Olovald

"Though we have all but forgotten him and the priests of Manaan have degraded him, he still honours his ancient promise to his people."

- Sister Hilaria of St Olovald's, Suiddock

Few outside of Suiddock have heard of Olovald, Spirit of the Delta, Lord of the Water's Bounty, other than as a more-or-less important saint of the cult of Manaan. His one church is a run-down building in Suiddock, unknown by anyone except the locals, and even the hierarchy of Manaan barely knows it is there.

However, ancient records in vaults of the cults of Manaan and Verena record that, in the centuries after the founding of the city, the cult of Olovald was a separate and thriving entity, its priests important advisors to the early kings and barons. Long-forgotten documents attest that it was Olovald who spoke to Marius in his dream and bade him bring his people to the delta; he who taught his priests the art of fishing and survival, and Olovald's priests who learned to craft the Marienburgers' first ocean-going vessels.

After the Imperial conquest, as they travelled farther out on the seas and grew wealthy from it, Marienburgers gradually turned from the worship of Olovald to the Empire-sanctioned cult of Manaan. In the year 1010, a council of Manaan's priests declared that Olovald was really a saint of the cult, subservient to Manaan. The old churches of Olovald were taken over and turned into shrines to Morr, his remaining priests absorbed into the greater cult, and history was rewritten.

But worship of Olovald the god continues to this day. A small but active cult exists in all strata of society among those who have heard his call in their dreams, even among some of Manaan's priests. They must be careful in professing their beliefs, though, since assertion of his divinity and denial of the Council of 1010 is tantamount to heresy. And the punishment for heresy in the cult of Manaan is keelhauling.

Source
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 * Warhammer Fantasy RPG 1st ED -- Marienburg: Sold Down the River
 * pg. 48