Ogrémoch
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Ogrémoch is an archomental
in the Dungeons & Dragons
fantasy
role-playing game
. His symbol is an equilateral triangle with short hash marks through each side. It's possible that Uzrith, an elemental prince of evil earth mentioned in Dungeon #37, is an alias of Ogrémoch.
in the original first edition Fiend Folio
(1981), created by Lewis Pulsipher
. Ogrémoch was one of the main antaognists in Frank Mentzer
's 1982 RPGA
module The Egg of the Phoenix
, which was later included as part of the expanded 1987 adventure compilation, Egg of the Phoenix
.
Ogrémoch appeared with the evil archomentals in the second edition book Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III (1998).
Ogrémoch appeared with the evil archomentals in the third edition in Dragon
#347 (September 2006).
Ogrémoch appears in Monster Manual 3 (2010).
in her war against the Wind Dukes of Aaqa
, during which he first encountered his enemy Sunnis
, the good archomental of earth at the Battle of Pesh. Yan-C-Bin
was also his hated enemy at the time, and he allied himself with Chaos initially because Yan-C-Bin had allied himself with the Wind Dukes and Law.
Ogrémoch believes himself to be the son of the Elder Elemental Eye, because the Eye has told him so. He is unaware that the Elder Eye is a guise of Tharizdun
.
Ogrémoch is allied with the pit fiend Gazra
, who is the consort of the archdevil Fierna
. Ogrémoch and Gazra are involved in a conspiracy involving a mysterious portal of some sort. Ogrémoch is reluctantly allied with the dao
in order to gain access to their Great Dismal Delve.
s, gnomes
, duergar
, evil dwarves
, ettins
, stone giants
, gargoyles
, grimlocks
, ogres
, troglodytes
, trolls
, and many subterranean creatures. He is served by earth grues
as well. Some of his greatest minions are the rukarazylls, deceivers and tricksters among the earth elementals who seek to slowly pervert their followers to Ogrémoch's cult. His cult leaders prey on innocent farmers, convincing them that he is a benevolent god of the earth. Some of his cults offer living sacrifices to the elemental prince, while more thoughtful groups see Ogrémoch as a patron of mysteries, secrets, the earth, and those creatures who dwell within it. Some worship him as an alternative to the gods. Ogrémoch represents strength, endurance, and the treasures hidden within the earth.
Ogrémoch was involved with the Temple of Elemental Evil, where he was intended to manifest within the Earth Elemental Node and play his part in freeing dread Tharizdun. Apart from that episode, the various cults of elemental evil rarely cooperate, instead competing for the Elder Elemental Eye's favor.
Ogrémoch sends black rock triskelions as avatars of his living will.
. Ogres, giants, and ettins may act as shock troops or guardians at his temples. Bullettes, basilisks
, Gargoyles, gorgons
, greathorn minotaurs
, and ropers
may act as guardians as well, and even aberrations
and undead
. Ogrémoch's cult sometimes uses demonically-infused earth elementals as minions, but rarely bothers with true demons, finding them unreliable.
Archomental
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...
in the Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
role-playing game
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...
. His symbol is an equilateral triangle with short hash marks through each side. It's possible that Uzrith, an elemental prince of evil earth mentioned in Dungeon #37, is an alias of Ogrémoch.
Publication history
Ogrémoch first appeared with the elemental princes of evilArchomental
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...
in the original first edition Fiend Folio
Fiend Folio
Fiend Folio is the title shared by three products published for successive editions of the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons...
(1981), created by Lewis Pulsipher
Lewis Pulsipher
Lewis Errol Pulsipher is a teacher, game designer, and author, whose subject is role playing games, board games, card games, and video games. He was the first person in the North Carolina community college system to teach game design classes...
. Ogrémoch was one of the main antaognists in Frank Mentzer
Frank Mentzer
Jacob Franklin "Frank" Mentzer III , is an American fantasy author and game designer best known for his work on early materials for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. He was a performing folk musician from 1968 to 1975, and played one concert at the White House during the...
's 1982 RPGA
RPGA
The RPGA , is part of the organized play arm of Wizards of the Coast that organizes and sanctions role-playing games worldwide, principally under the d20 system...
module The Egg of the Phoenix
The Egg of the Phoenix
The Egg of the Phoenix is an adventure module published in 1982 for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Plot summary:...
, which was later included as part of the expanded 1987 adventure compilation, Egg of the Phoenix
Egg of the Phoenix
Egg of the Phoenix is an adventure module published in 1987 for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Plot summary:...
.
Ogrémoch appeared with the evil archomentals in the second edition book Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III (1998).
Ogrémoch appeared with the evil archomentals in the third edition in Dragon
Dragon (magazine)
Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...
#347 (September 2006).
Ogrémoch appears in Monster Manual 3 (2010).
