Eshkilli

Eshkilli
Eshkilli is a Goddess of Madness and Mutation. She is the Mother of the Esloa, Goa, Luka, and Imbal, God of Sabotage. She features in "Gutterwitch Prelude" A Witchpunk RPG which has not yet been released.

A Goddess of Madness, her name has many meanings. One of which survives as a folk loric poem: "'A river rends at the heart of a painter. The longing of something deep in the earth. A twin thirsts.'"Other meanings of her name include, "bright spark of rage", Chrysalis-Grove, "come forth, all who are bound."
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Eshi is associated with madness, rain, mirrors, the birth caul. In one of her most terrifying forms, she becomes a chimera with the body of an eel, bloody human arms for feet, the face of a horse, and the horns of a goat. Her weapons are the Hammer of Esh, and the Mirror of Silence. The Hammer is long and silver colored, with a head that is blunt on one end and spiked on the other. The blunt end has a embossed seal. When the seal is imprinted on an enemies armor or body by a strike of the hammer, it delivers a curse. The enemies body is prepared for mutation. Eshi then cuts her hands or wrists on barbs along the length of the hammer. The blood runs down depressions cut into the long handle, arriving at the head of the hammer. The spiked side of the head, now covered in Eshkillis Blood, is driven into the enemies body. The combined delivery of the seal imprint and the bloody spike, causes the enemies body to irreversibly mutate, either into a deformed shape, or a shape altered so that specific organs or nerves cease to function. How severe the curse depends on Eshi-Killis emotional state.