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</gallery>|caption1 = An ancient anger is watching you.|location = [[The Roof of the Neath]]<br> | SS_cloudsgaz.png|The Weather | ||
[[Parabola]]|allegiance = [[The Sun]]|alias = God-in-the-Roof<br>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}}''"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></blockquote> | Delirium-header.png|Storm's Mind | ||
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|caption1 = An ancient anger is watching you. | |||
|location = [[The Roof of the Neath]]<br> | |||
[[Parabola]] | |||
|allegiance = [[The Sun]] | |||
|alias = God-in-the-Roof<br>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}}''"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></blockquote> | |||
'''Storm''' is one of the three [[gods of the Unterzee]]. | '''Storm''' is one of the three [[gods of the Unterzee]]. | ||
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Storm's mind is a swirling cloud of angry thunder;<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"[...] How long have you felt like this? You have suddenly always been this swirl of time and regret. Through the squall you catch glimpses of the moments that led to this torment."''</ref> as a result, he has trouble with memories<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"I chose the boy. I cannot remember why, but I must trust that I had reason. [...] For what reason did he betray me? Did he tell me? Perhaps his motive is lost amid these swirling clouds."''</ref> and can not organize his thoughts well.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"He can't keep his thoughts in order. I've t-t-tried to help him, but I can't make sense of his mind any better than he can. He thinks you might be able to."''</ref> Storm is dead, a skull beneath the ground.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"The pieces come together. It makes sense at last! I see how I came to be here, a dead skull beneath the ground. [...]"''</ref> 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}}''"[...] a force of nature that's been extinct for centuries. [...]"''</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><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"Shards of memory whittle me into an instrument of fury. With no respite from the agony of regret, I have no space in which to doubt myself. I have been destroyed, I will destroy in turn. There is but one course of action, and it is vengeance."''</ref> His anger sometimes gets the better of him, causing him to lash out<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''’’I must restrain myself from retribution."''</ref> and scatter his thoughts.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"If I hold these fragments in my mind, I will know what to do. 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 used to be an [[Aeginae]]<ref name="core" /><ref name=":5">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Order_Ovate,_Glory|Order Ovate, Glory|Fallen London}}''"MESSENGER: You, again./DRAGON: Yes. I remain the servant of your master. As do you. He awaits you./MESSENGER: Do not. I beg you, do not. He cannot yet hear what I have to say./DRAGON: (carelessly) You have a little longer. Should this place fail, two remain./(Exit)/MESSENGER: Not yet enough. Not yet enough!"''</ref> in the service of the Judgements,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"I enforced the wills of those above. [...]"''</ref> specifically the Sun,<ref name=":5" /> but he committed some kind of fault,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sunless_Sea#The_Launch_Codes|WaterWhiteAndBlack|Fallen London}}''"You dream of a clifftop and a clouded sky. The wind weeps salt, while the thunder speaks of loss and sacrifice and something long ago that ended badly."''</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.miraheze.org/wiki/Recurring_Nightmare:_Watched|Something above|Sunless Sea}}''"[...] The Eye opens all the way, and in its glistening centre you see the reflection of the God that lives in the roof: a lost lorn angry thing of lightnings, a lone exile -"''</ref> Despite everything that has befallen him, he still loves the [[Judgements]], like the other Aeginae.<ref name=":1">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/I_will_smash_them!_All_of_them!|I will smash them! All of them!|Fallen London}}''"I see through these boundaries between worlds and I smash them! I breach the barriers so the snakes can peer through! And I gather up the twinkling shards remaining and I scatter them across the night sky for my stars! It is no longer dry and dead!"''</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}}"''I hear their messages. Aldebaran sings a song of passion. A passion long hidden and buried in language. Altair sings of possession. An old spirit, trapped and trapper in turn. But Arcturus sings to me only of pure love. Their cold starlight fills my clouded eyes."''</ref> One of his duties is probably to enforce [[the Bazaar|the Bazaar's]] seven-city limit.<ref name=":5" /> 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}}''"They surround me. They reflect one realm inwards and keep me from the other. These barriers should be fluid!"''</ref> He wants to help the [[Fingerkings]],<ref name=":1" /> possibly because the Aeginae are kin to the dream-serpents.<ref>[https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Hollow_Rat The Hollow Rat, ''Fallen London''] ''"Puppet or scarecrow or automaton, he still speaks: "And what an egg it was, that hatch'd such asps. And 'pon its shell, within the green, they dwell and breed new dreams. A thousand thousand runts, their storm-toss'd kin in chains. They plot, and plan – so that one day these wyrms may lie with serpents.""''