Editing Sunnis (section)

==3rd Edition==
As with [[Chan]], Sunnis' lore in 3e is mostly an expansion of her lore from 2e.

This gentle archomental leads an existence of quiet contemplation, doting over her many servants and followers as cherished children. Whilst she spends much of her time in the Sandfall, a fortress built within a large cavern shaped like the bottom half of an hourglass, with a great column of sand endlessly falling into the chamber only to drain away in a bottomless pit, she works hard to oppose the ministrations of evil. She is renowned for both her inner and her outer beauty, and has attracted many suitors, but remains stoic to all their advances.

Of all the goodly archomentals, Sunnis may have the largest array of followers. Aside from the expected [[elemental]]s and their variants, including [[oread]]s and earth [[mephit]]s, her subjects include [[dwarves]], [[gnomes]], [[gulgar]]s, earth [[genasi]], [[stonechild]]ren, and hammer [[archon]]s. She also has strong alliances with the deities of the [[Morndinsamman|dwarven]] and [[Gnome#Gnomish_Religion|gnomish]] pantheons, as well as [[Skoreaus Stonebones]], the patron god of the [[Stone Giant|stone]] [[giant]]s.

She needs the help. Sunnis tirelessly battles against the [[genie|dao]], viewing them as brutal and heartless taskmasters who are undeserving of the wealth they so callously spend lives to acquire. She battles rival archomentals in Crystalle, of the Plane of Mineral, and Alu Kahn Sang, the Wind of Destruction, from Dust. The [[Demon Prince]]s [[Ugudenk]] and [[Zuggtmoy]] are both ancient enemies of hers, as is the [[Arch-Devil]] Dispater.

But her truest hate is reserved for her rival, [[Ogremoch]]. The Plane of Earth shall know no peace until one or the other is destroyed. Even during the ancient War of Chaos and Law, in which Sunnis alone amongst her compatriots of the Goodly Archomentals fought on the side of Law throughout the entire war, the two opposed each other. It was Sunnis who prevented Ogremoch from interfering in a crucial battle, allowing the [[Rod of Seven Parts]] to be used to defeat [[Miska the Wolf-Spider]].

Stories also claim that Sunnis once did battle against the [[Tarrasque]], and that it was her use of a powerful artifact called the Sands of Slumber that forced the beast into its present cycle of prolonged dormancy.

Known as the True Stone and as Lode Mother, Sunnis' symbol is an hourglass with sand trickling into the bottom bulb.

Sunnis featured alongside her fellow Goodly Archomentals in [[Dragon Magazine]] #353.