When Kudamat found the first piece of his soul, he began channeling its power to restore his godhood, and a single thundering quake tore a fissure through the center street of Wyllin's Gulch — a terrible earthquake, they believed, not understanding the apocalyptic toll ringing out across the sands.
Kudamat then used a fragment of his divine might to craft a colossus and droves of accompanying aberrations that would guard the soul shard while he siphons the remainder of his power and seeks out the other eight.
Preacher Rayos was the first, or perhaps only the loudest, to recognize this rising as the first step in the Prophecy of the Drylands God. Wyllin's Gulch worships no gods but the earning and spending of gold, and it will take more than a violent colossus to get the people of that town to pay attention to an ancient prophecy.
Source · Drylands History