Great Conflux
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| Axeoth |
| CRON |
| Elemental Planes |
| Fiery Moon |
| Hall of Judgment |
| Paradise |
| Sparkling Bridge |
| Terra |
| VARN-4 |
| Web of Worlds |
| Xeen |
A powerful coalition formed by denizens of five Elemental Planes that also includes Enroth's inhabitnats. The Great Conflux is home to elementals who respect the mortals and were sent by the Elemental Lords goal was to stop the Kreegan invaders from setting this world on fire with Armageddon's Blade. In addition to elemental and Enrothian members, phoenixes and sprites that dwell on the planes of fire and air respectively, were also recruited into the coalition's ranks.
The Great Conflux serves the four Lords of the Elemental Planes, with its direct leadership including minor Elemental Lords, like Tamar the Wanderer and Erdamon the Earth Channeler.
It is represented by the 
Conflux.
Story
A precursor to the Great Conflux is the alliance Tarnum formed with denizens in his campaign the four Elemental Lords, who at the time were intent on separating the elements that formed Enroth. There were elementals who did not want to destroy that which they helped create, and these denizens of the planes aided Tarnum. His forces also freed sprites and phoenixes from enslavement, getting their aid in saving his world, and allied with the psychic and magic elementals, who believed that the universe wants for the four elements to exist in harmony.
Centuries later, devils invaded this world. Despite the Kreegans being more advanced, Enroth's inhabitants, amazingly, managed to defeat the invasion and save their world by destroying Kreegan hives in Paradise Valley and the Land of the Giants. However, the Kreegan Clans of Eeofol, with their hellish Inferno towns, yet remained, populating the hellish Infernos. Guided by Xenofex's final command, the ruler of the clans and Eeofol's King Lucifer Kreegan III sought to build Armageddon's Blade, a powerful piece of technology from the Time of Wonders. With this fabled weapon he would set the world on fire. The Great Conflux intended to prevent the catastrophe and keep this world. Among the leadership of Great Conflux was Tamar the Wanderer, human Planeswalker and Elemental Lord of Air, as well as a gifted seer. Tamar's visions pointed to Armageddon's Blade playing a massive role in this world's fate.
The mystical call of the Conflux spread across the planet, being answered by various people in tune with the elements. Multiple elementalist spellcasters of different races were brought into the coalition's ranks. Other than many kinds of elementals, Conflux armies included several other creatures, who were rarely seen in Antagarich. The elusive phoenixes, taken from this plane of existence after the Succession Wars, returned from the Fire Domain, serving the Lords of Fire in order to rid the world of the Demons. Now able to withstand the elemental flames these vicious birds of prey became a more powerful and dangerous opponent to the forces of evil. The Lords of Air recruited sprites and pixies, capable of powerful electrical attacks despite their miniature size.
Around the start of the 1170s AS, Conflux towns and fortressesm transported from the planes, began to appear out of thin air throughout the countryside, much to the awe and bewilderement of the locals. During that time, the Erathia-Kreegan war was being waged, with Catherine Ironfist, who also found out about Lucifer's plans, trying to stop the demon king.
Meanwhile, Xeron was searching for the components required to forge the Blade. Erdamon, an ancient lord of magma awakened by the Conflux, worked to prevent him from acquring these relics, along with Ciele and Fiur. Conflux heroes were repeatedly able to hinder Xeron's progress, spiriting the artifacts from him.
Forces of the Conflux initially fought Eeofol separately from Erathian military and the Forest Guard, but soon teamed up with them. This helped turn the course of this war, which Erathia narrowly survived, decidedly to the human kingdom's favor. Nevertheless, Xeron managed to best the Conflux heroes and, through Khazandar, create the Blade. Time was running out for this world, the allied Erathian-Conflux forces needing to stop the Kreegans before they would be able to unleash the Blade's complete power. The situation worsened when the Erathian lords, considering the war already won, foolishly withdrew their support after Eeofol was invaded. However, Roland, Catherine and their Conflux allies were still aided by Gelu and his Forest Guard, as well as Tavin's Guerillas, continuing to battle the forces of Eeofol in their own domain.
They managed to defeat Xeron and take Armageddon's Blade from him. Tamar foresaw that Gelu needed to be the one to carry the Blade to Kreelah and kill Lucifer, as he had a great destiny ahead of him. In the future, Geu could unite all of Antagarich into one mighty nation, similar to the Kingdom of Enroth, finally establishing piece on the continent. Gelu himself had a dream of this possible future. The Blade would be instrumental in creating it. However, Tamar also sensed that, should someone or something interfere with that destiny, the world will meet its end. Catherine heeded Tamar's advice. Soon after, the allies destroyed Kreelah, killing wiping out the vast majority of the remainaing Kreegans on this planet. With the world saved, and the Blade in Gelu's hands, most of the Confluxes disappeared.
Ultimately, Gelu's destiny was disrupted, leading to the Reckoning. Ironically, trying to prevent this outcome by giving Gelu a key element to realize his visionary dream, the Conflux gave him a key element that caused the world's destruction.
Trivia
- While helping prevent Escaton's cataclysm during the events Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer, Roland noted that the Elemental Lords were the Ironfists' allies only a few months ago, calling them fickle beings, musing that perhaps "treacherous" is a better word for them. Roland was only half-right, as the elemental crisis in Jadame wasn't caused by the Lords, but by Escaton's Crystal, the the four Lords' absence actually being what made the elementals succeptible to the Crystal's effects. However, one might indeed call the Elemental Lords fickle in a way, as the evidently changed their approach to Enroth in the time between Masters of the Elements and Armageddon's Blade. Dark elf legends agree on that, saying that the Elemental Lords "both give life and take it away".
- Roland distrusts of his new elemental allies both during and after the Erathian. Although they never betrayed him and his comrades, one might argue that Roland was at least partially right, given that Tamar's advice to Catherine helped bring about the Reckoning, even if unwittingly.
- Xanthor, who came with Roland and Catherine to Jadame in order to study the Crystal, noted that Enroth's destruction would create a mighty planar imbalance, victimizing the Elemental Planes, perhaps even destroying or completely changing them. In addition, during To Kill a Hero an elemental representating the Conflux mentions that the use of the Blade would "consume us all" while speaking to Erathians. The direct threat to the their planes is apparently a reason why the four Elemental Lords sanctioned the Great Conflux.
- Tamar says that he "is also the Elemental Lord of Air" while introducing himself to Catherine in To Kill A Hero. While he uses "the", he is, srtricly speaking, just "an" Elemental Lord of Air. There being minor Lords of Air was mentioned all the way back in Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World, where the Elemental Planes were first introduced, and also in the sprite unit description on the official Armageddon's Blade website. Moreover, minor elemental lords are also represented in the Great Conflux through Erdamon. "The" is apparently a simple generalization on Tamar's part.
- The term "Elemental Conflux" generally refers to places where Elemental Planes connect with the material realm, Conflux towns being called "elemental Confluxes the size of cities". This coalition is fittingly named after such elemental confluxes.