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List of Children of the Siathar
Children deemed uncanonical
Though extremely rare, there is precedent for deities previously worshipped as Children to be declared false.
Radyth the Witch
The most infamous Child to be declared uncanonical was Radyth the Witch.
During the early Storm Era, as magic-users first emerged across the Empire, it was realized that there was no Child of the Siathar to represent them. In the traditions of the Imperial religion, the cultic impulses of the growing witch population produced a new Child, Radyth, as their patron. Radyth's following grew and solidified over the next generation, impelled by the uncertainties of the Overturns, but His acceptance into the pantheon was interrupted by the political chaos of the times.
In the wake of the Divine Overturn, in which the witches of the Empire played no small part, the Six Houses - with the First House newly replaced by the Seventh House - saw fit to convene a great synod of the hierarchy of the imperial_church in Kar Iitan, the Imperial capital. The resulting Convocation of 17 Storm, seeking a religious justification for the course of events, firmly blamed them on the Empire's witch population, who were declared to be in league with dark powers. The ongoing Convocation and its work were seized upon by the soon-to-be Eighth House as a convenient justification for their usurpation of the Fifth House in the Black Overturn; The Eight piously proclaimed that they had discovered that the Fifth remained in alliance with the witches and were therefore no longer fit to help lead the Empire.
As part of the anathematizing of the witches, Radyth was stricken from the rolls of the Divine Children, His worship banned, and His name purged from as many documents as could be located. Through the persecution and dispersal of witches that followed, generational transmission of Radyth's cult was largely broken, and His memory only survived, increasingly hazy, among the few secretive communities of witches that managed to persist. The founding of the Citadel in the early Steel Era provided a less precarious base for survival, and though the awareness and vestigial worship of a protector of witches remained with them, His name and His place within the Imperial pantheon became forgotten.
When, in the later Cloud Era, the population of the Citadel began to be bolstered by new immigrants with more recent experience of the Imperial religion, the protector of the Chosen began to be incorporated back into the pantheon, but this time as a female Lamna, now named Ghaduss the Witch-Queen. Dlyss, disapproving of modifications to the pantheon, has attempted to use her influence to reinstate the deity's former name and attributes, but unusually, has largely failed in this even among her own followers.