Ephara

Ephara's History

Ephara is the god of city-states and buildings. She holds a scroll in her right hand and pours a starry Nyxborn liquid from a large non-handled vessel resting on her left shoulder—possibly an pithos of wine or a hyrida of water. Ephara represents and presides over any organized state of people, but in particular, she is worshipped in Meletis. Ephara is also the god of industry, civic wisdom, scholarship, religious sculpture, friezes, architecture, societal progress, social philosophy, and the protection and stability of the city.

In the distant past, she granted magic to the Meletians to overthrow the evil Archon Agnomakhos. Later in a confrontation amongst gods, Ephara slew the newborn god Cacophony, God of Cities, who had come into being to challenge her by Ashiok's machinations.

At the beginning of the Phyrexian invasion of Theros and the multiverse, Ephara was seen by Elesh Norn defending the plane, making the Mother of Machines wish for a legion of gods for herself. She was not one of the three compleated gods. She blessed the defenders of Theros with godfire, a Nyx-infused incendiary substance that burned without fuel.