The Snow-Stained

The Snow-Stained, also called the Bully's Stick and, more ceremonially, the Brass-Beater, is one of the Hours of the Fansus, created by some cancerous infestation of the brain. It is a God-From-Blood from a time that no longer properly exists, except in the swinging of sticks and the damage inflicted by blunt force trauma. It occupies the Tower card in the Fansus Tarot deck.

History

The Bully's Stick was made when a powerful occultist beat up time with a lead pipe. Their consciousness was sucked into the pipe by the force of it, and the pipe itself was empowered, both by the drubbing itself and by the act of stealing the conclusion the beating had been meant to avoid. It is called the Snow-Stained for the snow-melt that soaks the blue-gray coat of its former body and current vehicle. Its mind was dulled considerably in the process, leaving it to pursue its goals almost aimlessly.

Principles

The Bully's Stick is aligned with Heart, Forge and Edge. It is the damage done; it harms, but never kills, and whatever it harms, it causes to change. It is ugly, hateful, petty and violent. It is rarely invoked by those who expect to live comfortable lives. It is loved by survivors and by brutes in equal measure, for the harm it causes and the conclusions it prevents. It has been described as raucous, dynamic and persistent. It deforms whatever it strikes.

Location

It makes its home in the walls and pipes of the Mansus, which it is capable of fitting into effortlessly, despite its bulk. In an especially deep place within the Mansus' labyrinthine plumbing, it keeps mementos from its various attacks. These mementos contain a great deal of what made the people who owned them what they were; should an enterprising Occultist recover them, those fragments could be invoked.

Relationships

• The Architeuthain:
• The Anaconda:
• Snake Tail with Appendages: The Snow-Stained approves. Deeply.
• The Engine of Cycles: The Bully's Stick appreciates the desire for change, but makes it a special point to destroy any part of the Engine it perceives as being related to bringing about endings. Nonetheless, they are more closely aligned than the Bully's Stick is with most.
• The Peacock: The Bully's Stick frequently urges entities it perceives as belonging to it to disrupt the Peacock's parties. Raucous as it is, it does dislike the way they tend to carry on.
• Old Tarnished:
• The Spark:
• The Cuckoo:
• The Silver Owl:
• The Watcher in the Window:
• The Elder Sister:
• The Apple-of-the-Eye:
• SWOUP:
• The Archivist:
• The Bright-Delver:
• The Harvester:
• [[[ ]]]: Cold, hostile opposition.
• The Insidious:
• The Fanged Bramble:
• The Mendicant Without: The Bully's Stick has no strong feelings about the Mendicant one way or another, but as in all things, it finds the separation of walls dissatisfying. It has attempted in the past to create a hole through which the Mendicant could pass, and will likely do so again in the future.
• The Aged Bones:

Items

Books

The Grey Lad of Krous Street