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Rejection of the Stormcult

from Discernment in Viscera by Assault Sorcery

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Far off to the north, there is a storm that’s torn apart the sky.
I went forth to meet the ones who stare into its eye.

They call it a maw, say it swallows all it touches.
We are merely what it spews and vomits.
For years it has hung above the plains, raging.
They’ve built towers that linger beneath its gaze.

It wants no offering of goat or steer or child;
the burning sun is hidden in its craw.

And when you are gnawed by this eye, they say,
it stares within you and it sees.
All that you’ve thought and that you’ve done and ever wanted;
this it knows and doesn’t care at all.
Even our brothers have been ensnared
with its strong and strange allure.


And then the dark clouds above the tower opened up


This horrid wound that festered long is now
severed, scattered, sundered.
Gone…

The roaring winds they clashed and overturned the altars.
I am absolved but abandoned to the night.


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ca. CE 1680

The protracted presence of a storm over the llano estacado throughout the middle years of the 17th century, and its attendant worship, are together an enduring part of local folklore. This is despite the disputed nature of many sources that shed light on the event. Some scholars have forwarded the idea of recurring dust storms, wrought by early agricultural experimentation, and by extension posit that the repeated references in the literature to la tormenta, or “the storm”, refer to different, discrete events. Others have suggested that volcanic activity to the west may have played a role, proposing that this event may be similar to the 1816 Year Without a Summer – storm thereby becoming a loose term referring to a period of poor visibility and erratic weather. Collective mass hysteria brought on by widespread hunger and deprivation during the famine of 1670 has also been proposed, though this is a stretch at best and dismissive of the evidence at worst.

Meteorological phenomena are, by definition, ephemeral, and if one is willing to countenance the possibility of a prolonged storm, the physical traces remaining even from such an extreme event would themselves not last long. The archaeological records – most perduring of all testaments to the storm – are also disputed, with many scholars offering alternative explanations for the stone foundations that can be found throughout the area (milestones, granaries, and the like rather than towers erected to better observe and revere la tormenta). Many accounts reference these towers and their importance in physically and symbolically closing some of the distance between the initiate and the divine.

Above is what remains of a fragmented account of the destruction of one such tower. Most likely written by a Franciscan missionary to his superior, it explains efforts to correct the so-called heresy of the storm and save the souls of its practitioners. The long absence of this letter from the historical record has variously been attributed to a loss of the document in transit and an effort of historical suppression.

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