Choma

Choma is one of the Genasi Automaths, depicted as a powerful and stern male Earth Genasi.   There are two conflicting origin stories of the Genasi: the older one, told by the first Genasi people on The Cradle, is that Choma, along with the other three Genasi Automaths, exited the Sanctum Elementum on the First Day and, with his peers, began the ritual of creation that combined their elemental magicks to create the Genasi people in their images, before returning to the Sanctum. This version of the tale is still upheld by the few Genasi living in The Pious Union of the Awakened.   However, the majority of Genasi are concentrated across the Vathi Strait in Thyella, especially in the Temple-City of The Confluence. In this version of the story, the four Genasi Automaths are not actually gods, but rather prophets sent from the Elemental Planes, and the ritual they performed was to summon the Primarch, the personification of the Primal Chaos, the First Material from which the four elements were born. The Primarch, in this version of the story, summoned all of the Awakened Genasi to The Cradle from the Elemental Planes. The Genasi of Thyella believe that their purpose on Yorth is the Primarch's directive, as it is a world with equal parts of all four elements, and thus could be something of a nexus of magical creation. The Genasi prophesize that one day, a Genasi born of all four elements will come to be, merging the four Elemental Wards of The Confluence into the Focus at the center, granting all of the Primarch's faithful vast powers of creation.   The rest of the Awakened, especially in The Pious Union of the Awakened, do not view Choma or the other Genasi Automaths as Dissidents, because they believe the Genasi of Thyella are simply mistaken about the nature of these beings, and do not believe the Primarch to be real. Thus, Choma and the other Genasi Automaths are maintained as part of the pantheon of The Concordant Piety.   Priests and clerics of Choma, and those who revere him as merely a prophet of the Primarch, practice the domains of Nature, the Forge, Order, and Death.