Pharyd
| Pharyd | ||
|---|---|---|
| Twined Masks; one Elfin, one Orcish | ||
| Aliases | Banished Daughter, Blood of Gruumsh | |
| Alignment | Good | |
| Divine Rank | Demigod (Dead God) | |
| Pantheon | Seldarine | |
| Portfolio | Peace, Elves, Orcs, Crossbreeding | |
| Domains | Hope, Love | |
| Home Plane | Unknown | |
| Worshippers | Elves, Orcs, Tel-amhothlans, Crossbreed humanoids (especially those of elfin or orcish blood) | |
| Favoured Weapon | Spear | |
Pharyd is a dead, forgotten or just really obscure demigoddess from the Nentir Vale setting of Dungeons & Dragons. She is part of that small contingent of deities who only get mentioned once in a single Dungeon Magazine adventure, like Refnara, leaving fans to pick her up and run with her entirely of their own volition.
Appearing in the adventure "Blood of Gruumsh" in Dungeon Magazine #210, all we know of Pharyd is that she was born to an elf mother who was ravished by either Gruumsh or an orc champion of the One-Eyed God possessed by Gruumsh's spirit. After he was done, Gruumsh left Pharyd's mother in the hands of one of his champions... however, rather than killing her, this orc fell in love with her, and spirited the pregnant elf-maid away to safety, where she gave birth to an elf-orc demigoddess daughter. Pharyd attempted to heal the breach between orcs and elves, focusing on the fact that, in the World Axis, the two races were originally one race, with Gruumsh and Corellon being twin brothers, but in the Nentir Vale canon, she died a martyr's death. The adventure revolves around the party finding the ruins of an ancient sect of Pharyd worshippers, a place where elves and orcs lived together in peace... until they were wiped out by followers of Corellon.
Aside from the fact that her holy book was known as "The Five Truths", this is all the canonical information we know about Pharyd. As with Kecuala or Refnara, her statblock provided here is an estimation by 1d4chan.