General Information

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Titles

• The Coiled River, Lord of the Long Rains, The Patience Beneath the Bridge

Areas of Concern

• Rivers, rain, dragonkind, patience

Edicts

• Keep the waters clean and the courtesies owed to them

• Be patient; take the long way when the short way costs someone else

• Honor dragons, and the carp who labor to become them

Anathema

• Foul a river or well

• Dam or divert waters without offering and apology

• Mock another's slow progress

Religious Symbol

• A dragon coiled around a single raindrop

Sacred Animal

• Carp

Sacred Colors

• River-jade green and rain-grey

Pantheons

• Celestial Harmony

Artistic Holy Symbol

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Devotee Benefits

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Divine Attribute

• Wisdom or Charisma

Divine Font

• Heal

Divine Sanctification

• Holy

Divine Skill

• Nature

Domains

• Dragon, Water, Nature, Knowledge

Alternate Domains

• Travel, Wood

Favored Weapon

• Longspear

Cleric Spells

• 1st Level:

• 3rd Level:

• 5th Level:

Description

Mizuchi is the Celestial Harmony's river-dragon kami: lord of the waters that actually rule a farmer's life — the river that floods or carries, the rain that comes or doesn't. Where Sazanami commands the ocean's moods and Kaminari the storm's wrath, Mizuchi governs the long patient waters between: every river, stream, paddy channel, and summer rain in Shenyun. He is the great dragon of the empire's folklore, said to lie coiled beneath the riverbeds with his head under the oldest bridge in the land, and every dragon-named town in Shenyun — Ryuusei, Ryuzaki-Mura, and their kin — marks a place where he, or one of his children, once surfaced.

His teaching is patience: the carp that swims the falls long enough becomes a dragon, and the river that takes the slow path still reaches the sea. His displeasure is unmistakable — drought, flood, and (the old texts insist) rivers that run backward, a sign so dire it has not been seriously recorded in centuries. Of late, the empire's diviners have stopped saying that part aloud.

The kappa of the rivers and lakes are, by long tradition, his unruly vassals — bound to his courtesies if not his manners, which is why a polite traveler who keeps the proper forms can usually survive them.