Malovox

## The Bitter King

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

### Served By

Bheur Hags, Frost Giants, Frost Salamanders, Ice Elementals, Ice Golems, Ice Mephits, Silver Dragons, White Dragons, Winter Wolves

### Allies

Scothyx
Stratavalan

## Rules Information

### Alignment

Chaotic Neutral

Malovox, also known as the Bitter King, the Hoarfrost Monarch and Flamesbane is an Archomental and Primordial Elemental Prince associated with elemental ice.

They are yet to be encountered, although their influence was noted within the depths of Netherime, from which the Hoarfrost Fragment was recovered.

## Description

Said to take the appearance of a towering golem-like form wrought from living, sentient ice, Malovox was said to have been created by the first morning frost after Caihrnn created the continent of Ahlus, although other tales instead suggest that Malovox created the first morning frost, having existed long before such an occurrence.

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.

## Commandments

* Weave and wind through the cracks of society, structure and culture alike. From these weaknesses ready yourself to break forth, sundering from within.
* Cold is the presence that gradually saps at strength, rarely ravenous or sudden looming, but instead persistent and inescapable. Do not rush and fail at what could be achieved with certainty through steady progress.
* Even the most fragile of surfaces can become nigh indestructible when sufficiently amassed. Together, even mountains will carve in twain before you.

## Domain

Speculation still remains as to the nature and location of Malovox's domain, for it is reports that their presence is felt in both the Paraelemental Plane of Ice, known sometimes as the Frostfell, and the Sixth Layer of the Tarterian Depths of Carceri, the Ice-Bound Agathys.

Some scholars therefore postulate that the power of the Bitter King is sufficient enough to serve as a nexus between the two planes, binding the domains of the Great Wheel together. It is therefore suggested that as a result, should one find themselves traverse sufficiently through the Frostfell, they may instead find themselves in the Outer Plane of Tarterus, clamouring across the planetoid orbs of Tarterus. This however, is yet to be confirmed, owing to a lack of individuals willing to test such a hypothesis.

## History

Before even Aita's First Gift, the Primordial Elemental Princes fell upon the lands created by the Lord in the Quiet Places, carving valleys were once they had not existed, shattering coastlines into the waves, stirring the heat of the earth to spill from mountain peaks and sealing forests within sheens of unyielding frost. Divided, the consciousness of Caihrnn was shattered, and from this rending new life spurned - the creation of Aita herself, who would gift her light to bring into existence the Sixteen, included amongst them an echo of Caihrnn once more.

Banishing the shadow that loomed from the division, the Ahlusian Sixteen 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 still bent the lands to their designs, 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.