The Bleeding Phoenix
The Bleeding Phoenix is one of Cradle's four Dreadgods, a crimson phoenix with wings large enough to stretch across the horizon.[1] It is worshipped by the cult of Redmoon Hall, and was the first of the Dreadgod to awaken during the events of the Cradle series.[2]
Description
"It was so large as to defy description, swallowing half the sky and stretching into the clouds. Each of its feathers was an oozing, flowing blob, as though it had been made from clumps of crimson gel pushed together. Its beak was curved like a scythe and razor-sharp, and its eyes were shapeless masses of white-hot power." [1]
The Bleeding Phoenix is an enormous creature of blood madra, described as a descendant of Subject One.[3][4] Its appearance is as that of a blood-red phoenix, with a wingspan large enough to block an entire horizon. Everywhere it passes is bathed in a deep red light, with all vital aura in the area stained by its overwhelming blood aspect.[3]
Blood spirits
Within the Phoenix's miles-wide range of blood aura, natural spirits known as bloodspawn are formed. Vaguely humanoid in appearance, they rise from sources of blood, including open cuts on still-living people.[5][6] They aim to wound those around them, increasing their own numbers and providing more blood madra for their master.
