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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8419874" data-attributes="member: 42582">I really don't know what you're talking about.Boxed set campaign guide, pp 27, 57:In addition to the many evil clerics, thieves, fighters, assassins, and magic-users who have gathered under the grim banner of Iuz, numbers of the foulest tribes of humanoids have grown in strength and are ready to march. Goblins, orcs, and hobgoblins in the thousands are known to be in arms, selling the human contingents of Iuz's armies. . . . Iuz rules a portion of Oerth . . . Few creatures beyond the boundaries of this domain will speak his name, let alone adore him. . . . There is great enmity between Iuz and St Cuthbert. This is carried on by the servants of Iuz and St Cuthbert's followers as well.From the Ashes Atlas of the Flanaess, pp 29, 94:Terrifying tales circulate about events in the lands of Iuz. His priests are known to carry ebony staves tipped with silver and bound skulls . . . A steady stream of victims from all the new lands subject to Iuz's rule is herded towards Dorakaa along the Highway of Skulls. The nature of their dispatch does not bear thinking about. .  .. Senior priests are now token rulers of many provinces of Iuz's expanded domain, although Iuz holds them responsible for events therein, so this is a mixed blessing.Iuz the Evil, pp 4, 6, 7, 15:In his homeland, Iuz has total control of the evil bandits and humanoids who dwell therein. . .  In some lands humanoids form the majority; in others, this is not so. .  .. The role of fiends differs greatly from land to land also, and while in some lands humans are used as slaves and sacrifices only, in other Iuz's forces still seek to draw evil (or at least non-good) people into their fold. . . . The control problem takes different forms. Sometimes, it is simply making sure that chaotic or poorly-disciplined humanoids don't disobey orders . . . Iuz's priesthood, and sometimes a fiend or two, are given this duty and generally they discharge it well enough. . . . Iuz has been able to rise in power so swiftly in part because no great Power of Oerth has struck out against him. There is an important reason for this. Iuz has the Prime Material as his home plane, and Oerth as his home world within that plane. Other Powers dwell elsewhere and look over many worlds on the Prime Material. Thus, they do not give Oerth the undivided attention Iuz does, and it is almost a Law of the Powers that they do not intervene directly in the Prime Material to strike at a deity which has its being there. . . . So, Iuz has his own domain and other Powers cannot, or choose not to, act against him. . . . Priest of Iuz rule by fear over the slaves, humanoids, non-priestly human servitors of Iuz, least fiends, and even lesser fiends if the priest is powerful enough. . . . In the lands where Iuz has a firm grip, a chronic state of fear runs through the priesthood. Each fears his senior and feels unable to act against them . . . [T]he term "Land of Iuz" is used to denote the original heartland of the Old One. . . .  The priesthood of Iuz rules this land. . . . everyone knows who's in command here.The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, p 58:Iuz, Empire of . . . Religion: Iuz . . . all others are aggressively suppressed, particularly cults of Nerull and Vecna, and any Good religions . . .I think it's pretty clear that there are many clerics/priests of Iuz. They rule his land(s) through fear. Control over the evil dwellers in Iuz's heartland/homeland is total.We're not told how sincere any of this is. But sincerity doesn't seem like an integral part of the worship of a chaotic evil demigod who rules through fear.</blockquote>

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