Elder Elemental Eye

Greyhawk Divinity

Elder Elemental Eye
Names and titles
Alias(es):	Tharizdun
General information
Portfolio:	Elemental evil
Home:	Demiplane of Imprisonment
Alignment:	Neutral evil
Gender:	Thought of as sexless
Rules items
Domains:	Air, Chaos, Earth, Evil, Fire, Madness, Water
Divine rank:	Intermediate

The Elder Elemental Eye, also known as the Elder Elemental God, is an aspect of Tharizdun created to mask his cult from the forces of Good, to draw in worshippers who might otherwise avoid Tharizdun's service, and to gain the alliance of the Princes of Elemental Evil. The symbol of the Elder Elemental Eye is an inverted Y within a black metal equilateral triangle, point down.

Description

The Elder Elemental Eye is described as a huge, mottled, tentacled being, or as a pillar of vast elemental force with a body of burning magma, radiating steam. How often it is able to manifest an avatar owes more to the waxing and waning of planar influences than its own will or the rituals of its priests. It also manifests itself as permanent phenomena in its oldest temples, including energy-draining tentacles emerging from altars and glowing golden eyes that cause blindness, madness, premature aging, or transform into eggs that hatch into berserk salamanders.

Relationships

The Princes of Elemental Evil—Cryonax, Imix, Ogrémoch, Olhydra, and Yan-C-Bin—believe the Elder Elemental Eye to be their forebear, a powerful entity who will elevate them to true godhood and give them domination over the Material Plane if only they can free it from its imprisonment. They do not realize that the Elder Elemental Eye is actually Tharizdun, for as ancient as they are, they are too young to recall the ancient war between Tharizdun and the other gods. They do not realize that their master's liberation would result in the destruction of themselves as well as the rest of the existence.

Realm

Tharizdun dwells in the Demiplane of Imprisonment. Hidden somewhere in the depths of the Ethereal Plane, the demiplane resembles a swollen, crystalline cyst nearly a mile in diameter. The ethereal substance surrounding the demiplane boils with the dreamscapes of the Elder Elemental Eye's worshipers and others whose dreams the dark god invades.

Dogma

Worshipers of the Elder Elemental Eye envision a future where the world has been consumed utterly by elemental chaos, floods, earthquakes, lava, and destructive winds destroying civilization until only the faithful survive.

Worshipers

Worship of the Elder Elemental Eye has been found among the drow, particularly house Eilserv and their mistress Eclavdra, and among fire giants and various beings of the Underdark, as well the evil elemental beings in the service of the elemental princes. In Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, the leaders of the cult were fully aware that they were were actually worshipping Tharizdun. Among the evils threatening New Empyrea, worship of the Princes of Elemental Evil is common.

Cults of the Eye sometimes work behind guises of seeming innocents. Worshippers of the earth aspect may infiltrate mining guilds, for example, initiating those they find most trustworthy into their cult while putting others into their debt by offering clerical services for a heavy price.

Clergy

Cultists of the Elder Elemental God work to free their imprisoned master, rediscover lost shrines, and sacrificing sentient beings to attract more of their master's power, including their own flocks or themselves. They seek out places of elemental power throughout the world which they transform into elemental nodes using special rituals. They wear ochre robes emblazoned with their deity's symbol.

Some of the Eye's priests dedicate themselves to a specific elemental aspect, while others emphasize all elements simultaneously. Those who worship the air aspect trim their robes with white, those who worship the earth aspect trim their robes with yellow and wear amulets festooned with gems and precious metals, those who worship the fire aspect trim their robes with red and carry jewelry enchanted with continual flame, while those who worship the water aspect trim their robes with deep blue and often carry small jugs filled with seawater.

The Elder Elemental Eye's favored weapon is the dagger, but some priests carry magical items known as tentacle rods, strange organic devices that grasp their victims in their tendrils, seemingly of their own accord.

Temples

The Elder Elemental Eye was worshipped in the Temple of All-Consumption until it was destroyed. Worshippers of the Elder Elemental God's air aspect built temples in high mountain peaks or even among the clouds. Worshippers of the earth aspect excavate temples deep beneath the surface of the world. Worshippers of the fire aspect build temples within volcanic tubes, but also migrate to regions afflicted with drought to burn and destroy.

Other elemental cults

Evil elemental cults mentioned in the article "Silent Sorcery" by Gary Holian include the Cult of the Black Flame, the Cult of the Earth Dragon, the "Lords of the Elder Elements," and the Princes of Elemental Evil. These cults all seek to release certain ancient evil beings of elemental nature.

See also

• Tharizdun

External link

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• Thoughts on the Elder Elemental God by Greyhawk Grognard.

References

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Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index

The Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index (EGI) is based on previous work of Jason Zavoda through '08, continued by numerous other fans. The EGI article has a list of sources, product names, abbreviations, and a link to the full, downloadable index.

Topic	Type	Description	Product	Page/Card/Image
Elder Elemental Eye	Deity	(Tharizdun?),	Caves of Ancient Secrets: RttToEE Web Enhancement, D&D 3.0e	2
Elder Elemental Eye	Deity	(Tharizdun?),	Dragon magazine #294	31
Elder Elemental Eye	Deity	(Tharizdun?),	Dragon magazine #347	76
Elder Elemental Eye	Deity	(Tharizdun?),	Reference	SEE ALSO Eldar Elemental God
Elder Elemental Eye	Deity	(Tharizdun?),	Reference	SEE ALSO Tharizdun
Elder Elemental Eye	Deity	(Tharizdun?),	Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, D&D 3.0e	2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 16, 19, 21, 23, 24, 27, 29, 30, 40, 43, 44, 45, 48, 52, 61, 62, 63, 67, 71, 75, 77, 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 89, 90, 98, 100
Elder Elemental Eye, Cult of	People Group	Cult,	Into The Unknown: The Dungeon Survival Handbook, D&D 4e	110, 111
Specialty Priest of Elder Elemental Eye	People Group	Religious order,	Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, D&D 3.0e	161
The Air temple (The Elder Elemental God Pentology)	Adventure	Located in: Jotens,	To be determined
The Earth temple (The Elder Elemental God Pentology)	Adventure	Located in: Lortmils,	To be determined
The Elemental crypt (The Elder Elemental God Pentology)	Adventure	Located in: Rushmoor,	To be determined
The Fire temple (The Elder Elemental God Pentology)	Adventure	Located in: Yatils,	To be determined
The Water temple (The Elder Elemental God Pentology)	Adventure	Located in: Wild coast (Wooly bay),	To be determined