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Marduk

The Great Golden One, The First Knight, The Father of All Dragons, Dragonlord, The Soldier Eternal
Lesser Divine
Location
Marduk resides in The Seelie Court alongside his wife Leannan.

General Description
Marduk is one of the more unusual ethereal beings as one of only two Gods to have originally been mortal (alongside Bel, Lady of Hope). Marduk was the original author of the Knightly Code, the code of honour which the vast majority of knightly orders follow to some extent (a notable exception being the Order of Dark Paladins, who predate Marduk’s birth in his original body and in fact directly opposes many of his thoughts on the matter.) Marduk is, however, venerated as the first true Knight and is honoured by nearly all of them, often with statues. 
 
Domains
Marduk is honoured as a God of honour, virtue, discipline, strength, devotion, war for righteous causes and resilience. He is the patron god of Dragons and the protector of adventurers, soldiers and guardsmen. 
 
Origins
Marduk’s origins are unknown, but he was an adventurer, presumably a Troll, who for some unknown reason was able to transform into a colossal winged reptile. Legends about how he came to be reincarnated are as follows: while out hunting, he encountered Leannan as she was bathing with some attendants in a lake. She noticed him, and unsurprisingly tried to seduce him, but in keeping with his fledgling Knights’ Code, he turned and walked away. This intrigued Leannan as nobody had, until now, been able to resist her charms, so she pursued him in the form of a doe - and upon finding him, Marduk shot her with an arrow. While it did not hurt her, he apologised and offered to pledge himself to her. The two fell in love and kept meeting in secret, with Leannan even creating the first Dragon in his transformed state’s image. Jak’ra discovered their affair after Leannan fell pregnant with Herne, and sent Marduk off on a number of increasingly difficult tasks, which he completed with assistance from Amaryllis and with Leannan visiting him every night against Jak’ra’s wishes, producing Mimus. When he died, Leannan couldn't make him immortal but couldn't stand to be apart from him, so she screamed for her mother Amaryllis to help her. Amaryllis couldn't make him immortal either, but her daughter's cries struck a chord, as it would in any mother. So she made it so he would eternally reincarnate in mortal form, and whichever body he came back in, and whoever he was, he would remember her and his past lives when he came of age and seek out his old armour, returning him to his former powers, He would then seek Leannan out wherever she was, so that way their love would never die.

Ascension
Following his most recent death at the Battle of Thamragh, Marduk's divine essence was trapped inside a black dragon egg, which was being experimented on by the Grand Order of Wizards' Dracology Department while sealed in a secret room in the Grand Order Training Tower in Mor'Koc; Jak'ra spent much of his time actively preventing this egg from being moved, as to prevent Marduk from coming back. The egg hatched and his divine essence was retrieved due to the combined actions of Bel, Dezrael and The Nameless One at the end of A Short Month, and he finally ascended to true godly status to be reunited with his true love and his surviving son.