The Elder Elemental Eye
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.
Structure
The Elder Elemental Eye is a group consisting of the highest ranking clergy that have risen above the ranks of the outer (lower) groups. There are four outer groups, those being of the Temples of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth (starting with the most powerful and continuing to the least influential). At the top is the demon lord Zuggtmoy, who the Temples all gain power from. Zuggtmoy is imprisoned, and thus willingly gives her power to these clerics of the Eye in hopes that one day she will be let free from her prison snare. This goal however, is not the goal of most of the temple leaders, who would rather keep her powers and rule with her trapped and hidden away from the world.
Public Agenda
The Elder Elemental Eye's main goal is to free Zuggtmoy. But as her imprisoned state is the reason for the clerics having power, the upper echelons of the group actively work to keep her imprisoned while trying to fool her that they are working on freeing the evil deity.
Assets
Structures and Locations
- Temple of All Consumption
Items of Importance
Tenets of Faith
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.Priesthood
Worship of the Elder Elemental Eye has been found among the Drow, and among fire giants and various beings of the Underdark, as well the evil elemental beings in the service of the elemental princes.
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.
While fragmented and in disarray, the Elder Elemental Eye does have one uniform rank amungst all its factions. This rank being the Doomdreamer, the rank given to the highest members of extremely powerful or influential lessor cults like the Cult of the Crushing Wave.
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.
Type
Religious, Cult
Alternative Names
Burning Eye, Eye of Fire, Elder Eye
Leader
Leader Title
Subsidiary Organizations
Divines
Location
Controlled Territories
Manufactured Items
Related Items
Notable Members
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