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	'''Aliases:''' ''The Bright, Flashing and Shining''<br>		'''Aliases:''' ''The Bright, Flashing and Shining''<br>

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	'''Aliases:''' ''The Bright, Flashing and Shining''<br>		'''Aliases:''' ''The Bright, Flashing and Shining''<br>

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	::~ '''[[Cercyon]]''' -- ''Divine Smith'' -- ''{Sucellus}''		::~ '''[[Cercyon]]''' -- ''Divine Smith'' -- ''{Sucellus}''
	::~ '''[[Mors]]''' -- ''Lady of Death'' -- ''{Sulis}''		::~ '''[[Mors]]''' -- ''Lady of Death'' -- ''{Sulis}''
	::~ '''[[~~Þórormr~~]]''' -- ''~~Warrior~~ of Storms'' -- ''{Loucetios}''		::~ '''[[Siobhán]]''' -- ''Mistress of Storms'' -- ''{Loucetios}''
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			== '''Cruach Relics''' ==
			:~ [[Ossein Nathair]] -- ''Divining Rod''
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	:~ '''[[Crom Cruach]]''' -- ''God of Sacrifice & Fertility''		:~ '''[[Crom Cruach]]''' -- ''God of Sacrifice & Fertility''
	::~ '''[[Cercyon]]''' -- ''Divine Smith'' -- ''{Sucellus}''		::~ '''[[Cercyon]]''' -- ''Divine Smith'' -- ''{Sucellus}''

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= '''Cruach''' =
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=='''[[Crom Cruach]]''' -- The Crooked One & Lord of the Earth: God of Fertility, Sacrifice & Death ==
[[File:Crom Cruach The Great Worm.jpg]]
 
 
''"...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''

'''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
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=='''CETHLENN''' -- MOTHER OF FOMORIANS ==
'''Aliases:''' The Bane of the Dagda, She Whose Womb Is The Tomb 

'''Background:''' The Bane of the Dagda and the mother of fomorians,
Cethlenn is the foremost aspect of Crom Cruach. Once,
though, Crom Cruach also boasted a great champion:
the one-eyed Balor, father of fomorians. Together, Balor
and Cethlenn ruled the lands of the Green Isle. But
Cethlenn is a prophetess of great insight, and she foresaw
the coming of the Tuatha Dé Danaan and her husband’s
defeat at their hands. Still, she did not hesitate when
the time came to raise her children-tribe against the
fair Tuatha: So proud is the hideous Cethlenn that she
would defy even Fate before she succumbed to another
force. In that battle, she lost her husband but also struck
the Dagda a terrible blow.

With the death of Balor, all that Cethlenn loved has
been destroyed. The World holds only cold hate for her now;
her children, the fomorians, are merely bitter reminders of
what she has lost. Cethlenn would like nothing more than
to see Eire sink beneath the waves, and if it can be done by
her own hand then so much the better. She is the mother
of stillbirths and a creature of rage and jealousy that will
not hesitate to cast all of her children into death.

Cethlenn is still served by the fomorian tribes and
by her handmaiden, the Cailleach. She also takes great
joy in twisting normal creatures — particularly hounds,
cattle, swans, ravens and other creatures blessed by the
Tuatha — into outright horrors. From the clammy depths
of her loins, she can produce fat, white grubs the size of
a man’s thumb. These things she bids her servants to
spread among the foods of such animals.

Once the animals eat the grubs, one in three will be
driven mad. They will frenzy, killing and eating one of
their own or a nearby human being. When this happens,
the affected animal twists and warps, becoming horrible
versions of themselves, driven mad by maggots infesting
their brains. The other two in three simply go mad,
suffering from a species-specific, highly infectious version
of mad cow disease.

Cethlenn appears as a hag-like woman, though she is tall
of frame and not stooped in the least. Her lined face causes
nightmares in those who gaze upon it, and her gray eyes
reflect the fear of mortality that haunts men and Gods alike.
She is dressed in black, tattered mourning clothing, and her
chalk-white skin is bruised by patches of frostbitten flesh.

