[Well, those are all a bit too brilliant, so...]
Year 1, First Hero TimeThe Age of Ice had come to an end with a great upheaval of fire. A mountain that had once borne life all around it through the endless cold erupted into a furious display of flame and death. For fifty long years the skies were darkened by ash, only glimmerings of light piercing the cloud cover - barely enough for the world's plants to scrape a living. Only in the last ten years have the skies begun to clear enough for one to truly see the stars again.
So it was that no man or woman alive had last seen the Hero's Star - to them it seemed a new thing, a glittering green jewel in the sky to signify the dawn of a new age.
On one side of the sleeping mountain, a woman looked up at the Hero's Star and saw it framed against the bulk of the dormant volcano. For her the Star shone light upon the majesty of
Earth.
On another side, where the volcanic ash had laid the foundations for fruitful forests and plains, a man looked up and saw the Star heralding an age of such bounty, an age of
Life.
Distant from the mountain, on great rolling plains of grass where horses roam, a child looked up at the stars revealed by the break in cloud, of which the Hero's Star was but a part, and became enraptured by the majesty of that which is eternal and otherworldly, the
Aether.
On the banks of a great river snaking through high hills a man looked up from the simple fish traps he had constructed and saw the Hero's Star shining brilliant light upon his creations. For the first time in his life he realised the simple beauty of
Artifice.
At the river's mouth, on the coast of an endless sea, an old woman knelt spearing fish when the Star shone its light upon the waves and for a brief moment in the Star's light she caught sight of the glimmering bodies of a school of fish. To her became apparent the power and bounty of
Water.
Far from the sea, on the border between lush plains and endless desert, there sprung a great diversity of life, struggling in myriad forms against the harsh and unpredictable conditions. A young man picking fruits from scattered bushes caught sight of the Star over the plains and in its light beheld no less than three dozen different plants and animals over the hour he watched. He did not have a name for it, but in that moment he became enamoured of
Mutation.
Deep in that desert was a tribe always on the move, travelling from oasis to oasis beneath the newly revealed stars. Food was scarce and water scarcer, but that desert held many strange plants that while of little use as food produced the most wonderful effects when burnt. While sat around a campfire of burning droppings one night, a pair beheld the Hero's Star above them, warped and magnified by the effects of the incense. In the great and terrible green light that overcame the land, they knew the glory and terror of
Magic.
Finally, to the north of these lands where the world was still blanketed in snow and the sky had not truly cleared, a man ran in desperation from a pack of wolves. For ten long minutes they hounded him beneath the light of the glimmering Star until he was spent and all but ready to collapse from exhaustion. In those last moments he saw a cave and leapt into its protective shadow. He tripped and fell some distance down into the cave and felt a terrible pain in his leg, but he remained quiet and still and the wolves passed him by. As he stared up at the distant cave mouth, all he could see was black and the single light of the Star - and he knew safety and pain in
Darkness.
The world is young, and tools are still bone and stone. How will you shape it?
No Pawns currently exist.
It costs 2 Power per turn to make a child (<15) a Pawn, 5 Power to make a young adult (<35) a Pawn, and 8 Power to make an adult or elder a Pawn.
Velda [Mountain Tribe, Age 23, Female] (Expedient, Cantankerous) {Faith (Jud): 40%}
Irris [Mountain Tribe, Age 25, Male] (Irresponsible, Hearty, Adventurous) {Faith (Jud): 15%}
Gorrin [Valley Tribe, Age 42, Male] (3,1,3,2) {Faith (Guleran): 36%}
Vetnar [Valley Tribe, Age 61, Male] (Amusing, Lyrical, Calculating, Freewheeling, Inhibited, Unpredicatable) {Faith (Guleran): 5%}
Ippling [Steppe Tribe, Age 1, Male] (Casual, Aggressive, Silly) {Faith (Aperius): 50%}
Esmerelda [Steppe Tribe, Age 43, Female] (Reliable, Unfathomable, Prejudiced) {Faith (Aperius): 15%}
Sanjak [River Tribe, Age 43, Male] (Thievish, Impassive) {Faith (Tar-Azath): 30%}
Anna [River Tribe, Age 1, Female] (Lyrical, Breezy) {Faith (Tar-Azath): 30%}
Gysha [Sea Tribe, Age 64, Female] (Romantic, Uninhibited, Predictable) {Faith (Nera): 50%}
Hugo [Sea Tribe, Age 44, Male] (Droll, Slow, Cute) {Faith (Nera): 40%}
Cataran [Edge Tribe, Age 62, Female] (Impressionable, Brilliant, Open, Ridiculous, Insouciant, Sexy) {Faith (Managone): 20%}
Urtul [Edge Tribe, Age 24, Male] (Opinionated, Undemanding, Artful, Thoughtless) {Faith (Managone): 55%}
Ishti [Sand Tribe, Age 24, Female] (Moody) {Faith (Destun): 35%}
Sara [Sand Tribe, Age 42, Female] (Negativistic, Insightful) {Faith (Destun): 35%}
Victor [Forest Tribe, Age 41, Male] (Helpful) {Faith (Corvric): 50%}
Alena [Forest Tribe, Age 44, Female] (Intelligent, Solitary, Frivolous, Maternal) {Faith (Corvric): 10%}
Nera (Water) - 10 Power [0 Power/Turn].
Managone (Mutation) - 10 Power [0 Power/Turn].
Jud (Earth) - 10 Power [0 Power/Turn].
Tar-Azath (Artifice) - 10 Power [0 Power/Turn].
Destun (Magic) - 10 Power [0 Power/Turn].
Guleran (Life) - 10 Power [0 Power/Turn].
Aperius (Aether) - 10 Power [0 Power/Turn].
Corvric (Darkness) - 10 Power [0 Power/Turn].
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Topic: Pawns [A God Game] (Read 7334 times)