Cult of the Crushing Wave

The Cult of the Crushing Wave was a cult devoted to Olhydra and one of the four cults responsible of the Elemental Evil crisis.

Activities
The water cult were fascinated by the crushing of the sea and the raging torrents of rivers in flood and the rock-crushing power of ice and glaciers. They believed that all living creatures were only water imprisoned in a involucre and their duty was broke those involucres in order to permit to seas and deep waters to reclaim those parts of themselves, usually drowning them or shedding their blood.

The Crushing Wave cult usually recruited to those who lived in or near bodies of water, as well as to those who appreciated subtlety and inevitability. Wicked sea creatures such as aquatic ghouls and merrows usually followed water cultists's commands and even non-sentient predators such as sharks or octopuses protected and served them.

Tactics and Philosophy
Water cultists' main personality traits were patient and stoic like earth cultists. They know the value of understood outlasting formidable foes and slowly eroding their defenses. Different from earth cultists, they were more adaptable and opportunistic. The water cultists always search the weak point or an opening and concentrated their effort in start from that point to gradually enlarge. This attitude for pragmatism and opportunism attired in the cult the most large numbers of mercenaries of the four elemental cults. Water cultists were always in search for treasures and loot to financed their schemes.

History
The start of the modern earth cult was when Gar Shatterkeel 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 water cultists tried to evoke Olhydra 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