Cryonax
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| Cryonax, as depicted in Dragon #347 (2006). | |
| Title: | Prince of Evil Cold Creatures, Bringer of Endless Winter, the Bleak Monarch |
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| Home plane: | Paraelemental Plane of Ice |
| Power level: | Archomental |
| Gender: | Male |
| Alignment: | Neutral evil |
| Portfolio: | Ice, cold creatures |
| Domains: | Evil, Cold |
| Superior: | 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 mephits, ice paraelementals, chraals, frost salamanders, frost worms, yeti, and shivhads.
Realm
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 Air and 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 giants, 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 hobgoblins 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 obyriths 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
Bibliography
- Cook, Monte. Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.
- 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.
Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index
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| Topic | Type | Description | Product | Page/Card/Image
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| Chiseled Estate (Cryonax's Realm) | Planar | Plane/Dimension, | Dragon magazine #347 | 32 |
| Cryonax | Deity | Prince of Evil Ice Elementals, | Deities & Demigods (1st & 2nd printing), AD&D 1e | 105 |
| Cryonax | Deity | Prince of Evil Ice Elementals, | Deities & Demigods (3rd+ printing), AD&D 1e | 90 |
| Cryonax | Deity | Prince of Evil Ice Elementals, | Dragon magazine #347 | 30-32 |
| Cryonax | Deity | Prince of Evil Ice Elementals, | Fiend Folio, AD&D 1e | 31 |
| Cryonax | Deity | Prince of Evil Ice Elementals, | Legends & Lore, AD&D 1e | 90 |
| Cryonax | Deity | Prince of Evil Ice Elementals, | Manual of the Planes, AD&D 1e | 53 |
| Cryonax | Deity | Prince of Evil Ice Elementals, | On Hallowed Ground | 53, 191 |
| Cryonax | Deity | Prince of Evil Ice Elementals, | Oerth Journal #11 | 56 |
| Cryonax | Deity | Prince of Evil Ice Elementals, | Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, D&D 3.0e | 133 |
| Cryonax | Deity | Prince of Evil Ice Elementals, | White Dwarf #041 | 28 |