James Jacobs wrote:
NSpicer wrote:
When can you tell us more about Pharasma? You'd indicated in the past that the goddess does spring from your original campaign world...and that you had a lot of backstory on her.
I also remember you saying something about the clergy of Pharasma having a strong presence in Korvosa, which would make that faith particularly interesting to those wanting to play clerics in Curse of the Crimson Throne.
So, toss us some more info on Pharasma when you can...
Thanks,
--Neil
Pharasma does have a cathedral in Korvosa, so there'll be a little bit more coming out about her during Curse of the Crimson Throne.
She's also the goddess who judges all of the dead souls. If you die, your soul goes to Pharasma's Boneyard in the outer planes, which sits atop an impossibly tall spire that pierces the Astral Plane from the Outer Planes. Atop the spire is an immense graveyard, at the center of which is Pharasma's palace, where she sits on her throne and judges each of the dead souls that pass before her; there's an endless line of them winding out of her throne room through the surrounding graveyard. In many ways, the Boneyard is like purgatory; a place for you to come to terms with your death (or in some cases attempt to escape). When a soul is judged, it gets sent on to heaven or hell or wherever it's supposed to go. Those who worship Pharasma and do so well get to join her staff in her palace in death. Those who worship her poorly or for whatever reason mess something up (such as some, but not all heretics and blasphemers) get buried in the Boneyard itself. Which is not a pleasant fate. Agnostics and athiests do NOT get buried here, but I'm not really sure what happens to them in Golarion. They might not end up going to the Boneyard at all, but in my homebrew world the agnostic is judged by Pharasma against his own nature; if he wasn't true to his own nature he goes in the graveyard, but if he was, his spirit gets reincarnated into the Material Plane. Athiests don't go...
I heard she use agnostics and atheists to feed Groetus cause he repel them and so she keeps him away from Boneyard cause he's getting closer, apparently attracted to the souls of faithful mortals. It seems they are the only 2 gods that was here from beginning and that at the end of world when Pharasma will judge last soul she will met with Groetus that is suppose to "clean" all the existance and go for an other one. I read somewhere Pharasma came from a previous reality, and after that one will be destroyed a new Survivor will escape the destruction to recreate the cosmos. Maybe only the stronger god can escape? But that bring me 3 questions: 1) Will Pharasma "die" along with the end of that reality or she can escape again? 2) Is Groetus even stronger then Pharasma? 3)Is it all a race to those who "scrap more souls" before the arrival of Rovagug, without the knowledge of the same gods? Something like determining the most worthy to create the next universe?
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