Yarii

Overview
A brass dragon soaring the heavens in solitude, Yarii contemplates and explores his deepest thoughts while being beholden to none but himself. A proponent of inner peace and independence, Yarii answers to no one and no thing. Lethleriss' nestmate and youngest brother, Yarii embodies the dragons' individuality and refusal to follow.

Appearance
Bright and burnished even among brass dragons, Yarii blazes with light and joyous freedom. His polished scales reflect the light of the sun as he soars across the sky, which heats the soil during the hottest days of the Dragonborn believe that sunlight reflecting off his scales creates the heat of summer months, and that during the winter he remains reluctantly bound to the Sun's brass towers, a prisoner of his own growth and power.

Divine Mission
Yarii exists to simply exist. Soaring through the upper echelons of the atmosphere, following the path of the Sun, and brushing against the bottom of the Expanse, Yarii exists to contemplate and consider and allow life to take its course in its own time.

Typical Followers
The patron of the quiet and humble, the scholarly and the serene, few of the warrior-race of dragonborn find themselves under Yarii's banner, which suits the flighty, responsibility-shirking warrior just fine. Those few that do follow him pursue enlightenment through a harmonic coexistence with the natural world. Surprisingly, he is very popular in the elven nation of Tholund, whose inhabitants abandoned many of the traditional high and wood elven gods and instead favored a simpler, more lax patron.

Afterlife
Yarii shirks the responsibilities of caring for other souls and remains immortal primarily through worship and his own deeds. While liberating, his lack of followers makes him vulnerable among the divine beings of the Expanse, and more easily destroyed. He rules no afterlife, but a great citadel within the Sun dedicated to him and carrying the souls of many dragonborn and elves nevertheless awaits him, should he call upon them. This interracial combination of followers exists much as they did in life—simply, humbly, and happily.

Religion
Unpopular among the other dragon gods—many of whom are prideful and demand worship or dedication—Yarii's strong belief in liberty leads him to refuse such service. He despises kowtowers and bootlickers, and demands that any who would follow him stand on their own merits instead of requesting his aid. They must exist upon their own merits and their own decisions.

However, statues of the great brass wyrm do appear in many dragonborn and Tholundi homes, reminding followers of the ideals of self-reliance, self-expression, and independence are to be followed among all else. In the wilds events will fall as they will, and those who battle against they concept find themselves crushed by it. Yariintak priests teach that while cooperation is of course vital to a healthy society, accomplishments are to be achieved by one's own merits and one's own merits alone.

Burz Haldon hosts a single temple of moderate size where a collection of Yariintak monks live, die, cultivate, grow, and write without ever leaving its borders. Resting in the side of an extinct volcano and relying upon its nutrient-rich ash-soil to grow food and spices. A crop of rare seasonings has made the Yariintak alluring targets, but attackers find the monastery deserted...and that massive collections of dried herbs contained in locked rooms lead to brief and fiery deaths.

Magic Properties
The few clerics Yarii accepts to his service are those who would never ask for it willingly, and grants it to those driven few whose goals and beliefs align with his own. But when his magic does emerge, it blazes out in a corona of blinding light and scorching heat dangerous to those it might approach and threatening harm to those it heals or protects. Such is the fickle nature of the power of the sun personified by a prideful brass dragon.