'''Provinces:'''

'''Dominions:''' [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], & [[]]
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==''' THE CAILLEACH''' -- THE WINTER HAG ==
'''Aliases:''' 

'''Background:''' The Winter Hag is Cethlenn’s handmaiden and
foremost servant. Where the mother of fomorians appears
as an ancient regal queen, the Cailleach is nothing more
than a crooked, twisted hag. The Cailleach’s iron-gray hair
hangs down in brittle strands, obscuring her face. Her
hands are tipped in vicious blue-black cracked talons, and
what teeth she has left are terrible fangs made of yellowed
ice (which cause her breath to steam in all temperatures as
though she were in the middle of a winter gale).

Though her mistress has long been imprisoned with
the other Titans, the Tuatha never managed to capture
the canny Cailleach. For centuries, she has plagued the
Children of Danu and all they hold dear from her terra
incognita caverns (accessed from Ceann na Cailleach,
or the Hag’s Head, which are the southernmost tip of
the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, Ireland).

As autumn fades into winter, she can be found in the
waters of the Strait of Corryvreckan, between the islands
of Jura and Scaraba off the west coast of Scotland. There
she creates a terrible tempest that results in a whirlpool
from which Corryvreckann (meaning “cauldron of the
plaid”) gets its name. In these frigid, swirling waters, she
washes her plaid, which is dirtied with the soil and rains of
the previous seasons. By the third day, when the whirlpool
calms, her plaid is pure white, and winter truly begins.

The Cailleach bears a staff of old white
wood, veined with cracks into which water
has frozen. The touch of this staff can
cause frost to form on whatever it strikes.
She wears a cloak of white fox and wolf fur
around her shoulders and a white plaid
(a simple woven hip-garment, rather than
something in the cross-lined design) around
her hips.

== STATISTICS ==
'''Attributes:''' Str 7, Dex 5, Sta 8; Cha 2, Man 5, App 8; Per 4, Int 5, Wits 5

'''Abilities:''' Animal Ken 3, Athletics 4, Awareness 5, Brawl 5, Command 4, Empathy 3, 
Fortitude 5, Integrity 5, Investigation 3, Melee 5, Occult 5, Presence 3, Stealth 4 

'''Virtues:''' Ambition 3, Malice 5, Rapacity 4, Zealotry 3

== Supernatural Powers ==
''Powers:'' Animal Aspect (Worms —
Strength, Stamina), Animal Command
(Worms), Animal Communication (Worms),
Animal Feature (Worms), Blizzard Call*,
Chill the Blood*, Create Animal, Death
Senses, Earth Armor, Earth Body, Earth Travel,
Echo Sounding, Enech 7, Frost Immunity*,
Frozen Panoply*, Landslide, Hrimthurssar’s
Touch*, Mother’s Touch, Night Eyes,
Prophecy 7, Safely Interred, Shadow Mask,
Shadow Step, Shadow Shroud, Shaping,
Sky’s Grace, Storm Augmentation,
Summon Ghost, Uller’s Stride*, Wind’s
Freedom, Wind Grapple, Winter’s Mercy*

{Note that ''Powers'' marked with an
asterisk (*) are from the Dominion of Frost;
see Scion: Ragnarok for more details.}

'''''Corrupt Creations:''''' When Cethlenn uses her
Create Animal power to create worms or grubs,
the resultant vermin can warp any normal animal
of special significance to the Tuatha Dé Danaan
who consume them, as described above.

'''''Divine Attributes & Flairs:''''' Epic Strength 5 (Crushing
Grip, Divine Rampage, Holy Rampage,
Knockback Attack, Uplifting Might), Epic
Dexterity 3 (Escape Artist, Lightning Sprinter,
Untouchable Opponent), Epic Stamina 7
(Body Armor, Damage Conversion, Devourer,
Divine Damage Conversion, Holy Fortitude,
Impenetrable, Inner Furnace, Internal Refinery,
Regeneration, Self-Healing, Skin-Shedding),
Epic Appearance 5 (Center of Attention,
Compelling Presence, Dreadful Mein, Lasting
Impression, My Eyes Are Up Here, Serpent’s
Gaze), Epic Wits 3 (Eternal Vigilance,
Meditative Focus, Opening Gambit)

'''''Mathean Template:''''' See “The Mathean Template” sidebar, p. 41.

