Scothyx

## Torrentspate

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

### Served By

Dragon Turtles, Marids, Merfolk, Merrow, Mud Mephits, Poison Elementals, Sahuagin, Sea Elves, Steam Mephits, Tritons, Water Elementals

### Rivals

Exto
Vapocaenum

## Rules Information

### Alignment

Chaotic Neutral

Scothyx, also known as Torrentspate, the Thalassum and sometimes the Basilisk of Ophidian, is one of the Primordial Elemental Princes, vastly powerful beings personifying the might of nature.

## Description

More so than even some others amongst the Archomentals, Scothyx is highly fluid in appearance, ever-shifting in form. Within their presumed domain in the Elemental Plane of Water, Scothyx is indistinguishable from the element over which they have dominion, they are the warm currents in the shallows, the crushing weight and cold in the depths. When forced or desiring to take a more definitive form, they are said to appear as a vast roiling wave taller than the greatest spire on the Material Plane.

In the guise of the Basilisk of Ophidian, Scothyx took the form of a huge tsunami, bones and remains dredged from the depths shaped in a roughly serpentine form within the whirling waters. Whether or not the Basilisk was Scothyx is hotly contested, however.

## Commandments

* Do not confine yourself to a singular form as you flow through life. Others will be keen to place a box around your scope, your skills, your talent - push against them and define your own boundaries, should you desire them at all.
* Steady and certain is the tide, but it never rises exactly the same way each time. Repetition and predictability are not peers, the former can surmount even the most unwieldy of goals eventually, the latter simply allows others to build new barriers in your way.
* Make yourself indispensable to those that you surround yourself with. Once they have come to rely on you, they will loathe to cast you aside, lest they suffer.

## Worship

While not outwardly broadcast, there are surely a few scattered folk that may directly or indirectly offer up a word to Scothyx before departing upon a journey on the waves, believing the entity to be a maliceful being capable of throwing up vast waves to strike down fishing vessels and merchant barges alike with ease. Given, however, the overlap between the domains claimed by the Thalassum and the Principal Sixteen member Veth, proclaimed by their followers to be the God of the Winds and the Waves, all but quells active reverence of the Archomental. Similar to that of the Tempest Trinity, it is widely preached that Veth is indeed the true entity in control of the winds and the storms they may carry, the priests decrying the Primordial Princes as little more than denizens of chaos, nature incarnate and indiscriminate in their destruction, a creation of machinations and purposes unknown.

Regardless, cults of the Torrentspate and others that may not embrace the Sixteen see Scothyx as Veth's peer. Both encourage their followers to flow through life, pulled by the currents created by the people and places around them, while having the resolve to swim against said currents should their personal desire decree it so.

Of the Primordial Princes however, Scothyx is perhaps amongst the better known, given the events across the southeastern coast of the continent in which the so-called Basilisk of Ophidian. Sowing destruction to trade routes between the Realms of Gawylthlan and the Duchies of Tund, war between the Realms was stirred, and massive coastal assault promptly followed. Said to be dredged from the depths of the Elemental Plane of Water by the Toothed Patriarch Carcharodon as a gift to the Ophidian, when the cause of destruction was noted, a unified assault of Gawylthlian and Tyndian vessels would come together to destroy the Basilisk, aided by Xorithromlax the Glimmer Knight. It was widely believed that this Basilisk was indeed Scothyx themselves, but many scholars have since gone on to suggest that the entity was instead a creature pulled from Torrentspate's domain and empowered by Scothyx's power, rather than the Thalassum themselves. To this purpose, they cite both the creature's destruction - something thought to be effectively impossible for an Archomental - and the alignment of the entity with the twisted plots of Ophidian

## 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

The faction of predominantly aquatic races and groups that are collectively referred to as the Hadean Tide are believed to have conspired to release Scothyx onto the Material Plane, although with uncertain purpose. At the ruins of Torrent's Bait, hidden within the depths of Petal Bay, they are believed to have managed to draw Torrentspate through into the waters of the Cobalt Sea, their next step and intention yet to be seen. However, a Scothyxian Spawn, a powerful elemental created by means of the Archomental's power, was discovered to be terrorising the residents of Verdlicay Manor before being destroyed - seemingly deliberately baited there by the Tide.