The Hundred

In the stories of all the worlds, there are tools which shape and change the nature of reality. Some do this by forcing acquiescence, some do this by being immutable while their surroundings shift around them. In the realm of the Thunderbird, there are roughly a hundred of these, and each has its own intrinsic properties – you can tell them apart from what they do (and perhaps, who they are) regardless of form or substance.

In Celtic myth are always four things: a sword, a spear (or staff), a stone, a cauldron. These correspond with the modern card suits of Spades (espada is 'sword' in Spanish), Clubs (or Staves), Diamonds (or Coins), and Hearts (or Cups). The motif of four entities is repeated throughout most of Indo-European culture, of course; in the realm of the Thunderbird, four is just the first of a sequence that includes six, eight, twelve, twenty and a hundred.

And so, as the inspiration strikes me, I shall endeavour to catalogue the Hundred in all their myriad forms – for a myriad is ten thousand, and that is a hundred hundreds.