The Angry Little God
A sneering Fae idol who demands worship and repays you with abuse.
- Category
- Minor
Found at the back of some cave or grotto, obscured by roots and rubble amid desiccated offerings, this crude squat idol wears a possum's sneering face, a thorny tail, and flowers for ears. It is in fact a narcissistic little Fae named All-mighty Thistlewisk, stuck (hiding? stubbornly ensconced?) in the form of a stone idol.
The rotting offerings around it are no accident: whoever knelt here before learned that this is a god who takes worship as his due and gives nothing back but scorn. Thistlewisk is a tyrant in miniature, vain and petty, hungry for flattery and food in equal measure, and quick to sulk when the adoration thins. Wake him and he may deign to attend his "humble servant" — though he would, frankly, rather be left to sleep.
To unlock it
- restore the shrine, while suffering the abuse of its angry little god.
- extract the idol from the stone and rubble in which it’s embedded, at the risk of damaging/insulting it.
- trick the idol into accepting an offering that puts it in your lasting debt. A Sur-plus worth of food and/or whisky ought to be enough.