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[chubby2man]

The Aegis of a Forgotten Mind

Tol Anath, High King of Radiance, a Titan Ascended, Might Lord over five universes and Master of a million Realms. His might was supreme, until he was betrayed by one he loved. While he was felled in a single blow, a ritual prepared long ago wiped the memory of himself from those with the power to do him harm. This was his Aegis against disaster and betrayal. His power would recover given time, and he would one day return to his throne.

Though his power was mighty, enough that with a breath he could create a million galaxies, he was not infallible in his rituals. By the barest of margins you escaped the scope of the Aegis, and had the ability to latch onto the fallen Titan. While he is still frightfully powerful, you and a few others seize the opportunity to leech strength and power until the King awakens.

The Vareinia, the Outer Lords (You)
Powerful beings, holding a whole plane of existence inside their being. Gods beyond the ken of mortals, whose lives pass in but a fleeting moment in their ken. Parasites gorging themselves, praying their host continues to sleep.

Players join as one of these Outer Lords. You are not the creators of the world, instead you join after the fact to usurp it. Your goal is to gain as much power as you can before your host, the unconscious Titan Tol Anath, awakens. There are ways to delay the awakening, and perhaps even permanently prevent it, but that will take the use of the very power you are trying to usurp.

The power you gain increases as your influence spreads.

Outer Lord:
Name/Description:
Domain: 1 major, up to 2 “minor” based on your major: Like Destruction, War and Betrayal
Spreading these increases your influence and thus power gain. Generally you won’t “level up” your power gain until a legendary or particularly noteworthy action takes place. (Example domain of love would get tiny unnoticeable gains from regular marriages and loves, but might get a large bonus from an epic sprawling love affair. Intent is to prevent gaming the system by balancing rare domains with more common ones. )

Plane Name/Description: Inside of you is an endless plane of existence in which you have the power to create at your leisure. Preferably fits your domain. You can add to this at will, but beware generally you can’t remove or destroy things from your plane. Denizens of your plane generally won’t be able to transfer to the world of Tol Anath for long, but they can be summoned and bound by knowledgeable cultists or sorcerers.  (Consider this your creative playground, I won’t really mess with it).

What Do You Require to Summon you Presence?:(Consider this your entrance fee, they are paying the power costs of grabbing your attention or summoning something from your realm.)





What to do: Influence the mortals to give you more power. Tol Anath has birthed a race called Humanity to advance his awakening. They can be corrupted to further grant you power, instead. However, you are too far removed to interfere directly. Time passes quickly, only allowing a few actions to advance your interests. While you will be able to form cults, it will be hard to form a major religious following as you won’t be able to respond as quickly as the minor gods that crop up. But you do not necessarily need direct worship, as the more of the mortals that act and particularly perform great feats in accordance with your domain the more power you will earn.

So what can you do? (Potential actions, Ideas)
Artifacts: You can forge your power and presence into a mighty artifact. The true artifact resides in your plane, however a corresponding lesser Reflection can be placed int he world or given to favored mortals.

Create a Cult: Gather like minded men and women to worship you. Due to your limitations, you most likely won’t be able compete with quicker responding Gods, but they cannot match your overall power.

Incarnae: Compress a portion of yourself into a mortal form. They will have no memory of your divine history, but will retain a motivation and access to some of your powers. Will generally collect a following and may start a bloodline, spreading your gifts.

Generally a lot of actions are fair game, but Keep in mind that you are twice removed from the mortal realm, and only see it as through a distant reflection through a body of water. The gods that spring from the beliefs of the mortals may be pale weak things in comparison to your power, but they are more present. You may perform great acts once or twice in the turning of an age.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name/Description:
Domain:
Plane Name/Description:
Power:1
What do you require to summon your presence?:

Probably taking up to 6 players. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. Basically think Daedra from the Elder Scrolls and you’re headed in the right direction.


Power: Power (Level) is a measure of how strong your Outer Lord is. So a Power 2 isn’t significantly stronger than a Power 1, but a power 10 is. Your Artifacts and Champions and stuff would level up (and delevel) with you.

Spoiler: The World (click to show/hide)

Essentially, the world is a circle divided into rings. The absolute center lies the True Mind of Tol Anath. Here is where prophecy will be fulfilled at the end of days and the Heir of Tol Anath will become one with High King, awakening the Titan, who you are currently leeching power off of. 
 
Surrounding the True Mind is 500 miles of treacherous, mountainous terrain, filled with monsters and terrible creatures, which protect the True Mind from the unworthy (R1). Nothing that would worry one of your power, but even you cannot peer all the way into the deepest hearts of the mountains.

The next ring (R2) is the the Deep Forest. This ring has a radius of a thousand miles. As the mountains turn into hills, it is covered in a deep primeval forest, teeming with life and resources. Here is where humanity is first deposited, to spread and grow strong.

