Primordial inevitable
Primal inevitable1E
Primordial inevitables, sometimes termed primal inevitables,1 were the first inevitables produced by axiomites, and are the most powerful and authoritative among their kind.2 They are living forges who create lesser inevitables that serve their strict interpretations and enforcement of cosmic law.3
Habitat and ecology
Guided by the same Godmind as their axiomite creators, primordial inevitables serve and protect Axis and its residents4 against the entropy of chaos by targeting emerging cosmic threats. Their numbers are limited, dwindling, and unreplenishing—the lore to create them is so ancient that it has been lost to the axiomites, each destruction is permanent—and all other inevitables work to protect them.2 Little more than a quarter of all primordial inevitables remain in the wake of this eternal conflict.5 Many of the destroyed primordial inevitables are memorialized in inscriptions around Axis, although some have been forgotten entirely.6
They live in bastions within Axis, and when not working, inevitables of all kinds congregate around these homes.2
As demigods
Each unique primordial inevitable has become so powerful that they have ascended to become demigods, and have mortal worshipers.2785
These mortal worshipers often appreciate the meditative precision of primordial inevitables, though they rarely attract paladins due to their ambivalence between the moral spectrum of good and evil.8
Bailiff sects
While mortal worshipers of monitors typically refer to themselves as proctors, worshipers of primordial inevitables refer to themselves as "bailiffs".89 The primordial inevitables who foster bailiff sects of mortal worshipers do so to leverage the redundancies in having multiple active groups.9
Bailiff sects model the laws and order of Axis in the Universe, putting them in relentless opposition with anarchists, criminals, the corrupt, and radicals. They pursue these goals through the pursuit of mathematics, accounting, and legal studies, fields that often also bring them considerable wealth that many (at least, those who do not themselves succumb to corruption) re-invest into their communities. They readily work alongside local law enforcement, but take special joy in helping inevitables pursue cosmic disorder.9
On Golarion, these sects are most common in Egorian, Cheliax; Kerse, Druma; and Sothis, Osirion.9
Known primordial inevitables
- See also: Category:Primordial inevitables
Intact
- Jerishall, the Turning Sphere10
- Kerkamoth, the Waiting Void10
- Otolmens, the Universal, of the Fivefold Calculus of Axis112
- Valmallos, the Answering Rite12
Destroyed
- Aunitath, the Eternal6
- Eanhab, the Foundation6
- Gualti, the Joyful March6
- Ptarnik, The Shared Voice6
- Tlatopok, The Unsleeping Blade6
References
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- ↑ Primordial inevitable is the 2E name; primal inevitable was used for 1E.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 . “The Monitors” in Concordance of Rivals, 30. Paizo Inc., 2019
- ↑ . “Auditors of the Absolute” in Concordance of Rivals, 5. Paizo Inc., 2019
- ↑ . “The Monitors” in Concordance of Rivals, 28. Paizo Inc., 2019
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 . “Monsters A-Z” in Bestiary, 8. Paizo Inc., 2019
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 . Concordance of Rivals, inside back cover. Paizo Inc., 2019
- ↑ . “Godlings of Balance” in Mythic Origins, 9. Paizo Inc., 2013
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 . “Monitor Worship” in Concordance of Rivals, 39. Paizo Inc., 2019
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 . “Monitor Worship” in Concordance of Rivals, 40. Paizo Inc., 2019
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 . “Auditors of the Absolute” in Concordance of Rivals, 10. Paizo Inc., 2019
- ↑ . “Auditors of the Absolute” in Concordance of Rivals, 14. Paizo Inc., 2019
- ↑ . “Auditors of the Absolute” in Concordance of Rivals, 19. Paizo Inc., 2019