Cult of BrastalosBrastalos Storm Bride of Magasta I. Mythos and History Once Kolat First Spirit-Master tamed the One True Wind and took his daughter as a bride. From this coupling came the Seven Winds, the North, South, East and West, and the Three Secret Winds, the Higher Wind, the Lower Wind and Brastalos, the No-Wind, the Eye of the Storm. During the Gods War, in an epic struggle which caused the Raging sea to climb and flood the Spike, Magasta, the Terror of the Deep, drove off the Storm Gods and held Vadrus underwater so long that he gave up Brastalos, his niece, in tribute. When the Storm Gods sought to brake Brastalos free, Magasta again defeated them and subdued Brastalos to be his obedient wife. When the Spike exploded and left the cosmos with a vacuum at its center, there where some gods who leapt in to fill the breach. Brastalos was one of those, and of the many who tried she was one of the few suited to the task. With the aid of Magasta she turned an unholy vacuum into a compromise between real emptiness and empty reality. The children of Magasta and Brastalos are the deadly Waterspouts and Whirlpools which dot the places where the air and sea meet, a plague to all who are godless at the sea. Brastalos is associated with runes of Air, Change and Spirit. II. Cult Ecology Brastalos is rarely noted except as the Kolati wife of Magasta. Whereas the Four (Directional) Winds are quite mundane in their bearing, and the Two (Hidden) Winds are quite magical, Brastalos, the Seventh Wind is mystical in its concept and its origin. As the Seventh Wind, the No-Wind, she is the Eye of the Storm, the Calm of Violence. She is always recorded as being in the centre of the world, the same place where Umath always is. She is the Secret Breath of Umath, and the source of the secret power of the Storm Gods, the "Inner Breath". Sometimes she is called the Mother of All Storms and some writers have taken that quite literally and used her name in their desire to make everyone have a mate and a pair of parents. It is certain that each God of Storms has certainly got his own Secret Power, a seat of immutable balance and calm within the surface of violence. Brastalos' holy night are celebrated along with Magasta's. III. The Cult in the World Brastalos' temples are rare, but her shrines are always alongside Magasta's. Those who find Magasta too terrible might favor Brastalos, thus finding an acceptable path to the Lord of the Sea. Her shrines teach Command Sylph. IV. Initiates Requirements: Anyone wishing to become an initiate of Brastalos must succeed in a test abstracted as a POWx5 roll and sacrifice 1 point of POW to Brastalos. Note: The skill Wind Sense (Knowledge 00 base%) is taught to initiates. It allows the initiate to sense the speed, nature and direction of the wind. The initiate also knows with around six hours notice when the wind is going to change. Spirit Magic: Befuddle, Coordination, Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, Mindspeech, Mobility, Second Sight, Shimmer V. Priesthood Requirements: standard. Skills- Wind Sense 90%, Summon and Ceremony 50% Common Divine Magic: all Special Divine Magic: Cloud Call, Command Sylph, Decrease Wind, Increase Wind, Storm's Eye, Waterspout, Wind Warp Allied spirit: Storm Gull VI. Special Brastalos Rune Magic Storm's Eye, 1 point ranged, temporal, stackable, reusable This spell creates an area of absolute calm. The area affected is 1 metre in diameter and three metres in height. The winds in a circle twice the size of the area are doubled in strength for the duration of the spell. Each point stacked into the spell doubles the size of the area affected. VII. Associated Cults Dormal Provides the spell Predict Weather Magasta Provides the spell Whirlpool
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