Trumuskerra, deity of destruction and creation

    As suits their savage mentality, the komatai worship a divine beast jointly with the umóks, Trumuskerra. Its name means "thunder-lizard", and well translates its raw physical power as a storm shepherd. It is supposedly the last of the Neades, legendary primordial entities which could tear the earth itself with their roars. Any vegetation in Trumuskerra's path is laid to waste, and soon reborn through the storms which follow the deity. The komatai value this as a lesson about the cycle of nature and their traditional nomadism. To imperial eyes, this shows a god ravaging the lands of those which devotion it finds lacking, an extortion converted into a valuable custom by the barbarian pride. There are tribes whose totem is a single aspect of its divine anatomy: the dorsal plates coiled with the lightning which lowers into its legs and the soil; hoofs generating trails of lakes which, combined with seed-filled feces, regenerate entire groves; tail capable of sharp and thunderous lashes; the countless dark stripes made from scars which express pain and age; and finally its bellow-like viscera, hollow and rich with manadipose tissues, making it lighter and capable of exhaling terrible pressures and sounds towards obstacles ahead.

    The polymath Memont Liakhov-Tyan-Shansky argues that neades' herds could generate horizontal hurricanes to propel themselves by great distances, with their tails as rudders and dorsal plates as sails. He defends that Ghara was once home to an entire titanic ecology, plants and animals of incredible dimensions and capabilities. He also theorizes that the legends about the Charybdis entity at the Fortune Sea originate from a oceanic voyage by Trumuskerras between the Umók Islets and Sarba millenia ago. Finally, he arrogantly believes that all present races descend from dwarves which left their underground burrows after this epic ecology was extinct. The scholar seeks resources for an expedition dedicated to track and observe the deity, learning more about its anatomy, migration patterns and local folklore about it.

    His detractors say he seeks to influence and manipulate its directions. Considering that Trumuskerra followed the goblinoid invasion during the Retaliations War and had to be countered by Diveus itself through precise beams of caustic light, this is worrying.

Alignment: N
Domains: Life e Death