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[IronyOwl]

It's that time again! The world is new, and there's room for all manner of gods, beasts, men, and other things.

Spoiler: Gods (click to show/hide)

Each god is a divine entity of some sort, though they needn't be gods in the traditional sense. Gods are extremely powerful, but may lose their power or be wounded, maimed, or even slain under the right circumstances. Usually only gods may harm other gods directly, but some guardians or other effects can accomplish this as well.


Power and Spheres
Any time a god rolls a natural [5] or [6], they gain a power point. A power point may be spent on any action within their sphere for a +1 bonus to the roll.

Spoiler: Divine Actions (click to show/hide)

Each turn, each god may take a divine action. Some of the most common are listed below.


=Create Region=
A region is a fairly large, distinct area, the sort of thing that would warrant inclusion on local maps but perhaps not global ones. Massive, overarching features, such as continents or mountain chains, are generally collections of similar adjacent regions.

=Create Life=
Life is a single type of living organism, created in sufficient quantities to prosper and breed on its own. Life may spread to adjacent regions that it finds habitable. Life may have a special property or use, but may not be innately magical without further augmentation, chaining, a powerful source, or similar conditions.

=Create Resource=
A resource is some useful material or similar that doesn't qualify as life. Resources are generally assumed to be replenishing or inexhaustible once created, but may be difficult to consistently find for those searching for them. Resources may not be innately magical without further assistance.

=Create Guardian=
A guardian is a single, powerful creature or organism, easily a match for all but the greatest of mortal champions. Guardians are innately magical, but may only have a special ability or two beyond general power and strength, barring further augmentation. Guardians may not breed by default, and even if so augmented, cannot attain the numbers necessary to qualify as life without ridiculous intervention. Guardians are, however, by default immortal, able to be slain but immune to old age.

=Create Tribe=
A tribe is a collection of sapients. Fundamentally, creating a tribe is no different from creating any other type of life, but tribes tend to behave much differently once formed. Unlike life, tribes have stats and may fare poorly or well, spread to discreet locations, and change their environments in specific ways.

=Perform Alteration=
By default, any action that may be performed to create something may be used to alter it as well. This does mean that changing life, tribes, or similar once they've spread may only target one given region at a time, however.


Chaining
When a [6] is rolled, rather than being a standard overshot, the action is increased a level and rerolled. This process can repeat.

Increasing an action a level generally makes it considerably more powerful, for good or ill. Creations made at a higher level are often innately magical, for instance.


Modifiers and Sources
Even gods cannot create something out of nothing; all creations must have some sort of base to start with. The source used to create something may have an effect on it, especially on unusual rolls. Beyond this, the source material needn't have any overwhelming connection or power to the desired result.

However, there are two conditions where the material may have an impact on the roll itself. The first is the unlikely circumstance that the base material is wholly and grossly unsuited to the desired task, in which case the roll gets a -1 penalty. Usually this only occurs when the material and result are diametrically opposed, with no clear way to reconcile the two.

Far more likely is the circumstance where an unusually powerful reagent is used. The reagent must be related to the intended subject in some way for it to gain the bonus, but otherwise any suitably powerful substance, item, or even event can be used to augment the power of an action. Under extreme circumstances, the action may even be upgraded a level in addition to providing the bonus.

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I'll be taking 6 gods at start. Well, unless I decide to accept more but then whittle them down a lot...

Opinions?



Information on Tribes coming soon!

Players may join the waitlist for tribes, guardians, or similar. Essentially, whenever an acceptable host comes along, whoever's highest on the waitlist has first dibs on it, but can pass until they find something they like.

[IronyOwl]

Annals of the Divine


Ochita, God of Water (Ochita)
   Appearance: Ochita appears as a person made from water, the legs merging into one colum of water supporting the torso and head. The head's features being designed by unnaturally Azure water, giving the impression of eyes, a mouth, and medium length hair.
   Personality: Calm, usually stays out of god arguments, although he will intervene if it will damage anything he sees as important. He prefers not to get into direct confrontations, but if he is forced into it he will do his best to take down the offenders.

