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{{Character|title1 = Storm|image1 = storm.png|caption1 = An ancient anger is watching you. Art from Sunless Sea.|location = The Roof<br>
[[Parabola]]|allegiance = [[The Sun]]|alias = The Dragon that Walked|relationships = [[The Sun]] (master)|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/flukes-fathoms Fluke's Fathoms]}}<blockquote>''"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!"''<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/A_fallen_stone|A fallen stone|Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote>
'''Storm''' is one of the [[gods of the Unterzee]].
== A Tempestuous Presence ==
The Neath is a cold, deep, and dark place, mostly devoid of any kind of weather,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Reminisce_about_Fallen_London|Reminisce about Fallen London|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Imagine_there_were_weather|Imagine there were weather|Fallen London|}}</ref> but sometimes [[London]] finds itself battered by strange winds<ref name=":3">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Run_the_rooftops_in_honour_of_%22a_New_Wind%22|Run the rooftops in honour of "a New Wind"|Fallen London|}}</ref> and squalls.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’’Weather? In London? A ferocious storm has come in from the zee.’’</ref> Zailors claim that the source of these phenomena is a [[Gods of the Unterzee|god]] called Storm;<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Something_Awaits_You#Log_Book_description|An electric shiver to the air. Storm is watching, the zailors would say.|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> he is a vengeful, spiteful deity<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/A_fallen_stone|Make a sacrifice to avert misfortune | Sunless Sea|}}</ref> who dislikes change<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Your_Colony#Naming_Your_Colony|Aestival it is|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> and maintains an ancient sort of order.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’’Still, he upholds a kind of order. The alternative may be worse.’’</ref> Those who draw his ire meet the most unfortunate of ends,<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Fallen_London?|Step by step| Sunless Sea|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Watch_the_lights|Watch the lights|Fallen London|}}</ref> and captains who have drawn his attention have found their crew members attacking each other with unprecedented bloodlust.<ref name=":2">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/That_Old_Fury|That Old Fury|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":7">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Gods_of_the_Zee:_Storm%27s_Curse#Effects|The Gods of the Zee: Storm's Curse|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
Storm is worshipped not only by zailors, but also by London's suspicious number of [[urchins]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Meet_with_Urchins|Meet with Urchins|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> The urchins' high priest of sorts is a boy called Slivvy, with a stutter and a port-wine birthmark on his cheek.<ref name=":4">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Fallen_London#London.21|Deliver Sphinxstone to the boy Slivvy |Sunless Sea|}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Storm's blessing has allowed Slivvy to never grow up, so he has held his position for quite a long time.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’’"I've had S-s-storm in my head a long time," says Slivvy. "Means I don't grow old, but I get tired in other ways.’’</ref>
Storm is known to possess individuals,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Thunder_Takes_Me_Away|The Thunder Takes Me Away|Fallen London|}}</ref> whose eyes turn gray<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Stormy-Eyed|Stormy-Eyed|Fallen London|}}</ref> and who become convinced that they ''are'' Storm himself.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Who_can_argue_with_me%3F|Who can argue with me?|Fallen London|}}</ref>
==What is Storm?==
Storm is dead. He has been dead for a long while,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/I_will_send_a_message|I will send a message|Fallen London|}}</ref> and remembering that fact makes him quite enraged.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’’"He's been 'specially cross lately. Remembering he's dead more and more often. Makes him upset."</ref> He used to be an [[Aeginae]]<ref name="core" /><ref name=":5" /> in the service of the Sun, but he committed some kind of fault,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sunless_Sea#The_Launch_Codes|6 WaterWhiteAndBlack|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’’It should not be like this. Which error set about my ruin?</ref> and now is in exile in the Neath.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Recurring_Nightmare:_Watched|Something above |Sunless Sea|}}</ref> His anger sometimes gets the better of him;<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’’I must restrain myself from retribution.</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’ I must not falter as the charge builds and the thunderhead billows upwards—Lightning! It scatters the pieces to the winds. I curse what brought me here. I curse myself.</ref> he seeks children as his followers because they do not have regrets,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’ I took adults from the First City and they did as I commanded, but their minds were rotten with regret. The pain of their self-recrimination sent cracks through my skull. Since then I have used only children.</ref> making them more useful to his means and allowing him some semblance of peace.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’ All children. It's because only the very young are spared full understanding of their mistakes. There is peace in that, and Storm longs to feel it.</ref>
Despite everything that has befallen him, he still loves the [[Judgements]], like the other Aeginae.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/I_will_smash_them!_All_of_them!|I will smash them! All of them!|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/I_will_speak_to_the_stars_(3_FATE)|I will speak to the stars (3 FATE)|Fallen London|}}</ref> One of his duties is probably to enforce [[the Bazaar|the Bazaar's]] seven-city limit.<ref name=":5">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Order_Ovate,_Glory|Order Ovate, Glory|Fallen London|}}</ref>
Storm can freely use mirrors to travel back and forth to [[Parabola]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Glass_Walls_Everywhere!|Glass Walls Everywhere!|Fallen London|}}</ref> 
[[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.<ref name="core">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Dark_Room|The Dark Room|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> To this day, they seem to remain in some sort of conflict.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Who_is_the_Third_That_Walks_Always_Beside_you%3F|Who is the Third That Walks Always Beside you?|Fallen London|}}</ref>
==References==
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'''UNDER CONSTRUCTION'''

