Due to lack of actions and a presumable lack of interest from the players, I'm officially declaring this game dead. Sorry guys.
Since it's just going to be sitting on my computer if I don't post this, I'll go ahead and give you guys how the plot was going to go, in broad strokes.
First off, a bit of an encyclopedia/glossary. The Transcendents, as you may have guessed, are essentially the link between the Mortal Realm (Earth) and the Deific Realm (Home of the gods). They resided on the Transcendental Plane, naturally, which is also where the game takes place, though it's after what is essentially the apocalypse has been triggered. Knoton, Cain, Vivian, Aedus, Masou, and the other three Chosen Souls (More on them in a moment) were all Transcendents who were born on the Mortal Realm, and therefore survived the Cleansing, which is what destroyed the vast majority of the Transcendental Plane. All that's left is the Shrine of Yala, a shrine to a god named Hathul, eight areas tied to the Chosen Souls, Light, Dark, the Great Tree (Where Vivian was at the time that the game stalled), and Crow's Haunt, a city not dissimilar to the Great Tree, but ruled over by the Dark Chosen Souls, and residing in the Inferno (Masou's area). The Cleansing was triggered by the other gods after it was deemed that too many of them had become too powerful and too corrupt. The actions that take place afterwards decides what the newly formed universe will be like.
It should also be noted that neither Light nor Dark are the good guys. In fact, they're really both totalitarian megalomaniacs. The closest thing to a good guy amongst the surviving gods is Hathul, God of Balance, and even then it's questionable. Anyways, the other three Chosen Souls (The main mortal born Transcendents who are aligned with either Light or Dark; there are 16 others, called the Secondary Souls, but they don't have any respective areas, aren't aligned with any gods, and aren't as powerful) are Lyn, the Beast Master of Water, Adam, the Warrior of Earth, and Aira, the Sorceress of Air. I could go into more detail if you guys want, but I doubt many of you would really be interested in them.
Finally, we come to the Daemon, who is the master of the Spirit. His goal was to use the Spirit to bring all four of the surviving gods and all eight Chosen Souls to their death. Then, with his major obstacles removed, the Spirit could possess a Secondary Soul (Which are too weak for you to be able to interfere with it), and summon the Daemon into the Transcendental plane, dismantling it and bringing about utter oblivion in the new universe. Aside from the Spirit, he had another tool to influence the Chosen Souls: Daemonic Links. These are very powerful weapons with extremely powerful magic abilities charged by it spilling the blood of a living being. However, using these powers caused the bearer to become more and more corrupted, eventually leading to them becoming permanently stuck in their monstrous Daemonic Form, under the direct control of the Daemon. Knoton's Link was the Crimson Kris, Cain's was the unseen Staff of Skulls, you saw Masou using his (In fact, he was very close to becoming locked in his Daemonic Form, and was already pretty much entirely controlled by the Daemon), and I hadn't decided on a name for the other four's.
The most likely ending, I think, was the Omnicide ending, in which both Light and Dark are destroyed, but the Daemon couldn't complete his plan. This would lead to a new world similar to the old one being created, with the gods largely unchanged. It was, all told, the normal ending. The Light ending was the least likely, I think. If you destroyed Dark and summoned Light using four sigil stones (Items left behind by each Chosen Soul upon death; who it came from doesn't matter, only who's using it), then Light would gain absolute control over the new world, causing it to be a dry, scorching plane of absolute law locked in eternal day and drought. The Dark ending was also fairly unlikely, and rather similar. It was caused when Light was destroyed and a member of the Dark team activated four sigils. It would lead to a tundra with no light existing whatsoever, filled with absolute chaos and insanity. Finally, there was the Balance ending, which was essentially the golden ending. In it, neither Light nor Dark were destroyed, nor where either of them summoned. Instead, Hathul was unleashed, and peace was reached between the inhabitants of the Great Tree and Crow's Haunt. This would create an idyllic world of peace and prosperity, not unlike the Transcendental Realm pre-Cleansing. However, Hathul would be the only god in existence, and he'd quickly smite anyone on either the Mortal Realm or Transcendental Realm who threatened to upset his idea of the balance of the world.
Any questions?
EDIT: Regardless, this is probably my most successful game yet, and I'm quite happy with how it was in the beginning. I think recently I started bogging it down with the serious side of it, when it was a pretty silly game up until that point. In particular, the Aedus bit I feel came waaay too early, creating mood whiplash with Knoton and Cain, and Masou horribly maiming Aedus while giving an infodump of things that probably should have been kept largely in the dark for the time being.
Also, quick note. Masou did not, in fact, kill Aedus. Rather, he essentially brainwashed him (The Lord class gives Masou control over ALL things related to fire, even enemy combatants). It was possible to save him in a showdown with "Masou", which would lead to more exposition and your most powerful melee attacker, aside from maybe some of the creatures summoned by Vivian's later spells.
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