Archomental

Archomental
Characteristics
Type	Elemental

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, archomentals are powerful exemplary beings of the Elemental Planes and rulers over the elementals. Although they are not truly rulers of their planes, archomentals like to consider themselves as such and often grant themselves regal titles like Prince or Princess. They are compared in the source material to the archfiends or celestial paragons, and are considered to be the elemental equivalent of such beings.

The elemental princes of evil first appeared in the first edition Fiend Folio (1981), created by Lewis Pulsipher.Ed Greenwood, in his review of the Fiend Folio for Dragon magazine, considered the Elemental Princes of Evil "worthy additions to any campaign". The original first edition Manual of the Planes (1987) first used the term "archomental" to describe the most powerful elemental creatures, "great beasts that are individually named and may stand toe-to-toe with the lesser deity-class creatures of the outer planes. The rulers of the various elemental types are called 'elemental princes.'"

The good archomentals first appeared, along with the evil archomentals, in the second edition book Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III (1998).

The evil archomentals appeared in the third edition in Dragon #347 (September 2006), and the good archomentals appeared in Dragon #353 (March 2007).

Imix and Ogrémoch appeared in the fourth edition Monster Manual 3 (2010).

The evil archomentals are collectively known as the Princes of Elemental Evil. The five most famous include:

Cryonax: Prince of Evil Cold Creatures

Imix: Prince of Evil Fire Creatures

Ogrémoch: Prince of Evil Earth Creatures

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