Nelashra, the Sunfire Sovereign

Demigod, Dragon Ascendant of Flame and Restoration

Domains: Life, Light

Origin and Ascendant Role

Nelashra was among the first dragons transformed by divine convergence — bathed in celestial essence during the final arc of the Dawn War. Chosen not for her might alone, but for her compassion and protective instinct, she ascended through sacrifice, becoming the embodiment of restorative flame.

Her fire is not meant to devour, but to purify and preserve. She represents the duality of flame — the fury that defends and the warmth that heals. In her, light becomes legacy. She is the radiant shield of the dragonborn and the spark that revives dying hope.

Worship and Influence

Nelashra is revered by all Five Great Clans as a mother-guardian figure, a beacon of selfless power, fierce protection, and the promise of renewal. Her followers include paladins, healers, protectors, and leaders across all clans.

• Clan Arkheon (Lawgivers) hold her legacy in particularly high esteem, seeing her light as embodying Justice and her restorative flame as the power that upholds oaths and protects the innocent.

• Clan Rhogradan (Forgehearts) honor her purifying flame in their forges and her restorative aspect in mending tools and enduring structures.

• Clan Aegeron (Shieldsworn) invoke her protective light when guarding the Isles and her healing fire for the wounded.

• Clan Astranax (Lorekeepers) see her light as illumination for knowledge and seek her purifying essence in rites of cleansing.

• Clan Kaelenvex (Nexus Weavers) might call upon her restorative aspect to mend broken pacts or foster community well-being.
  Her shrines are found at sun-altars, within ancestral hearths, and at centers of healing or justice. She is invoked during times of renewal, judgment, healing, and when oaths of protection are sworn.

Tenets:

• Shield the weak without hesitation.

• Let your fire protect as fiercely as it burns.

• Honor through action, not acclaim.

• Rise, even from ash.

Echo of Creation – The Scepter of the Sunfire Sovereign

Nelashra’s Echo is the Scepter of the Sunfire Sovereign, a golden draconic artifact forged from sacred dragonbone and molten gold. It radiates both healing warmth and purifying fire.

Its powers evolve through three stages. These grant resilience to fire, radiance-infused healing, bursts of restorative flame, and ultimately a divine flare of resurrection through Scorching Rebirth — allowing its bearer to fall in battle and rise again in a blaze of light.

Mythic Role in Eldareth

Against the overwhelming might of the Primordial Titans – colossal embodiments of earth, fire, water, and air – Nelashra was not merely a weapon; she was the coalition's unwavering heartflame. As titanic elemental forces and their teeming armies sought to unmake creation, Nelashra embodied defiant hope.

While other draconic legends and mighty giants carved paths of destruction through the elemental ranks, Nelashra anchored the defense. She stood amidst shattered earthworks and freezing gales, at the epicenter of broken shieldwalls formed by giants, dragons, and mortals alike. Her fire was the last warmth many felt before salvation, a divine flame that mended scale, stone, and flesh ravaged by primordial energies.

She anointed the wounded with fire that healed instead of harmed, countering the Titans' raw destruction with focused restoration. Where other Ascendants inspired through overwhelming power or strategic cunning, Nelashra calmed the chaos with her unwavering light and restorative flame.

She walked through battlefields scarred by elemental fury, her own form bearing the cracks and burns of titanic clashes, yet radiating undiminished faith and protective rage. Nelashra taught the nascent races, the giants, and her own kin that true strength lies not only in the power to strike, but in the resilience to endure and uplift others against the storm.

Even now, dragonborn devoted to her ideals, particularly among Clan Arkheon, speak her name in sunrise prayers. They believe she will return when the world’s light falters against overwhelming chaos, rising once more — not as a destroyer, but as a second dawn against the primordial dark.