Pharasma's herald is known as the Steward of Skein, a linked pair of ghaele-like beings. Pharasma employs a number of unusual immortal beings as servants. She wears a dark, hooded, robe-like dress and holds an hourglass filled with red sand. Pharasma is most often depicted as an ashen-skinned female humanoid with white eyes. Urgathoa and her followers are the closest she has to an enemy. Iomedae still bears a slight grudge against her for not revealing Aroden's impending death. Pharasma remains neutral in almost all aspects towards other deities. Some legends say that Pharasma knew the death of Aroden was approaching, but chose not to tell her followers for reasons unknown. It's a time of change for Pharasma and her faith. Many of Pharasma's priests have lost their faith or have gone mad as a result, but those who remain, are finding that Pharasma's hold over prophecy is becoming less important, while her domain over death, birth, and fate, are growing stronger. His death was not prophesied, and once he died, most of the other prophecies in the world started to go bad as well. The death of Aroden, the first of the ascended gods, at the end of the Age of Enthronement 100 years ago was extremely unexpected. Sometime after, Urgathoa's escape from the Boneyard and return to the Material Plane, brought undead and disease to the world. As the goddess of death and Birth, she abhors the undead and considers them a perversion.Ĭounted among the original gods that opposed Rovagug. Pharasma is also the goddess of birth and prophecy: from the moment a creature is born, she sees what its ultimate fate will be, but reserves final judgement until that soul finally stands before her. Pharasma makes no decision on whether a death is just or not she views all with a cold and uncaring attitude, and decides on which of the Outer Planes a soul will spend eternity. Upon death, souls migrate to Pharasma's Boneyard in the Outer Sphere, which sits atop an impossibly tall spire that pierces the Astral Plane. "The Lady of Graves", ( fah-RAZ-mah) is the goddess who shepherds Golarion's recently-departed souls to their final reward.
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