#i don't think i've talked about the western continent before but it's somewhere between atlantis and...idk something more real than atlanti

[worldwalkernovel]

(Sorry I've fallen down the Alleirat rabbit hole here) If these haven't already been answered: there is dragon fire, so are there dragons? And if so, what kind? Is there a pantheon of gods/goddesses/how does religion work? Sorry for the multiple asks!

So--the simplest answer here is: yes, dragons exist.  So do griffins.  They’re the only things on Alleirat actually created by the two gods (otherwise the gods just sorta...found stuff and set themselves up there), and there are krakens in the ocean created by the now-deceased god of the sea.  That being said, no one has seen a dragon in a thousand years, so it’s possible that they’re extinct.  Krei swears blind that her grandmother has seen one, and that they’ve retreated into the northernmost reaches of the mountains, but no one has evidence of this, and if the tree-spirits Krei’s family descended from is hiding griffins, they aren’t talking.

The krakens still get seen from time to time, though.

Regarding religion, I covered that here!  There may at some point have been gods that preceded the Wanderer and the Lady of Stars’ arrival on Alleirat, primal deities who created the world and opened the first doors to Earth, but if there were, they’ve been gone since before even the long memories of immortals can recall.  Likewise, the exact number of gods who arrived with the Wanderer and Lady is a subject of popular debate among the scholarly classes.  There have been vague references found in old texts to other gods who either left or were killed during the war between the Wanderer and the Lady (this was when they created their creatures, as a sort of army), and enough of the survivors of the sunken western continent had been dedicated to the god of the sea that the Chained Lord wasn’t completely lost to history after he was killed in the crossfire.  None of those references have been substantiated, though, and unless the western continent is found under the water with its fabled stone reliefs and mosaics intact, it’s entirely probable that no one will ever really know.