Dour and morose, Gar Shatterkeel is the water prophet of Elemental Evil, and the leader of the Crushing Wave cult. He is embittered by a life of suffering at the hands of others—pirates killed his family when he was young, he was forced into servitude aboard a merchant ship, and then another band of pirates left him to die on the open sea, where he lost his arm to a shark. Gar has come to hate all humankind, and sees the elemental power of water as the only thing of value in his life.