Vara

Greyhawk Divinity

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
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