Pathfinder Creature Feature: Xiomorns

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Pathfinder Creature Feature: Xiomorns - The Vault Builders

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As next week I'll be taking a deeper look at the Darklands it was high time I explained who hollowed out the world of Golarion. Meet the Xiomorns, an insectile species originally from the Elemental Plane of Earth who have been pivotal in Golarion's ancient history.
▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Introduction & Preamble
1:20 - Mythic History
8:32 - Vault Builders and Vault Keepers
14:06 - Servants
17:58 - War with the Alghollthu
20:41 - The Emerald Spire
23:19 - Legacy of the Xiomorns
25:42 - Recent History
27:22 - Society and Factions
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CREDITS
The large high-res map I use is not a Paizo official map, but the work of the incomparable Rob McCaleb ( www.artstation... ) used here with their gracious permission.
Content for this video came from various sources but principally from "Pathfinder Adventure Path: The Ironfang Invasions - Module #120: Vault of the Onyx Citadel" which featured an extensive look at the ecology of the xiomorns.
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@torry3861 4 ай бұрын

This is my favorite deep pathfinder lore. Its so ingrained into my head that when i started world building , i accidentally named a group of people : Orv

@TheMythKeeper 4 ай бұрын

This is also some of my favorite Pathfinder lore as well, as you can probably tell from this video!

@beansmccoy4921 3 ай бұрын

A 30 minute long Mythkeeper video on crystal bugs? Count me in!

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

🤣

@fumarc4501 3 ай бұрын

Fascinating rock bugs. Pathfinder takes the term “elemental” very differently from most mainstream fantasy tropes. Very cool!

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

Haha yeah

@user-xo7hb6ts7j 3 ай бұрын

This is so interesting, I actually love it. What never fails to amaze me is how diverse the creatures of pathfinder are. Although they all share the stereotypical tropes of high fantasy, they are still so different. And not only on their relative history, that's easy, but in their very nature. Now we need a creature feature of the invaders from thr Dark Tapestry.

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

That is true! I'll make sure I do a Dark Tapestry creature feature in the future!

@samstriker5584 3 ай бұрын

Yeahhhhhhhhhh! Emerald Spire was the first pathfinder campaign I ran to completion, I'll always love these buggys

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

Awesome!

@phatasticpat5374 3 ай бұрын

Hell yeah. Been anticipating this one. Ive run a bit of Emerald Spire. Its such a great part of River kingdoms

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

I love the Emerald Spire maps and book and quite often when I need an ad-hoc dungeon in a game I'll just grab a random map from Em Spire and use that instead.

@JamesAdams-nd1td 3 ай бұрын

I’d only heard of the Vaultbuilders and -keepers in passing before, but their story is truly epic. And tragic. I can’t help but wonder if Arzul’s prophecy is actually a lie, and if any of the Xeomorns even question it despite all they’ve endured at his hands.

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

The best lies are partial truths. I do think there's something coming with the Yith. ;-)

@israelmorales4249 3 ай бұрын

Aside all the lore of the vault keepers...now i know about the "vaults", something as a concept like the hollow earth or the "travel to the center of the earth". This is pure gold as an inspirational for new adventures. Thx a lot!

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

More vault content coming next episode ;-)

@LeviathanTamer31 3 ай бұрын

Hey, Mythkeeper. I've been going through your videos lately after finding you through your Andoran video. I was surprised you hadn't made a Creature Feature on Kaiju yet. Edit: Can't believe I reread my comment and noticed it lacked a certain tone. Love your content! Your voice is clear yet evenly paced, it's so easy to listen to. I never realized how much I was missing from Paizo Lore.

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

I'm adding Kaiju to my backlog list. It will happen 🙂

@Vampster19CockedD20 3 ай бұрын

Oh man... This just helped me make something in my homebrew game that I've been missing. I needed an idea for where some of the dungeons came from. I now think maybe these seeds that just get left behind might turn into Dungeon Crystals. They might even make monster and draw others in. There could be a type that hunt these down and worship them like the luxon from critical role and when an adventure finally gets one they can use them to make weapons or magic items or maybe fix a problem that otherwise couldn't be fixed.🤯

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

Awesome glad to hear it

@athaler2402 4 ай бұрын

The xiomorns absolutely have to be my favourite elementals! Such a unique and interesting species. But it almost sounded like Ayrzul just made the whole thing with the yithians up, or am I just imagining things?

@TheMythKeeper 4 ай бұрын

Its canonically not clear. He either made it up, or he saw something and he exaggerated. Both possibilities are interesting to me.

@joshuaturner8853 3 ай бұрын

I keep forgetting that the Cthulhu Mythos is part of PF lore! I'm sure you have a massive backlog, but a video about the Yith would be awesome! ...And I just saw you have a video about the "gods" of the Dark Tapestry, so I'm off to watch that now too.

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

Yeah I definitely need to do more dark tapestry stuff on the channel

@charlesinman6595 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for your work. I'm a big lore junky when it comes to settings and games. Your videos have convinced me to pick up Pathfinder after so much letdown with D&D.

