"Now and then, rocky fragments fall from the roof of the Neath. The decks of older ships are pocked with scars. The sound is one no land-lubber knows, and no zailor will ever forget. This one has smashed the glass of a deck-binnacle. "Ill omen!" one sailor cries. "The god in the roof! Storm is angry!"[1]
Storm is one of the three gods of the Unterzee.
A Tempestuous Presence[]
The Neath is a cold, deep, and dark place, mostly devoid of any kind of weather,[2][3] but sometimes London finds itself battered by strange winds[4] and squalls.[5] Zailors claim that the source of these phenomena is a god called Storm;[6] he is a vengeful, spiteful deity[7] who dislikes change[8] and maintains an ancient sort of order.[9] Those who draw his ire meet the most unfortunate of ends,[1][10][11] and captains who have drawn his attention have found their crew members attacking each other with unprecedented bloodlust.[12] His curse is as relentless as the weather bearing his name, as he sends storms and fog into the path of an ill-fated ship.[13]
Storm is worshipped not only by zailors, but also by London's suspicious number of urchins.[14][4][15] The urchins' high priest of sorts is a boy called Slivvy, with a stutter and a port-wine birthmark on his cheek.[15][10]
Storm is known to possess individuals,[16] whose eyes turn gray[12][17] and who become convinced that they are Storm himself.[18]
What is Storm?[]
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Storm is dead. He has been dead for a long while,[19] and remembering that fact makes him quite enraged.[20] He used to be an Aeginae[21][22] in the service of the Sun, but he committed some kind of fault,[23][24] and now is in exile in the Neath.[25] His anger sometimes gets the better of him;[26][27] he seeks children as his followers because they do not have regrets,[28] making them more useful to his means and allowing him some semblance of peace.[29] Storm also granted his high priest eternal youth, allowing Slivvy to hold his position for quite a long time.[30]
Despite everything that has befallen him, he still loves the Judgements, like the other Aeginae.[31][32] One of his duties is probably to enforce the Bazaar's seven-city limit.[22]
Storm can freely use mirrors to travel back and forth to Parabola.[33]
Salt once tried to contact Storm, but he kept eating every messenger it sent. Then Salt learned Storm's Name, and Storm was forced to listen. It didn't work out too well for either of them.[21] To this day, they seem to remain in some sort of conflict.[34]