Unfortunately for him, Talos's growing strength had left him weakened after the Time of Troubles. They cooperated only grudgingly and the Beastlord would happily kill him if he had the power to. Of the Gods of Fury, Talos's worst relationship was with Malar. Given her inability to directly affect the land and relative weakness however, she simply bided her time trying to distract him with romantic intrigues and instructing her priests to kill those who would ascribe the storms of the sea and shore to him. Though she might flirt with him on occasion, Umberlee would gladly kill him and become the sole deity of destruction herself is she could. Like with Auril, he had been encroaching upon her portfolio, trying to pick up violent nature in all its forms as his own. Talos's relationship with Umberlee was simultaneously flirtatious and competitive. She also usually only called Umberlee for help, since Talos, despite usually responding, would hog all the glory and worship afterwards. Given his success in this department, Auril had made winters colder to remind them who still controlled the power of the cold itself. Talos's relationship with Auril was allegedly close and cordial, as her ethos matched his, yet Talos had no compunction about attempting to erode her power and usurp her portfolio whenever possible. Talos was the leader of the Gods of Fury, a collection of deities including Auril, Umberlee, Malar, and himself, that he brought together through sheer force and which he kept together under his tight control. It was located in Pandesmos, the topmost layer of Pandemonium in the Great Wheel cosmology. Talos' divine realm was named the Towers of Ruin, the Screaming Towers, or the Towers at the Heart of the Winds, as it was always surrounded by a mighty howling whirlwind. His entire reason for existing was to prove, to mortals, gods, and himself that there was nothing that could be built that he couldn't destroy. He relished seeing what he or his followers could burn, flood, break, kill, or otherwise tear down.
He was often driven to act out of the fear of looking weak or compromising to anyone, and reinforced his sense of self-worth time and time again by raining havoc and crushing beneath his might those too weak to stop him. Talos was in many ways a bully without boundaries, comparable to a malicious, spoiled child in his motivation. He reveled in chaos and exulted in unrestrained devastation, causing ruin for the pure joy of it.
His actions often seemed petty and vengeful, and indeed they were. He could be roused to raging destruction by the smallest offences and hold onto a grudge for centuries after the slight. Talos was violent, angry, short-tempered, impulsive, and frequently motivated by his fury. When he appeared in Calimshan, he often took the form of a dusky-skinned, turbaned genie rising out of a sandstorm. His empty eye socket was filled with whirling stars and covered with a dark eye patch. He wore half-plate armor over black leather and black leather gloves. Talos appeared as a broad-shouldered, bearded man with one good eye.
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