Tharizdun
| Game background | |
|---|---|
| Title(s) | The Dark God, The Ender, He of Eternal Darkness, the Ebon God, the Black Sun, the Patient One, He Who Waits, the Anathema, the Father of Elder Evils, the Author of Wickedness, the Eater of Worlds, the Despised, the Undoer, the Chained God |
| Home plane | Demiplane of Imprisonment |
| Power level | Intermediate |
| Alignment | Neutral Evil (1st Edition to 3.5 Edition), Chaotic Evil (4th Edition onward) |
| Portfolio | Eternal Darkness, Decay, Entropy, Malign Knowledge, Insanity, Cold |
| Domains | Chaos, Destruction, Dream, Evil, Force, Knowledge, Madness, Rune, Trickery |
| Superior | none |
| Design details | |
In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, Tharizdun (/θɑːrˈɪz.dʌn/ thahr-IZ-dunn) is the god of Eternal Darkness, Decay, Entropy, Malign Knowledge, Insanity, and Cold.
He was imprisoned ages ago by a coalition of deities to prevent the destruction of existence itself. Although imprisoned, Tharizdun still has a degree of his original multiverse-threatening power: he is officially a Divine Rank 11 (out of 20) deity, as of Dragon #294. His holy symbols are a dark spiral rune and a two-tiered inverted ziggurat known as an obex. His holy number is 333.
Created by Gary Gygax based on Robert J. Kuntz's dark god "Tharzduun", Tharizdun first appeared in the module Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun. He would later appear in Gygax's series of Gord novels. Perhaps inspired by Clark Ashton Smith's Demon Lord and ruler of the Seven Hells, Thasaidon, who appeared first in The Tomb-Spawn, Weird Tales, Vol. 23, No. 5, May 1934.
Tharizdun's existence was first revealed in the module The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun (1982), by Gary Gygax. Tharizdun was subsequently detailed in the World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1983).
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