Mesphyn, God of Brilliant Flame (Spinal_Taper)
   Appearance: A phoenix made of blue flames. The talons are of clear, and nigh-unbreakable crystal. The core is magma.
   Personality: Proud, but with a need to help those who he considers underneath him, which would be the vast majority of people.

Irotas, God of Madness (Wwolin)
   Appearance: Irotas often takes the form of a young human male with short silvery hair and sideburns, wearing a green and yellow suit and a black fedora with a yellow ribbon. He is often depicted with an eye-shaped bauble in one hand and the other hand outstretched, beckoning.
   Personality: Irotas believes that sanity is a prison. He seeks to free the world from its grasp by driving everyone mad. While his actions may seem destructive, he believes that he is being heroic, and that those who see him as evil have been corrupted by sanity and must be saved.

Oristor, God of Knowledge (Firelordsky)
   Appearance: A rainbow-scaled dragon. Near the end of the the body it fades to a white flame with occasional black flames popping up.
   Personality: Thoughtful, he stays out of god arguments because he sees them as a waste of time because their usually arguments about trivial things; he will however protect the lower beings from being harmed by godly in-fighting because he knows that most disdain knowledge and even seek to destroy it.

Lokas, God of Change (micelus)
   Appearance: A giant living constellation that superficially resembles an ant. Should the need to visit the terrestrial realm ever arise, Lokas takes on the form of a chittering mass of ants hidden by robes and mask.
   Personality: Lokas is curious and thirsts for new experiences, seeking to enrich his own knowledge of all things by observation. He sees Creation as a way of answering questions and testing theories and those little minds that inhabit as merely variables and parameters; it would be extremely difficult for him to believe that the creatures of the world are in anyway equal to him, although he acknowledges that they are not mindless. He holds the other powers in disdain, seeing them as 'children' or immature or even unworthy, although this doesn't stop him from working with them. In fact, he believes them to be 'primary creators', while he himself is a 'secondary editor'.

Jelki, God of Chance (Caerwyn)
   Appearance: Jelki generally assumes the appearance of a fluffy white cat; though he is known on occasion to materialize as a beautiful man with wings. (It gets the girls.)
   Personality: Jelki doesn't have one single personality. Instead, he borrows a bit here and a bit there, forming a constantly-changing mass of emotions, memories and desires. I guess, to sum him up in a single word, you'd have to use "Gambler".

Spoiler: Divine Waitlist (click to show/hide)

Nikalas, God of Bravery and Fear (mcclay)
Joesha, God of Pestilence (javierpwn)
Forthas, God of Chaos (Xantalos)
Malus, God of the Wild (Onyxjew944)

[IronyOwl]

Atlas of the World


Gravel Pile
Uneven region of pale gravel.
   Life: Warm Grass, Silk Grazers
   Resources: Blendstone

Glowing Plains [L2]
Vast, sweeping plains that almost seem to glow with their own inner fire.

Desert
A vast desert, a bit predisposed towards sandstorms.
   Locations of Interest: Spire of the Sun


Spire of the Sun
A massively tall sandstone tower encasing a glass core; when the sun perfectly aligns above it, the power of the sun is focused fully on the point below. The righteous may imbue items with the warmth of the sun in this fashion; the unworthy may receive naught but ashes for their trouble.
   Location: Desert


Shining Stones [L2]
Lumpy, misshapen asteroids orbiting around the world. They glow faintly of their own accord, making them visible from the ground.
   Life: Azure Veil Tribe, Silk Eaters, slightly coarse Warm Grass (not for long)

Glittering Wandering Stones [L2]
Occasional flaming, steaming rocks drifting through the void. Brilliant and shimmering, visible from far away, though somewhat dulled by all the steam. Very faintly alive.


