Omondus

Few Eshan are so unknown yet significant in Esha’s history. Omondus was one among the Nith’eshan who escaped the dramatic fallout of the First Feud, wherein the Eshan were forever bound to the tenets of the Eshanic Mandate. He escaped judgement, fleeing into the thickets and low places of the world. There he dwelled for centuries, observing the natural patterns of the continent and enjoying relative bliss. Yet, other Nith’eshan sought refuge in the same corners, causing growing contest between them which was certain to boil over into deadly battle.   Where did Omondus come from? Whom did he owe allegiance back in the earlier years? The answer was Qazun, for Omondus ranked among the Qazunari during those handsome years before the First Feud. He drew inspiration and love from the birds, prey animals, and fearsome predators which Qazun manufactured with such brilliant ease. Every snap of his fingers created something priceless. Omondus wanted to mimick Qazun, at least experience for himself the beauty of such free creation, but the First Feud brought that to naught. Qazun was killed, Omotollar was cast down, the creations scattered across the world, and a new Eshanic order established. Omondus hated Aebaster, Mesian, and the Alor’eshan for what happened, and mistrusted Acolitus for failing to halt it. He did not join the surviving Qazunari in their baneful quest for revenge in Qadal, but instead avoided Kovunkal altogether and went into hiding in Othos as Nith’eshan, and thus remained.   Omondus fled with his created race into the northern mountains of Othos, named the Gondomon in these days, and thereabout enticed other abandoned races to join his cause. The Eyti and others flocked to his feet. Omondus built a city for them known as Omondos, with no small measure of pride involved. Beneath the city was a series of gaps, ravines, and caverns which were generally avoided by the dwelling races. On night, however, a great rock from Vussalas crashed forth into the world causing considerable and miserable damage, yet was not crushed to peddles. Its remaining parts settled at the bottom of the deepest pit, and from them oozed flesh like tar coagulated into limbs and head. The name of this being was unknown, but Omondus was amazed to see its skull cracked open revealing bellowing flames. He reached into that space and unlocked for himself the deeper secrets of Ackesh.   Omondus’ revelations gained the attention of Acolitus, who was ever eager to discover new means to destroy his worldly enemies. Yet, Omondus hated Acolitus for the many reasons in which any Eshan might hate the Creator: for centuries of silence, abandonment, scorn, and misery. He revealed nothing to the Creator, greatly angering him into dire promises of revenge.   Acolitus was unable to realize these threats on his own, for his influence among the Eshan of Voryndal was waning after the collapse of Koluthollas. Instead, he turned to his ancient vassal-turned-enemy, Atûn, who was strongest among the Eshan in the days of Etunas. He bid Atûn destroy Omondus in exchange for the lead to Omondus’ secrets. Atûn agreed, and thus dispatched his race to Othos to seek Omondus, but accompanied them from great Eshanic distances. Omondus was destroyed through their machinations, but the precise details are written in the histories of Othos.