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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowdweller00" data-source="post: 6580414" data-attributes="member: 6778479">The Elder Elemental Eye seems to be based to a significant extent upon Tharizdun and the Elemental cults in previous editions.&nbsp; Aside from the links and information provided above, my understanding of the situation is essentially this:&nbsp; D&amp;D worlds typically have a sort of thing where prayer, worship, and sacrifice increases the power of the deity so worshipped.&nbsp; Tharizdun was a deity devoted to the destruction of the cosmos, a theme that does not appeal to many beings in the multiverse.&nbsp; Madness and nihilism were also longstanding themes associated with the deity.&nbsp; On top of this, Tharizdun had been bound in a prison plane (and forced into eternal sleep) by a strained alliance of the other gods early in the process of creation and could only reach out to influence the multiverse through indirect means - such as dreams.&nbsp; So Tharizdun (and his worshippers) were forced to find ways to gain support, prayer, and sacrifices through subterfuge - both because few individuals would willingly worship such a being and because if plots to provide him with power were discovered by the other deities it would result in the rapid destruction of any devotees involved. One of Tharizdun's plots had been to masquerade as another being - this Elder Elemental Eye (or Elder Elemental God).&nbsp; He had whispered through dreams to a number of elemental lords (or archomentals) that he was their father or creator and used this deception to get them to use their power for his ends.&nbsp; Essentially making them believe that any power they granted him served their own purposes.&nbsp; Tharizdun's followers set up a sort of elemental religion, with the princes of elemental evil serving as proxies both to destroy and to channel power back to Tharizdun himself.In Princes of the Apocalypse, the true identity of the Elder Elemental Eye has been left deliberately vague but the major themes remain:&nbsp; A central deity devoted to madness and destruction that is secretly deceiving followers into feeding he/she/it power and following his/her/its destructive agenda.&nbsp; The whole &quot;free the bound deity&quot; thing isn't directly present, but one could easily introduce it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shadowdweller00, post: 6580414, member: 6778479"] The Elder Elemental Eye seems to be based to a significant extent upon Tharizdun and the Elemental cults in previous editions. Aside from the links and information provided above, my understanding of the situation is essentially this: D&D worlds typically have a sort of thing where prayer, worship, and sacrifice increases the power of the deity so worshipped. Tharizdun was a deity devoted to the destruction of the cosmos, a theme that does not appeal to many beings in the multiverse. Madness and nihilism were also longstanding themes associated with the deity. On top of this, Tharizdun had been bound in a prison plane (and forced into eternal sleep) by a strained alliance of the other gods early in the process of creation and could only reach out to influence the multiverse through indirect means - such as dreams. So Tharizdun (and his worshippers) were forced to find ways to gain support, prayer, and sacrifices through subterfuge - both because few individuals would willingly worship such a being and because if plots to provide him with power were discovered by the other deities it would result in the rapid destruction of any devotees involved. One of Tharizdun's plots had been to masquerade as another being - this Elder Elemental Eye (or Elder Elemental God). He had whispered through dreams to a number of elemental lords (or archomentals) that he was their father or creator and used this deception to get them to use their power for his ends. Essentially making them believe that any power they granted him served their own purposes. Tharizdun's followers set up a sort of elemental religion, with the princes of elemental evil serving as proxies both to destroy and to channel power back to Tharizdun himself. In Princes of the Apocalypse, the true identity of the Elder Elemental Eye has been left deliberately vague but the major themes remain: A central deity devoted to madness and destruction that is secretly deceiving followers into feeding he/she/it power and following his/her/its destructive agenda. The whole "free the bound deity" thing isn't directly present, but one could easily introduce it. [/QUOTE]

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