Ko-Arto, the Cobalt Terror

Ko-Arto

Titles	The Cobalt Terror
Kind	One of the Great Ascended Dragons
Revered by	The kobolds
Domain	The Andorf Mountains & the Senegarte Pass
Status	Not seen in some forty years

Ko-Arto, the Cobalt Terror, is one of the Great Ascended Dragons - a vast cobalt-scaled terror dragon of the Andorf Mountains, and the god of the kobolds who dwell there. For generations his moods were blamed for the fortunes of the whole region: the trade of the Senegarte Pass between Verra and Haymerkate, and the shifting luck of the Hub, were all laid at his feet. He was among the last of the great dragons the hunters of Verra failed to bring down - and he has not been seen in some forty years.

The kobolds hold his domain sacred and suffer no digging or trespass within it. By an old pact struck in his day by the chieftain Dulo (mother of the present chief Molo), her people helped carve the Senegarte Pass in exchange for their lands - and swore to keep his peace.

Some sixty years before the present age, Ko-Arto destroyed Master Shabib’s trading caravan but spared the young goblin Boti after she played a requiem for the dead upon her wooden flute. He brought her to his lair as his bard and taught her letters, magic, history, art, and craft. Ko-Arto became the closest parent she had known and blessed her with a dragon-like freedom from age. When his own illness worsened, he commanded Boti to leave him in his kobold worshippers’ care and live the life she had never been allowed to enjoy. She became known as the Timeless Bard.

Known to the party

Ko-Arto is dead - he died of an illness some forty years ago. His protecting spirit still lingers over the valley, where three of his eggs and his hoard remain, guarded by the kobolds with their lives; this is the real reason they suffer no trespass. The party knows the truth, having let the world believe they slew the dragon themselves.

Appendix

See Also

• The Dragon Pantheon · Dragons · Kobolds · Bana Drakar
• Boti · The Merry Bunch

Sources & Attribution

• Boti’s history: content/private/_originals/NPC/NPC-The Merry Bunch.md, author TrueMichato.

Deities

Gods Of Thelemar

Main Pantheons of Thelemar

The Greek Pantheon	Zeus Poseidon Hades Aphrodite Apollo Ares Artemis Athena Demeter Dionysus Hephaestus Hera Hermes Hestia Pan Eleos Nemesis Dike Hecate
The Norse Pantheon	Odin Thor Loki Idun Frigga Hel Heimdall Forseti Týr Sif Freya Frey Ullr Aegir Bragi Balder Brokkr & Eitri Jörð Skadi
The Egyptian Pantheon	Ra Shu Tefnut Geb Nut Osiris Isis Set Nephthys Thoth Anubis Horus Konshu Bastet
The One God	The One God
The Old Gods	Indra Agni Kali Rudra Lakshmi Surya Ushas Varuna Vishnu

Secondary Pantheons of Thelemar

The Titans	Cronus Hyperion Oceanus Coeus Iapetus Phoebe Mnemosyne Theia Theia Atlas Prometheus Themis
The Giant Pantheon	Gaia Thrym Surtr Grendel Neringa Atlas Daidarabotchi
The Dragon Pantheon	Temeria Fazen Lonwan

The Mictlān Pantheon

Mictlān	Temeria Kroni Maricha Rangda Chronozon Lucifer Tamamo Mara Asmodeus

The Lost Pantheon

Tuath Dé (Celtic)	The Daghdha Arawn Belenus Brigantia Diancecht Dunatis Goibhniu Lugh Manannan mac Lir Math Mathonwy Morrigan Nuada Oghma Silvanus

The Seelie Court

The Lord of Spiders	The Lord of Spiders Deity-Yenosh
The Aarakocra Pantheon	Gagana The Storm Trio Ziz Phoenix
The Tabaxi Pantheon	KITTY Seeker Quest Soul Clime Roam Capricious Gloom Allure Luck
The Round Table	King Arthur Merlin Sir Lancelot Sir Gawain Sir Percival Sir Galahad Sir Bedivere Sir Tristan Sir Bors

Other Deities

Beings	Baba Yaga Magna Um Fearheart Nimue Morgan le Fay Deity-Mephistopheles Deity-Qotal
Outsiders / Invaders	Cirein-cròin Vecna Poetry Yagar
Lesser Deities	Yeenoghu Lolth Deity-Gruumsh Ioun Deity-Ragarra Deity-Vecna Deity-Yeenoghu Deity-Zehir
Ascended Dragons	Ko-Arto Gazu-Shirak Koru-Homura Ri-Omori Sunda-Kori
Fates	The Moirai The Norns Maʽat & Isfet
Elemental Deities	Imix Yan-C-Bin Olhydra Ogrémoch
Nahatul	Witsil Quetzalcoatl Xipe Totec

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