Pflarr
(The Jackal-Head)

 Game Statistics (D&D): Eternal, Sphere of Energy. 25th level Immortal; 
AC -13; hp 500; Power Points 5,500; Hit Dice 39; Move 150' (50'); # of 
Attacks 4; D 4d6+7 (Punch) or 3d10+12 (two-handed sword); Anti-Magic 80%; 
Save Immortal 25; Alignment Neutral; Stats (on a 3-100 scale that 
includes the mortal 3-18) Str 30 (triple encumbrance limit, can use 
two-handed melee weapons with one hand, +7 to-hit/damage/open doors), Int 
48, Wis 20, Dex 18, Con 15, Cha 10. Powers: Dragon Breath (every dragon 
type, each type usable once/day), Improved Saving Throws vs. Spell 
Attacks, Thief Special Abilities (as 36th level thief), Turn Undead (as 
36th level cleric); Weapons: two-handed sword +5 of draining (shaped like 
a sickle). 
 Standard Immortal Powers: Can create Artifacts; can use Aura Attack on 
any mortal within 60'; knows all languages; can create normal and 
magical items at will (1 PP per 10,000 gp worth); completely immune to 
mortal magic and poisons; infravision to 60'; regenerates 1d8 hp per 
day; can cast any mortal spell at will.

 Sphere and Alignment: Energy; Lawful Neutral. (Spheres are the main 
'group' or 'philosophy' of each Immortal. They are Time (Water/Neutral), 
Energy (Fire/Chaotic), Matter (Earth/Lawful), Thought (Air/Good), and 
Entropy (Evil).)

 Manifestation Power (Lesser, Greater, Ultimate): Greater.

 Worshippers' Alignment: Any. Clerics and shamans must be Lawful Neutral.

 Special Clerical Powers: Pflarr was a guardian, and his clerics have 
superb hearing appropriate to guardians. A cleric of Pflarr has the Hear 
Noise ability of a thief of the same experience level.

 History: Pflarr was created, not born, as the jackal-headed bodyguard 
of a powerful wizard of the culture that eventually became the Nithian 
Empire. Pflarr wasn't 100% successful at this occupation; His creator 
was assassinated by a rival.
 Once Pflarr had dealt appropriately with that rival, he had two entire 
wizardly libraries at his disposal, and so began his education in magic. 
By the time the Nithian culture was beginning its ascension (1750 BC), 
Pflarr was reaching his personal heights as a powerful magician and 
questing on the Path of the Paragon, sponsored by the Immortal Rathanos. 
By the time the Nithian Empire was in place (1500 BC), Pflarr was its 
first native-born (or native-created) Immortal.
 Pflarr contributed to the magical knowledge of the early Nithian 
wizards and was a patron of magical learning. But his primary interests 
were in the acquisition of knowledge and so he paid very little 
attention to developments in the Empire. He, like the other Immortals, 
was caught off-guard by Thanatos' sudden, successful corruption of the 
Nithian ruling class; unable to stem the tide of Nithian moral decline, 
he participated in the Immortal's scouring of that culture from the face 
of the Known World, while helping Ka the Preserver transfer some 
"uncorrupted" Nithian villages to the Hollow World.
 Pflarr also created a servitor-race, peaceful jackal-headed hmanoids 
who looked rather like him, to help him in his studies and activities. 
These, the Hutaaka, acted as his messengers, his librarians, and his 
personal servants. He gave them their own homeland, in the mountains 
south of the Nithian lands, and the Hutaaka soon becaome the mentors and 
tutors of the Traldar humans who lived in the forests south of them.
 Since the disappointing finale of the outer-world Nithian Empire, 
Pflarr has largely turned his back on the surface world, preferring 
instead to be a patron of the Hollow World Nithians and new Hollow World 
colonies of his Hutaakans. His abandoned outer-world Hutaaka colony 
gradually languished and became inbred and weak. Today, Pflarr confines 
his mortal-world activites almost exclusively to the Hollow World and 
his favorite cultures there.

 Personality: Pflarr was not and is not human in his outlook, and he is 
unlike most other Immortals. If a follower (or nation of followers) 
disappoints him, such as by turning away from worship of him, Pflarr 
will give them the time and opportunity to return to the "correct path", 
but will not encourage them or prompt them to do so. If they do not, he 
will abandon them and start over elsewhere, with a new set of followers. 
He feels no particular loyalty to his worshippers, feeling instead that 
they should feel loyalty to /him/; if they fail him, he is content to 
let them perish. He is vain (as evidenced by the fact that he created an 
entire race to look like him). However, he grants spells to his clerics, 
subtly provides magical learning to studious magicians, and protects the 
nations and tribes who keep faith with him, so he can scarecely be 
considered evil.

 Allies: Pflarr's chiev Immortal ally is Rathanos, who was his sponsor 
and one of the other Immortals so strongly worshipped by the Nithians 
before Thanatos came.

 Enemies: Pflarr intensely dislikes Ranivorus, for two reasons. He 
correctly believes that the Nithians created gnolls in a corrupt 
imitation of his Hutaakan race, which annoys him. And Ranivorus' part in 
the downfall of the Nithians also galls Pflarr. He also intensely 
dislikes Thanatos and all his agents for their part in the downfall of 
Nitha.

 Appearance: Pflarr is a tall (7') humanoid, covered in fine brown fur, 
with the head of a jackal. He wears simply Nithian-style robes of white 
cotton.

 Symbol: A jackal head with human eyes.

 DMing Notes: In the Hollow World, Pflarr is a chief Immortal patron of 
the Nithians and is the sole Immortal worshipped by the Hutaakans.