Editing Pharasma (section)

== History ==
Pharasma is sometimes considered to be one of the oldest entities in the multiverse; some go so far as to suggest that she predates the multiverse entirely and remains as the sole survivor of a previous existence who remained to shape the new reality and protect it from the alien [[Old Ones|Outer Gods]] and their heralds, the [[Cthulhu|Great Old Ones]]; ''(though the distinction between Old Gods and Heralds is often meaningless)''. They are the only other entities that might be considered older that Pharasma, and exist beyond the concepts of reality such as time, faith, souls. 

Her duties in her home plane of [[Boneyard]] are to collect the mortal souls that have passed away, and assign them to their appropriately judged location in the afterlife. Admittedly, Pharasma does not do this all herself and she is assisted by various [[Psychopomp]]s and Demigod '''Ushers''' who do much of the legwork for her. Pharasma only gets involved in cases where judging souls are particularly difficult or interesting.

According to legend, when the first mortals appeared, they were afraid of death and were unwilling to let go when their time came for them. So Pharasma uplifted a snake whose venom would steal mortals vitality, passion, and grasp of mental faculties; starting to cause them to age and eventually leading them to accept death as a natural progression of life.

One of her few involvements with other divinities is when she joined an alliance of variously aligned gods in opposing the [[Qlippoth]] Lord [[Rovagug]] and imbued the vault intended to seal the beast with wards to prevent him from escaping. Though it is said that at the end time the beast will eventually escape and consume everything ''(Pharasma included)'' leaving only [[Groetus]] and a single survivor to begin the next multiverse anew.