The Woken God

We mortals revere dragons for being larger, angrier, and more fiery than us. We imagine that the dragons have no corresponding entity, but this is not true, because there are indeed entities larger, angrier, and more fiery than dragons: that is, volcanoes. And none are larger, angrier, or more fiery than their holiest volcano: "The Woken God", or, as the dragons call it, "Woaorarglarghrargh". (The usual caveats about draconic transliterations apply here.)

Writings about Woken God are, of course, highly intertwined with the history of the Codex Ingenuous, being that it was written upon the mountain's heart. And rightly does de Sobrel note that "dragon science could never have reached the heights it has if not for the [...] Index Ingenuous", as it was the latter text that revealed the long-lost hieroglyphic arts of the Ergniramniphoniclufivillians, whose city was discovered abandoned inside the mountain. As an aside, it is important to note that de Sobrel is being completely literal here: the aforementioned arts made the upper reaches of the volcano passable to enterprising scholars for the first time.

Set atop Woken God is the Meteoric Temple, the draconic monastery that many know as the Vaticant. Though the dracomonks heavily encourage mortal study of the noble ones— one recalls Hlurfo Heiferbane's somewhat cheeky jest that frærthe glursha nel kibbtr poom enr sagatha simmimür (though some, e.g. Hannon et al, have suggested he was actually making a veiled analogy about the tax policies of his day)—they are notoriously silent on the inner workings of their worship of the mountain, or of the Meteoric Order in general.

One cannot conclude an epigraph on the Woken God, of course, without quoting the final words of the esteemed explorer Zeminih Sutoba (CI #716, p. 30):

In all my living days, never have I seen such grandeur, a landmark ablaze with such beauty. Behold, she burns, and I am set alight. Put me out, Senethal. For God's sake, Senethal, stop writing and put me out. Forget history, I'm on fire here. Aruogarlagraeh. [Note: again, draconic transliteration is difficult, and scholars are divided on what exactly Sutoba was trying to say. For further discussion see Gloorville's Rise and Fall: The Fates and Fame of the Great Eastern Explorers.]

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Yedevek Ilron, Bardslayer 2nd class