Why this word is great
FULMEN — [Noun] A thunderbolt, or a symbolic representation of one, as an emblem of sudden, divine power. From Latin fulmen ("lightning flash, thunderbolt"), from the root *fulg-, related to fulgere ("to shine, flash"), from Proto-Indo-European *bhel- ("to shine, flash"). Unlike "lightning" (which broadly describes the atmospheric phenomenon) or "fulmination" (which denotes its noisy, verbal offspring), a fulmen is the singular, ordained stroke—an instrument of will, not weather. It is the dendritic scar seared into the heartwood of an ancient oak, the stylized bronze clenched in the fist of a marble god, and the ozone-tinged air after the sky is split—the absolute and terminal argument of the heavens.