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The Great Confluence

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Inai calls his scattered kin together, but none has yet taken a seat.

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Storm Spirit
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Storm Spirit

Celestial

Raijin the Storm Spirit, an elemental of lightning bound within the body of the cheerful mortal Thunderkeg.

“Everyone complains about the weather…well, I'm doing something about it!”

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Stories

Appears in 4 stories

CanonLegend

King's Crucible

The gather after removes himself from nature's cycle. Their combined forces overpower him and they cast him into 's eternal furnace. He burns without dying and comes out stronger.

Xin is named among them, the earth and storm brothers are known by their shapes, and a fourth stands shadowed and unnamed. , described as the eldest of the spirit brethren, fits that fourth best, and the campfire tellers leave him in shadow.

A campfire Legend of the Monkey King; Void Spirit is known in it only in hindsight, and never by name.

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The hero's story

Raijin the Storm Spirit, an elemental of lightning bound within the body of the cheerful mortal Thunderkeg. The storm now rides inside a mortal's easy laughter, and Raijin cannot act without his host. He shares his celestial ancestry with the Ember, Earth, and Void Spirits and with the .

Connections
  • BrewmasterCanonFamily

    Mangix calls the Storm Spirit cousin: their ancestors welcome him home, and the will grieve his name tonight. Both descend from the celestial line.

  • Void SpiritCanonFamily

    Brothers of the celestial line with a history between them. Inai makes no apology for letting Thunderkeg stumble on the forbidden spell. Raijin says his brother cannot control him, only set him loose, and will forgive the scheming but never the entitlement.

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Voice lines

  • “The will grieve your name tonight, my cousin.”

    Brewmaster, about Storm Spirit · Meeting a rival

  • “I make no apologies for allowing Thunderkeg to stumble upon that foribidden spell.”

    Void Spirit, about Storm Spirit · Meeting an ally

  • “I've lived on this plane much longer, brother. You have no power here.”

    Storm Spirit, about Void Spirit · Meeting a rival

  • “For how long has been sentient, the rest of you seem fairly immature.”

    Dawnbreaker, about Storm Spirit · Meeting an ally
Ability lore
  • Ball Lightning

    The Storm is coming in.

Official biography
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Storm Spirit is literally a force of nature--the wild power of wind and weather, bottled in human form. And a boisterous, jovial, irrepressible form it is! As jolly as a favorite uncle, he injects every scene with crackling energy.

But it was not always thus, and there was tragedy in his creation. Generations ago, in the plains beyond the Wailing Mountains, a good people lay starving in drought and famine. A simple elementalist, Thunderkeg by name, used a forbidden spell to summon the spirit of the storm, asking for rain.

Enraged at this mortal's presumption, the Storm Celestial known as Raijin lay waste to the land, scouring it bare with winds and flood. Thunderkeg was no match for the Celestial--at least until he cast a suicidal spell that forged their fates into one: he captured the Celestial in the cage of his own body. Trapped together, Thunderkeg's boundless good humor fused with Raijin's crazed energy, creating the jovial Raijin Thunderkeg, a Celestial who walks the world in physical form.

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