Primus

"The Clockwork God"
Pantheon:	Near-Power
AoC:	Order, modrons
Home P/L/R:	Mechanus/Regulus

To tell the truth, Primus - the Clockwork God, patron of the modrons - is about equal to a greater power on his own merit. (Though Primus is above the distinction of gender, he's usually referred to as male.) But the only problem is that he's not worshipped, revered, or even acknowledged by most of his followers. See, each modron knows only of the others directly above and below it in rank. Thus, only the second-highest modrons - the secundi - are aware of Primus' existence.

Nonetheless, Primus runs a tight ship. He's the manifestation of order itself, the representation of all that Mechanus stands for. Under him, the modrons are expected to function at maximum efficiency, to advance the ideals of law, to spread that structure across the cosmos. Primus speaks only to his secundi, but his wishes are filtered down through the ranks.

The patron rules from Regulus, a vast realm on the plane of Mechanus. Portrayed as a pool of energy or a shimmering tower of light, Primus is the source of all modrons and the hive mind that directs their every action. Information must filter up and down the chain of command, but chant is Primus knows everything any modron knows.

Every time the gears of Mechanus complete 17 cycles (which figures out to 289 years as counted by the Guvners), Primus sends modrons off across the Outer Planes. Though the purpose of the Great Modron March is dark to most, bloods think it's to pick up chant on the current workings of the planes. Armed with such information, Primus and his alien logic grow even stronger. Knowledge is power, after all, and it's said that there are few secrets in the multiverse that Primus doesn't have locked away in his mind.