeper of the Bough of Ash and Ivory, Witch-Goddess of the Triadic Grove
Regean in her draconic form and her preferred demihuman form
Summary
Regean, the Dragon Queen, is a Neutral Good goddess who rules over dragons, second chances, the ocean, and resilience. Once an ancient white dragon and daughter of the corrupted titan-god Malthor, she transcended her origins to become a divine protector of the Feywild and its people. Her realm, shared with two other benevolent witches, is a sanctuary of balance, wisdom, and rebirth. While Regean’s domain now lies primarily in the Feywild, her influence extends far beyond. She is one of the key members of a greater coven of goddesses that includes Ansil, Auriel, and Ceslida—three of the most powerful witches in Kol’s divine tapestry.
Regean’s church was once a prominent force across the material planes. Worshiped by dragonborn, fey-touched mortals, and death-walkers alike, her temples served as sanctuaries for those seeking peaceful passage into the afterlife or strength through grief. As the Age of Ruby unfolded and planar corruption escalated, her clergy retreated to the Feywild, preserving their doctrines amid enchanted forests and crystal-laced valleys. Her transformation from mortal dragon to divine avatar solidified her role not only as a goddess of fate and death, but as a symbol of change, redemption, and protective power.
Unlike many deities bound to one domain, Regean’s divine portfolio is vast but tightly interwoven. Alongside redemption and the ocean, she presides over dragons and their legacies—both physical and spiritual. She is also the goddess of resilience, shepherding mortals and immortals alike through despair, addiction, loss, and ancestral curses. Those who call on her do so not only to pass on peacefully, but to endure what seems unbearable and rise transformed from their trials.
Regean’s rule in the Feywild is marked by harmony, quiet strength, and profound healing. She works closely with Arevay and Mekhila, forming a triad of seasonal and spiritual protection. Beyond them, her sisterhood with Ansil, Auriel, and Ceslida allows her teachings to reach all corners of Kol and beyond. Her dragon temples gleam with relics of the past—many of them forged from the bones of her enemies or the gifts of those she has saved. In every world where her name is spoken, the Dragon Queen is remembered not for the fire she once breathed, but for the warmth she now brings.
The Carcosa Catastrophe
The Carcosa Catastrophe was a divine and cosmic upheaval that nearly tore Kol apart, as Ahriman and Teàrrachar Analach conspired to corrupt reality itself. Regean played a pivotal role in turning the tide. Alongside the coven of Ansil, Auriel, Ceslida, and other allied deities, she took up arms against the horrors that spilled forth from the ripped lay lines.
In one of the most mythic confrontations of the Catastrophe, Regean single-handedly faced and killed Malthor, her father and one of Ahriman’s most powerful champions. Malthor, whose breath weapon could disjoin divine bonds, had enslaved all of dragonkind through a binding oath to Ahriman. Regean’s slaying of him didn’t just remove a tyrant—it shattered the spellbinding that held half of all dragons under Ahriman’s control, effectively liberating a generation of scaled mortals and immortals. She became the goddess of liberated dragonkind the following age.
From the corpse of Dalagthanach, a monstrous general of Renji, Regean forged a collection of sacred relics—armor, staves, and blades now enshrined in her highest temple. These items are believed to carry echoes of fate-splitting power and are considered holy objects in the church’s most secret rites. To wield one is to be marked by destiny and tempered by loss.
Through her actions in the Catastrophe, Regean earned a place not just among gods, but among the architects of a new world order. Her name became a whispered prayer in the mouths of dragons, a battle cry in the throats of paladins, and a comfort spoken by mourning children. To this day, her church considers the Carcosa Catastrophe a sacred turning point—not just of survival, but of resilience, rebirth, and the breaking of blood-bound chains.
The War in the Feywild
As the echoes of the Carcosa Catastrophe faded, a new and more insidious threat emerged—a divine siege upon the Feywild itself. Regean, now fully ascended and ruling from her sacred grove-temple known as the Bough of Ash and Ivory, found herself on the front lines of a war unlike any before. Udrim, Malthor (resurrected in profane form), and Saint Krajevi launched a coordinated incursion, intending to corrupt the Feywild's ley lines, enslave its ancient spirits, and turn the realm into another battlefield for the Blood War.
