Olhydra
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Olhydra is an archomental
in the Dungeons & Dragons
fantasy
role-playing game
. Her symbol is a blue-green square. It's possible that Alyolvoy, an evil archomental of water mentioned in Dungeon #37, is an alias of Olhydra.
in the original first edition Fiend Folio
(1981), created by Lewis Pulsipher
. Olhydra was one of the main antaognists in Frank Mentzer
's 1982 RPGA
module The Egg of the Phoenix
, which was later included as part of the expanded 1987 adventure compilation, Egg of the Phoenix
.
Olhydra appeared with the evil archomentals in the second edition book Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III (1998).
Olhydra appeared with the evil archomentals in the third edition in Dragon
#347 (September 2006).
and schemes to destroy him. Along with Imix, Yan-C-Bin
, and Ogrémoch
, she once pursued the artifact known as the Egg of the Phoenix. One of her greatest allies is Dagon
, and rumor has it that she and Dagon may have spawned twin daughters. She occasionally comes into conflict with Blibdoolpoolp
, Eadro
, and Persana
, but gives little thought to Ben-hadar
.
Olhydra is served by undead dinosaurs, kapoacinths (aquatic gargoyles
), evil water elementals
, water grues
, water mephit
s, orlythys, renegade hezrou
that she's lured away from Demogorgon
, tojanida
s, callers from the deep, and lesser water weirds. A triad of sea hags
known as the Blue Coven also serves her; the three have merged into an entity with three bodies and a single mind.
s, sahuagin
, scrags
, anguillians, sea hags, krakens
, seawolves, eyes of the deep, and many more. Pirates, wicked sea druids, and mariners flock to her cause, and she has one of the biggest followings among the evil elemental cults.
Archomental
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, archomentals are powerful exemplary beings of the Elemental Planes and rulers over the elementals. Although they are not truly rulers of their planes, archomentals like to consider themselves as such and often grant themselves regal titles like...
in the Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
role-playing game
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...
. Her symbol is a blue-green square. It's possible that Alyolvoy, an evil archomental of water mentioned in Dungeon #37, is an alias of Olhydra.
Publication history
Olhydra first appeared with the elemental princes of evilArchomental
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, archomentals are powerful exemplary beings of the Elemental Planes and rulers over the elementals. Although they are not truly rulers of their planes, archomentals like to consider themselves as such and often grant themselves regal titles like...
in the original first edition Fiend Folio
Fiend Folio
Fiend Folio is the title shared by three products published for successive editions of the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons...
(1981), created by Lewis Pulsipher
Lewis Pulsipher
Lewis Errol Pulsipher is a teacher, game designer, and author, whose subject is role playing games, board games, card games, and video games. He was the first person in the North Carolina community college system to teach game design classes...
. Olhydra was one of the main antaognists in Frank Mentzer
Frank Mentzer
Jacob Franklin "Frank" Mentzer III , is an American fantasy author and game designer best known for his work on early materials for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. He was a performing folk musician from 1968 to 1975, and played one concert at the White House during the...
's 1982 RPGA
RPGA
The RPGA , is part of the organized play arm of Wizards of the Coast that organizes and sanctions role-playing games worldwide, principally under the d20 system...
module The Egg of the Phoenix
The Egg of the Phoenix
The Egg of the Phoenix is an adventure module published in 1982 for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Plot summary:...
, which was later included as part of the expanded 1987 adventure compilation, Egg of the Phoenix
Egg of the Phoenix
Egg of the Phoenix is an adventure module published in 1987 for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Plot summary:...
.
Olhydra appeared with the evil archomentals in the second edition book Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III (1998).
Olhydra appeared with the evil archomentals in the third edition in Dragon
Dragon (magazine)
Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...
#347 (September 2006).
Description
Olhydra appears as an endlessly breaking wave of water, an amorphous blob with almost-human features buried within its depths. She is about 20 feet wide and weighs 5,000 pounds. She may also appear as a feminine, half-human and half-pleiosaur creature with tentacles for hair and a semi-transparent liquid body.Relationships
Olhydra harbors an intense hatred of ImixImix (Dungeons & Dragons)
Imix is an archomental, the Prince of Evil Fire Creatures, in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. His symbol is a red diamond.-Publication history:...
and schemes to destroy him. Along with Imix, Yan-C-Bin
Yan-C-Bin
Yan-C-Bin is an archomental, the Prince of Evil Aerial Creatures, in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. His symbol is a silver-white circle.-Publication history:...
, and Ogrémoch
Ogrémoch
Ogrémoch is an archomental in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. His symbol is an equilateral triangle with short hash marks through each side...
, she once pursued the artifact known as the Egg of the Phoenix. One of her greatest allies is Dagon
Dagon (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Dagon is a obyrith demon lord, also called Prince of the Depths. His realm is the 89th layer of the Abyss, and is known as Shadowsea...
, and rumor has it that she and Dagon may have spawned twin daughters. She occasionally comes into conflict with Blibdoolpoolp
Blibdoolpoolp
In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Blibdoolpoolp is the deity worshipped by the kuo-toa race. She is also known as the "Sea Mother."-Publication history:...
