Pharika
Pharika is a god of affliction and medicine, alchemy and
aging. In the earliest days of Theros, Pharika seeded
the world with countless secret truths-mysteries of
medicine, minerals with strange properties, nexuses of
magic, and the like-which she hid among Nylea's wilds
and the shadows of Erebos's Underworld, leaving clues
where mortals might find them. It isn't altruism that
drives her; she studies the innovation and suffering of
mortals, deciphering in them ever greater mysteries as
she treats Theros as her personal laboratory.
Pharika typically takes the form of a green-skinned
human woman with the lower body of a snake. Her
hands are thickly scaled and a pair of bronze-scaled
vipers seamlessly emerge from her chest. She is never
without her kylix, a drinking cup within which she can
produce virtually any medicine or toxin. When her aims
require subtlety, Pharika often takes the form of a serpent
or a medusa, or sometimes an aged human.
Little escapes Pharika's cool gaze. Even when outwardly
friendly, she is cunning and calculating, watching
for the slightest sign of weakness or desire that she
can exploit later. Those who offend her rarely recognize
their misstep until she strikes.
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