Description
Ogrémoch appears as a massive rocky creature with a pair of stony, clublike fists, and his eyes gleam like chipped obsidian. He stands ten feet tall and weighs 4,500 pounds. He also manifests as a stone golem or a half-formed giant made of clay.Relationships
Ogrémoch was involved with the Queen of ChaosQueen of Chaos
In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, the Queen of Chaos is a demon lord of obyrith origins.- Publishing history :The Queen of Chaos was first mentioned briefly in the second edition Dungeon Master's Guide under the description for the Rod of Seven Parts artifact...
in her war against the Wind Dukes of Aaqa
Wind Dukes of Aaqa
The Wind Dukes of Aaqa, also known as the Vaati, are fictional characters of legend in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. They were powerful lords of the elemental plane of air.-Ecology:...
, during which he first encountered his enemy Sunnis
Sunnis (Dungeons & Dragons)
Sunnis is an archomental in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Publication history:Sunnis first appeared with the good archomentals in the second edition book Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III ....
, the good archomental of earth at the Battle of Pesh. Yan-C-Bin
Yan-C-Bin
Yan-C-Bin is an archomental, the Prince of Evil Aerial Creatures, in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. His symbol is a silver-white circle.-Publication history:...
was also his hated enemy at the time, and he allied himself with Chaos initially because Yan-C-Bin had allied himself with the Wind Dukes and Law.
Ogrémoch believes himself to be the son of the Elder Elemental Eye, because the Eye has told him so. He is unaware that the Elder Eye is a guise of Tharizdun
Tharizdun
In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, Tharizdun is the god of Eternal Darkness, Decay, Entropy, Malign Knowledge, Insanity, and Cold....
.
Ogrémoch is allied with the pit fiend Gazra
Gazra
Gazra is a pit fiend, in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.-Publication history:Gazra was first mentioned in the Monstrous Compendium Outer Planes Appendix...
, who is the consort of the archdevil Fierna
Fierna
In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Lady Fierna is the ruler of the Fourth Layer of the Nine Hells of Baator. She is the daughter of arch-Duke Belial and his late consort Naome, and currently shares the rulership with her father...
. Ogrémoch and Gazra are involved in a conspiracy involving a mysterious portal of some sort. Ogrémoch is reluctantly allied with the dao
Genie (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, genies are outsiders composed in part of the element of their native Elemental Planes.-Dungeons & Dragons :...
in order to gain access to their Great Dismal Delve.
Realm
Ogrémoch's home is an immense fortress called Stonemire, which rests atop a great mesa, high above a rocky plain inside a vast cavern on the Elemental Plane of Earth. The cavern is described as intensely hot, or intensely cold.Worshipers
Ogrémoch is worshiped by evil folk in New Empyrea. His cult elsewhere consists primarily of galeb duhrGaleb duhr
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the galeb duhr is a boulder-like creature with appendages that act as hands and feet.-Publication history:The galeb duhr was introduced to the D&D game in the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons....
s, gnomes
Gnome (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, gnomes are one of the core races available for play as player characters. Some speculate that they are closely related to dwarves; however, gnomes are more tolerant of other races and of magic, and are skilled with illusions...
, duergar
Duergar (Dungeons & Dragons)
In Dungeons & Dragons fantasy, the duergar, or gray dwarves are a cruel and evil subrace of dwarves.-Publication history:The duergar are named after the dvergar of Norse mythology, who were the builders of Gleipnir...
, evil dwarves
Dwarf (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, dwarves are a humanoid race, one of the primary races available for play as player characters...
, ettins
Ettin (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the Ettin is a giant-like creature. The creatures' name comes from the Anglicization of the Jötunn giants of Norse mythology.-Description:...
, stone giants
Giant (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, giant is a type of creature, or "creature type." Giants are humanoid-shaped creatures of great strength and size.-Dungeons & Dragons :...
, gargoyles
Gargoyle (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, a gargoyle is a grotesque winged monstrous humanoid creature, with a horned head and a stony hide.-Dungeons & Dragons :...
, grimlocks
Grimlock (Dungeons & Dragons)
Grimlock is a fictional monstrous humanoid that lives in the Underdark, a vast interconnected system of caves underneath various Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings. Based on subterranean humanoids called "morlocks" created by H.G...
, ogres
Ogre (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, ogres are a lesser race of giants, rather being simply large brutes with clubs. An aquatic subrace of ogres is known as "merrow." D&D ogres are also closely related to the race of ogre magi, a smarter race with blue skin and great magical abilities...
, troglodytes
Troglodyte (Dungeons & Dragons)
The troglodytes is a fictional race of primitive reptilian humanoids in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Publication history:The troglodyte was introduced to the D&D game in the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons....
, trolls
Troll (Dungeons & Dragons)
Trolls are fictional monsters in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Dungeon Masters can use them as enemies or allies of the player characters.-Publication history:...
