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Ink-and-watercolor portrait of Chromusu, a broad-capped warrior holding a great hammer, standing on molten rock surrounded by fire and raw ore.
God of Fire and Metals

Chromusu

The Ore Puller · The Blood Reason · What the Stone Releases

Always where the fire is. Not a pyromaniac.

DomainFire · MetalSacred mushroomPorcini

Chromusu is the god of fire and metals in the Church of Meh. Fungi really are among the great miners of the living world, dissolving rock and pulling metals into the food web. Chromusu is that work made divine: the destroyer and renewer, first to arrive on scorched ground, and extremely tired of the accusations.

There was Chromusu, the god of fire and metals. The destroyer and renewer, the one who appears on scorched ground before anything else dares. Always where the fire is. Always where the fire was. Always asking everyone “why are you calling me a pyromaniac?”

The Book of Spores
Kin & quarrels

Family, friends & grudges

Ink-and-watercolor portrait of Soliphon, crowned with blazing orange chicken-of-the-woods shelves and robed in gold, holding a sword above smoldering stone.Kin and rivalSoliphonBoth of fire and heat, which makes them family and competition.Ink-and-watercolor portrait of Protaxiel, a stone-grey elder with a beard and body of roots, holding a tall staff as wind swirls through a mountain landscape.Deep kinshipProtaxielAt the molten core, fire and stone become one and the same.Ink-and-watercolor portrait of Balidris, a pale goddess crowned with a morel, robes streaming into wind and cloud, releasing feathers and spores from a fan.ComplicatedBalidrisAir feeds fire. Fire eats air. With Phomos, they make lightning. Depending on the day, it's love or it's a problem.Ink-and-watercolor portrait of Clados, crowned with golden oyster mushrooms and robed in moss green, stepping from a river with a staff holding a glowing orb.RivalCladosFresh water puts out fire. Chromusu has not let this go.
Sacred mushroom

Porcini

Boletus edulis

Lives in partnership with tree roots, trading minerals for sugar. A quiet ore-puller.

Never eat a wild mushroom without expert identification.

Scrolls yet unwritten

The story keeps growing

  • Chromusu and Mycelius. One clears the ground; the other receives what burned.
Sacred sites

Where Chromusu is said to linger

  • Mauna KeaHawaiʻi, USA

    A sacred mountain to Native Hawaiians. Visit with respect.

  • Río TintoHuelva, Spain

    A blood-red, iron-rich river, mined for thousands of years.

  • Mount KenyaKenya

Maps and all thirty sites →

The blessing of ChromusuSomething will grow on the scorched ground. Something always does.

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