The third ring (R3) is the Grasslands, a wide open territory of rich plains broken by wide rivers and deep lakes. This ring has a radius 1500 miles. Vast herds roam these plains, and even greater beasts.

Outside of this ring lays a thick impenetrable mist, even to your divine eyes.

As the Ages pass, the mist recedes and reveals new ground to explore and inhabit.  Perhaps you will be able to influence the type of terrain that is formed there.

Map:
Center
R1: Mountains
R2: Deep Forest
R3: Grasslands

NORTH:
1. NR1:
2. NR2:
3. NR3

EAST:
1. ER1:
2. ER2:
3. ER3:

SOUTH:
1. SR1:
2. SR2:
3. SR3:

WEST:
1. WR1:
2. WR2:
3. WR3:

As interesting locations and geographic features are created they can be added to the regions where they are located.

IC

[Roboson]

Will post here later.

[Glass]

Spoiler: 914 (click to show/hide)

Name/Description: Gia. The core of their body is made of oil, with various appendages emerging as needed, made of crystal and/or metal (though always connected to the core by a black strand); their favored for for interacting with mortals has steel arms, wings made of an array of multicolored crystals, and a silver head with blue crystal eyes. Lightning sparks across any metal extensions, while steam drifts off of the crystals.
Domain: Change (Invention, Self-determinism)
Plane Name/Description: The Clockworks - an endless landscape of perpetually-moving mechanisms, constantly changing its shape. Those who are intelligent can find the patterns, and the more familiar one becomes with the patterns, the more easily can make their way across the domain; those who are true experts may even find hidden locations, while the lost and confused can easily become lost in an endless labyrinth or get caught in the machines and perish. The location is also home to a variety of mechanical creatures - more curious than anything else, being unneeding of sustenance, but potentially very dangerous if threatened.
Power: 1
What do you require to summon your presence?: A unique creation being made in my name, or an assertion of one’s will against an overwhelming power.

[Kilojoule Proton]

Spoiler: Outer Lord Orist/Rhorist (click to show/hide)

Name/Description: Orist. A two-faced figure clothed in dread whispers and adorned with a necklace of skulls. Its six arms hold a sickle, a spear, a spool of thread, a star, a severed head, and a bowl of blood.
Domain: Duality (Secrets, Lies)
Plane Name/Description: The Reflections. Cities, suspended by silvery thread, float in a smoky void under the light of a half moon. Its residents, free of many of the restrictions that plague mortals, are given to delving into apocryphal lore and maneuvering for power and influence over their local courts. Orist/Rhorist's name is both praised and cursed with surprising regularity by the manipulative denizens of these halls
Power:1
What do you require to summon your presence?: A fell betrayal, a somber secret, and an empty face. Bring two of these and a worthy wish to a still pool or a mirror under the light of a half moon.
What delights this Outer Lord?: Unexpected betrayals, false amiability, subtle plots, and lurid secrets
What dismays this Outer Lord?: Wanton violence, genuine compassion, and dogmatic thinking

Extra sheets mostly for fun

Spoiler: Outer Lord Eo (click to show/hide)

Name/Description: Eo. A stern young woman with arms outstretched balanced on a single toe on a shining globe.
Domain: Light (Silence, Stasis)
Plane Name/Description: Dawn's Law. A lush plane inhabited by cloaked specters of many colors and will o' wisps. Sprawling graveyards stretch across the hills and plains, and the grass is always wet with dew. All who enter will find speaking any louder than a whisper nearly impossible. Despite the idyllic surroundings, the denizens of this plane do little but rehearse funerary rites in silence at the many tombs and graveyards scattered throughout the land. The light of the specters and will o' wisps of Dawn's Law is excellent for revealing hidden messages and passages.
Power: 1
What do you require to summon your presence?: Balance on one limb at the crack of dawn and whisper a greeting to the sun.
What delights this Outer Lord?: Silence, stillness, stability, light, death, life, undeath, unlife, mornings, Mondays, funerals
What dismays this Outer Lord?: Noise, sudden change, destruction, Fridays, births

Spoiler: Outer Lord Hearthwight (click to show/hide)

Name/Description: Hearthwight. A jolly, dancing man with a furnace for a belly who delights in shoveling most anything flammable in. He is always attended by dancers who merrily collect fuel for his insatiable fire. His relentless footfalls are as loud as they are precise and unceasing, and his dance is without end. End. End. End. End. End. End. End. End. End.
Domain: Perseverence (Precipitation, Joy)
Plane Name/Description: Doom-Drum. A festive plane filled with such things as noisy factories and bottomless mines and towering forests and gigantic feasthalls bursting with dancers and heaps of thoughtcoal. All that takes place in this plane is perfectly timed to the constant rhythm that permeates this place. Place. Place. Place. Place. Place.

The unique inhabitants of this place include the Tarantari, smaller versions of Lord Hearthwight who likewise dance without end and consume fuel like cheap booze, and the Fireborn, fiery imps who also take part in the dance and pass coal to the Tarantari and Lord Hearthwight.
Power: 1
What do you require to summon your presence?: A jolly jig!
Dance and make merry
In rain and in sun!
Hearthwight hears all
Who, dancing, have fun!

