Stormlings
Posted by Meg
As you know, Peat introduces new demons in every book. Careful observers will have noticed that the lightning demon ward has already been designed and is up on the Creations page of his website. Check it out.
Wesley is giving his own interpretation of what that demon might be like …
I hope that you and others find this piece enjoyable. (I can’t wait for the new book).
Storm Corelings – Stormlings
By Wesley Rolfe
The clouds above erupted in a blaze of electrical charge. The stormlings had awakened. Their princes summoned them from their cages in the darkest reaches of the core, sealed within the magnetic rock chambers. Once they were released, they surged to the surface creating massive lightning storms that not only empowered them, but provided them with a means to move freely and attack anywhere.
The lightning struck the metal rods the villagers had placed. The plan was working, for you see these monsters could not be kept at bay with just any ward. Only the wards of earth, air, fire and water woven together and blown from the glass by-product of lightning striking the quartz crystals in the sand (melting and shaping them into fulgurite). These wards were of an intricate design and only the most dedicated artisans could shape them. The only other problem was that the glass needed to be retrieved from their places of creation and shaped into the wards almost immediately after the lightning struck. If this was not done the glass wards shatter once they have been crafted, and they lose all power over these beings of terror.
There was only a few seconds to sprint out to the rods and pry the glass from the ground.
“Now! The stormlings are recharging,” one of the villagers shouted.
Six of the strongest and biggest tree fellers rushed out with rubber gloves provided by the blacksmith. Five of them reached their targets, yanked the fulgurite from the ground and scrambled back to safety. However, their fellow tradesman was not so blessed, his body was severed in half from head to torso by the sweeping arm of one of the storm corelings made flesh. Its body was made of fused metallic rock. The electrical charge created by this being drew every unsecured metal object towards it and these too were melted down and fused with its already ten foot body. The being’s arms were shaped into jagged toothed edges like those of a shattered hunting blade, it’s legs bulking masses of rock and metal, that if you were caught beneath them, could crush your bones instantly. Worst of all was its face, its warped features taking on the form of nightmares. They growled from hollow cavities that devoured light and flesh alike. Their eyes were black holes that if you looked into them your soul was wrenched from your body. If this was not bad enough, they constantly had a cloud of electricity and debris circling them, and they could manipulate the air currents to form any storm.
To date these monsters could not be killed but they could be captured and sealed within cages made from the blown glass wards and magnetic rock slabs. Hopefully, one day something will be devised to defeat these stormlings but until then, they will haunt the nights and bring terror to all alive.
Thanks to Wesley for sending in that gripping tale! I imagine mini-tornadoes surrounding the stormlings (love the name).
The Coreling Contest is over, but there are still plenty of entries to post! Keep your eye on the blog for the rest of the entries.
Awsome idea but a little to badass. The physical appearance is a good idea so perhaps use that but drop the special glass ward stuff because it seems to complex. Maybe that idea could be kept for alagai ka so that the stormlings dont seem more powerful than the deamon princes..