'''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 [[User:A Spooky Pineal Gland Growth|cancerous infestation of the brain]]. It is a God-From-Blood from a time that no longer properly exists, except in the swinging echoes and shards of sticks and the damage inflicted by blunt force traumaglass. It occupies the Tower card in the Fansus Tarot deck. It holds no dominion, but wanders the plumbing of the Mansus unrestricted.

The Bully's Stick was made when a powerful occultist beat up time with From the plumbing of the Mansus, a lead pipewas plucked. Their consciousness was sucked into the pipe by Its purpose changed in the force hands of an occultist. Glass shattered. Time bent, dented. The occultist fell into it, and all the blood of the pipe itself was empoweredthings that would never be born, both by the drubbing itself and by the act terror of stealing the [[The World That Never Was|conclusion]] the beating had been meant to avoiddisaster averted. It is called the Snow-Stained for Shards fell from the tower; snow-melt that soaks dripped from the blue-gray coat of its vehicle. They fell together, and together they hid. The Stick was the man, and the man was the Stick--the Brass-Beater, who allows no conclusion. It changes essential nature as it strikes. Its mind was dulled considerably in the process. It sleeps, now, as it walks and as it swings. It dreams of a future where all things are fluid, leaving and where nothing ends. There are few who worship it to pursue its goals almost aimlessly.

The Bully's Stick is aligned with [[:Category:Heart|Heart]], [[:Category:Forge|Forge]] and [[:Category:Edge|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. Revolutionaries and terrorists pray to it. It has been described as raucous, dynamic and spitefully persistent. It deforms whatever it strikes.

It makes its home in the walls and pipes plumbing of the Mansus, which it is capable of fitting into effortlessly, despite its bulk. In an especially deep place within the Mansus' labyrinthine plumbingpipework, it keeps its store of mementos from its various attacks. These mementos They 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.

* [[The PeacockVizier]]: The Bully's Stick frequently urges entities it perceives as belonging detests the Vizier for its ordered mind and its desperate need for control. Its failure to it to disrupt prevent the cataclysm that nearly claimed its history is also fresh in its mind.* [[The Harvester]]: * [[The Watcher in the Window]]:* [[The Apple-of-the-Eye]]:* [[The Rider]]: The Rider was the one who informed the occultist who would become the PeacockBully's partiesStick of the inevitable future. Raucous as it isEven so, the Bully's Stick despises predestination, and so it does dislike despises the way they tend to carry ongod of seers. * [[The Elder Sister]]: * [[The Silver Owl]]:

* [[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 dissatisfyingSnow-Stained occupies this slot. 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]]:* [[The Maker]]: * [[The DeceiverSpark]]: