Irsecrinth

Irsecrinth was an Ancient Blue Dragon of monstrous size that served as the leader of the Creed of Kaleios, a cult of eight chromatic dragons and their allies dedicated to freeing The Undying Queen from Avernus.

He was slain by Paiven during a battle in the Crystal Caves in 8 WD, Onteer-Whiterose.

## History

Named the Looming Storm, Irsecrinth's age, knowledge and power was eclipsed by only one other - the Vermillion Prince Naavugrux. Slain at the hands of the wood-elf artisan Luqen Liatumal, the Fiend Lizard's death would prompt Irsecrinth to seize power of the Creed of Kaleios, and has served as its leader ever since.

Irsecrinth was first met by an expedition party during their attendance to the wedding between Queen Lysiphoia of the Sapphire Sovereignty and Duke Brantharn Fallack of the Duchy of Rethamia. His arrival was preceded by a storm of growing intensity, from which the dragon descended.

Irsecrinth was previously known to at least Lysiphoia and the priest Taremon. Both treated the dragon with reverence and respect, though the former also responded to his approach with a profound terror at odds with her usual calm, measured demeanour.

Following the usage of Wayfinder Stones to create a new Waymark to Rydoon, Irsecrinth attacked the settlement of Viridell. Having been dealt a seemingly mortal wound by the Fey Corgi Paladin Reginald, Irsecrinth's Tempest Ascendent form destroyed the building housing the Radiant Waymark, thunderously shattering the frame houses the Wayfinder Stones. Consuming them in turn, he then escaped with all eight, before his storm buffeted the rest of the settlement into ruins - leaving few survivors.

A few months later, an adventuring party ventured to his lair - an expedition that would ultimately prove to be his final undoing.

## Description

*"A shadow passes overhead, distant at first but quickly descending. The clouds crackle with electric energy as it moves quickly, deliberately to come into land. As fulminating bolts scatter across the stones and turn the dust between them to shimmering glass, the creature unfurls. Its wingspan some forty feet, a maw wide enough for a man to walk within. Teeth like paring knives jostle for space, flanked by talons like shortswords. Two hooked horns tipped with amber-yellow protrude from a pointed head covered in blue scales of deep indigo that shimmer and shift in contrast to the thick cream-white protecting its flank and belly. The air crackles with power in aura around the creature, heavy and noxious with the scent of ozone and laden with enough charge to stand hair upon end - if it were not already doing so from terror."*

Each time that Irsecrinth has been encountered, his appearance has been heralded by a huge and unnatural lightning storm that shifts through the sky with pace and purpose. From this, Irsecrinth drops rapidly, often striking first with a well-placed breath weapon - only to follow in kind with thunderous and primal bite, claw and tail attacks. He is not without arcane might however, shown to have some competency with sorcerous spellcasting.

## Tempest Ascendant

*"With soil and stone torn asunder with the lumbering collapse of the dragon, the storm overhead coalesces, streaks of blue-white tearing at the dust, thunder like cries of anguish and terror distant and near. Dark clouds condense, folding inwards impossibly into a burling mass, from which a beam of violent light strikes suddenly, piercing at the flesh of the fallen dragon. Scales flake, fascia evapourates, bone vapourised. A sheen of glass marks the outline of the sundered beast, mortal remains turned to ash and lifted skyward. For a moment, the world around you inaudible for the tumultuous rumble of thunderclouds overhead, you watch the arcing energy as it rends flesh into naught - but then realise that the lightning is not tumbling from above, but instead arcing upwards. At the zenith, a pale azure ember glows, a centre point that starts to take form. Crepitation echoes between broken buildings, the roar of the storm calling from above. Burning eyes pierce through, thick wings like billowing blackened smoke - Irsecrinth ascending, a being one with the storm it commands."*

To ensure his ongoing survival after the demise of Naavugrux, Irsecrinth undertook a process to ward himself against death should his body take a mortal wound. Instead, at the point of death, his corporeal form is vapourised into ash by the storm that he commands, allowing him to persist as part of the storm. While in this form, he can no longer cast spells, but his movement speed is greatly increased, as well as granting him absolute control over the lightning storm and surrounding gale-like winds.

It is currently unknown how long his corporeal body takes to reconstitute from the storm.

Through use of *Legend Lore* by Ronan, it was established that this ability stemmed from his consumption and assimilation of a fragment of the Primordial Elemental Prince Ohmenis, having fought the Archomental within Thraotor, a layer in the Outer Plane of Ysgard.

## Death

Irsecrinth's Tempest Ascendant form would eventually prove to be his undoing however, with use of the *Hallow* spell via casting *Wish* heavily restricting the movement within the depths of his lair. When he once more attempted to flee, he was caught unable to exit by the aura, and so fell foul of a trio of Eldritch Blasts from the Warlock Paiven.