Wisp King

"He comes, and the blinding light of his power is limitless."

Overview
The closest thing to true god in Dalahas, the Wisp King is not an individual—instead, it is an accumulation of the knowledge and magical power of the thousands of wisps that reside within the swamp. Appearing only when the swamp as a whole is threatened, the Wisp King is a fountain of magical power that smites any threat it encounters with ease.

Appearance
The Wisp King appears as a much larger, brighter, and nebulous version of a normal wisp. Shedding bright light for dozens of feet, the King is a 30-foot-wide sphere of blue-and-white plasma.

Divine Mission
The Wisp King only assembles when the swamp as a whole is threatened. Throughout the course of recorded history only three threats have been notable enough to warrant an assemblage of the Dalahasi wisps.

Religion
Ironically, most followers of the Wisp King are other wisps. They believe that the wisp king is their true state rather than a form their people take on when threatened. More similar to a cadre of monks than a church of clerics, these wisps train tirelessly to improve their magical ability and discipline.

In a land without true gods the Wisp King serves as the closest thing to a watchful protector as the swamp people can hope for. Many invoke its name as a form of good-luck charm and generally positive invocation.

Divine Appearances
The Wisp King has only appeared thrice.

The first was in 2E 291, when a clutch of black dragons hatched and began attacking the rest of the peoples in the swamp. Notably, the King didn't appear until all the dragons were assembled in one place and were launching a major assault on a wood elf village.

The second, in 4E 197, was the longest—days rather than hours—featured a long campaign against a marid and the army of water elementals that it summoned after overcoming control from an unprepared sorcerer. Significant portions of Dalahas still remain flooded for this reason.

The third and most recent occurred in 5E 562, after Luhd first discovered the Hurricane Horn and summoned a typhoon. The weather alone was not abnormal, but its intensity and the storm surge that followed were. The Wisp King disintegrated the oncoming waves, transforming the waters near the northern coast into an enormous cloud of roiling steam.

Afterlife
As a false god, the Wisp King does not control any form of demiplane or afterlife.

Magic Properties
While there are a few scattered clerics of the Wisp King in Dalahas, their powers are limited compared to the King himself. Both subjects and king wield brilliant flashes of blue-white plasma, swirling fast in a nebula of energetic motion.