Storm God, Actaeos

Actaeos…  God of the Northern Storm…  A god surrounded by muddled words and snow flurries.  Stories surrounded Actaeos that both complement and contradict themselves…  Tales of restored life and those of lives taken, of paupers becoming kings and kings wiping out their entire people without consequence...  But perhaps such that should be expected from the god alternatively known as the God of Records and Balance.

While Actaeos is seen as a male with black, leopard spotted fur with a long, curling tail and the head of a wolf, the form of the record keeper often shifts and changes.  Sometimes he is female, sometimes without gender.  Throughout the ages he constantly changes form to suit the needs of those he services…  Whether those needs be for good or evil, only Actaeos can decide as it is Actaeos alone that can sense where balance lies.

The Shapeshifter god became known as God of the Northern Storm when, according to lore, the gods of the realm were thrown out of balance.  In the beginning, when the very first stories of gods began to be told, there were not eight gods, not seven.  However, too much power had been acquired by one of the gods, a god who believed it was he who gave life to the world.  In the god’s wake was fire and death but, with things still in balance, Actaeous could not act.

It wasn’t until the eighth god, the Goddess of Reason, was smote.

Actaeos had to recreate balance in the wake of the goddess’s demise, which had sent the world tumbling into ruin.  He gave part of himself to contain the destruction as best he could - a containment that turned the formerly green northern territory into a world of snow and ice.  It took decades for balance to return and, when it had, Actaeos was but a vision of what he had been before, especially when the part of himself that the god had lost allowed a meteor to crash into the world without warning…

The God of Balance has been quiet ever since but the Linx look to Actaeos as their primary god and give thanks to his undying dedication to keeping the raging northern storms in check.