Phira

## Description

### Appearance

Phira appears primarily as a humanoid figure with long red hair. Her dress has a tree on it, and in Yin-Yang like fashion, the right half of the dress is black with half the tree on that side being white and flourishing, and the left side is white with the half of the tree on it being black and appearing barren of leaves. Her wings are similarly themed, with the right one being a white feathered wing and the left being a shadowy version of the left wing. Her right arm looks like a normal humanoid arm, but the left is pitch black as though made of shadows. She usually appears with a glowing sphere of light over her left hand and a sphere of shadows above her right.

### Personality

Phira is the goddess of rebirth and balance, to her death is not an end, but a new beginning. When a creature dies its life force returns to Eloria which is then used to create new life. Phira does not like necromancy, and while she tolerates resurrections, she believes undead are abominations that are a pale imitation of life. Phira is especially fond of the Artans and is usually kind and helpful to them. Phira's holy symbol is a tree with the left half dying and the right half living (usually the left half is black and the right half white). Yggdrasil, the tree of life, is Phira's most holy site.

## Origin

Eloria was originally a barren world with nothing, until one day a light came into the world, Unos. Unos created life in the world. It watched this life and kept creating, but eventually its creations began to weaken and eventually die. From the first death arose a sphere of shadows, Thulos, that wanted to consume life. The two primordial beings opposed each other, one creating life and the other ending it, both trying to outdo the other, until one day Unos created Phira. She was more intelligent than any creature to come before her. Attempting to protect Phira from Thulos, Unos placed some of its power into Phira. Thulos soon realized it could not claim her life, due to the spark of Unos, It decided to try to use its own power to counter Unos' placing its own power inside her trying to counteract Unos' blessing. Unos then began channeling more power to stop Thulos, Phira becoming a battleground for the two primordial beings to wage war. In the end, both Unos and Thulos destroyed each other, but such power could not be destroyed destroyed and remained inside of Phira transforming her in a deity with powers of life and death.

## Major Events

### The War of Decreation

For a long while the world of Eloria was in balance maintained by Phira until one day another powerful deity arose, Shallyx, god of decreation. Shallyx wanted to consume all of creation thus effectively destroying everything. Phira highly opposed to anything that would upset the balance of life and death protected the world from Shallyx. Shallyx realizing he could not directly defeat Phira, used the his army of shadows which consoited of the essences of creatures whose souls he had consumed and gave them form as monstrous shadowy puppets which he used to invade Eloria. The creatures of Eloria united against this threat but even united could not prevail since any that fell to the armies of the void joined them. To help defeat this threat, Phira worked with another deity, Dërżiga to create an army of non-living beings, the Quazil to combat the armies of the void since the inanimate seemed to be immune to Shallyx's resurrection. She created Yggdrasil, the tree of life, to protect the creatures that were left while the Quazil fought Shallyx's forces. Eventually Shallyx was defeated by Phira and Dërżiga and was sealed under the dark continent. The Quazil were deactivated and placed strategically throughout Eloria in case they should every be necessary again.