Cult of Cyric
The Cult of Cyric is the name given to the various organized followers of Cyric, the god of lies, trickery, and strife.
Ethics
Cyric was viewed by his devotees as the only true divine sovereign in all of Faerûnian cosmology, one that had been a god throughput the entirety of existence (despite acknowledgement of his brief life as a mortal). They believed that his holy word— the One True Way—must be spread across all the Realms by any means necessary. Authority figures were only to be obeyed so long as they maintained order, otherwise should slain in Cyric's name. Anyone that opposed the One True Way, especially the faithful of any other deities, were to be exterminated and strife sown amidst the circumstances of their deaths. Rather than cause outright bedlam, Cyricist clergy sought to make examples of the One's enemies, to others fearful of his inevitable control over their existence
Sects
One notable sect of the Cult of Cyric were the followers of Cyric operating in Clearhallow from around 1398 to 1498, though their presence would not be felt by most of the surrounding community until the late 1440's.
This cult emerged from the discovery of a cursed crystal touched by Cyric himself that converted any who touched it into followers of Cyric, though the further a person was aligned to Cyric naturally the more zombie-like they became.
Upon the discovery of this crystal, the original followers of the cult built a temple in secret to hide it, before their influence, and that of the dark nature of the crystal, began permeating the local area, resulting in the Curse of Clearhallow. For the next several decades, the cult would bolster its membership by forcibly converting the various adventuring companies that arrived to break the curse into their membership.
In Ches of 1498, this sect of the cult was destroyed by the Unstompables, when the adventuring party successfully destroyed the crystal enslaving most of the cult's members. The remaining cult members were successfully driven from town.
by Wizards of the Coast
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