# All Storms Come From Umath

As every good Sartarite knows, Umath is the Fater of Storms, father of the main Storm Gods - Kolat, Vadrus, Urox, Humakt, Orlanth and Ragnaglar. Through them, Umath is the ancestor of the Theyalan Storm Gods. However, the Lunars have Storm Gods who they claim to be independant of Umath, in fact they do not acknowledge Uath at all. However, most Lunar/Pelorian Storm Gods can be shown to descend from or derive from Umath.

When Umath was born, he asked for his place in the world, but was denied by his father, Aether. Angered by this, Umath took his place by force, forcing Sky and Earth apart, lifting his father to make room for Umath, the Air. As he did this, Umath rubbed against Aether, the Sky, and where they met a new Goddess was formed. This was Entekos, goddess of the Upper Atmosphere who acted as a buffer between Aetrher and Umath. Entekos's descendants form most of the Lunar/Pelorian Storm Gods. As Umath and Aether struggled, Shargash the Destroyer intervened and attacked Umath, forcing him to move in a spiral to the ends of the world. As they wrestled, Shargash gained some powers from Umath, he gained the power of the Thunder Drum, which he taught to his legions of drummers, and some control over weather. When Umath was killed, Lightning Boy took some darts from Umath's brain, this gave him the power of Lightning, which was lost to the Storm Gods until Orlanth retook them.

So, Entekos, Shargash and Lightning Boy all derived their storm powers from Umath. Hence, their children derived their powers from Umath, including the Pelorian weather gods such as Doburdan. So, Umath is the Father of Storms.

This also helps explain the problem of the Runic Metals. In the olden days, when RQ2 ruled the roost, each Element had its own metal - Darkness had Lead, Water had Aluminium/Quicksilver, Earth had Copper, Fire/Sky had Gold, Air/Storm had Tin and Lunar had Silver, and the world was a happy place. Then came RQ3 and the elemental metals changed slightly, Air/Storm suddenly used Silver rather than Tin and so competed with the Lunar Rune. Tin was relegated to being the metal of Lightning and was owned by the Fire'Sky Gods originally, or so said those who supported this idea. At the time, I did not like the idea and I still don't, even now. This can be partly explained by having Tin as the Storm Metal, but when Umath's powers were taken by Shargash and Lightning Boy, and when Entekos was born, these Pelorian gods gained Tin as a metal. Then when Orlanth regained Lightning, he also regained Tin as a metal, so people thought that Tin was the Storm metal. However, I have never played Silver as being the metal of Storm, I have only ever played this as being Tin. So, Storm Gods have Enchant Tin as their runemetal spell, Orlanthi have the Tin Armbands and the Tin Comb and so on.

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