Crom Cruach
Crom Cruach
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"...He dwells on a great mountain. What use to call on him?"
"Little he cares if men live or die."
"Better to be silent than to call his attention to you; he will send you dooms, not fortune!"
"He is grim and loveless, but at birth he breathes power to strive and slay into a man's soul."
"What else shall men ask of the gods?"
-- Queen of the Black Coast by Robert E. Howard
Aliases: Crom Cróich, Cenn Cruach/Cróich and Cenncroithi
Background: Crom Cruach isn’t Fomorian at all, but something alien that serves as a strange sort of third party to the Tuatha/Fomorian rivalry-with-benefits. He craves adulation and blood, gathering cults to worship him through terror and demanding firstborn cattle and children as sacrifices. He transforms 12 among the herd into terrible stone servitors that enforce his bidding, using 12 idols of power. Crom Cruach embodies agriculture and rots crops in the ground if the people don’t keep him appeased. When he shows his true form, he bursts up from under the earth as a ravenous worm with a gigantic maw. He slumbers fitfully in his Titanic realm, after the decisive thrashing he received from a Scion named Patricius centuries ago.
Provinces: Fertility, Sacrifice, Death
Dark Virtues: Rapacity & Dominance.
Dominions: EARTH, ENDURANCE, FERTILITY, PASSION (Fear), PROSPERITY, SACRIFICE
Realm: Magh Slécht - {The plain of prostrations}
Holy Days: Samhain
Sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU0nu2TIu8U
