The Mad Clergies were an alliance of remnants of the Clergy of Gaea and the Clergy of Heath which survived to the Third Age despite the deaths of their patron goddesses. The clerics devised a plan to bring back their deities to the Land of the Living by using a complex ritual and return them to godhood to bring balance to the world. However, their plan was jeopardized when one of their members betrayed them during the summoning ritual. The clerics and the mole perished in the end but not before the high cleric managed to entrust the resurrected body of Gaea to the care of Osmond Cordae Locke who was appointed as her guardian.