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ModronIn Welsh mythology, Modron ("divine mother") was a daughter of Avalloc, derived from the Gaul goddess Dea Matrona. She may have been the prototype of Morgan le Fay from Arthurian legend. She was the mother of Mabon.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, modrons are creatures native to Mechanus the Outer Plane of Law. Modrons are living creatures that resemble geometric shapes with humanoid limbs. They represent a living, physical manifestation of law without regard to good or evil, much as devils are a manifestation of law tainted with evil. In later (post-Gary Gygax) versions of Dungeons & Dragons, the Plane of Law was renamed from Nirvana to Mechanus and the modrons were changed into living clockwork creatures. Modrons have a strict heirarchy, with each rank reporting to the rank directly above it, and issuing commands to the ones ranking beneath it. For example, a quadrone modron will report to a pentadrone, and command several tridrones. But it will not recognize decatons or nonatons as being of the modron race. In the Planescape campaign setting, one can play as a rogue modron, a modron who has left Mechanus and broken his link to the other modrons. In the Third (3.0) and Revised (3.5) Editions of Dungeons & Dragons, modrons have largely faded from prominence, their place as the primary representatives of lawful neutrality taken by the antlike, expansionist Formians and the robot-like, implacable Inevitables. To date, they have received only a passing reference in the Manual of the Planes sourcebook, with a far more detailed explanation in the web enhancement. This is probably due to their rather comical appearance. The hierarchy of Modrons, ranked from lowest to highest, is as follows: | unction | | colspan="2"| Base Modrons | | onodrone | Basic tasks | | uodrone | Complex tasks | | ridrone | Many tasks, minor management | | uadrone | Many complex tasks, management | | entadrone | Law enforcement | | colspan="2"| Hierarch Modrons | | ecaton | Base modron welfare | | onaton | Law enforcement supervision | | cton | Sector governors | | epton | Inspection | | exton | Generals | | uinton | Bureau chiefs, record keeping | | uarton | Region governors | | ertian | Judges | | ecundus | Quarter governors | | rimus | Supreme ruler of all modrons | There are only limited numbers of hierarch Modrons in existence, there being only one Primus, four Secundi, nine Tertians, and so on. In order to keep this number stable, upon the demise of a Hierarch, one of a lower rank is promoted upwards, and the resulting void filled by another promotion, and so on. When the promotion reaches the Monodrone level, one of the Monodrones divides into two to fill the void left by the promotion of a Monodrone into a Duodrone.
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