Pharika

Pharika was a Witch who rode around on a donkey named EFS (Emergency Food Supply). She joined a hired group of adventurers to clear out Harrowstone Prison after The Splatterman murdered another group of adventurers. She stayed with these adventurers as they began to work for Kendra Lorrimor since she wanted to experience more of the world than the forest she grew up in.

## History

### **Early Life**

Pharika, was an orphan child of the forest, never knowing her parents or if she had siblings she lived the life of a loner. She embraced the elements of nature and quickly became adept with the use of the land's natural bounty to heal and sustain. Not much can be said about Pharika as a child, she self taught herself all that she knew and learned the life of an urchin while inside cities.

### **The Woman in the Woods**

Through Pharika's young adult life she travelled far and wide taking in sights and gaining knowledge. In her forties she met a Coven of witches that took her in and showed her the craft. Upon becoming a witch herself she left, feeling that the coven life wasn't for her. She wandered the lands until she came across odd village overcome with illness. She stayed and aided the people's there in their recovery. She decided that this wooded area was sufficient to live in and practice her craft. While living on the outskirts of town for many decades the town became accustom to tales of the old woman in the woods. Children started rumors of a witch who would eat them, and adults began to keep their distance. As her age became apparent the town all but avoided her and saw her as an ill omen, as they had forgotten her aid to the prior generation. Upon communing with the elements and her familiar, Pharika decided to leave the village and travel until Pharasma took her.

### **Carrion Crown**

INSERT THE EVENTS OF CARRION CROWN. HER BATTLE WITH THE SPLATTERMAN, FIGHTING TO FREE THE BEAST OF LEPIDSTADT, AND ULTIMATELY PERISHING IN A BATTLE AGAINST AN ERINYES.

### **In the Afterlife**

When Pharika passed away in battle she found herself in the boneyard. Many stories were told about Pharika's trip into the afterlife, most of them horrible and catastrophic. Some say she tricked a Night Hag and escaped the Boneyard only to overtake the body of a noble queen. Others say she was reincarnated into a baby that grew into a hag and tormented her new family. A group of adventurers at one point had said they saw Pharika making a deal with Baba Yaga that ended poorly for both of them.

## Attributes

### Powers and Abilities

* **Hexes:** Pharika was able to curse enemies to lower their combat potency.
* **Arcane Disruption:** Pharika was able to bend the battlefield to her will, slowing and debuffing enemies so her allies could overwhelm them easier.
* **Ghost Form:** After Pharika passed away she discovered a way to return to the physical plane as a ghost. She did not lose her mind however and maintained her full power while gaining an ethereal form.

### Items and Gear

* **EFS:** Pharika had a donkey that she would keep all of her supplies on. She would rarely ride it into combat, and even when danger was present, EFS always found a way to successfully hide and survive (even after Pharika had been slain.)