Tumulanche

## The Enlightening Lord

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

### Served By

Arclight Phoenix, Behir, Blue Dragons, Bronze Dragons, Cloud Giants, Elekrons, Storm Giants

### Allies

Exto
Ohmenis

## Rules Information

### Alignment

Chaotic Neutral

Tumulanche, also known as The Enlightening Lord, The Levinous and The First Spark, is one of the Primordial Elemental Princes, vastly powerful beings personifying the might of nature.

## Description

As many of the Primordial Elemental Princes are said to do, Tumulanche 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. Nonetheless, it is said that during encounters with mortal beings, the First Spark is sometimes known to take a more humanoid appearance, albeit titanic in scale.

## Commandments

* Brace yourself against the storm that is yet to come. Only those sufficiently prepared have a chance to withstand its fury.
* Act as conduit for those that would seek to empower you. When offered a chance to elevate yourself to new might, do not let them pass by.
* Chaos can ruin in seconds what law takes years to arrange. Act with haste in all things, particularly against those that would seek to confine you.

## Worship

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. Zealots that seek the means to evoke the power of the storm upon their foes and opposition have been known to petition all three members of the Trinity, acknowledging their combined strength in the creation of airborne devastation and destruction.

Open worship of Tumulanche, the Tempest Trinity and the Primordial Elemental Princes is rare for a number of reasons. Most so amongst these is that of Veth, an Intermediate Deity amongst the Principal Sixteen, widely preached to be 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. While there is perhaps some truth in this, the Primordial Elemental Princes are not devoid of intelligence or reason, but seem to enact little more than transformation and transmutation in their wake, rather than divine or atavistic scheming. Likewise, some particularly notorious followers of The First Spark - most so that of the Deep Gnome Zieggatt Cobblegazer - sought to replicate the sundering might of lightning, and thus gained infamy for disintegrating or otherwise reducing their foes to ash.

For this purpose, 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 Levinous rest this fist atop the dorsum of their other hand, its fingers curled and pointed downwards - supposedly giving the appearance of a storm cloud with five lightning bolts descending.

## 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.