Ehkahk

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Ehkahk, called the Smoldering Duke, was a smoke mephit who claimed to rule the Paraelemental Plane of Smoke. He was noted to be markedly more intelligent than others of his kind, and it was claimed by some sources that Ehkahk was not a smoke mephit, but an archomental. He had convinced many other elemental creatures to swear to him, mostly other smoke mephits and smoke para-elementals but also some renegade djinn and efreeti.

Realm
The seat of Ehkahk's power was the Choking Palace, a floating castle of gray-black iron, whose every room and hall contained a brazier that filled the place with semimagical smoke-this smoke was transparent to any creature that sincerely served Ehkahk and completely opaque to any who did not, and he could view any goings-on within the smoke. The central keep of the palace held a great library full of all manner of lore.

Ehkahk's domain, small though it was, was called Fume.

Activities
Ehkahk sought to spread his influence across his homeplane, but he took his time doing so. Any goals he had beyond that were wholly unknown, and he did not seem to take any interest in events on any other planes.

Allies
The good archomental of Air, Chan, sometimes prevailed upon Ehkahk to provide her with information on Zaaman Rul's struggles on the Plane of Fire. Ehkahk's concern over his own self-preservation, though, made it a tenuous alliance.

History
In the Age Before Ages, Ehkahk was one of the archomentals who chose to fight for the Wind Dukes of Aaqa on the side of Law until, during one of the war's major battles, he and Chilimba betrayed the four Princes of Elemental Good (who also fought for Law) and then ambushed and killed the then-good archomental of Fire, Bristia Pel.