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{{Deity
|image        = [[Image:Heward01.jpg|250px]]
|caption      = Heward, as depicted in ''[[dragmag|Dragon]]'' #71 (1983).
|name         = 
|alt_spelling = 
|titles       = 
|home         = [[Material Plane]] (principally)
|rank         = Hero-deity
|gender       = Male
|class        = Magic-User 10, Illusionist 10, Bard 20
|alignment    = Neutral Good
|portfolio    = Bards, Musicians
|domains      = Good, Knowledge, Travel
|alt_name     = none
|super        = unknown
}}
'''Heward''' is the hero-god of Bards and Musicians. Heward is notable not only for his musical prowess, but also for his technological skills.

His alignment has been given as both Neutral Good and (originally) as Neutral (Good). Heward's holy symbol can be any musical instrument. 

==Description==
Heward appears as a human male of uncertain age--both youthful and elderly at once. He is lively, athletic, strong, and quick, with rosy cheeks and a wrinkled forehead. His bald head is offset by a small beard and luxurious mustache of sandy brown. He tends to dress either shabbily, or in fine garb which is long out of style. However, if he wishes to go unnoticed, Heward can appear quite nondescript. He seldom carries weapons or wears armor. He often carries pitch pipes and tuning forks, which aid him in his travels to other planes.

==Relationships==
Heward was a member of [[Zagig Yragerne]]'s [[Company of Seven]]. He was among the adventurers who helped imprison [[Iuz]]. Heward is distantly related to both Zagig and [[Mordenkainen]], and often visits the latter. Although he is most often alone, he can occasionally be found in the company of [[Celestian]], [[Fharlanghn]], [[Keoghtom]], Mordenkainen, [[Murlynd]], or [[Zagyg]].

==Realm==
Heward's eccentric dwelling is said to be extradimensional in nature, far, far bigger inside than it appears from outside, and a nexus between many alternate worlds, planes, and times. He once dwelled in a building in [[Greyhawk City]]'s Thieves Quarter known as Odd House or "Hew's Place," but has not lived there in many years. It still retains portals to other planes, however. He currently explores the planes from a variety of homes and strongholds across the multiverse.

==Dogma==

==Worshipers==
===Clergy===
Heward's priests favor quarterstaves and daggers.

==History==
Heward adventured with the Company of Seven, joining them on the expedition to [[Veralos]] in 318 [[Common Year|CY]]. He lived in the Thieves' Quarter in the [[Free City of Greyhawk]] for a time, associating with Zagig and teaching music, but he vanished shortly before Zagig did in 421 CY, abandoning his home there. He has not been seen or heard from since 505 CY, when he helped imprison Iuz beneath Greyhawk Castle. Recently (since 576 CY) he ascended from quasi-deity to hero-deity status, gaining priests and worshippers. 

==Associated magic items==
''Heward's Handy Haversack'' is a magic item that appears as a leather backpack with a number of pouches.  Each such pouch can hold far more material than it would appear to be capable of, as each one opens into a separate extradimensional space.

Heward is also known for his [[Heward's Mystical Organ|Mystical Organ]] and his ''fortifying bedroll'', which helps a mage (or anyone else) get a good night's sleep. Other magic items created by Heward include ''Heward's bell'', which keeps time and summons extraplanar creatures, and ''Heward's lyre of truth'', a musical instrument that effects both truth and glibness.

==Writings==
Heward authored the following work:
*''Tales of the Company of Seven''

==References==
=====Citations=====
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=====Bibliography=====
*[[Anne Brown|Brown, Anne]]. ''[[Player's Guide]]''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.
*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:[http://www.wizards.com/rpga/downloads/LG_Deities.zip]
*[[Gygax, Gary]]. ''Come Endless Darkness''. New Infinities, 1988.
:———. ''Dance of Demons''. New Infinities, 1988.
:———. ''Dungeon Master's Guide''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1979.
:———. "[[Greyhawk]]'s World: Quasi-deities." ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' #71. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1983.
:———. ''[[World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1983.
*[[Gary Holian|Holian, Gary]]. "Paladins of [[Greyhawk]]."  ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' #306. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2003.
:———. "Places of Mystery: [[Spinecastle]] and [[Veralos]]." ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' #293. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2002.
*[[Holian, Gary]], and [[Rick Miller]]. "Treasures of [[Greyhawk]]: Magic of the [[Company of Seven]]." [[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]] #359. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2007.
*[[Moore, Roger E]]. ''[[The Adventure Begins]]''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.
*[[Carl Sargent|Sargent, Carl]]. ''[[Iuz the Evil]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1993.
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[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Characters of the Domain of Greyhawk]]
[[Category:Members of the Company of Seven]]
[[Category:Extraplanar characters]]
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[[Category:Human deities]]
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