Cheers, Sahariel. Background, allies/enemies, and a nice set of goals to follow that you can use to lead me pretty much anywhere.<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">In eons past beyond memory, there stood a mighty obyrith lord, a prince among their kind and the unquestioned ruler of entire layers of the Abyss. It stood alongside Dagon and Obox-ob, and some say even the Queen of Chaos herself treated the great lord as an equal. That treatment was not returned, though, for the lord saw none capable of approaching its own glory, and treated both obyrith and tan'ari with disdain and scorn for their inferiority. When the Queen of Chaos called her forces to war, it was expected that all would join her banner. Again like some of the most powerful obyriths, the nameless prince haughtily refused to subordinate itself to her and Mishka the Wolf-Spider. This was its undoing, for it had overestimated its powers only to have the Queen and her consort tear its body and soul asunder in punishment for the defiance. <br/><br/>A bodiless portion of its spirit, barely even an aspect, managed to escape, as did countless other smaller fragments of the demon lord's essence scattered amidst the Queen's feeding frenzy. Wounded and weakened, the aspect fled to the most inhospitable place it could find, the awful realm of the Mordant Tempest. Nothing dwelled there but a scattering of acid-borne sea creatures, as the tan'nari could not survive the layer's environment and no one else sought to claim or tame it. For millennia, the shattered aspect slumbered, slowly healing and reconstituting a physical form - at first, only a hard shell of bone, but it grew inches over centuries as the space inside took shape to host a reborn body.<br/><br/>Eventually, it was healthy again, but a pale shadow of what it had been. Even absorbing the handful of broken proto-aspects that had by chance also ended up on the Mordant Tempest only bolstered its power by fractions, and the greatest portion of its spirit was gone forever into the maw of the Queen of Chaos. Regardless, it set about enriching itself, taking advantage of the merciless inhospitability for shelter. It recruited servants who could survive the storms, and created them where it could not . Oddly, the mysterious new loumara - in particular, the corpse-riding dybbuks - proved prime residents of the Tempest, populating its seas en masse and engaging in vicious wars with each other via the bodies of the dead animals living there. A quartet of myrmixicus demons who ventured into the plane by mistake through the portal connecting the Tempest to Dagon's Shadowsea likewise fell under its sway, and decades of painstaking breeding and research resulted in a number of great black dragons tainted by Abyssal energies to fly the skies of the Tempest and serve as its heralds. Between the myrmixicuses and the Herald wyrms, the plane was well-seen to, and by necessity, for Garamorosh as it had taken its new name to be was unswerving in its pursuit of its own lost power, the other scraps of what it had been scattered across the multiverse.<br/></div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">goals</div><div class="spoiler_body">Naturally, Garamorosh will pass up no opportunity to enrich itself, either in additional slaves or the gathering of souls for increased personal strength. What will truly draw its attention and focus, though, is the discovery or even hint of a fragment of the being it had been, one of the many proto-aspects torn from it by the Queen of Chaos. Too broken to reconstitute themselves as independent sentiences, they are now scattered across the Abyss and even spread to other planes, pale shadows of evil poisoning their surroundings with death and insanity. Some other demon lords found the nuggets of power and consumed them, while others remain unaware of the near-mindless phantoms huddled in some dark corner of their personal domain - till their progenitor arrives to claim the prize, at least.<br/> <div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Allies and Enemies</div><div class="spoiler_body">Unusually solitary even for an obyrith, Garamorosh's only ally outside its own sworn servants is a tenuous pact with the even greater and more ancient Dagon. Both aquatic by nature, ruling aquatic realms, and survivors to an extent of the time before the Tan'ari, Garamorosh acknowledges Dagon as a stronger being and so is for the most part left alone - even Dagon cannot survive the Mordant Tempest, and so its happy to leave this potential back-door entrance to its realm ruled over and guarded by a being much like itself.<br/><br/>Its own servants, if all called to serve, would number the following:<br/>4x Myrmixicus (CR 21)<br/>14x Wyrm Black Evil Arch-Dragon (CR 21)<br/>8x Balor (CR 20)<br/>40x Lesser Phantom Half-Fiend Acidborn Kraken<br/>12x Sibriex<br/>70x Elder Pseudonatural Storm Elemental (because elementals cannot be Fiendish)<br/>90x Greater Pseudonatural Storm Elemental<br/>110x Chasme = CR10<br/>130x Dybbuk = CR8<br/>130x Yochlololol = CR8<br/><br/>The four Myrmixicuses rule their own hovering citadels, equidistant in quarters from the churning whirlpool to the Shadowsea at the plane's 'center'. Two Balors, heavily modified with Sibriex grafts and three Sibriexes themselves reside in each citadel to keep an eye on the Myrmixicuses and their own respective minions.  The rest of Garamorosh's minions populate the seas and skies of the Tempest.<br/><br/><br/>For enemies, the being it was before bore the loathing of countless Tan'nari and even other Obyriths. Most of them are now dead, though, the only exception being the Queen of Chaos herself in her hermitage. The exceptions have long memories, though, and would relish the chance to foil or even destroy Garamorosh in its vastly weakened state. <br/></div></div><br/><br/>Stats note: The Obyrith subtype says that all Obyriths have some manner of Fast Healing. Neither my base creature nor any of my templates give Fast Healing, though. Can I have a small amount of FH simply for appearances' sake?</div></div>