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Drunken Wind Street

by Moxiane

"I am not asking for much, Lord De-Si-Khare. It is well within your power to do the thing I ask, and it is well within mine to have a shrine built to your name."

- Black Lark's Song, thaumaturge

"Blasphemy! Heresy! Such a perversion of the Perfected Order is not to be borne!"

- The Immaculate Ayeva, on her first visit to Drunken Wind Street

Everything falls; the very history of Creation itself is a testament to that fact. No matter how important or powerful a person or kingdom is, the tides of history will see its fall. In this street, not far from the broken heart of Firewander, the common street people of Nexus can see the sheer scale of that truth, for Drunken Wind Street is where gods go when they have nowhere else to go.

Many of these deities were evicted from Yu-Shan decades or even centuries ago for any number of offenses, some so petty as to be laughable to mortal eyes, and others so grave that to even speak of them brings the wrath of Heaven down upon the speaker. For all their destitution, the inhabitants of the street are still gods, and there are wonders to behold and prizes to obtain for those brave enough to chance the desperation of deities hungry for the Essence denied to them.

A newcomer to the street might be awed by sights ranging from an octopus comprised of a hundred different colours of flame (the extremely personable Kelyom, the god of a species of fish that, due to a bureaucratic mishap, was never actually created) to a floating mass of crystal that eternally unfurls to create new and wondrous shapes (the enigmatic Kresh'Inik). Other Nexians local to the area soon come to treat this street of wonders as just another street in the City of a Million Lice.

Rumours

• The lost gods are drawn to Drunken Wind Street because of a powerful shrine, constructed in ages past when Nexus was still known as Hollow. Dedicated to the gods that have no other shrines, it gives these poverty-stricken divinities enough Essence for them to get by.
• Mellekar, Eastern God of the Kitchen, has been seen in Drunken Wind Street on several occasions, something that is causing much scandal in certain spirit courts.

Secret

• Several of the inhabitants of Drunken Wind Street were forced out of Yu-Shan by the clever bureaucratic manoeuvering that the Sidereal Exalted use as part of the process that creates starmetal. It is far easier to soulforge a god that no-one has seen for the last century or so, and is far less likely to cause an incident that could bring the Celestial Bureaucracy to a standstill.

Comments

Nice. More entries should be derived from Terry Pratchett books. :)
~ Shataina