Standing against them were Regean, Arevay, and Yan—a trio of divine resistance bound by loyalty, grief, and hope. Regean’s magic, rooted in ancestral memory and dragonfire, proved essential in cleansing corrupted glades and awakening the ancient wyrm spirits that slumbered within Feywild's roots. Despite their power, the trio was vastly outnumbered and often forced into guerrilla-like engagements across shifting groves and melting seasons.
Regean personally faced her father once more during this war, this time battling not for revenge, but for the survival of the very concept of peace. Every time Krajevi's cult twisted a fey court into tyranny, Regean’s clerics raced to undo it through ritual, mercy, and fate-binding magic. The fight was not only physical—it was spiritual, emotional, and cosmic. In every skirmish, her presence reminded mortals and gods alike that the Feywild would not fall to fire or false crowns.
Spillover of the Blood War into the Feywild
The Blood War, a conflict as ancient as the cosmos itself, spilled over from the Lower Planes into the Feywild during the Age of Ruby. This incursion was not by accident—it was a deliberate effort by infernal forces to destabilize one of the last neutral refuges in all existence. Rivers turned to ichor, dreamscapes collapsed into nightmare loops, and the natural balance between Seelie and Unseelie began to unravel. Regean’s clergy were among the first to notice the signs, and among the last to retreat when resistance became too dangerous.
Demonic parasites fused with fey beings, turning once-benign dryads into horrors of thorn and flame. Fey dragons were either enslaved or obliterated, their hoards used to power infernal obelisks across the dream-realms. Regean’s role became tri-fold: she acted as a warlord, healer, and psychopomp, guiding corrupted souls into safe death rather than allowing them to become engines of chaos. Her ritual known as the “Blessing of the Soft Ash” became widely practiced during this era, allowing dying creatures to reject possession and decay.
Perhaps the greatest threat came not from infernal generals, but from the psychic rot left behind. The Blood War didn’t just scar the land—it infected the concept of memory. Regean’s clerics wove spell-songs to preserve true history, ensuring that false gods, rewritten memories, and dream-eating demons couldn’t erase resistance from the record. Their work continues even now, chronicling each battlefield with a feather dipped in ash and dragon’s blood.
Close Friendship with Yan
Of all her divine allies, Yan remains Regean’s most intimate and transformative companion. Their friendship began not in battle or council, but in quiet pain. In the wake of the Carcosa Catastrophe, Regean wandered the world in mortal guise—haunted by the death of her father, the burden of divinity, and her inability to save every soul. She drank herself into oblivion in forgotten shrines and forest ruins, quietly slipping into addiction and despair. It was Yan, still a demihuman bard at the time, who helped her from this personal abyss.
Yan did not approach her with sermons or scorn. He offered laughter, music, and stories—reminding her that joy was not a betrayal of grief, but a path through it. With time, Regean sobered. With trust, she healed. Her resilience, one of her divine domains, was rekindled not through war but through friendship, and it was this very bond that would later inspire her clergy to view recovery as a holy act. Yan quite literally saved the Dragon Queen from herself, and in doing so, carved a permanent place in her heart.
Regean later returned the favor, perhaps more than once. As Yan began to rise in prominence, divine forces tried to manipulate him—offering him power in exchange for allegiance to dangerous, chaotic gods. Regean stood between him and the abyss, shielding him from a fate where his trickery would be twisted into cruelty. She helped him walk the line between laughter and responsibility, chaos and compassion. Where she gave him direction, he gave her light.
To this day, their temples often stand side by side. Their followers share festivals, prayers, and jokes. Clerics of Regean sometimes refer to Yan as “the Fool Who Saved the Queen,” while Yan’s bards compose songs like The Snow That Laughed and The First Sip Was the Last. Their friendship is not just divine lore—it’s sacred myth, living example, and proof that even gods need saving sometimes.
Tenets of the Church of Regean
Death is a Door, Not a Wall
All life ends, but nothing is truly lost. Death is the first breath of transformation, and those who walk its path do so under Regean’s watchful wing.Honor the Threads of Fate
Fate is not a prison, but a pattern. Respect the weaving of the world, even when it leads through sorrow or uncertainty.No Chain Is Unbreakable
Oaths, bloodlines, curses—none are stronger than the will to change. The past is a forge, not a sentence.Resilience Is Sacred
To suffer and survive is holy. Those who carry pain with dignity are revered as saints of strength.Protect the Young and the Dying
Children and the dying alike stand closest to the edge of transformation. Their care is the holiest of tasks.
