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The earth titans were gargantuan primordial entities made of stone. The Titanstone Knuckles, one of the Vestiges of Divergence, were carved from the heartstone of one of these creatures.[1]

Description[]

The titan that attacked Vasselheim during the ascension of Vecna to godhood had a gargantuan stone body hundreds of feet tall, with four 150 feet wide arms. After Vecna's defeat by Vox Machina, the titan froze where it was standing and was incorporated into the city by its inhabitants, who began creating shops and homes within its body.[2] Chains, pulleys, and resource elevators dangled down from the body, pulling materials and people up into it, and many gardens had been created within its nooks and shelves. Snowdrops grew alongside its legs.[3]

While Ashton was communing with the spirit of the dead primordial, he had a vision of several mountains of different sizes rising under a purple sky, forming a sort of monolithic crown around him that he felt was looking at him. He heard their voices saying, "We are the rock and stone. We are this world. [...] We've always been. Everything is cyclical."[4]

Biography[]

This was one of multiple earth primordials.[5][6] In its final battle, this titan was slammed into the ground violently enough to create the Zenwick Mountains.[7]

During the early Age of Arcanum, the dwarven Thomara clan dug into the fallen earth titan[8] to exploit a precious metal vein cluster and built a vault city there. The society eventually collapsed into madness and cannibalism.[9]

On 15 Misuthar 812 PD, the titan was reanimated by Vecna, with Vecna's city of Thar Amphala atop it, to march on Vasselheim. Vox Machina and Arkhan infiltrated the titan, and banished Vecna during the assault on the city, bringing the titan to a complete halt.[10] The titan's body remained in place (with abjurative glyphs being carved inside it to prevent it from being reanimated again),[11] looming over the city, where it remained in 843 PD. In that time the city had grown and expanded around the titan, with the "Titan's Block" being created, and the body itself being used, among other things, for shops, homes, gardening, and mining, with people accessing it using elevators and stairs.[12]

Before leaving the Dawn City, Ashton Greymoore, Fearne Calloway, and Laudna visited the Titan's Block to see if Ashton could commune with it. Although their initial idea was to go to its head, they ended up finding its heart chamber. There, they lit a fire and Ashton entered a brief trance in which the remaining spirit of the titan acted as a gateway, allowing Ashton to communicate with some sort of collective primordial mind and eventually with Ka'Mort herself. He told them several times that he might be able to chase off the gods and asked how to restore the primordials, but the titan(s) told him that their time was gone but his wasn't, and that Exandria would keep changing.[13]

Appearances and mentions[]

Quotations[]

  • (to Ashton) "We are the rock and stone. [...] We are this world. We are lost. We are scattered. We are everything. [...] We've always been. Everything is cyclical."[14]

Trivia[]

  • The body of an earth titan is very rich in minerals, and with some sunlight it is easy to grow plants in it.[15]

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 See Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting, p. 116.
  2. ↑ See "Cages" (3x103) at 3:09:46.
  3. ↑ See "Cages" (3x103) at 3:14:44.
  4. ↑ See "In the Shadow of War" (3x110) from 2:35:00 through 2:38:40.
  5. ↑ The creature is referred to as "a slain earth primordial". See Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn, p. 211.
  6. ↑ On the continent of Domunas, Ka'Mort the Empress of Earth was defeated and sealed beneath Mount Ygora.  See "Bitterness and Dread" (E3x02) at 3:31:26.
  7. ↑ See "The Climb Within" (1x110) at 3:37:12.
  8. ↑ See "The Ominous March" (1x109) at 2:25:42.
  9. ↑ See "The Ominous March" (1x109) at 1:40:48.
  10. ↑ This is the main arc of "The Ominous March" (1x109) through the beginning of "The Chapter Closes" (1x115).
  11. ↑ See "In the Shadow of War" (3x110) at 2:19:59.
  12. ↑ See "Cages" (3x103) from 3:09:46 through 3:16:47.
  13. ↑ See "In the Shadow of War" (3x110) from 2:33:30 through 2:48:30.
  14. ↑ See "In the Shadow of War" (3x110) at 2:35:57.
  15. ↑ See "In the Shadow of War" (3x110) at 2:17:46.

Art:

  1. ↑ Fan art of Vox Machina atop Devo'ssa, flying towards Thar Amphala atop the earth titan, by BlackSalander (source). Used with permission.
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