Half-orc Shamans and mystics rising in activity in the North, fanatically devout to Talos, the god of Storms and Destruction.
(An anchorite is a "religious recluse").
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Anchorites_of_Talos
Activities have included:
- Stealing the egg left in Venomfang's care by Vorgansharax (and delegated to the Cult of the Dragon, from whom it was taken).
- Attacking the logging camp east of Thundertree, using Unknowns.
- Operating the Tower of Storms, a lighthouse north of Leilon whose light draws ships to crash on the reefs. Moesko the priest there was attacked, unkillable, then later defeated by Favored Few who destroyed the beacon.
- Sending Gorthok the Thunder Boar to menace threats in the Neverwinter Wood from their summoning location at the Circle of Thunder.
- Fheralai Stormswornrecking the Death Knight Dreadnought of Ularan Mortus, trying to take it for their own pirate fleet, resulting in calling up a Unknown to founder the ship.
See also: Cult of Talos