TSALOKATH,
DEMON
LORD
OF WRATH |
Tsalokath (short "Lokath") is the second eldest of the six legendary Demons Lords. As the aspect of Wrath, Tsalokath's favorite weapons are the winds, anger, and the unholy powers of Chaos. Of the Demon Lords, she is second in Ecuá power only to her elder brother Khalkoroth, and second in Chaotic powers only to her youngest sibling, Elennorgh.
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Appearance.
Tsalokath, more so than any of her siblings, is reknowned for the number of
shapes she can take. From the rakish, golden-eyed Thief of Souls to the Black
Pheonix, or Storm Crow, Tsalokath delights in alternately fooling and terrifying
mortals. She shows no preference for forms, or at least her summoners do not,
but artists always seem to gravitate to the form diametrically opposed to
Grothar; a black-haired woman clothed in feathers,
with lightning coruscating around her clenched, clawed fists and
dragonlike wings hanging ominously over her
back.
Special Abilities.
While there is no doubt Tsalokath has more powers than are given her, the power
that she is nearly always envisioned using is her ability to distort the will of
Grothar. When farmland goes without rain for months at
a time, the curse on every farmer's lips is "Lokath". When torrential rains turn
plains into bogs, there's always a few candles burning under a certain
out-of-the-way winged statue in the local temples. And many a survivor of the
times when the Great Whirlwinds charge out of the seas will claim hearing cruel,
unearthly, but definately female laughter in the unnatural calm at the great
storms' hearts...
When the mood takes her, however, Tsalokath can be far less subtle. There are
tales of flocks of birds that darkened the sky before descending on a village
like a hideous, bloodthirsty rain. There are tales of bolts of blue lightning
striking every building in a town with no clouds in sight. There are even
whispered tales of the chaos-vents left over near the Portal of Osthemangar,
places where a man can step and lose everything he ever was.
While disincarnate in Mélor'aí'chán, Tsalokath may be less powerful, or she
might even be more powerful, as not even the greatest priests can decipher the
will of Grothar. Certainly she cannot perform any of
her other foul tricks, but even after she has been slain, great hellish storms
will still stalk the land for months to come.
History/Origin.
As the rest of the Demon Lords, Tsalokath was formed by the
Darkwinds as a tool of sabotaging the
works of the Aviaría. Specifically, Tsalokath was meant as a mockery of the
Element of Wind, and more specifically the
peace it was meant to offer. The gentle rains that were
Grothar's repertoire, the peaceful calm ushered in by
Eyasha... naturally, the jaded Darkwinds
wished to shatter such lackluster concepts. With their first offering,
Khalkoroth, accepted by Coór,
they immediately set about finding a being to mock the highest of the Aviaría,
and in Tsalokath they achieved an unholy victory. It is thought that it was
Tsalokath who brought such things as cyclones, lightning, and hail into being,
and it was many years before Grothar could finally put
reins on these cruel perversions of his domain.
Tsalokath is one of the most frequently summoned of the Demon Lords. While
controlling Ice, Plague, or Shadow sounds plausible only to the most egotistical
of magi, it is hard not to find one who hasn't worked their own wind-charm,
experimented with lightning, or tried to summon a rain. After all, what could
this girl-demon do, if in a properly grounded room? Blow on the summoner from
within the circle?
This line of logic has been followed many times, and has invariably ended with a
summoner whose fried ashes are scattered over about three strals of ocean.
However, they can usually get at least a small population decimated by their
'thrall' in the process, so by some light they have to come out even.
Information provided by
Xarl
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