DnD Gods: Tharizdun

Tharizdun doesn't get a chapter in most Forgotten Realms books. He gets a footnote, a whisper, and a very large lock.

This episode digs into the Chained God: the interloper deity who wandered in from Oerth, went irretrievably mad, and, depending on which edition you're reading, planted the seed that grew into the Abyss. We trace his fall, his imprisonment by the same gods who couldn't stomach what he'd built, and the alias he wears when he wants something done: the Elder Elemental Eye.

Then there's the Toril problem. Tharizdun isn't a Faerûnian god, but he keeps turning up anyway. A cult in western Chessenta in 1340 DR that hired bandits and consorted with demons before an alliance wiped it out. The plague demon Murmur seeding a new order inside the Firestorm Cabal in 1479 DR. The elemental cults of the Dessarin Valley that became Princes of the Apocalypse. Plus the permanent confusion with Ghaunadaur, who also answers to Elder Eye, because naming things is hard.

And the dogma, or what passes for it. Tharizdun has been mad and chained so long he can't actually tell anyone what he wants. His worshippers get shrieking babble and have to interpret. What they've landed on: channel him power, recover his relics, and unmake the world so he can walk out.

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