Grotnmandyr
The Old Man of the Sea
Grotnmandyr is a cloud titan from the distant age of myth, a being akin to a demigod among giantkin. Millennia ago during the Lost Mythos, he was a devoted consort to the sea deity Kavura. While Kavura did not exactly reciprocate his love, she deeply valued his companionship and his commitment to her interests. So respected was Grotnmandyr that even the other gods of the pantheon heeded his council.
When the day came that the gods disappeared from Gaio, Grotnmandyr wept so bitterly that he almost unintentionally drowned an entire island civilisation. Overcoming his grief at being separated from the goddess he loved, Grotnmandyr swore to act in her stead as a steward of the northern seas. Under his watch, life in the northern seas and those nations that lived along the coasts flourished and prospered. He gathered and curated a great number of relics and historical treasures that he knew would have pleased and intrigued Kavura.
Grotnmandyr became a much revered figure among the mortals that lived beneath his guardianship. Under him, the harsh northern weather was tempered, the bounty of the sea swelled, and sailors felt safe upon the open water. Northern naval cultures worshipped Grotnmandyr with as much fervor as Kavura herself, enshrining his image in coins, the prows of their ships and innumerable poems and sea shanties.
Unfortunately, Grotnmandyr’s fabled vaults of rare and powerful relics attracted the attention of the primordial Ceris, an implacable enemy of Kavura’s. The two titans clashed on several occasions over Ceris’ attempts to plunder Grotnmandyr’s vaults of knowledge and magical treasures. Their final confrontation was so violent that it caused an unprecedented series of disasters across the northern continent. Storms, earthquakes and tidal waves completely reshaped the coastlines along western coastlines and the Frosthalda, as well as wiping out most of the mortal cultures that lived there.
Neither of the two titans fully survived this last, great battle. Ceris was gravely wounded and retreated deep beneath the waves, there to heal in seething solitude for millennia. Grotnmandyr too was brought almost to the brink of death, but he was able to save himself, after a fashion. He used his magic to disperse his essence into nature, his form shifting between a whipping gale, a rumbling storm cloud, or a swirling vortex of water. He has clung to life in such a manner ever since.
Grotnmandyr was deeply ashamed of the devastation he had unwittingly brought upon those that he had long defended. For many millennia he hid himself away in shame among the clouds and the waves. But over time, and as mortal life began to flourish once again, the old cloud titan could not resist observing and occasionally intervening in the lives of mortals who lived near the shoreline. While he can no longer fully reveal himself as he once was, and he is no longer able to communicate with mortals effectively, Grotnmandyr has managed to maintain and grow a sizable cult following. Most northern sailors still tell stories of “the Old Man of the Sea”, and offer libations or votive offering to him as much as they do Kavura. Not only that, but Grotnmandyr also occasionally aims to seek out and recruit mortal followers to act in his stead and further his and Kavura’s interests. Foremost among these is to root out and eradicate those who aid Ceris. Grotnmandyr knows that the wrathful primordial still lives, and that if his agents are left unchallenged, then there may not be a way to stop him if he once more returns to his full strength.
Appearance.
Grotnmandyr is captured in art and iconography as a hulking, muscular man of suitably giant proportions. His hair and beard are gloriously long and full, usually shown wiping about his stern, fatherly face as though caught in a strong wind. From his hair and beard spring forks of lightnings, and he is often shown emerging from within roiling clouds or surging waves.Symbol
A bearded male face, lightning forking from his hair and beard. A hulking male figure, parting two crashing waves
Warlock Patron
the Fathomless, the Genie (air)
Cleric Domain
Life, Tempest
Children
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