Revision as of 06:20, 11 May 2022

"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 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's blessing has allowed Slivvy to never grow up, so he has held his position for quite a long time.[16]

Storm is known to possess individuals,[17] whose eyes turn gray[12][18] and who become convinced that they are Storm himself.[19]

What is Storm?

Storm is dead. He has been dead for a long while,[20] and remembering that fact makes him quite enraged.[21] He used to be an Aeginae[22][23] in the service of the Sun, but he committed some kind of fault,[24][25] and now is in exile in the Neath.[26] His anger sometimes gets the better of him;[27][28] he seeks children as his followers because they do not have regrets,[29] making them more useful to his means and allowing him some semblance of peace.[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.[23]

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.[22] To this day, they seem to remain in some sort of conflict.[34]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 A fallen stone, Sunless Sea
  2. ↑ Reminisce about Fallen London, Fallen London
  3. ↑ Imagine there were weather, Fallen London
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Run the rooftops in honour of "a New Wind", Fallen London
  5. ↑ The Tempest, Fallen London ’’Weather? In London? A ferocious storm has come in from the zee.’’
  6. ↑ An electric shiver to the air. Storm is watching, the zailors would say., Sunless Sea
  7. ↑ Make a sacrifice to avert misfortune , Sunless Sea
  8. ↑ Aestival it is, Sunless Sea
  9. ↑ The Tempest, Fallen London ’’Still, he upholds a kind of order. The alternative may be worse.’’
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Step by step, Sunless Sea
  11. ↑ Watch the lights, Fallen London
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 That Old Fury, Sunless Sea
  13. ↑ The Gods of the Zee: Storm's Curse, Sunless Sea
  14. ↑ Meet with Urchins, Fallen London
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Deliver Sphinxstone to the boy Slivvy , Sunless Sea
  16. ↑ The Tempest, Fallen London ’’"I've had S-s-storm in my head a long time," says Slivvy. "Means I don't grow old, but I get tired in other ways.’’
  17. ↑ The Thunder Takes Me Away, Fallen London
  18. ↑ Stormy-Eyed, Fallen London
  19. ↑ Who can argue with me?, Fallen London
  20. ↑ I will send a message, Fallen London
  21. ↑ The Tempest, Fallen London ’’"He's been 'specially cross lately. Remembering he's dead more and more often. Makes him upset."
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 The Dark Room, Sunless Sea
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Order Ovate, Glory, Fallen London
  24. ↑ 6 WaterWhiteAndBlack, Fallen London
  25. ↑ The Tempest, Fallen London ’’It should not be like this. Which error set about my ruin?
  26. ↑ Something above , Sunless Sea
  27. ↑ The Tempest, Fallen London ’’I must restrain myself from retribution.
  28. ↑ The Tempest, Fallen London ’ I must not falter as the charge builds and the thunderhead billows upwards—Lightning! It scatters the pieces to the winds. I curse what brought me here. I curse myself.
  29. ↑ The Tempest, Fallen London ’ I took adults from the First City and they did as I commanded, but their minds were rotten with regret. The pain of their self-recrimination sent cracks through my skull. Since then I have used only children.
  30. ↑ The Tempest, Fallen London ’ All children. It's because only the very young are spared full understanding of their mistakes. There is peace in that, and Storm longs to feel it.
  31. ↑ I will smash them! All of them!, Fallen London
  32. ↑ I will speak to the stars (3 FATE), Fallen London
  33. ↑ Glass Walls Everywhere!, Fallen London
  34. ↑ Who is the Third That Walks Always Beside you?, Fallen London
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