Primordial Elemental Princes

The Primordial Elemental Princes, known also as the Archomentals, are eight almighty entities that represent the chaos and destruction wrought by different aspects of the natural world.

Their power seems sufficient that they can provide power as a patron for would-be warlocks on the Material Plane.

## History

According to legend, the Primordial Elemental Princes 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, creating the Ahlusian Pantheon.

The Ahlusian Sixteen quickly turned their focus to the Primordials, seeking to reclaim the lands desecrated - but now found themselves further confounded by other malign forces attracted by the efflux of divine might. Delighting in the chaos of conflict, demonic entities lurched through the veil of the Abyss, revelling and gorging on the carnage and corrupting the lands further still through their presence. Wielding weapons without equal, forces of good and evil alike sundered each other with divine might, and while never truly defeated, their power found itself diminished by the endless cycle of conflict. With the tide of battle shifting against them, the Malign started to turn to mortal servants to further their goals, retreating into the cosmos to guide their words and deeds from afar. Utilising what strength remained to banish the Primordials that would sate their desires, the Sixteen turned to do the same, bringing about the Second Gift as they gifted their residual manifestations to teach the Principal Races and set them on a path unknown, watching from citadels of starlight in the heavens.

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.

## The Princes

Will generally considered as a collective of entities, all amongst the Primordial Elemental Princes are independent forces in the truest of senses, conventionally unswayed by other forces of creation and destruction alike. Each often finds some level of tolerance to the actions of those amongst their number, often unreciprocated, whereas likewise deep set rivalries readily drive divisions between the Archomentals and their followers.

Although considered sentient and thus not devoid of intelligence or reason, their understanding of mortal considerations such as politics, socio-geographic borders, even conventional biology is all but absent, and thus may be encountered empowering combatants on both sides of wars, creating elemental nodes of power in areas without consideration of their surroundings, or most commonly, complete lack of acknowledgement of mundane powers on the Material Plane in their entirety as each engages in their own interests and intents. When dealing with mortals however, they are known to on occasion do so via a creature known as a Rudim, similar in many ways to the Exarchs of the Ahlusian Sixteen.

### Exto - Baylepyre

Exto, also known as Baylefyre, the Evoker and The Ever-Burning, is ever-shifting in appearance. The dancing flames of Baylefyre spread through the Great Conflagration in the Elemental Plane of Fire, for the Primordial is said to sprawl like a vast roiling sea of fire, the heat given off sufficient to spontaneously ignite all but the most resilient creatures and objects. They are worshipped by three distinct sects of followers, the Order of Ignited Souls, the Fervency and the Disciples of the Unquenched.

### Malovox - The Bitter King

Malovox, also known as the Bitter King, the Hoarfrost Monarch and Flamesbane is said to take the appearance of a towering golem-like form wrought from living, sentient ice, wherever Malovox passes, unnatural cold follows, creating rivers and lakes that will never thaw by nonmagical means, and blizzards that spring into existence just as easily as a passing breeze.

### Nuldomul - The Stoneheart Despoiler

Nuldomul, also known as the Stoneheart Despoiler, Terrene's Flesh and the Spirit of the Tellurian has thus far appeared as an entity almost simian in appearance yet wrought directly of elemental stone and earth of monstrous proportions. Although capable of drifting through the earth without resistance, when it travelled atop the surface it would leave trails of huge footprints, scattering fragments of oily black stone that would transform into earth elementals and strange crystalline beings with arcane abilities. Nuldomul had also been shown to be able to create beacon-like pillars that drew those subjects already created to its side.

### Ohmenis - The Storm Ascendant

Ohmenis, also known as the Storm Ascendant, the Stunning Howl and the Tempest's Call, echoes true across the skies, their voice deafening in its cacophony. Appearing as rippling storm continuously being blown apart and subsequently reforming by pulses of thunderous energy, The Storm Ascendant, along with the Enlightening Lord and the Voice of the Gale, are considered part of a subgroup of the Primordial Elemental Princes known as the Tempest Trinity.

### Scothyx - Torrentspate

Scothyx, also known as Torrentspate, the Thalassum and sometimes the Basilisk of Ophidian - although the lattermost one is considered an erroneous moniker by many - is the patient might and majesty of the waves. From the gentle tides that wash the stranded ashore to the crushing depths that consume them, Scothyx is an uncertain vastness incarnate.

### Stratavalan - The Voice of the Gale

Stratavalan, also known as the Voice of the Gale, Heart of the Winds and Breath of the Vapourific is both the gentle breeze that moves unseen and the howling gale that sunders the land below. Looming overhead until the time comes to descend with haste, fury and power, they are, alongside the Storm Ascendant and the Enlightening Lord considered part of a subgroup of the Primordial Elemental Princes known as the Tempest Trinity.

### Tumulanche - The Enlightening Lord

Tumulanche, also known as The Enlightening Lord, The Levinous and The First Spark is said to be an entity forged from the elemental magic that they embody and characterise - most frequently appearing as a vast cloud with trailing tendrils of lightning that threaten to burn and vapourise any caught within the trail. The Enlightening Lord, along with the Storm Ascendant and the Voice of the Gale, are considered part of a subgroup of the Primordial Elemental Princes known as the Tempest Trinity.

### Vapocaenum - The Corroded One

Vapocaenum, also known as the Corroded One, the Tarnisher and the Melted Soul is a patient force that seeks transformation and transmutation alike above all else, taking and consuming readily reagents from every source to produce something new. While a few cults and sects have existed over the years, they are of most interest to scholars and researchers, who have from time to time sought to look into the Archomental to understand esoteric fundamentals of everything from alchemy to terraforming.