Drath dreams beneath the deepest ocean, and coastlines change when the sleeping Leviathan turns.
The sea is deep because something beneath it requires room to dream.
The sleeper beneath soundings
No complete image of Drath exists. Sailors depict an eye, a coil or a ridge mistaken for an island. The oldest charts mark certain trenches not with depth but with the warning: here the dream descends.
Tides, seaquakes and inexplicable coastal ruin are attributed to motions of the sleeping god. Whether Drath knows mortals exist is uncertain and not comforting.
Dreams carried by salt
Those who sleep aboard deep-water vessels sometimes share a dream of sinking through warm black water toward a slow opening eye. Afterwards they know the shape of reefs never mapped and languages spoken by no living coast.
Repeated dreams produce an urge to return to deeper water. The afflicted may walk into the sea fully clothed, convinced they are waking from the smaller dream of land.
Temples at the drowning line
Drath's cults build below the highest tide mark so every gathering risks inundation. They salvage bells from wrecks and ring them underwater, believing the vibration reaches farther than prayer.
Some cults wreck ships deliberately to provide the Leviathan with dreams, possessions and names from distant lands. Coastal communities hunt these groups without mercy.
The covenant of shallow water
Nathiel's priests teach that the sea may be honoured without descending into Drath's dream. Their harbours maintain chains of blue lanterns and forbid sleeping alone after a shared vision.
The most feared prophecy says Drath will wake only when the oceans become quiet. Sailors therefore sing during unnatural calms, not for courage but to assure the god that the world above is still making noise.
Notes and record
This article combines campaign record, spoken lore and the mythic account preserved in the Earin archive.