Umoth

(Burning Lord, Pyre King, Tyrant of Flames)

Neutral Evil Greater Power of the Elder Host

Major AoC: Fire, Light, Sun

Minor AoC: Oppression, Uniformity, Entropy

Symbol: A fist of flame

Allies: Nevias, Tuar

Enemies:

Avatar: Fighter 20 / Wizard 20

When the Pyre King deigns to manifest in the material plane, he takes the form of a twenty-foot tall efreet. His face is monstrous, with a broad, fanged mouth and many-spined horns jutting from his cheeks and brow. He carries no weapon, preferring to crush foes in his fists or beneath his feet.

Umoth is one of the Eldest Host, and after Erdis, the God of Nothing, feared the most dangerous to the Wyrld. Desiring nothing more than to see the Wyrld consumed in flame, Umoth’s most successful attempt ended an Age of the Wyrld, and resulted in his imprisonment below its’ surface by the other members of the Elder Host. The Second Speaking of Te undid that binding, and the subsequent rise of Umoth resulted in the steaming Storm Umoth, a boiling, steaming sea stretching from the malignant city of Blackgate to just shy of the ocean coast. Needless to say, such destruction has aligned much of the pantheon against him, particularly Tamati, who loaths Umoth’s trespass into the Bloody Queen’s domains. On the other hand, his favor has been courted since his return by Nevias and Tuar, who both see advantages to an alliance with the Tyrant of Flame.

The Burning Lord is worshipped by dictators and would-be dictators, anyone who seeks absolute control over their surroundings, and elementalists of fire. He is revered by many of the efreeti, but draws no strength from their reverence and ackowledges them only when he needs their power. His priests are egocentric, driven individuals, often overwhelmed by a desire to obliderate everything around them and reshape it in their own image. The Knights of the Blazing Glory, once followers of the previous sun god Bethios, are engaged in a brutal and bloodthirsty internal war between those loyal to Bethios’s doctrine of good and law, and those driven to follow the sun, irregardless of its devastation.