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it! I'm not biased at all but Pathfinder is the superior d20 system ;-)

@pavelowjohn9167 3 ай бұрын

This video came out at the perfect time for my players, they just got to the city of Kaer Maga in the Shattered Star AP. Can't wait to spring this stuff on 'em 🙂

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

Nice! I love Kaer Maga

@jayknight1099 3 ай бұрын

Awesome, always wanted to know about these dudes.

@coreyeaston6823 3 ай бұрын

Great history!

@trajanfidelis1532 3 ай бұрын

Ancient elder races are always fun.

@TheCodemasterc 3 ай бұрын

so happy you covered this, I've been debating adding these guys to my campaign as a possible secret bonus dungeon and boss but felt I'd didn't have enough info to do them justice. After this I now feel not only capable but excited to add them.

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

Rock on! I'm always super excited to hear people making use of these weird but kind of important beings.

@CooperativeWaffles 3 ай бұрын

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I wish blessings on your house and may your dice always roll with Desna's breath chasing their trails.

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

Haha! This is a great prayer, I'm stealing it

@arch-warlock7409 3 ай бұрын

didn't know vault-tec had a workforce of bugs :p

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

The pip-boy is just a convenient disguise

@arch-warlock7409 3 ай бұрын

@@TheMythKeeper XD

@RykerDavis123 3 ай бұрын

Oh! That could be a cool video. The super dungeons of golarion

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

That would be cool! I will add it to the list.

@RykerDavis123 3 ай бұрын

@@TheMythKeeper Awesome!

@mrredoak1008 3 ай бұрын

Now this is some deep lore!! Great stuff as always amazing presentation

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

@Avvy89 3 ай бұрын

Hey Myth! Loving these new videos! Are the Xiomorns related to the Xorns in some fashion? Or is it just a coincidence that they sound similar?

@TheCodemasterc 3 ай бұрын

Probably just a coincidence but I like to imagine inhabitants of elemental earth just like names x in them.

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

@@TheCodemasterc I think that's exactly right. Must be something in the Terran language with the Xs.

@natanoj16 3 ай бұрын

Niiice I am going to introduce one of these next session!😊

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

Right on!

@nyxeliana5247 3 ай бұрын

Not gonna lie. For some reason, I first read that as Xenomorph and was like, "wtf? There are xenomorphs in Pathfinder?" 😂😂😂

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

Haha, watch my Nidal video - there are totally xenomorphs in Pathfinder. They are called the Hive Mothers and Hive Drones.

@RicardoPM777 3 ай бұрын

All lore related to the Xiomorns is fascinated

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

The unsung heroes of Pathfinder lore!

@kaisiegfried425 3 ай бұрын

I allways wanted to run a Mega dungeon in Pathfinder and looked at the Emeral Spire, thanks for this amazing Video. By the way did you ever look into Paizos early adventure Path bevore they Created Pathfinder, like for example "age of Worms"? If so were and when would you think they could be implimented into Golarion. I was thinking age of Worms could be Played in the River Kingdoms during the last year bevore Arodens death.

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

River Kingdoms would be a great setting for Age of Worms, and the "Free City" could easily become Daggermark.

@kaisiegfried425 3 ай бұрын

@@TheMythKeeper Would you be interested and maybe make a video about those early adventures because i feel that they got kinda forgotten over time.

@Thoendithas 3 ай бұрын

Is there a discord server? I love your videos and would love to chat with others who enjoy them too

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

I still feel relatively new to this content creator game (I've been making videos for less than two years) so I don't have a discord and I don't have a patreon yet, but those are things I'm definitely planning on doing in the future. The only way to support the channel right now is through the KZfaq membership which I set up a few months ago, which gives you early access to videos. As I start adding features to the channel, I'll make some announcements as I do so.

@Thoendithas 3 ай бұрын

@@TheMythKeeper well I can’t thank you enough for all the work you’ve done

@dougyoung4790 3 ай бұрын

They remind me a little of spellweavers.

@cynicgamer12 3 ай бұрын

Gaslight, gatekeep, geology. The Fossil King's philosophy. 🙏

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

Haha, that's right

@TheCodemasterc 3 ай бұрын

He's certainly on that Grind set...grindstone set specifically.

@joshuachapman247 3 ай бұрын

Thank you, just checking is there one on the Cyclops or the Serpent Empire?

@TheMythKeeper 3 ай бұрын

Not yet, but I can suggest some of my videos that cover these in a fair bit of detail. First start with the Western Mwangi Expanse video - that tells the most complete history of the two empires and their war. Second, you can check out my Northeast Avistan region video as well, which talks a little bit about the cyclopes who were exilied to Iblydos and eventually founded the Koloran Empire in the northern Casmaron. Cyclops are also discussed (though not their history so much) in my Giants Creature Feature. Finally I talk a little bit more about the Serpentfolk in next weeks video, all about the Darklands.

@joshuachapman247 3 ай бұрын

@@TheMythKeeper Thank you appreciated!