![]() ![]() In both cases, the influence was supposed to subtly lead toward Tharizdun's broad goals. Similarly, Tharizdun, sensing opportunity in what Obann wanted, allowed Obann to imagine into being a manifestation of Tharizdun's influence in the form of the " Angel of Irons". Meanwhile, the re-formation of Cognouza into a broken collection of many minds had caught Tharizdun's attention, and the mad god helped Cognouza along and influenced the form it took. By 812 PD, the drow of Ruhn-Shak were on the edge of utter dissolution, tearing themselves apart with paranoia-driven violence and trying ever more desperately to clamp down on the chaos. In Tal'Dorei, Tharizdun took advantage of Lolth's reduced influence: it began to whisper to the drow nobility, and its aberrations subtly besieged the drow civilization in the darkness. When Lolth was banished early in the Calamity, her drow fled the surface world to rebuild underground. No one knows how few shackles must remain to keep it at bay. It is feared that the nature of Tharizdun, being unlike the other divinities, could shatter the Divine Gate alone if unleashed. The locations of each shackle fane are closely guarded secrets within the highest clergy of the Dawnfather and the Knowing Mistress, although one is located in the crypt deep beneath the Chantry of the Dawn in Rexxentrum. It is said that six sets of divine shackles hold the Chained Oblivion at the bottom of Abyss, their power anchored somewhere in Exandria. ![]() ĭuring that last chase before its banishment, a fragment of the Chained Oblivion's power fell into the ocean in the newly formed Shearing Channel, gestating for eons, and eventually mutated a kraken living there. Acek was rumored to be so suffused with his master's power that the divine banishment tore the priest's body apart. Badly defeated and wounded, Tharizdun retreated to Acek Orattim's realm, but Pelor chased and banished Tharizdun there, beneath Gatshadow. With the blessing of Avandra, four Prime Trammels were attached to Tharizdun, and Pelor prevailed in a spectacularly violent battle with the mad god. Ioun baited Tharizdun to her central temple, resulting in her near-destruction and causing her temple to sink beneath the earth in her sorrow. Moradin used the Core Anvil to craft the Prime Trammels used in the Rites of Prime Banishment. One of the climactic fights of the war came about when the Prime Deities sought to banish Tharizdun. Official art of Pelor battling Tharizdun, by Svetoslav Petrov from Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting, p. Tharizdun was released once more onto the Material Plane during the Calamity, causing untold destruction and chaos. Official art of Ioun battling Tharizdun, by Wesley Griffith. Tharizdun forged a reality-warping stone dagger called the Blade of Broken Mirrors using the life force of a glabrezu. īefore the Calamity, the Betrayer Gods each forged a sentient weapon with the life force of a greater fiend: the Arms of the Betrayers. From Gatshadow, Orattim spread his evil corruption across the region. The priest channeled Tharizdun's power, causing Gatshadow to grow notably in height compared to the other Cliffkeep Mountains and grow a maze of tunnels within. ĭuring the Age of Arcanum, a priest of Tharizdun, Acek Orattim, made his base in Gatshadow Mountain, under which the Chained Oblivion had been imprisoned since the Founding. In the battles that followed, the Prime Deities locked Tharizdun away securely, or so they thought. During the age of the Founding, the Primordials' slaughter of the mortal races the creator gods had formed drew the attention of the demons of the Abyss, who poured into the world to feast on the carrion. Tharizdun is an ancient entity, possibly older than even the other gods. It is a primal, subconscious force of annihilation that insidiously corrupts what it can to undermine everything, opportunistically masquerading in the forms of what other minds desire, and seeping in to twist those minds' intent and perspective toward Tharizdun's own destructive ends. Its "mind" is profoundly alien, and does not carefully form complicated plots. Tharizdun is not best understood as a god like the others. ![]() While the other entities in the Pantheon have different interpretations of how they are depicted in artwork, tapestries, and tomes, every record of Tharizdun is amorphous and without physical manifestation. It is endless, black, inky, filled with teeth and malice, laughter and hatred. Tharizdun is depicted, if at all, as "a creature of rolling, hungry ink and darkness", a spreading cloud of lightless destruction. ![]()
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