Abyss Sphere [L2]
A rather massive ball of softly lit water, giving off a gentle glow and pulling anything within its grasp to its depths.
   Current Location: Just sort of drifting in space.

Entropic Dust
An indigo dust that breaks down whatever it comes into contact with.
   Current Location: Abyss Sphere.


Stationary White Sphere
A big, stationary, perfectly smooth white sphere.
   Current Location: Space

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Litany of Peoples


Slithering Things
Insidious, tentacled things that slither about on the ground. Mostly greyish-colored.
Gifts: Knowledge of building crude tunnels from Oristor.
   Current Location: Wormholes in Jelki's rock cube.
   Holdings: Impressive Warren

Azure Veil Tribe
Insidious, tentacled things that slither about on the ground. Various colors of blue, some of them disturbingly vibrant.
Gifts:
Knowledge of building crude tunnels from Oristor.
Strange visions and powers of light.
   Current Location: Shining Stones

Grazer Mutants
Silk Grazers that have been horribly deformed and granted sapience.
Gifts:
L2 lust for knowledge from Oristor.
Knowledge of basic toolbuilding out of gravel and grass from Irotas.
   Current Locations: Gravel Fields

Dessicators [L3]
Fairly large creatures with a somewhat malleable form, normally possessing a humanoid upper half with sharp fangs and claws, blank eyes, and flowing hair of a darker hue than their "skin." Their lower halves are normally slightly tapering columns of substance.

Dessicators grow stronger by absorbing moisture, and given that they're ambitious and wicked, this leads to a rather obvious plan- consume as much as they possibly can. They currently possess several "nobles," who have managed to attain a taste of the God of Water.
   Current Locations: Ochita's hands

Lizardfolk
Lithe, dusty-colored lizardfolk. They're not especially intelligent, but very cunning and observant.
   Current Locations: Desert

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Bestiary


Plants

Warm Grass
Silvery grass, warm and very soft, that seems to bend and wave as though underwater.
   Current Locations: Gravel Fields


Animals

Silk Grazers
Spiderlike creatures with too many legs and fur not unlike warm grass. They are peaceful herbivores, grazing on the warm grass they resemble.
   Current Locations: Gravel Fields

Silk Eaters [L2]
Silk Grazers with literal warm grass for fur. They feed on the grass, devouring and replanting that on their hides when it's worn out, and merging with existing stalks to drain them of sustenance.
   Current Locations: Shining Stones

Worms
Burrowing desert worms with bitter-tasting meat.
   Current Locations: Desert


Guardians

Nameless Fire Thing
A ball of light grey fire with stubby arms and a bit of a tail. Its eyes glow with incandescent, multicolored brilliance, seeing all there is to see, and its flames occasionally flicker into scale-like shapes inscribed with the history of the world.
   Current Location: Crawling around on Oristor.

Concrete Lady
A living feminine statue made of concrete. Wearing a black dress with a yellow sash made from Irotas' hat.
   Current Location: Gravel Fields

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Material Possessions


Resources

Blendstone
A generally offwhite conglomerate handy for producing concrete.



Bizarre Objects Not Yet Placed Anywhere


Cube of Rock
A rough cube of stone, a mile on each side.
   Current Location: Jelki's paws.

Pile of Rocks
A dull, misshapen pile of stones.
   Current Location: Irotas' hands.

Brilliant Ball of Fire [L2]
A massive, incandescent ball of fire, shedding light at a very far distance.
   Current Location: Mesphyn's talons.

