The Cataclysm-Bringers
17 figures A family: figures with traits in common
Some monsters menace a village. These menace the calendar, eclipse-swallowers and world-flooders operating at the scale of sky and sea whose stories are less warnings than cosmology with teeth, where the moon goes dark because something is eating it and the flood arrives because something rolled over in the deep and the clamor you raise from the ground, the drums and the shouting and the beaten pots, is not superstition but participation, part of the machinery that gets the light back.
eclipse eaters and world flooders (bakunawa, jörmungandr, anzû, afanc), carried since v1
What binds them
- Causes natural disasters · 17 of them
- Causes storms or tsunamis · 15 of them
- Storm summoning · 5 of them
- Precognition · 4 of them
- Vibration sensing · 4 of them
- Vibration sense detects distant prey · 3 of them
- Causes lunar or solar eclipse · 1 of them
- Coats body in mud as armor · 1 of them
Drawn from 9 groups of traditions: European 4 · Southeast asian 3 · Oceanian 2 · Celtic 2 · Middle eastern 2 · None 1 · African 1 · Norse germanic 1 · North american indigenous 1
Members
- Abaia
- Adar Llwch Gwin
- Afanc
- Anzû
- Bakunawa
- Burrunjor
- Con Rit
- Delgeth
- Hieracosphinx
- Hydrus
- Ichneumon
- Jörmungandr
- Leviathan
- Lou Carcolh
- Minokawa
- Rahab
- Tarasque
Resemblance is not descent; descent is drawn only as the gold lines on the constellation. All families.