Stratavalan

## The Voice of the Gale

The Sigil of Stratavalan, etched using an ancient Primordial script.

### Served By

Aarakocra, Air Elementals, Arrowhawks, Blue Dragons, Bronze Dragons, Cloud Giants, Djinn, Giant Eagles, Green Dragons, Invisible Stalkers, Ki-rin, Pegasi, Sand Elementals

### Allies

Ohmenis
Malovox

## Rules Information

### Alignment

Chaotic Neutral

Stratavalan, also known as the Voice of the Gale, Heart of the Winds and Breath of the Vapourific, is one of the Primordial Elemental Princes, vastly powerful beings personifying the might of nature.

## Description

Stratavalan, as per many of the Primordial Elemental Princes, is not an entity of fixed form, but rather is capable of taking a wide range of appearances, as per their whim, will and purpose. Just as readily taking the form of a firm breeze that jostles the canvas of a market stall as they might a howling pillar of ravenous winds, they move unseen, but not unfelt. When dealing with humanoids, the Voice of the Gale is said to sometimes match their form, albeit a gargantuan bipedal figure of screaming air capable of shredding trees and towers alike with the passage of their form.

## Commandments

* No obstacle is too great. Whether placed there deliberately or not, rise above that which is in your way and carry yourself past that which would burden you.
* Actions, words and even thoughts can spread far and wide, carried weightlessly by want and will. Choose and enact each carefully, so that each falls exactly where it should.
* When the call of opportunity rings clear, move quick and with haste, rushing from afar before fading back afar once more.

## Worship

Considered part of the Tempest Trinity alongside Ohmenis the Storm Ascendant and Tumulanche the Lightning Lord, the Voice of the Gale is sometimes called upon zealots seeking to empower the strength of the storm, most often intending to wield it for destructive purposes. For conventional worship however, Stratavalan is readily superseded by the existence of the deity Veth, the God of the Winds and the Waves, accredited with control of all facets of the weather, amongst other domains within their portfolio of worship. Priests of the Pathmaker decry the Heart of the Winds and the Primordial Elemental Princes as mongers of destruction, all while they are innately destructive in their presence, some few amongst the small population of followers of the Voice of the Gale have found an unexpected niche for themselves in the underbelly of society.

Following the commandments of the Archomental has led a number of individuals to prove particularly effective information brokers and spies, moving gracefully and carefully from place to place, gathering up the whispers on the wind. The gifts of Stratavalan afford them mobility and speed, and with it their talents for such things excel.

Cults of the Tempest Trinity have adopted quick and covert hand gestures to identify themselves to fellow members. While all the Tempest Trinity use a balled fist, knuckles pointing skywards to give the appearance of a cloud as a basis, those that revere the Breath of the Vapourific press the fingers of their free hand against the back of this fist to move it forwards, evoking the gale that pushes the clouds readily through the skies overhead.

## History

The Primordial Elemental Princes, also known sometimes as the Archomentals, are powerful elemental forces most commonly associated with the Elemental and Para-Elemental Planes of Existence, although thought to have originally spawned from the Ever-Changing Chaos of Limbo. During the time before and after Aita's First Gift, the Primordial Elemental Princes invaded the lands of Ahlus, shaping the soil and stone to their own liking. Mountains rose from the plains, forests withered into frozen wastes, islands rose anew from waters seething with noxious fumes. Seeing the damage wrought by the Archomentals, Aita gave her First Gift, culminating in the banishing of the Princes from the continent.

Despite claiming ownership of the Elemental and Para-Elemental Planes, not all of the Archomentals reside upon them, with a few amongst them are said to have instead carved individual domains in the endless winds of Pandemonium, the infinite caverns of Ysgard and the ice-bound wastes of Agathys, the sixth layer of Carceri. The influence of the elements remains ever present in the lands of Ahlus nonetheless, and secret cults herald the stirring of a volcano long dormant or the approach of a fearsome gale as proof of the power that is still wielded by the Princes. With the changing of the lands over the last century, much speculation has been placed towards the awakening of the Primordial Elemental Princes once more fuelling such occurrences, though others instead claim it the will and presence of the Molten Crown, or the settling of the lands from the agitation prompted by the brief presence of a vestige fragment of the Darkbringer as the Elder Evil Hadar in the century past.

## Recent History

It is believed that the captain known as the Windwalker holds the Vapourific Fragment, a powerful relic recovered from the Totem of the same name located upon Last Gasp Isle. By the tales reported, this relic has greatly empowered the Windwalker's ship, the Crescendo, making them a nigh unopposable force upon the sea as they move across the waves with remarkable haste.