Jelkidice [L3]
A pair of strange-looking dice, made from blood and bone from Jelki and some blendstone. They allow their possessor to always roll perfect 5s by imposing a penalty to Jelki's next action equal to the difference.
   Current Location: Lost somewhere in the mortal world

[Ochita]

Name: Ochita
Appearance: Ochita appears as a person made from water, the legs merging into one colum of water supporting the torso and head. The head's features being designed by unnaturally Azure water, giving the impression of eyes, a mouth, and medium length hair.
Personality: Calm, usually stays out of god arguments, although he will intervene if it will damage anything he sees as important. He prefers not to get into direct confrontations, but if he is forced into it he will do his best to take down the offenders.
Sphere: Water

[Spinal_Taper]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name:Mesphyn
Appearance: A phoenix made of blue flames. The talons are of clear, and nigh-unbreakable crystal. The core is magma.
Personality: Proud, but with a need to help those who he considers underneath him, which would be the vast majority of people.
Sphere:Light/Flame

[Wwolin]

Name: Irotas
Appearance: Irotas often takes the form of a young human male with short silvery hair and sideburns, wearing a green and yellow suit and a black fedora with a yellow ribbon. He is often depicted with an eye-shaped bauble in one hand and the other hand outstretched, beckoning.
Personality: Irotas believes that sanity is a prison. He seeks to free the world from its grasp by driving everyone mad. While his actions may seem destructive, he believes that he is being heroic, and that those who see him as evil have been corrupted by sanity and must be saved.
Sphere: Madness

[Firelordsky]

Name: Oristor
Appearance: A rainbow-scaled dragon. Near the end of the the body it fades to a white flame with occasional black flames popping up.
Personality: Thoughtful, he stays out of god arguments because he sees them as a waste of time because their usually arguments about trivial things; he will however protect the lower beings from being harmed by godly in-fighting because he knows that most disdain knowledge and even seek to destroy it.
Sphere: Knowledge

[micelus]

Name: Lokas
Appearance: A giant living constellation that superficially resembles an ant. Should the need to visit the terrestrial realm ever arise, Lokas takes on the form of a chittering mass of ants hidden by robes and mask.
Personality: Lokas is curious and thirsts for new experiences, seeking to enrich his own knowledge of all things by observation. He sees Creation as a way of answering questions and testing theories and those little minds that inhabit as merely variables and parameters; it would be extremely difficult for him to believe that the creatures of the world are in anyway equal to him, although he acknowledges that they are not mindless. He holds the other powers in disdain, seeing them as 'children' or immature or even unworthy, although this doesn't stop him from working with them. In fact, he believes them to be 'primary creators', while he himself is a 'secondary editor'.
Sphere: Change

[Caerwyn]

Name: Jelki
Appearance: Jelki generally assumes the appearance of a fluffy white cat; though he is known on occasion to materialize as a beautiful man with wings. (It gets the girls.)
Personality: Jelki doesn't have one single personality. Instead, he borrows a bit here and a bit there, forming a constantly-changing mass of emotions, memories and desires. I guess, to sum him up in a single word, you'd have to use "Gambler".
Sphere: Chance (Luck, Fortune, Etc)

[mcclay]

Name: Nikalas
Apperance: a tall man whose face is covered by his hat. He wears long, red robes.
Personality: Acts erriely, stands around, moves races in ponderous way, fanboys at heros. You know, fear god stuff.
Sphere: Fear and Bravery

[javierpwn]

Name:Joesha
Apearence:Gaunt,emaciated,somewhat tall man with a sunken appearencn,no eyes,bugs coming from eyeholes
Personality: Keeps to self, prefers to stay away from others to hide his sad appearence,wishes pain to others so they shall improve themselves(that which cannot withstand disease do not deserves to live,ie natural selection)
Sphere:Pestilence

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Turn 0: From the Void


Water and Flame,
Knowledge and Madness,
Change and Chance,

From Nothing comes Something, and the world can begin.

                                 -Unknown

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ochita (Ochita)
Water

Mesphyn (Spinal)
Fire/Light

Irotas (Wwolin)
Madness

Oristor (Firelordsky)
Knowledge

Lokas (micelus)
Change

Jelki (Caerwyn)
Chance