You are a god, a being of immense divine potential and prowess. You and your fellow gods have just spontaneously manifested from the natural ebb and flow of the divine energy of the universe. You descend upon a world, primal and strange. It is here you will carry out your divine work, whether it is for good or for evil, here it shall come to pass. You are young, powerful, and ready to set about your godly agenda.
This game has three simple stats.
Essence: This is your life force. One essence can be turned into two Divinity. The only way to regenerate one essence is to "skip" a turn. No other action may be taken that turn.
Divinity: This is what you use to do divine acts. Natural disasters, creation, whatever, this is what allows you to do this. You get one per turn.
Religion: This comes from those who follow you. Using Religion you can influence the actions of mortals, making them your champion in the physical world.
Each god begins the game with an avatar. This is your physical representation in the world. It is bound by physical laws, but beyond that it serves as a proxy for your divine power. It is a physical being, and like all physical beings, can die.
This world is far from empty and already has many species, mortal races, and monsters inhabiting it. Discovering these and guiding your people through the challenges and opportunities they pose is part of the game.
Character sheet:God/Avatar name:
Physical Description:
Personality/Desires Description:
List of Gods.
God/Avatar name: Cyrus
Physical Description: A tall humanoid of undiscernible species, he dresses in a turquoise robe and a golden crown. His beard is marvelously bushy and yet seems to be well-maintained. Often rides on a chariot with a batman (as in the job title) named Cambrose holding the horses' reings.
Personality/Desires Description: Cyrus is a jovial being who loves life, especially the sapient kind. Be it the ways of courtly love or peasantry starvation, Cyrus has developed a fixation on creating grand stories and legends out of the most mundane substances. Personally, Cyrus desires to create the greatest story of all eternity, one to stand the test of time...
God/Avatar name: Nix
Physical Description: A large metallic orb surrounded by a floating circle of fireballs. In each fireball one can see shapes moving as if creating a story, although what is seen is always dependent on the viewer.
Personality/Desires Description: A creature of intense curiosity, Nix seeks to use its considerable divine potency to affect reality not out of any desire for control or power, but to simply see what is and what could be. In a universe of deities, mortals, questions and meaninglessness, Nix seeks to understand the pattern behind existence, and in doing so prefers to simply set things in motion, or if interference is required, to cause as much chaos as possible in order to create as many possibilities.
God/Avatar name: Writhing Refracted Spark In The Dark Of The Unwhole Heart
Physical Description: A translucent light blue humanoid with a shifting crimson core. Her torso resembles rough carapace, while her limbs look like fused tentacles. Her head is clearly alien.
Personality/Desires Description: Heart (she readily goes by abbreviations of her full and proper name) desires wealth and finery befitting her station. Precious gemstones, magical power, numerous servants... but above all, potent wills. The most precious of jewels, the very pinnacle of the universe; the implacable hunger that drives creatures to their goals at any and every cost. Will is everything; a creature with no will is a tool or decoration, and not a good one at that. A creature of pure will can move mountains and shatter empires. It is this she seeks and this she fosters, encouraging those who cannot rest without that which they cannot have.
God/Avatar Name: Morius/Shiyon
Physical description: A tall figure enveloped in a black cloak, the god, or avatar whilst channeling the power of the god, has no discernable features and appears as empty black space beneath the hood.
The avatar when roaming normally appears as a standard member of his race, and has an affable demeanor.
Personality: Morius sees itself as the harbinger of lost souls, and bringer of death. Just as the titular grim reaper, it fulfills its duties implacably and relentlessly. However, as death is a foregone conclusion, it is content to normally sit back and enjoys the struggles of the average mortal to survive, seeing this struggle as a part of its worship.
However, it has a predilection towards 'survivors against the odds' and those who would attempt immortality, seeing itself as the gatekeeper between the mortal races and the thwarting of natural order.
Shiyon, however, is rather happy-go-lucky. The overwhelming personality of the god has manifested itself as a sort of tireless laziness, and he constantly wanders from place to place. He has no real interests beyond survival, other than whatever goals Morius pulls him towards, and is quite content borrowing slivers of the god's power to fulfill his own aims, or even make his life a little easier.
God/Avatar name: Petnieka of the Terra Incognito
Physical Description: Petnieka's appearance is not a constant one; one can never truly know for sure what she's going to look like the next time they see her, until they do. She takes on the appearance of a human woman, in explorer's gear and of constantly shifting appearance (one time you see her pale and redhaired, the next time dusky and dark), an exotic animal, perhaps of a species not yet discovered or only glimpsed, or something in between -- she is known to often take the form of a human with some animal features. It all largely depends on her whims. The one thing that always identifies her, at least in human form, is the golden and impossibly elegantly carved spyglass she keeps at her hip.
Personality/Desires Description: Petnieka desires more than anything to watch and aid mortals in their discovery of new things: exploration is her purpose, plain and simple, and she has every intention of using her divinity to further this task. She is a cheerful and eager deity, quite happy to get along with both other gods and mortals and to do her work. That said, she also gets quite a bit of pleasure out of being coy and mysterious, and it takes a LOT of doing to get her to come out and say anything directly... which can be annoying as she is very much not above leaving little secrets and annoyances for the other gods to discover and investigate: why should gods be free from the joy of exploration?
God/Avatar name: Itheos the Lord of Order
Physical Description: When Itheos appears it generally does so as an impossible large member of the race of the viewer. It is clad in incredibly thick steel armor heavily decorated with the symbols of kingdoms and cities that worship him, if the viewer is a worshiper of Itheos then the viewers own symbol or flag is the most predominant among them. Where the gods body does show though its armor it's features take on the gender of the legally highest ranking person in the society of the viewer (IE, if the viewer was in a kingdom Itheos would be male, if in a queendom Itheos would be female) irrespective of actual political power and it's flesh is made of polished metal. Itheos right hand clutches and lifts an oversized steel judges gavel, and his left hand holds an undecorated scepter. Gigantic wings of steel jut from it's back. (I'll leave if magical flight falls within being the proxy of a god, if so then Itheos can fly and if not then it can't, because obviously its wings, although large, are not nearly enough to carry it's weight.)
Personality/Desires Description: Itheos is the lord of order and the god of civilization. It desires for mortals to build up cities, kingdoms, and empires, bonus points if they are in Itheos name. It desires it's followers to creature structured and ordered and productive societies that follow the rule of law before all else. Although Itheos gives its blessings to both benevolent paladin style kingdoms and brutal repressive dictatorships, it does somewhat favor the former all else being equal, even if just because they tend to be more stable and orderly on a personal level (a person being tortured to death is after all, not a productive and structured member of society). Itheos ultiamte desire is to bring the mortal races into a single large society, a globally spanning empire of law and order to tame the disordered world and bring fourth a new era of order and stability.
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