Shrines and temples devoted to Ghaunadaur were foul. Ghaunadaur didn't care much about the bonds that held its clergy together, and in accordance with his doctrine, clerics that murdered each other to attain higher status didn't displease the Ancient Eye. Many clerics also took training as fighters or enchanters. These were mostly shades of purple, green, black, and metallic colors. All cloth furnishing in the temple and the clothing worn by its worshipers had to be of colors that please Ghaunadaur's eye. Ghaunadaur encouraged its clerics to familiarize themselves with using and creating acids, poisons and alchemist's fire. Those clerics that succeeded in bringing willing sacrifices to Ghaunadaur's altars were its most favored and highest ranked servants. Ghaunadaur enjoyed most of all those creatures that willingly offered themselves to it, whether or not they had been charmed or coerced by its clerics.

Clerics successful in these sacrifices were rewarded with magic power and items. The main duty of Ghaundaur's clerics was to ensure, in any way necessary, that Ghaunadaur's altars were supplied with a steady supply of sacrifices. Clerics of Ghaunadaur were required to serve the Elder Eye completely and do whatever pleased it most. Ghaunadaur also had an aspect in the tanar'ri lord Juiblex and enjoyed the worship of that guise's demonic cults. There were only a few drow and aboleth cities that served as exceptions, with a more organized clergy. The church of Ghaunadaur consisted of cults scattered throughout the Underdark, each dominated by a single individual. He was an enemy of nearly every god associated with the Underdark as well as the entire Seldarine (for being a member of the Dark Seldarine), Malar and Gargauth (whom he had usurped the aspect of Gormauth Souldrinker from).Ī priest of Ghaunadaur wearing his church's ceremonial garb. The archomental Bwimb and the deity Moander were his allies, though they were both dead by the end of the 14th century Dale Reckoning.Ĭonversely, Ghaunadaur's list of foes was extensive. Ghaunadaur was thought to have no allies, but certainly, this was not always true. When communicating Ghaunadaur used telepathy and kept its conversations blunt and simple. When Ghaunadaur left the Inner Planes he was always silent, but some old records mention a gibbering and bestial language being spoken in the god's court. Ghaunadaur enjoyed watching large horrible monsters as they hunted and devoured their prey, causing much suffering. False worshipers were sometimes rewarded by it, occasionally even with permanent magical boons, but they might just as well have been devoured by the Elder Eye without a second thought.

Said symbol could appear as a demonstration of favor or could be found in ancient spaces devoted to the Lord of Slime. ManifestationsĪlthough he was usually represented with an eye engraved in a purple disk, older manifestations could take shape in the form of a 'Y'. In avatar form, Ghaunadaur appeared as a reddish-purple giant slug, but at will it can alter its form into an amorphous free-flowing shape like a jelly, rear up into a giant roper with up to 10 long purple tentacles, or appear as a sticky green substance that emerges from the ground.

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