, Eadro
Eadro
In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Eadro is the deity worshipped by the locathah race and merfolk race. His sacred animal is the jellyfish...
, and Persana
Persana
In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Persana is the triton deity of architecture, and is the patron deity of tritons. In the 1st edition Monster Manual, the god of the tritons is called simply Triton...
, but gives little thought to Ben-hadar
Ben-hadar
Ben-hadar is an archomental in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Publication history:Ben-hadar first appeared with the good archomentals in the second edition book Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III ....
.
Olhydra is served by undead dinosaurs, kapoacinths (aquatic gargoyles
Gargoyle (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, a gargoyle is a grotesque winged monstrous humanoid creature, with a horned head and a stony hide.-Dungeons & Dragons :...
), evil water elementals
Elemental (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, an elemental is a type of creature. Elemental creatures are composed of one of the four classical elementals of air, earth, fire, or water.-Publication history:...
, water grues
Grue (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, a grue is a type of elemental.-Publication history:The elemental grues, including the chaggrin, the harginn, the ildriss, and the varrdig, first appear in Monster Manual II . The Monster Manual II was reviewed by Megan C...
, water mephit
Mephit
In the fictional world of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, mephits are extraplanar creatures similar to imps.-Publication history:...
s, orlythys, renegade hezrou
Hezrou
A hezrou is a humanoid demon in the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Dungeons & Dragons :The type II demon appeared under the demon entry in the Eldritch Wizardry supplement ....
that she's lured away from Demogorgon
Demogorgon (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Demogorgon is a powerful demon prince. He is known as the Prince of Demons, a self-proclaimed title he holds by virtue of his power and influence; which in turn, is a title acknowledged by both mortals and his fellow demons...
, tojanida
Tojanida
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the tojanida is a turtle-like outsider from the Elemental Plane of Water.-Publication history:...
s, callers from the deep, and lesser water weirds. A triad of sea hags
Hag (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, hags are witchlike beings that use magic to spread havoc and destruction, and slay all whom they encounter.-Dungeons & Dragons :...
known as the Blue Coven also serves her; the three have merged into an entity with three bodies and a single mind.
Realm
Olhydra lives in the ruins of a castle made of living black coral, submerged in a great indigo lake, on the Elemental Plane of Water.Worshipers
Olhydra's faithful include abolethAboleth
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, aboleths are a fictive race of malevolent, eel-like aberrations with potent psionic abilities...
s, sahuagin
Sahuagin
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the sahuagin are a fish-like monstrous humanoid species that live in oceans, seas, underground lakes, and underwater caves. Sahuagin speak their native tongue . With higher intelligence scores, they can also speak two bonus languages, usually...
, scrags
Troll (Dungeons & Dragons)
Trolls are fictional monsters in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Dungeon Masters can use them as enemies or allies of the player characters.-Publication history:...
, anguillians, sea hags, krakens
Kraken (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the kraken is a large, ocean-dwelling magical beast. It is akin to a squid the size of a house. It is almost 80 feet long and 60 feet tall and wide. Its body is similar to that of a squid, with a ring of tentacles surrounding a mouth connected to...
, seawolves, eyes of the deep, and many more. Pirates, wicked sea druids, and mariners flock to her cause, and she has one of the biggest followings among the evil elemental cults.
Clerics
Olhydra's clerics, those who wear clothes, wear robes with blue trim. Many carry around small jugs of sea water for the purpose of special ceremonies and blessings.Additional reading
- Cook, MonteMonte CookMonte Cook is a professional table-top role-playing game designer and writer. He is married to Sue Weinlein Cook.-Roleplaying:Cook has been a professional game designer since 1988, working primarily on role-playing games. Much of his early work was for Iron Crown Enterprises as an editor and writer...
. "Four in Darkness: A Guide to Elemental Evil." DragonDragon (magazine)Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...
#285. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001. - -----. Return to the Temple of Elemental EvilReturn to the Temple of Elemental EvilReturn to the Temple of Elemental Evil is an adventure module for the 3rd edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, set in the game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting.-Publication history:...
. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.
- Cook, MonteMonte CookMonte Cook is a professional table-top role-playing game designer and writer. He is married to Sue Weinlein Cook.-Roleplaying:Cook has been a professional game designer since 1988, working primarily on role-playing games. Much of his early work was for Iron Crown Enterprises as an editor and writer...
, and William W. Connors. The Inner Planes. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.
- Grubb, Jeff. Manual of the Planes. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1987.
- Grubb, Jeff, Bruce R. Cordell, and David NoonanDavid NoonanDavid Noonan may refer to:* A former candidate for the 2003 Ontario provincial election* David Noonan , London artist* David Noonan , designer for the Dungeons & Dragons game...
. Manual of the Planes. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.
- Jacobs, James. "Spawn of Elemental Evil." DragonDragon (magazine)Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...
#285. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.
- Jansing, Eric, and Kevin Baase. "Princes of Elemental Good: The Archomentals, Part II." Dragon #353. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2007.
- Kestral, Gwendolyn, et al. Monster Manual IV. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2006.