Giha

Giha, also known as Giha One-Eye and Giha Left-Hand, is the god of light and defender of existence against the power of Nict.

## Myths

Nict is the twin sister of Giha. One day she decided to ambush him as a surprise. Giha was caught completely off-guard, and as a result was sorely wounded, losing half his face, his right arm, and ruining his legs. Due to the severity of the injuries inflicted on her brother, Nict was banished from the court of Urnabal.

Giha was tasked by his father with bringing his light to the various worlds. Giha would thus travel through existence, bringing light where it was needed. On his travels, he came across a beautiful fey woman in Vafheim, Vafrey. Giha immediately fell in love with her but was ashamed of his wounded appearance. Out of embarrassment, he stopped coming to Vafheim. This allowed Nict to sink her tendrils into that land, bringing monsters and darkness. Vafrey came to Urnabal to complain that he was allowing Nict to take over her realm. Urnabal summoned Giha and demanded to know why he was failing in his duties. Giha was shamed before the one he loved, and so he fled. Nict saw the absence of Giha as an opportunity, and besieged the home of Urnabal, while her spawn spread throughout the worlds, bringing death and mayhem in their wake. Eave, seeing how Nict's power had grown and had become a threat to himself, decided to do something about it. He went to Vafrey and told her why Giha had done what he did. Vafrey was moved by the power of this one man's love for her which had led to this cosmological upheaval. She went on a great quest, slaying countless monsters and rescuing thousands of mortals, until she eventually found where Giha had hidden himself. Once he found him, she explained her feelings to him. Giha was emboldened by his beloved's words and, after promising to marry her after his quest was complete, he set out in his combat wheelchair to face his sister's hordes. Giha fought for seven days and seven nights against the armies of darkness, eventually driving them off to the furthest reaches of the world. Nict fled back to Derwo and, thanks to Vafrey, Urnabal was rescued, and the sun's light restored to the world.

After the collapse of Soran's Empire and the ensuing wars of the eternals, Giha along with Reganus and Quouo went to find Xuth, a powerful eternal, to have him end the conflict. Giha and the others refused to involve themselves since the eternals may have been able to kill them and their deaths would have been disastrous for reality as a whole, whereas the eternals were considered more expendable due to not being so conceptually linked to existence, therefore meaning that Xuth's death would not be as catastrophic. Xuth managed to end the conflict and brought the other eternals under control, allowing life to continue on the Material.

## Recent Activities

Giha decided to make Keeper one of his oracles, searing his words in the Divine Tongue directly into Keeper's brain. Keeper turned to drugs to deal with the ensuing migraines. Giha has revealed a number of prophecies to Keeper and sends Keeper guidance when he casts his divination spells. Keeper was dubbed the "Sword of Giha" at one point, but it is unknown if it was actually Giha who called him this, or a drug-induced hallucination.

## Chosen

Known Chosen of Giha include the following:

* Fineogh mac Duunger