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{{Archomental|
image=[[Image:Cryonax03.jpg]]|
caption=Cryonax, as depicted in ''[[dragmag|Dragon]]'' #347 (2006).|


name=Cryonax|
title=Prince of Evil Cold Creatures, Bringer of Endless Winter, the Bleak Monarch|
home=[[Paraelemental Plane of Ice]]|
power=[[Archomental]]|
gender=Male|
class=|
alignment=Neutral evil|
portfolio=Ice, cold creatures|
domains=Evil, Cold|
alias=|
super=[[Elder Elemental Eye]]|
}}
'''Cryonax''' is a wicked [[archomental]], the Prince of Evil Cold Creatures. His symbol is either a blue-white circle within a square or a silver snowflake.

==Description==
Cryonax somewhat resembles a [[yeti]] with tentacles instead of arms. He stands fifteen feet in height and weighs 2,800 pounds. He is surrounded by an aura of terrible cold.

==Relationships==
Cryonax seems to believe that he is an offspring of the entity known as the [[Elder Elemental Eye]], though this may be a lie concocted by [[Tharizdun]] in order to manipulate him.

Cryonax also secretly seeks to free the imprisoned archdevil [[Levistus]].

Cryonax is opposed on his own plane by Albrathanilar, a female great wyrm white dragon who is also a potent and cunning wizard. Cryonax and Albrathanilar dispatch spies and saboteurs against one another as they prepare for their ultimate battle. Cryonax is also resisted by other isolated groups on his plane, including the immoths and certain tribes of ice paraelementals.

Cryonax is served by an army of ice [[mephit]]s, ice paraelementals, chraals, frost salamanders, frost worms, yeti, and shivhads.

==Realm==
[[Image:Cryonax01.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Cryonax, as depicted in the ''Fiend Folio'' (1981).]]
Cryonax dwells on the [[Paralemental Plane of Ice]] in a realm called the Chiseled Estate. This massive edifice of ice, quartz, and glass extends a mile into the Precipice that separates the Plane of Ice from the [[Elemental Plane of Air]], and it extends at least four miles into the icy, solid heart of the plane. In a palace in the deepest chamber of the estate, Cryonax plots with the coven of mortal wizards and priests that he has enslaved. The palace is even colder than most other parts of the plane.

==Dogma== 
Cryonax's goals are to, first, bring the whole of the Paraelemental Plane of Ice under his rule; second, to transform the para-plane into a true elemental plane, freezing the neighboring planes of [[Elemental Plane of Air|Air]] and [[Elemental Plane of Water|Water]] and beyond. Finally, he hopes to freeze the entire multiverse and brought under his dominion.

==Worshipers==
Cryonax's cult is mostly made up of [[frost giant]]s, malasyneps, evil arctic druids, and other spellcasters who specialize in magic relating to cold. Yeti worship Cryonax as a god, as do a race of arctic [[hobgoblin]]s known as ''amitoks''.

==Relics==
Cryonax has fashioned a potent artifact known as the ''Tear of Winter'', created from the essence of a winter goddess who birthed an abomination, and he seeks to use it to command the abomination, an icy creature known as a ''xixecal'', as the vangard in his army.

==History==
When the [[obyrith]]s first ventured into the [[Inner Planes]] in the [[Age Before Ages]], Cryonax was already there, and defiantly hostile to them. Because of this hostility, it's possible that Cryonax allied himself with the [[Wind Dukes of Aaqa]] during the Law-Chaos Wars.

==Gallery==
[[Image:Cryonax02.jpg]]

==Bibliography==
*[[Monte Cook|Cook, Monte]]. ''Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.

*[[Monte Cook|Cook, Monte]], and William W. Connors. ''The Inner Planes''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.

*[[Grubb, Jeff]]. ''Manual of the Planes''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1987.

*Jansing, Eric, and Kevin Baase. "Princes of Elemental Evil: The Archomentals." ''Dragon'' #347. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2006.
:———. "Princes of Elemental Good: The Archomentals, Part II." ''Dragon'' #353. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2007.

*Stark, Ed, [[James Jacobs]], and [[Erik Mona]]. ''[[Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss]]''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2006.

*Turnbull, Don, ed. ''Fiend Folio''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1981.


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[[Category:Characters of the Elemental Planes]]
[[Category:Characters of the Para-Elemental Planes]]
[[Category:Giant deities]]
[[Category:Goblinoid deities]]
[[Category:Deities of cold]]
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