Barzahk

Barzahk

(Deity)

Titles

The Passage

Realm

Dead Roads, Boneyard

Alignment

Neutral

Areas of Concern

Compasses
Travellers
Vigils

Worshipers

Guards
Pilgrims
Nomads
Sailors

Edicts

Aid travelers and those who return from the dead, tend to roadside graves, find missing objects or people

Anathema

Celebrate specific calendar dates over others, avoid travel or change, freeze time for an object or creature

Cleric Alignments (1E)

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Domains (1E)

Knowledge, Protection, Repose, Travel

Cleric Alignments (2E)

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Domains (2E)

Death, knowledge, travel, vigil

Favored Weapon

Club

Symbol

Two straight lines that converge vertically through a circle

Source: Concordance of Rivals, pg(s). 6 (1E)
Gods & Magic, pg(s). 88, 130–131 (2E)

Barzahk

(Creature)

Type

Outsider
(extraplanar, psychopomp, shapechanger)

CR

28

Environment

Any (Boneyard)

Alignment

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Source: Borne by the Sun's Grace, pg(s). 88

Barzahk is the psychopomp usher responsible for maintaining the Dead Roads, the route network used by the psychopomps to travel to the Material Plane. Barzahk also keeps track of visitors arriving at and leaving the Boneyard. Their symbol of office is the artefact known as Surcease of Sorrows.

History

Barzahk was born from the needs and fears of psychopomps, and emerged fully formed at the same time as the Dead Roads.

Home

Barzahk endlessly roams the Dead Roads and rarely attends to their duties, but has difficulty understanding the world outside and seldom leaves their realm.

Appearance

Barzahk resembles a giant migratory bird clad in robes. Barzahk carries a tombstone and key that, when used together, can lock or unlock a soul's memories upon their passage to the afterlife.

Servants

Barzahk's servants benefit from significant autonomy, akin to that of psychopomp ushers; real ushers are quick to disabuse such hubris.