Ohmenis

## The Storm Ascendant

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

### Served By

Blue Dragons, Bronze Dragons, Cloud Giants, Djinn, Flail Snails, Invisible Stalkers, Storm Giants

### Allies

Stratavalan
Tumulanche

## Rules Information

### Alignment

Chaotic Neutral

Ohmenis, also known as the Storm Ascendant, the Stunning Howl and the Tempest's Call, is one of the Primordial Elemental Princes, vastly powerful beings personifying the might of nature.

## Description

The sound of Ohmenis' approach beckons their might, far before the rippling storm continuously being blown apart and subsequently reforming by pulses of thunderous energy comes into view. To this nature, Ohmenis is often confused with Tumulanche, the Enlightening Lord, who likewise appears as a dark storm cloud, albeit trailing tendrils of lightning. When dealing with mortal beings, the Storm Ascendant is known to take a more humanoid appearance, large enough that each step is loud enough to deafen those positioned nearby.

## Commandments

* Do not shy away from others acknowledging what you are. Proclaim your presence far and wide with pride and resolve.
* Find unity with those of similar ideals and resolve. A pair working in unison can achieve far more than one could ever manage alone.
* Naught exists that cannot be broken with sufficient focus. Cast aside precision and embrace the results yielded by indiscriminate power.

## Worship

The Tempest's Call, along with the First Spark 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 Ohmenis, 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. Some races, particularly those of heritages considering seen as weak, such as goblins and kobolds, find themselves aligned with Ohmenis, wielding indiscriminate power in a manner than stands to buck this line of thought.

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 Stunning Howl rest their other hand enveloping this "cloud", twitching their fingers to symbolise the rippling energy of the thunderous cloud they revere.

## 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.