Church of Regean in the Age of Ruby
In the Age of Ruby, as the great cycles of divine rebirth were halted by the Song of Stillness and the sleeping of Ansil, Ceslida, and Auriel, the Church of Regean became a vital spiritual refuge. While other faiths fractured or fell into silence, Regean’s clergy adapted through endurance, embracing impermanence as prophecy and death as a sacred form of clarity. Her church became the bridge between a world that had stopped spinning and the souls still wandering it. This made her worship more essential than ever before.
Her temples across the material plane began to vanish—not through destruction, but through gentle abandonment. These sanctuaries were relocated into the Feywild, a realm more aligned with Regean’s current divine body and values. The Bough of Ash and Ivory, a crystalline temple grown around the corpse of a silver wyrm, became the new heart of her faith. There, the Rituals of Soft Endings and the Knotbinding of the Dead are performed daily, helping souls move through the halted spiritual cycles that plague the world.
Regean’s church has become a quiet but persistent counterweight to the chaos of the current age. While other gods call for war or conquest, her followers perform ritual acts of remembrance, sew ancestral sigils into battle cloaks, and offer death rites even to their enemies. In doing so, they remind Kol that healing is not weakness—and that fate still weaves even when the loom seems broken. Their temples serve as spiritual triage centers, treating the wounded, releasing bound spirits, and collecting the names of the forgotten.
The church also took on an expanded role among dragons. With Malthor slain and half of dragonkind freed from Ahriman’s pact, many orphaned or oathless dragons turned to Regean for guidance. She became a goddess of redemptive ancestry, teaching dragons to forge new traditions free of tyrannical bloodlines. Her teachings gave rise to draconic monasteries where penitent dragons learn humility and sacred duty, blending ancient rites with her doctrine of resilience and rebirth.
In the current age, the Church of Regean is not vast, but it is deep. It moves quietly, often unnoticed, working in the shadows of war to comfort the dying and preserve truth. Her clerics do not seek fame or revolution—they mend what is broken, remember what is lost, and prepare Kol for the day when the loom begins to turn again. In their silence, there is strength. In their mourning, there is hope.
Structure of the Church
The Church of Regean is a sacred order built around cycles of transformation—like the rising tide, the changing scale, and the breath between death and rebirth. Its ranks reflect the spiritual evolution of those who serve the Dragon Queen, honoring the endless dance between suffering and salvation, deep water and flame, fate and free will.
The Leviathan-Matriarch (High Priestess)
Chosen by divine vision or sea-dreams, the Leviathan-Matriarch speaks with Regean's voice and carries her will across realms. She resides in the Temple Beneath the Tide, a submerged sanctum carved into the skeleton of an ancient sea dragon. Here she communes with the drowned dead, interprets the tears of storm whales, and weaves fate-silk from the currents of the deep.The Emberdeep Circle (High Elders and Dream-Kin)
These are redeemed dragons, deathless prophets, and elder witches who survived annihilation and now advise from beneath volcanic reefs or buried trenches. Their insight is drawn from fire-forged suffering and oceanic silence. They interpret scars, soul-cracks, and tide-borne omens.The Tidebound (Clerics, Weavers, and Spirit-Singers)
Priests who walk coastal cliffs, sunken graveyards, and broken dragon dens. They administer rites of release, break ancestral curses, and rescue lost souls from the waters of despair. Each carries a scaled totem forged from bones and driftwood, imbued with their own suffering overcome.The Brineforged (Paladins and Watchers)
Armored in shell-encrusted scaleplate and armed with fate-wrought weapons, the Brineforged guard sacred sites and defend the vulnerable. Once warriors broken by war or exile, they now rise again as protectors of mercy. They are knighted beneath crashing waves and baptized in volcanic springs.The Saltborn (Acolytes, Orphans, and Penitents)
These are the first to walk the path of redemption. Many are orphans of dragonkind, survivors of addiction, former cultists, or those haunted by choices they cannot forget. They learn to breathe again in sacred tidepools, serve in silence, and carry water to the thirsty and lost.
Rituals and Dogma of the Church of Regean
1. The Tidewake Rite
A ritual of rebirth through grief, the Tidewake Rite is performed when a follower endures great loss—be it the death of a loved one, the collapse of a homeland, or the severing of a soul-oath. The participant is wrapped in sea-silk and submerged in a cold sacred pool or crashing shoreline. There, they lie in silence until they choose to rise. Rising marks the moment they rejoin the world—not healed, but changed. This rite teaches that resilience does not erase sorrow; it transfigures it.
