Vapocaenum

## The Corroded One

### Served By

Black Dragons, Copper Dragons, Green Dragons, Mud Mephits, Noxa, Oozes, Ooze Elementals, Otyughs

### Rivals

Scothyx
Stratavalan

## Rules Information

### Alignment

Chaotic Neutral

Vapocaenum, also known as the Corroded One, the Tarnisher and the Melted Soul is one of the Primordial Elemental Princes, vastly powerful beings personifying the might of nature.

## Description

Conventional form is a concept near meaningless to an entity such as Vapocaenum. While depictions often show the Corroded One as a gargantuan humanoid being of pockmarked stone and tarnished metal dripping with noxious ooze, Vapocaenum more readily is represented as a vast fetid swamp, or a lake of boiling acid that then condenses overhead as clouds of seething acrid rain. Few things can survive in the presence of the Melted Soul in their original form, for their mere presence is capable of rending and reducing matter organic and inorganic alike to twisted and stunted forms given sufficient time.

## Commandments

* Change is an inevitable force of the cosmos. The more effort is made to keep things the same, the more deserving it is of the manipulations that come with the passage of time.
* Steady perseverance is the great humbler of hubris. There are times when sudden action is necessary, but elsewise the destination will find itself reached all the same - much to the chagrin of those and that which would doubt this.
* Weep not for that which is consumed through your actions, as reagents their sacrifice grants substance to what is yet to come to be.

## Worship

Seen as an outcast amongst the other Primordial Elemental Princes, Vapocaenum has historically failed to attract much of a following, even by the cabalistic standards of the Archomentals. Nonetheless, they have been of particular interest to a number of researchers and scholars, usually with regard to their transmutative and transformational talents, pertaining to alchemy in the simplest of senses, and far wider-reaching and dramatic acts of Transmutation magics in the greatest of considerations. In this guise, they are most commonly referred to using the moniker of the Melted Soul, in reference to their amorphous nature, even with regard to the unchangeable fundamentals of concepts such as a creature's soul.

The Archmage Yinlen Yarrow took particular interest in Vapocaenum for this purpose, hoping to utilise the magics of the Tarnisher to help terraform the Lilac Isle into a more hospitable environ for students, visitors and all others besides.

## 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.