Cult of the Black Earth

The Cult of the Black Earth was a cult devoted to Ogrémoch and one of the four cults responsible of the Elemental Evil crisis.

Activities
The earth cult worshipped the implacable strength and unyielding resistance of elemental earth. Cultists search the power to eliminate all kinds of civilization using landslides, sinkholes, or mighty earthquakes, thus demonstrating the true power of elemental earth and the futility of resistance. Earth cultists saw mines, quarries, and tilled fields as injures upon the living rock and soil. They believed that the earth want the blood of those who didn't venerate it before all other powers and beings. The Cult of the Black Earth appealed to those who draw their fortunes from the earth—directly or indirectly. In areas where the influence of Elemental Evil takes hold, animals and monsters that lived or burrowed in the ground accepted the cultists as allies. Creatures such as ankhegs or bulettes, normally too stupid and ravenous to be trained, submitted to the will of the Black Earth. The monsters allowed themselves to be herded or ridden into battle against the enemies ofthe cult.

Tactics and Philosophy
The Black Earth cult was the most defense-minded and patient of the four elemental cults. Earth cultists admired stoicism, endurance, and unyielding resolve. They were deliberate and slow to act, careful to consider their plans and gathered their strength before beginning any new enterprise. Once earth cultists resolve to act, they were inflexible, grinding their way forward through any obstacle or unforeseen development. They were single-minded in the extreme, and most earth cultists had little use for social niceties. They see common courtesy as a way for the weak to put limits on the behavior of the strong, and they scorned empathy or friendship as weakness.

History
The start of the modern earth cult was when Marlos Urnrayle recovered one of the four elemental weapons crafted centuries before by the drow archmage and Elder Elemental Eye cultist Vizeran DeVir

All culminated in 1491 DR when at in the Fane of the Eye, under the ruined Dwarven city of Tyar-Besil, the same time of the other three elemental cults the earth cultists tried to evoke Ogrèmoch on Toril using members of a missing Mirabar diplomatic delegation and others captives as sacrifices. their efforts were however ruined by some adventurers.

Appearances

 * Princes of the Apocalypse