Their goal is to bring together all of his artifacts, and to free the Ebon God from his imprisonment, where he will destroy the multiverse. Many follow him in the optimistic belief that he will spare his loyal servants when he destroys the multiverse. Tharizdun's followers are highly secretive, and his temples are well hidden. Unable to act upon the world directly, he dispenses his power from cover identities and aspects, such as the Elder Elemental Eye responsible for the infamous Temple of Elemental Evil. Many cults are unaware that the entity that they worship is Tharizdun. Contact with the imprisoned Dark God is only possible in proximity to one of his remaining artifacts or forgotten unholy sites, and even then his blessings come at the cost of madness. Tharizdun's few followers are almost all insane, and those who are not are extremely dangerous. Tharizdun's clerics cannot draw power from him unless they are in contact with an artifact such as these.
For example, there are believed to be 333 Gems of Tharizdun, each an minor unholy artifact. įollowers place great importance on the number three. The clergy of Tharizdun preach that all things eventually crumble, and in time Tharizdun's victory over the gods will be complete. The rest of his religion consists of a sporadic collection of terrible holy texts, secretly guarded even from other sects and detailing terrible rituals and extraplanar horrors. "Light must be snuffed, perfection decayed, order dissolved, and minds fragmented." Tharizdun's followers are united by a single ancient creed, found inscribed within one of his dark pyramids: Tharizdun is a evil god of eternal darkness, decay, destruction, entropy, malign knowledge, and insanity. Tharizdun is known by one name or another across countless worlds. No beings have encountered Tharizdun for over a millennium, and his alignment can only be inferred from that of his insane followers. Historically, he has been considered Neutral Evil. With his goal of destruction, Tharizdun is Chaotic Evil. Contact with the deity brings insanity and death, and no accurate surviving descriptions or depictions of him remain. Unlike most deities of Oerth, who take humanoid shape, Tharizdun appears as a dark, amorphous form reminiscent of a sentient sphere of annihilation.
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