Vara
| Vara | |
|---|---|
 Vara's holy symbol, as depicted in The Scarlet Brotherhood (1999). | |
| General information | |
| Portfolio: | Nightmares, Fear |
| Home: | Material Plane |
| Alignment: | Neutral evil (lawful evil tendencies) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Superior: | Meyanok |
| Rules items | |
| Domains: | Destruction, Dream, Evil, Trickery |
| Divine rank: | Demigoddess |
Vara is the Touv goddess of Nightmares and Fear. Her symbol is a necklace of mummified animal feet.
Description
Vara prefers to be depicted as a Touv woman with red eyes and stars in her hair.
Relationships
Vara is the first child of Meyanok, and considers herself to be superior to her younger brother Damaran and younger sister Berna. She uses her status as the eldest to compel them to do her bidding. Like her father, Vara loathes the other Touv gods, and revels in the act of twisting their minds.
Realm
Like the other Touv gods, Vara dwells on the Material Plane.
Dogma
Vara's dogma involves inflicting misery, oppression, and terror on all others.
Worshipers
Clergy
Priests and shamans of Vara enforce their control through fear and oppression, though those who enjoy making others miserable sometimes follow them willingly. Vara's clergy are tyrants and bullies; often they act to enforce the desires of a cruel leader. They have an affinity toward illusions and phantasms. Their favored weapon is the javelin and they may also wield the atl-atl, club, dagger, and short sword. They may wear any nonmetal armor.
Myths and legends
Breeka's dreams
When she was newly hatched, Vara visited her grandmother Breeka's troubled sleep, and wracked her with nightmares. Breeka, goddess of living things, vomited forth her terrifying dreams, which hid in the shadows and between the trees to make the land full of dangers at night from then on, those twisted creatures and plants that plague the world to these days as living nightmares.
Bibliography
- Conforti, Steven, ed. Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, version 2.0. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2005. Available online:[1]
- Reynolds, Sean K. The Scarlet Brotherhood. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1999.
Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index
The Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index (EGI) is based on previous work of Jason Zavoda through '08, continued by numerous other fans. The EGI article has a list of sources, product names, abbreviations, and a link to the full, downloadable index.
| Topic | Type | Description | Product | Page/Card/Image
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Korvaras Van | Non-player character | [Wiz2/Clr1], | Escape from Scant, RPGA | 3, 8, 9 |
| Krevaradan | Non-player character | Living Greyhawk Journal #2 | 30 | |
| Krevaradan | Non-player character | Living Greyhawk Journal #3 | 29, 30 | |
| Krevaradan | Non-player character | Living Greyhawk Journal #4 | 30 | |
| Vara (Touv) | Deity | Bastion of Faith | 42 | |
| Vara (Touv) | Deity | The Scarlet Brotherhood | 39-41, 51 | |
| Varachan {Verachan} | Non-player character | Elf, [3e C12], | Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, D&D 3.0e | 39, 123, 124, 125, 183 |
| Varanais (Vigilance) (Merman) (Conatha) | Settlement | SJR6 Greyspace | 45 |