Template:Breadcrumb Primals > Stormhearts

This category enumerates the varieties of Fury creatures that are more powerful than realmlings but less powerful than titans.

Stormhearts (Enchiridian, Furytongue: Nirkhat, meaning hands of the domain) get their name from the powerful Fury magic that they wield and their connection to their own elemental natures. Their furytongue name comes from their purpose to titans, as instruments of their will.

Lore about stormhearts is relatively common and complete. Titans, dragons, and immortals have all provided a rare but native understanding of stormheart nature. Unlike titans, some stormhearts have been roaming free since The Shattering, which has allowed them to be studied by mortal scholars.

Like all creatures of Fury, stormhearts originate from the Lost Age. In those ancient times, stormhearts were powerful servants for the titans. They had intelligence, personalities, and individual wills, but those were entirely subordinate to that of the nearest titan who bound them. In this way, they acted as independent extensions of the will of the titans, engaging in proxy contests for the Contest Eternal, and commanding realmlings.

During the First Age, stormhearts launched the initial waves against Bastion leading armies of realmlings. They would also hunt and capture or kill servitors that were sent out from Bastion, though they never gleaned any information from the Founder constructs. During the Foundation War, stormhearts were the elite troops and the commanders of the armies of realmlings.

Eventually the powers of the titans were defeated and the stormhearts were imprisoned within the Integrum like the rest of the titans and their minions for their Fury power.

There were no historical events involving the stormhearts during the Gilded Age, as they were still contained within the astral prisons.

During the Shattered Age, many stormhearts and realmlings escaped from their prisons through fissures too small for the titans. These escaped stormhearts evaded the powers of the Integrum and began to corrupt pieces of the Integrum in hiding. They communicated with their titan masters, sill imprisoned, and formed the original cults of the titans.

Stormhaearts are a race of primals closely related to the titans. Indeed, some scholars believe that stormhearts are merely pieces of a titan infused with some semblance of individual personality and will. It is true that stormhearts are entirely subordinate to the will of their titan masters, and in a similar fashion, realmlings are entirely subordinate to the will of stormhearts.

In the Lost Age, stormheart societies were numerous and diverse, and the role that stormhearts played in those societies were also diverse. In the context of titan realms, stormhearts often boasted positions of power and influence, holding sway over cities or kingdoms. In the Contest Eternal, stormhearts served in a variety of functions, sometimes the patron, sometimes the hero, and sometimes the villain.

Like all primals, stormhearts are ageless. Their Fury bodies tend to be highly aligned with the elemental nature of their titan masters. For example, the titan Maelstrom Deep has stormhearts associated with lightning. These stormhearts have metallic bodies that crackle with lightning at the joints and from the eyes.