'''''Spells:''''' The Cailleach has all spells of a rating of seven dots or lower.

'''''Base Initiative:''' 10

;Attacks
:''Claws:'' Accuracy 11, Damage 11L, Parry DV 10, Speed 4
:''Clinch:'' Accuracy 11, Damage 7B, Parry DV —, Speed 6
:''The White Cracked Staff:'' Accuracy 12, Damage 14B, Parry DV 11, Speed 5

;Soak
:''Standard:'' 7A/28L/32B
:''Body Armor and Impenetrable Knacks activated:'' 11A/36L/40B

'''Health Levels:''' –0 x 45 / 46 = Incapacitated

'''Dodge DV:''' 13

'''Willpower:''' 10

;Divinity 8
:Divinity Points: 64

'''Other Notes:''' The Cailleach normally uses her Animal
Feature Boon to gain a +1L/+3B soak, gaining the white,
sloughing, rubbery skin of a worm. Through the Assumption
of the Land Boon (part of the Enech Purview), the Cailleach
has sensed the dinsenschas of several of the sites associated
with her, most notably the Ceann na Cailleach, Mt. Ben
Cruachan and the Strait of Corryvreckan.

'''Trophy:''' If killed, the Cailleach’s possessions might be
claimed by those who manage such a feat. Her white fur
mantle acts to grant access to the Animal (Worms), Death
and Sky Purviews, as well as adding +2 to bashing and lethal
soaks (though it is not itself armor and can thus be worn
with other pieces of armor). The White Cracked Staff grants
access to the Earth and Frost Purviews and has the following
traits: Accuracy +2, Damage +7B, Parry DV +3, Speed 5
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== '''CROM DUBH Crom''' -- FATHER OF THE FIR BOLG ==
'''Background:''' The father of the Fir Bolg is a terrible, broken
creature. Dirt-brown skin, a mouth full of rotten, jagged
teeth and black rheumy eyes sunk into a skull made of
jagged protrusions, he looks like a tremendously tall,
humpbacked old man. Of course, this belies the truly
deadly strength and horror that is the Crook’d One,
Crom Dubh.

In ancient days, Crom Dubh created the Fir Bolg by
mixing his blood with the soil of the earth. He rolled
the resultant mud into little balls and baked them in
the fires under the earth until they cracked open like
eggs. Thus, the first of the Fir Bolg was hatched. The
Fir Bolg have always regarded their “little bent father”
with respect and fondness, even though they no longer
serve him.

Unfortunately, Crom Dubh does not see it
the same way. He hates that they turned from
worshiping him to the fair Tuatha, but he does
not blame his wayward children. To him, they are
simply creatures — little mud-toys, in fact — and
they don’t know any better. He reserves his fury for
the Tuatha Dé Danaan and the aes sídhe, working
against them where he may. Indeed, some legends
of the aes sídhe tell that it was Crom Dubh who
plucked bones of iron from his body and buried
them beneath the earth, poisoning all earthly iron
against the aes sídhe.

'''His Creatures:''' Crom Dubh delights in doing to the Tuatha what
the Tuatha did to him: stealing their children. Of all
the avatars of Crom Cruach, Crom Dubh is the most
likely to lure Scions away from service to the Tuatha.
His first and foremost servant in the World is a Scion
of Danu named Fodla. Fodla is a maternal woman,
rounded at the hip and breast, who he won to his
side because of her bitterness against her mother
for abandoning her. Fodla believes that the Gods
are negligent parents (at best) and knows that many
Scions feel the way she does: cast aside, forgotten
and alone. Quite skilled with Epic Manipulation,
Fodla knows how best to find what it is that bothers
Scions about their relationships with their divine
parents, and she plays on those doubts. More than
one Scion has been lured into her nets to suddenly
find themselves working for Crom Cruach against the
Tuatha Dé Danaan.

Crom Cruach also uses more than a few nemean
creatures, particularly the underground and muck-
dwelling types. Occasionally, he will also find a way to
unleash such a creature from within Crom Cruach —
the World is rarely ready to face off against an albino,
nemean lizard.

