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