, and many subterranean creatures. He is served by earth grues
Grue (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, a grue is a type of elemental.-Publication history:The elemental grues, including the chaggrin, the harginn, the ildriss, and the varrdig, first appear in Monster Manual II . The Monster Manual II was reviewed by Megan C...
as well. Some of his greatest minions are the rukarazylls, deceivers and tricksters among the earth elementals who seek to slowly pervert their followers to Ogrémoch's cult. His cult leaders prey on innocent farmers, convincing them that he is a benevolent god of the earth. Some of his cults offer living sacrifices to the elemental prince, while more thoughtful groups see Ogrémoch as a patron of mysteries, secrets, the earth, and those creatures who dwell within it. Some worship him as an alternative to the gods. Ogrémoch represents strength, endurance, and the treasures hidden within the earth.
Ogrémoch was involved with the Temple of Elemental Evil, where he was intended to manifest within the Earth Elemental Node and play his part in freeing dread Tharizdun. Apart from that episode, the various cults of elemental evil rarely cooperate, instead competing for the Elder Elemental Eye's favor.
Ogrémoch sends black rock triskelions as avatars of his living will.
Fists of the Stone Tyrant
The Fists of the Stone Tyrant are a sect of dwarves who believe that their kind was rejected by the gods when they were enslaved long ago. They have adopted the faith of Ogrémoch in order to gain revenge against the divine.Clerics
Ogrémoch's cultists are eventually told they serve the Elder Elemental Eye, and that their ultimate goal is to free that entity. These clerics wear amulets set with precious metals and gemstones and wear robes trimmed in yellow.Temples
Ogrémoch's temples are always buried beneath the earth. His smallest sects may claim old cellars and dungeons, while his greatest cathedrals are found in the depths of the UnderdarkUnderdark
The Underdark is a fictional setting which has appeared in Dungeons & Dragons role-playing campaigns and Dungeons & Dragons-based fiction books, including the Legend of Drizzt series by R. A. Salvatore...
. Ogres, giants, and ettins may act as shock troops or guardians at his temples. Bullettes, basilisks
Basilisk (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the basilisk is a reptilian magical beast that turns creatures to stone by meeting their gaze.-Publication history:...
, Gargoyles, gorgons
Gorgon (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the gorgon is a magical beast that resembles a bull, covered in dusky metallic scales.-Publication history:...
, greathorn minotaurs
Minotaur (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, minotaurs are a race of monstrous humanoids, resembling bull-human hybrids. Many minotaurs worship the demon lord Baphomet.-Dungeons & Dragons :...
, and ropers
Roper (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the roper is a magical beast, resembling a conical structure similar in appearance to rock, wrapped in rope-like tentacles which conceal a mouth...
may act as guardians as well, and even aberrations
Aberration (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, aberration is a type of creature, or "creature type". Aberrations generally all have bizarre anatomies, strange abilities, alien mindsets, or any combination thereof....
and undead
Undead (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, undead is a classification of monsters that can be encountered by player characters. Undead creatures are most often once-living creatures, which have been animated by spiritual or supernatural forces....
. Ogrémoch's cult sometimes uses demonically-infused earth elementals as minions, but rarely bothers with true demons, finding them unreliable.
History
Alive since the Age before Ages, Ogrémoch is the eldest of the Elemental Princes of Evil.Additional reading
- Cook, MonteMonte CookMonte Cook is a professional table-top role-playing game designer and writer. He is married to Sue Weinlein Cook.-Roleplaying:Cook has been a professional game designer since 1988, working primarily on role-playing games. Much of his early work was for Iron Crown Enterprises as an editor and writer...
. "Four in Darkness: A Guide to Elemental Evil." DragonDragon (magazine)Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...
#285. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001. - -----. Return to the Temple of Elemental EvilReturn to the Temple of Elemental EvilReturn to the Temple of Elemental Evil is an adventure module for the 3rd edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, set in the game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting.-Publication history:...
. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.
- Cook, MonteMonte CookMonte Cook is a professional table-top role-playing game designer and writer. He is married to Sue Weinlein Cook.-Roleplaying:Cook has been a professional game designer since 1988, working primarily on role-playing games. Much of his early work was for Iron Crown Enterprises as an editor and writer...
, 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.
- Grubb, Jeff, Bruce R. Cordell, and David NoonanDavid NoonanDavid Noonan may refer to:* A former candidate for the 2003 Ontario provincial election* David Noonan , London artist* David Noonan , designer for the Dungeons & Dragons game...
. Manual of the Planes. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.
- Jacobs, James. "Spawn of Elemental Evil." DragonDragon (magazine)Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...
#285. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.
- Jansing, Eric, and Kevin Baase. "Princes of Elemental Good: The Archomentals, Part II." Dragon #353. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2007.
- Kestral, Gwendolyn, et al. Monster Manual IV. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2006.