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'''The Snow-Stained,''' also called the Bully's Stick and, more ceremonially, the Brass-Beater, is one of the Hours of the [[The First-and-a-Half Fansus|Mansus]], 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 in shards of sticks and the damage inflicted by blunt force traumaglass. It occupies is the Tower card in caretaker of the Fansus Tarot deckMansus' plumbing, from which it was born.

== History Description ==

The Bully's Stick was made when a powerful occultist beat up time with From the plumbing of the Mansus, a lead pipewas taken. Their consciousness was sucked into Its purpose changed in the pipe by the force blood-streaked hands of an occultist. Glass shattered. Time bent, dented. The occultist fell into it, and into all the pipe itself was empoweredblood of the things that would never be born, both by the drubbing itself and by the act terror of stealing the conclusion the beating had been meant to avoidaverted disaster. It is called the Snow-Stained for Shards fell from the tower; snow-melt that soaks dripped from the blue-gray coat of its vehiclevessel. Its mind was dulled considerably in They fell together, and together, stick and shards and vessel. The Stick inherited all that the vessel had been, and together they became something else--the processBrass-Beater, leaving who allows no conclusion. It changes essential nature as it to pursue its goals almost aimlesslystrikes.

The Bully's Stick is aligned with === Appearance === [[:Category:Heart|Heart]], [[:Category:Forge|Forge]] and [[:Category:Edge|Edge]wip]. 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 = Principles ===

The Bully's Stick is aligned with [[:Category:Heart|Heart]], [[:Category:Forge|Forge]] and [[:Category:Edge|Edge]]. It makes its home in is the walls damage done; it harms, but never kills, and pipes of the Mansuswhatever it harms, which it causes to change. It is capable of fitting into effortlesslyugly, hateful, despite its bulkpetty, and violent. It is rarely invoked by those who expect to live comfortable lives. In an especially deep place within It is loved by survivors and by brutes in equal measure, for the harm it causes and the Mansus' labyrinthine plumbing, conclusions it prevents. Revolutionaries and terrorists pray to 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 themIt has been described as raucous, those fragments could be invokeddynamic and spitefully persistent. It deforms whatever it strikes.

== Relationships Worship ==* [[The Architeuthian]]: * [[The Anaconda]]: The Snow-Stained is dimly aware that its continued existence within the walls is due in part to the Anaconda's willingness to tolerate it. It does the Anaconda the courtesy of steering clear of it, though whether this is a conscious decision or not is unclear.=== Cult === * [[Snake Tail with Appendages]]: The Snow-Stained approves of its anarchic nature and its desire to open. It is less fond of its origins as a God-From-Nowhere.* [[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.=== Mark ===* [[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]]:== Servants ==* [[The Spark]]:* [[The Cuckoo]]:* [[The Silver Owl]]:=== Emanations ===* [[The Watcher in the Window]]:* [[The Elder Sister]]: === Names ===* [[The Apple-of-the-Eye]]:* [[SWOUP]]:== Locations ==* [[The Archivist]]:* [[=== The Bright-Delver]]:Mansus ===* [[The Harvester]]:* [[Blank|<nowiki>[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]</nowiki>]]: 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 It makes its home in all things, it finds the separation plumbing of walls dissatisfying. It has attempted in the past to create a hole through Mansus, which the Mendicant could passit is capable of fitting into effortlessly, and will likely do so again in the futuredespite its bulk.* [[The Aged Bones]]:* [[The Maker]]: * [[The Deceiver]]:* [[The Ferryman]]: The stagnancy of the dead in In an especially deep place within the DolomedesMansus' care offends the Snow-Stainedlabyrinthine pipework, it keeps its store of mementos. Were it to find They contain a way to crack open their prison, it would do so without hesitation, almost irregardless great deal of what made the consequencespeople who owned them what they were; should an enterprising Occultist recover them, those fragments could be invoked.* [[=== The Great Serpent]]:Histories ===

=== Rites =Relationships == [WIP] {|| 0. || [[The Serpent Submitting]] || |-| I. || [[The Rattlesnake]] || |-| II. || [[TBD]] || |-| III. || [[The Bright-Delver]] || |-| IV. || [[The Architeuthian]] || |-| V. || [[TBD]] || |-| VI. || [[The Vizier]] / The Peacock’s Lies || |-| VII. || [[Adonibaal]] || |-| VIII. || [[TBD]] || |-| IX. || [[TBD]] || |-| X. || [[The Six-Faced Gentleman]] || |-| XI. || [[The Elder Sister]] || |-| XII. || [[The Snow-Stained]] || |-| XIII. || [[The Swansong]] || |-| XIV. || [[The Cuckoo]] || |-| XV. || [[TBD]] || |-| XVI. || [[The Revolutionary]] || Current ally. Arrangement founded on shared revolutionary spirit. |-| XVII. || [[King Nothing]] || |-| XVIII. || [[The Ferryman]] || |-| XIX. || [[TBD]] || |-| XX. || [[TBD]] || |-| XXI. || [[The Anaconda]] |||-| XXII. || [[TBD]] || |-| XXIII. || [[The Torn Secret]] || |-| XXIV. || [[The Void-In-Steel]] || |-| XXV. || [[The Peacock]] || |-| XXVI. || [[The Wrong-Serpent]] || |-| XXVII. || [[The Insidious]] || |-| XXVIII. || || |-| XXIX. || [[The Stomping Sands]] || |-| XXX. || [[Unnamed Mongoose Hour]] || |- | --- || [[CORE GENESIS]] || |-| --- || [[Our Salvation Ablaze]] || |-| --- || [[Suneater]] || |-| --- || [[ENTHRONED]] || |-| --- || [[The Doomsday Machine]] || |-| --- || [[Our Majesty Revamped]] || |}