Briefly considering all that you've seen, you deduce that the most efficient method of satisfying your curiosity is to tap into the source itself, that being the minds of these strange, misshapen creatures.
Rolling 1d100 against 3d4: 11 VS 6
Focusing for a moment, your physical form disperses and the whole of your mentality descends onto the dimmest minds among them. After so much time spent in the calm serenity of your realm, the complexity is staggering and the flashing images of brutality both real and imagined even moreso, but the simplicity of these thoughts is as far removed from your divine mind as an insect's from theirs, and you are undeterred. Recovering for an instant, you spend the next digging into the surface of their knowledge to satisfy your curiosity, and learning the common knowledge about their circumstances and this plane, you wonder whether it would be permissible to dig deeper. Of course, you're careful to cover your tracks and sloppy though your first expedition into telepathy may be, by the time you've left, they'll be none the wiser that you were ever here, save for a vague feeling that they've been watched.
Do you want to know all that can be known from their feeble psyches?Yes The privacy of mortals means nothing to you, only the discovery of all there is to be found.No Tempting though it may be, you don't want to force yourself upon those who have no choice.Once you've finished your psychic exploration, you withdraw from their minds, rematerialize behind a chunk of rubble, and begin analysing all the information that you've discovered.
- This plane is known as Osterat in their language, meaning Forsaken. According to their myths, it was once home to a glorious empire that uncovered the mysteries of tapping into the arcane essence between the planes, which they used to elevate their society into a post-scarcity state and themselves into a race of flawless paragons. The specifics of what exactly occurred to destroy this empire are unknown, only that it involved a conflict with something called Dhiruer, also known as the Undoer, who took umbrage with their atheist tendencies and repeatedly refusing to deal with its dignitaries. Details of the conflict itself are no less vague, only that in the aftermath the magic and life-force alike was stripped from the plane, and the handful of survivors were devolved into physically weak and frail husks of their former selves, left with only enough sapience to recognize how far they'd fallen.
- Curiously, they refer to themselves as Osterat and have transitioned from disbelieving in the gods to blaspheming against them on a daily basis. Seeing that their plane has been stripped of any resources beyond what the handful of their ancestor's artifacts that were overlooked during the cataclysm and the bare, absolute minimum necessary to sustain an existence perpetually on the brink of starvation, their civilization has collapsed into a series of roaming bands, the majority of which have taken up raiding one another to survive, and a significant minority of which have resorted to cannibalism.
- This particular group is a scouting party from another, larger band intent on ambushing and looting the site of a campfire they'd seen previously. They aren't cannibals, but they're extremely desperate and if this raid proves successful, exceedingly unlikely to share any of their findings with the rest of their people. You find that the golden staff over the first one's shoulders once functioned to fling firebolts at its targets, but ran out of essence long ago and serves to bluff more than anything.
You feel that this is a bit more bleak than you'd already anticipated.
How do you want to react to this newfound information?A) Reveal yourself in all your glory, and attempt to apologize for the actions of your distant... kin? colleague? counterpart?B) Reveal yourself in all your glory, and promise to lead their people to their former prosperity in exchange for their worship.C) Bring forth a miracle of discovery, to reveal that a benign divine presence is near and sees them in their hour of need. [Specify]D) Find your way to the campsite they intend to ambush, to warn or manifest before whatever unlucky mortals happen to be there.E) Find your way to this scouting party's band, and upon arriving, try to deduce a way to bring them to your worship.F) Return to your Godly Realm, because you've seen more than enough of this place.Mantles: Discovery
Epithets: N/A
Servitors: N/A
Followers: N/A
Your Godly Realm: A quiet place, ideal for contemplation and currently bereft of any inhabitants save Eroth, its creator.
Osterat: Once home to an illustrious civilization, it has been destroyed by a god-sent cataclysm of an inconceivable scale.
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