#aramomni

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This Strange Shell was stolen by the Clean Knives and stored in one of their safehouses in the Shattered Archipelago. The players came across the shell when they raided the safe house and pocketed it. It contains half of Aramomni. The iris colors light up for every time a shrine to the elements is visited and honored. Once at 3 lit irises or more, Aramomni has the ability to reach the faithful through their dreams.

The temple mutes the shell's communications, because they weren't fans of Aramomni over there.

...Also, why isn't this properly scaled? Why does it have a white background? Forget the gulf between artist and audience, sometimes the gulf between artist and self is plenty confounding enough.

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Encountered by the players on the to Gorodzuba, this shrine to the elements introduced the concept of the old elemental worship. This was the original setting for the ghost encounter, but I never finished out the stat block in time. There was also a hidden cache of Clean Knives paraphernalia - I don't recall if they found it.

They did in fact, lift the fallen column, which took multiple people, showing them an imagined visage of Typhon, Aramomni's father.

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It's elemental temple week!

These are four tapestries that hung in the atrium of the elemental temple. You can tell I was really influenced by Mexica codices.

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The unreflecting mirror is cold. Not a cold that rests on your skin or seeps into your blood. A cold that strikes directly to the soul. Once Aramomni was captured, many temple complexes were made under the instruction of Aramomni's father, able to control the magic that shaped the weather of the world that would otherwise run rampant. The mirrors were ways to interface with those temples. But over time, the knowledge of how to use the mirrors was lost. This mirror, by coincidence the mirror the the largest temple where Aramomni was imprisoned, was in the hold of Zhuttsgraadian nobility (Prince Yaropalk).It was eventually smuggled out of Zhuttsgraad by a shadowy figure known only as the Bronze Man, affiliated strongly with Venercian Spy agency.

The party (a group of pirates) intercepted the ship carrying the mirror to Venercia, and discovered the captain driven insane and a hidden safe on board containing the mirror. As they left with their loot, they were ambushed by Prince Yaropalk, who had independently caught up with the ship and successfully retrieved the mirror.

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An experiment in shading, using digital watercolor tools.

Aramoni is a forgotten god, the demiurge of the four elements. Once the ringmaster of a cabal of elementals, monsters, and godlings that ravaged the world in mirth, he was condemned by his father and sealed away by two guardians -- a humanoid and an elemental.

Later, he was released from his imprisonment, only to find out that his father had laid a trick on him; turning him into the demiurge of love.

Fighting at the heroes' side, he had to sacrifice the cohesion of his form (see below); his fate is to dissipate over time, though he was able to secret himself away into a small shred of misfolded reality called an Esoterica.