'''Provinces:''' Creator, Hunter, Liminal

'''Dominions:''' [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], & [[]]
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=='''SULIS''' -- Goddess of the Waters of Life and Death ==
'''Aliases:''' 

'''Background: Usually 3 paragraphs'''

'''Provinces:''' Death, Healing, and Water

'''Dominions:''' [[DARKNESS]], [[DEATH]], [[HEALING]], [[SACRIFICE]], & [[WATER]]
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=='''LOUCETIOS''' -- Lord of Battles and Thunderstorms ==
'''Aliases:''' ''The Bright, Flashing and Shining'' 

'''Background: Usually 3 paragraphs'''

'''Provinces:''' Death, Storms & War

'''Dominions:''' [[DEATH]], [[FERTILITY]], [[SKY]], [[WAR]], [[]], & [[]]
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=='''SUCELLUS''' -- God of the Forge ==
'''Aliases:''' ''The Good Striker'' 

'''Background: Usually 3 paragraphs'''

'''Provinces:''' Craftsmanship, Prosperity & Wine

'''Dominions:''' [[EARTH]], [[FIRE]], [[FORGE]], & [[PROSPERITY]]
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=='''NANTOSUELTA''' -- Goddess of Nature, the Earth, Fire and Fertility ==
'''Aliases:''' 

'''Background: Usually 3 paragraphs'''

'''Provinces:''' Earth, Fire & Fertility

'''Dominions:''' [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], & [[]]
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=='''MARA''' -- God/Goddess of Nightmares ==
'''Aliases:''' 

'''Background: Usually 3 paragraphs'''

'''Provinces:''' Fear, Darkness and Bad Dreams

'''Dominions:''' [[DARKNESS]], [[PASSION]] (Fear), & [[SLEEP]]
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=='''GODDESS''' -- Title ==
'''Aliases:''' 

'''Background: Usually 3 paragraphs'''

'''Provinces:''' Creator, Hunter, Liminal

'''Dominions:''' [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], & [[]]
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=='''GOD''' -- Title ==
'''Aliases:''' 

'''Background: Usually 3 paragraphs'''

'''Provinces:''' Creator, Hunter, Liminal

'''Dominions:''' [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], & [[]]
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=='''GODDESS''' -- Title ==
'''Aliases:''' 

'''Background: Usually 3 paragraphs'''

'''Provinces:''' Creator, Hunter, Liminal

'''Dominions:''' [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], & [[]]
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== '''FOMORIANS''' ==
The sons of Balor and Cethlenn, the fomorians are
a great race born to a land covered with putrid mud
and rotting flesh — the lands of Ireland following the
Great Flood. These children of pestilence are warped
and twisted, though incredibly strong. They all stand at
least seven feet in height and are hideously ugly.

At least, most of them are monstrous in visage.
Occasionally, fomorians may produce a child of shining beauty.
Such children, referred to as “bright ones,” are invariably the
nobility of fomorians, leading their brethren in all things.
They are usually quite clever and charming, and many lesser
fomorians can’t help but wish to do as they command.

'''Traits:''' Fomorians possess typical characteristics of
the giant template, except that they always have Epic
Appearance, with a focus on their hideous features.
Their nobility, the so-called “bright ones”, possess typical
characteristics of the elder giant template, except that they
always have Epic Appearance, with a focus instead on their
otherworldly beauty. In all cases, fomorians always choose
My Eyes Are Up Here as their first Appearance Knack,
allowing them to effectively conceal their otherworldly
nature for a time when they move among mortals.

'''Trophy:''' As per the giant or elder giant templates, as appropriate.
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:~ '''[[Crom Cruach]]''' -- ''God of Sacrifice & Fertility''
::~ '''[[Cercyon]]''' -- ''Divine Smith'' -- ''{Sucellus}''
::~ '''[[Mors]]''' -- ''Lady of Death'' -- ''{Sulis}''
::~ '''[[Þórormr]]''' -- ''Warrior of Storms'' -- ''{Loucetios}''
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