Doomfount: An Element of War

Doomfount: An Element of War

When the Rallosian Army opened the portal to the Plane of Earth in the Steppes of the Serpent Spine Mountains, great waves of earthen minions flooded through it into Norrath's mortal realm. They tumbled through the army's first lines like rushing sands through an hourglass, crushing all in their path.

The earthen creatures took thousands of lives before the Rallosian Army began to control the steady influx of frenetic elementals. Finally, though, the loreseekers of Krithgor refined their magic enough to slow and hold elementals for a time.

But even as the elementals came under control, many of them had gone beyond the perimeters of the war and wandered aimlessly through the Serpent Spine Mountains. With a freedom they hadn't known and the touch of mortal soils, they were lost and confused. Many of them drifted and settled in Sunderock Springs, an area that in some ways felt like home to them. The earth was vibrant and alive and they drew energy from it and returned it, creating a symbiotic relationship. It made the lands in Sunderock unnatural and imbalanced.

Four particular elementals discovered that by combining their essence and power drawn from the land, they were nearly invincible. And so Blackridge, Erarock, Crystalback and Geodagod held sway over the entire Sunderock region.

At a time when the gods did watch closely over Norrath, one god would take exception to this flood of the earthen minions into Norrath and bring them back into balance. The god was Povar, the Veiled One, master over water in its vaporous state. He created and sent a formidable creation to neutralize the earthen elementals in Serpent's Spine Mountains. Its name was Doomfount. This fierce elemental of vapor moved quickly and without hesitation as it was set upon Sunderock. Fueled by the vapor and steam rising all around it, it charged the four elementals.

A thundering clap shook the lands and ponds of Sunderock as Doomfount charged between the four elementals, disrupting the flow of power between them and the earth. Stunned and cracking from the vaporous tendrils, their hold on the realm was failing. Soon, they became silenced, almost as if in a slumber. Muddied and broken, they elementals sank into the earth and were not seen again.

Doomfount remains in Sunderock, however, and serves to consume and neutralize all earthen elementals it comes into contact with, turning them to mud and also to ensure that the four elementals should never rise again.