</ref> | Storm's mind is a swirling cloud of angry thunder;<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"[...] How long have you felt like this? You have suddenly always been this swirl of time and regret. Through the squall you catch glimpses of the moments that led to this torment."''</ref> as a result, he has trouble with memories<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"I chose the boy. I cannot remember why, but I must trust that I had reason. [...] For what reason did he betray me? Did he tell me? Perhaps his motive is lost amid these swirling clouds."''</ref> and can not organize his thoughts well.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"He can't keep his thoughts in order. I've t-t-tried to help him, but I can't make sense of his mind any better than he can. He thinks you might be able to."''</ref> Storm is dead, a skull beneath the ground.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"The pieces come together. It makes sense at last! I see how I came to be here, a dead skull beneath the ground. [...]"''</ref> 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}}''"[...] a force of nature that's been extinct for centuries. [...]"''</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><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"Shards of memory whittle me into an instrument of fury. With no respite from the agony of regret, I have no space in which to doubt myself. I have been destroyed, I will destroy in turn. There is but one course of action, and it is vengeance."''</ref> His anger sometimes gets the better of him, causing him to lash out<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''’’I must restrain myself from retribution."''</ref> and scatter his thoughts.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"If I hold these fragments in my mind, I will know what to do. 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 used to be an [[Aeginae]]<ref name="core" /><ref name=":5">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Order_Ovate,_Glory|Order Ovate, Glory|Fallen London}}''"MESSENGER: You, again./DRAGON: Yes. I remain the servant of your master. As do you. He awaits you./MESSENGER: Do not. I beg you, do not. He cannot yet hear what I have to say./DRAGON: (carelessly) You have a little longer. Should this place fail, two remain./(Exit)/MESSENGER: Not yet enough. Not yet enough!"''</ref> in the service of the Judgements,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"I enforced the wills of those above. [...]"''</ref> specifically the Sun,<ref name=":5" /> but he committed some kind of fault,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sunless_Sea#The_Launch_Codes|WaterWhiteAndBlack|Fallen London}}''"You dream of a clifftop and a clouded sky. The wind weeps salt, while the thunder speaks of loss and sacrifice and something long ago that ended badly."''</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.miraheze.org/wiki/Recurring_Nightmare:_Watched|Something above|Sunless Sea}}''"[...] The Eye opens all the way, and in its glistening centre you see the reflection of the God that lives in the roof: a lost lorn angry thing of lightnings, a lone exile -"''</ref> Despite everything that has befallen him, he still loves the [[Judgements]], like the other Aeginae.<ref name=":1">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/I_will_smash_them!_All_of_them!|I will smash them! All of them!|Fallen London}}''"I see through these boundaries between worlds and I smash them! I breach the barriers so the snakes can peer through! And I gather up the twinkling shards remaining and I scatter them across the night sky for my stars! It is no longer dry and dead!"''</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}}"''I hear their messages. Aldebaran sings a song of passion. A passion long hidden and buried in language. Altair sings of possession. An old spirit, trapped and trapper in turn. But Arcturus sings to me only of pure love. Their cold starlight fills my clouded eyes."''</ref> One of his duties is probably to enforce [[the Bazaar|the Bazaar's]] seven-city limit.<ref name=":5" /> 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}}''"They surround me. They reflect one realm inwards and keep me from the other. These barriers should be fluid!"''</ref> He wants to help the [[Fingerkings]],<ref name=":1" /> possibly because the Aeginae are kin to the dream-serpents.<ref>[https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Hollow_Rat The Hollow Rat, ''Fallen London''] ''"Puppet or scarecrow or automaton, he still speaks: "And what an egg it was, that hatch'd such asps. And 'pon its shell, within the green, they dwell and breed new dreams. A thousand thousand runts, their storm-toss'd kin in chains. They plot, and plan – so that one day these wyrms may lie with serpents.""''</ref> | ||