2. The Scale Offering
This rite honors dragons—living, fallen, or still bound by Ahriman. A scale (or symbolic scale, such as a shard of obsidian, coral, or bone) is offered to the sea alongside a whispered memory, regret, or vow. Carried off by the waves, the offering binds the speaker’s soul to a path of healing or redemption. Once a year, large-scale ceremonies are held where entire covens or dragon families gather to release ancestral pain into the ocean and forge new names for themselves.
3. The Brineheart Vigil
When a death occurs—especially of a dragon, martyr, or warrior who died in despair—the Brineheart Vigil is held. A shell or fossilized heart-shaped stone is placed in a tide basin and surrounded by candles. Over seven hours, stories are sung in alternating tones of sorrow and joy, honoring the fallen’s entire life, not just its end. The stone is then shattered at sunrise, symbolizing release from guilt and the breaking of soul-chains. The sea carries the fragments into oblivion, washing the soul clean.
Prayers of the Church of Regean
1. Whisper Beneath the Wave
Spoken during moments of private grief or quiet resilience, this prayer is offered in solitude near water. The speaker places one hand over their chest and the other in the sea (or a basin of blessed water) and whispers:
“O Dragon Queen, breathe with me below the tide. Hold my sorrow in your coil. Let it not drown me, but guide me.”
It is believed that Regean hears all such prayers and sends dreams to those who speak them with truth.
2. The Scale-Binding Oath
Used during rites of redemption or personal vows, this prayer is said while tying a symbolic scale (bone, shell, or thread) to the wrist or armor:
“As the dragon sheds its skin, so too shall I. Let fire cleanse me. Let water carry me. Let fate not bind me—but remind me.”
Many Brineforged warriors and reformed cultists speak this prayer each dawn.
3. Call of the Leviathan’s Heart
This prayer is reserved for the dying, recited by Tidebound clerics at the moment of death. It is meant to call Regean to guide the soul to peace:
“Great Leviathan, coil ‘round this heart. Sink it not in fear, but lift it in the current. May their breath return with yours.”
It is believed to calm the dying, dispel fear, and prevent a soul’s corruption by Ahriman’s forces.
Hymns of the Church of Regean
1. “Salt and Scale”
A slow, haunting hymn sung during funerals or at sea. It begins with soft hums and ends in draconic harmonics, usually accompanied by harp and wave-chime. Lyrics include:
“Salt upon the broken wing / Scale that sinks but does not sting / May your shadow kiss the foam / And rise again, reborn, alone.”
2. “Coil Me in Ash”
A defiant yet sacred hymn sung by paladins and storm-witches before battle. It celebrates endurance, penance, and fury that has been tamed by wisdom. Often chanted in a low rhythm with drums echoing crashing waves:
“Coil me in ash, not fire / Shape me from what broke me / Let me burn but not be lost / Let me rise, no longer chained.”
3. “The Tide Remembers”
Sung each year on the Night of the Fallen Moon, this hymn honors dragons and souls who died in silence or shame. It is said the ocean joins in with its rhythm:
“The tide remembers every name / Even those who fled the flame / It speaks in bubbles, foam, and stone / No soul is ever lost alone.”
Sermons of the Church of Regean
1. “The Drowning That Saved Me”
This sermon is often delivered by the Leviathan-Matriarch or any high-ranking Tidebound. It recounts Regean’s descent into despair after the Carcosa Catastrophe, her brush with oblivion, and the moment Yan reached out a hand. The message:
No matter how deep you sink, you are never beyond rescue. It is especially powerful for congregants struggling with grief, guilt, or addiction.
2. “The Broken Chain”
Taught in warrior halls and Brineforged sanctuaries, this sermon tells of Regean’s slaying of her father Malthor and the moment the soul-bindings cracked across half of dragonkind. It reminds the faithful that even ancestral chains can be broken and that family is not destiny—choice is.
3. “The Sea Does Not Hate the Storm”
This parable-like sermon is often shared with children and initiates. It teaches that pain and rage are not evil in themselves—they are parts of the sea, parts of the dragon. The trick is to flow through them without drowning, to wield emotion like a tide, not a flood. It ends with the line:
“Regean wept salt before she sang peace.”
