Stormcallers

Stormcallers are parasitic cultists who follow the Weeping Dragon, one of four Dreadgods. They seek to advance in the sacred arts through its power.

Four Cults

There exists on Cradle a cult for each Dreadgod. Each Dreadgod cult is comprised of parasitic sacred artists who follow their chosen monster and benefit from the destruction it creates. The Path of each different cult use aspects from their specific Dreadgod, borrowing power from it to create Blood Shadows, Living Lightning, etc. etc.

1. Redmoon Hall, with their Blood Shadows in a thousand different forms, follow The Bleeding Phoenix
2. Abyssal Palace, their faces concealed beneath hoods and stony masks, follow The Wandering Titan
3. Silent Servants, whose mouths are bound, follow The Silent King
4. Stormcallers, who ring their arms in scripts that crackle with lightning, follow The Weeping Dragon

(-Underlord, epilogue)

Stormcaller Descriptions

These cultists crackle with lightning. Their Goldsign is scripted rings of blue-gold lightning, ringing their biceps. (-Underlord, epilogue)

Known Stormcallers

Calan Archer, Stormcaller

Calan released his Harbinger of the Storm. Everywhere the
Weeping Dragon flew, a storm followed, as it agitated the
water, wind, and lightning aura for miles around. This
technique had been modeled on that one, and it
allowed Stormcallers to slowly dominate a battlefield.

-Wintersteel, ch 16

We know of a handful of Stormcaller cult members: The Sage of Calling Storms mutilated Ziel’s spirit and murdered his Sect on the Iceflower Continent. Based on inference, this probably occurred about the same time Lindon was battling Sandviper Kral in the Transcendent Ruins / Labyrinth at the end of book 2 (see Skysworn, ch 6).

Calan Archer —- Uncrowned Tournament. He had been in on the slaughter that killed the Dawnwing disciples. He was older than Therian by almost ten years, and he looked like he belonged in the tournament. He was thick with muscle, his Goldsigns crackling around thick biceps. The scripted rings of blue-gold lightning looked like they were about to burst off. His hair was blond so pale that it was almost white, and he had a scar across one eye socket. (Wintersteel)

Therian Nills was an ordinary man. He had started as a farmer. . . (book 8, Wintersteel)

Timeline, Ziel’s Dawnwing Sect

In book 4, (see Skysworn, ch 6), Eithan says that the dreadgod Weeping Dragon was sighted on the Iceflower Continent only the year before. This is where Archlord Ziel was born, and where he taught his Dawnwing Sect. This potentially narrows down the timeline for when the Stormcallers attacked his sect, at about the same time Lindon killed sandviper Kral in self-defense and his duel with Jai Long was scheduled for the next year (see book 2, Soulsmith).

So Ziel probably left his homeland soon after the Stormcaller attack to seek healing from The Beast King of the Wastelands, on the Ashwind Continent, bordered by the Blackflame Empire, the Trackless Sea, and the Dragon Realm, where Northstrider hunts.

The memory of the Weeping Dragon taking up the sky, its living lightning decimating his students and friends, had played in his mind so many times that it had scraped him raw. Dreadgods couldn't be blamed for the destruction they caused; he might as well shout at a hurricane for daring to flood his house. It was the Dreadgod cultists that had stoked his rage, as they looted and pillaged in their master's wake. They had chased down the fleeing Dawnwing sect as rain and thunder poured from the sky. Ziel had stayed behind to hold them off as his junior disciples and students escaped. It hadn't worked. As it turned out, one of the Weeping Dragon's lightning strikes had caused a landslide that wiped them all out. (Uncrowned, ch 14)

Pact with Reigan Shen

In the epilogue of Underlord, the conniving Reigan Shen recruits the four cults to his cause, to represent him in the upcoming Uncrowned King Tournament. In subsequent books he uses them in various schemes, ultimately to gain the power of Subject One, who is also a Dreadgod — the first one ever, locked inside the Labyrinth. He doesn’t tell them the whole truth.