In the times of the [[The First City|First City,]] Storm used to employ adults as his followers, but switched to children 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}}''"For years Storm has spoken to Slivvy. A few others. 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> The abandoned children's anger are like static clouds, perfect for Storm to harness to his own ends.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"Fall after fall, cities discard their children. They know not what their rejection creates. A lightning cloud must discharge. The urchins' fury must go somewhere. They want guidance and I give it to them. Where to run. How to fight. Whom to kill. They will do my bidding, for I am a god."''</ref> Storm also granted his high priest eternal youth, allowing Slivvy to hold 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 [...] Means I don't grow old, but I get tired in other ways.''</ref> | In the times of the [[The First City|First City,]] Storm used to employ adults as his followers, but switched to children 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}}''"For years Storm has spoken to Slivvy. A few others. 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> The abandoned children's anger are like static clouds, perfect for Storm to harness to his own ends.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"Fall after fall, cities discard their children. They know not what their rejection creates. A lightning cloud must discharge. The urchins' fury must go somewhere. They want guidance and I give it to them. Where to run. How to fight. Whom to kill. They will do my bidding, for I am a god."''</ref> Storm also granted his high priest eternal youth, allowing Slivvy to hold 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 [...] Means I don't grow old, but I get tired in other ways.''</ref> Storm worries that Slivvy will not be able to handle his duties alone any longer.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"I chose the boy. I cannot remember why, but I must trust that I had reason. I think he was like me once. Still, he is no god. My rage is his pain, and it could end him. I must restrain myself from retribution."''</ref> As a result, he has attempted to find other children to share Slivvy's burden, but so far, noen lasted long.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London}}''"Storm wants you to help me. I'm getting tired, and he's afraid of what will happen to his mind if he can't talk to me any more. [...] I've t-t-tried [to find someone else] sometimes without Storm knowing. And some of those other children helped a little. But none of them could do it for long. They grew up, instead."''</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.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Corridors_of_Frostfound#The_Dark_Room|Fumble in the darkness|Sunless Sea}}''"Long ago a hungry monarch built a castle. The monarch sent messengers to the thunder-dragon in the roof, but the dragon ate them all. The monarch sent more messengers - shapelings from Axile, malleable and eager - but the dragon ate those too. Then the hungry monarch found the dragon's name, and the dragon had to listen. It didn't do either of them much good."''</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}}''"You dream you are watching a fleet of ships spread across a sparkling sea. The fleet was sailing due East, but its course is gradually turning North."''</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.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Corridors_of_Frostfound#The_Dark_Room|Fumble in the darkness|Sunless Sea}}''"Long ago a hungry monarch built a castle. The monarch sent messengers to the thunder-dragon in the roof, but the dragon ate them all. The monarch sent more messengers - shapelings from Axile, malleable and eager - but the dragon ate those too. Then the hungry monarch found the dragon's name, and the dragon had to listen. It didn't do either of them much good."''</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}}''"You dream you are watching a fleet of ships spread across a sparkling sea. The fleet was sailing due East, but its course is gradually turning North."''</ref> | ||
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"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.[4][14][10] The urchins' high priest of sorts is a boy called Slivvy, with a stutter and a port-wine birthmark on his cheek.[10]
Storm is known to possess individuals,[15] whose eyes turn gray[12][16] and who become convinced that they are Storm himself.[17]
What is Storm?
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Storm's mind is a swirling cloud of angry thunder;[18] as a result, he has trouble with memories[19] and can not organize his thoughts well.[20] Storm is dead, a skull beneath the ground.[21] He has been dead for a long while,[22] and remembering that fact makes him quite enraged.[23][24] His anger sometimes gets the better of him, causing him to lash out[25] and scatter his thoughts.[26] He used to be an Aeginae[27][28] in the service of the Judgements,[29] specifically the Sun,[28] but he committed some kind of fault,[30][31] and now is in exile in the Neath.[32] Despite everything that has befallen him, he still loves the Judgements, like the other Aeginae.[33][34] One of his duties is probably to enforce the Bazaar's seven-city limit.[28] Storm can freely use mirrors to travel back and forth to Parabola.[35] He wants to help the Fingerkings,[33] possibly because the Aeginae are kin to the dream-serpents.[36]
In the times of the First City, Storm used to employ adults as his followers, but switched to children because they do not have regrets,[37] making them more useful to his means and allowing him some semblance of peace.[38] The abandoned children's anger are like static clouds, perfect for Storm to harness to his own ends.[39] Storm also granted his high priest eternal youth, allowing Slivvy to hold his position for quite a long time.[40] Storm worries that Slivvy will not be able to handle his duties alone any longer.[41] As a result, he has attempted to find other children to share Slivvy's burden, but so far, noen lasted long.[42]
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.[27] To this day, they seem to remain in some sort of conflict.[43]
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