Dance for the Godhead!
Dance for the Dead!
Dance for the Drum and its bellies red!
What delights this Outer Lord?: Joy, sadness, perseverence, earnestness, rhythm, fuel, community events, passion, mania, drums, rain, hail, sleet
What dismays this Outer Lord?: Strife, despair, stillness, stasis, sloth, slowness

Spoiler: Outer Lord Njarud, Baron of Move-Like-Jagger (click to show/hide)

Name/Description: Njarud, Baron of Move-Like-Jagger. A wizened ape with a fancy croque-monsieur and saber. He speaks in a pseudo-refined mannerism, as if an idiot aping a learnèd speaker.
Domain: Division (Refinement, Purity)
Plane Name/Description: Vanarheim. A dense temperate rain forest constantly blanketed by mist and filled with Vanara, thoughtful monkeys and apes who nonetheless lack the gift of mortality. Those closest to Njarud imitate his dress and forsooth speaketh like him as they make pointless conversation in needlessly elongated verbiage and slice up interlopers around the Blue Blackwood Tower, where Njarud spends his time dispensing pseudo-profound platitudes. Once in a literal blue moon, Njarud and many of his subjects turn feral and begin hunting each other, for such is the curse of very nearly unconditional immortality. Mortal visitors would do well to stay out of Vanarheim on such nights. Once in a red moon, however, Njarud opens the top floor of the Blue Blackwood Tower to all who dance, but even the Baron himself can never remember exactly what happens on such nights.
Power: 1
What do you require to summon your presence?: Sacrifice a bowl of sliced fruit to a totem/icon/statue of a monkey or an ape
What delights this Outer Lord?: Malapropisms, nouveau riche, tails, dragons, fine song and dance, fruit, "intellectual" debates, swords, big words, big swords, lizards, wizards
What dismays this Outer Lord?: Tigers, jaguars, panthers, uncultured swine, uncultured literal swine, pointy ears, birds, bows

Spoiler: Outer Lord Theodore Yingfan (click to show/hide)

Name/Description: Theodore Yingfan. A man with elfin features and flaming hair. Has a crazed look about his face.
Domain: Obsession (Watchfulness, Sport)
Plane Name/Description: Nuirn. A great arena where all can fight all for honor, training, or sport under the watchful eye of Theodore and whatever spirits such a place tends to attract. Death rarely lasts long in Nuirn even for mortal fighters, and those who do particularly well are blessed with the personal attention of the Spectator himself.
Power: 1
What do you require to summon your presence?: Invoking Yingfan for victory in competitive sport and having the greater resolve. The Spectator will seldom make himself known immediately, but his arrival can hardly be missed.
What delights this Outer Lord?: Victory, resolve, sportsmanship, skill, sparring, fighting, fitness, prestige, hard work, sports, tournaments
What dismays this Outer Lord?: Murder, cheating, deception, darkness, skydiving, cliffs, large doors, laziness

Spoiler: Outer Lord Who-Is-Like (click to show/hide)

Name/Description: Who-Is-Like. An unremarkable vagabond masked as lepers often are. Who-Is-Like often makes bizarre observations of questionable veracity to fellow travelers. Sometimes, these are even true.
Domain: Trivia (Crossroads, Facts)
Plane Name/Description: The Desert Path. A beaten road in an endless desert. Friendly giant centipedes and walking cats tend to the roads and thirsty wanderers as they journey from oasis to oasis. Particularly large oases are often graced with the tents of throngs of travelers, pilgrims, and merchants, but no oasis ultimately lasts very long in the dunes and sinks of the Path, where sandstorms rage and a hot sun parches even the unthirsting. It is said that everything inconsequential that is lost in the mortal realm eventually finds its way here. It may even be true.
Power: 1
What do you require to summon your presence?: Stand at a crossroads and offer up a map or a fact about a distant land
What delights this Outer Lord?: Facts, factoids, vagrants, maps, couriers, gossip, vagabonds, beggars, lepers, wanderlust, unpaved roads, nomads, oceans, deserts, mountains, caverns, animals
What dismays this Outer Lord?: Cities, towns, settlements, poor directional sense, bandits, highwaymen, farmers, lawyers, farmland, workshops, palaces

[Naturegirl1999]

Spoiler: Outer Lord Gardenzia (click to show/hide)

Name/Description:Gardenzia: Gardenzia looks like a giant floating flower with 6 petals, one for each color. Each petal has an eye at the tip, and her mouth is in the center of the petals and looks like the beak of a hummingbird
Domain:Major=Life, Minor=Plants and Adaptation
Plane Name/Description: Regna is a plane filled with all sorts of plants of various sizes, some have ganed the ability to move and have convergently evolved into forms humans would likely call animals, but it is only plants that reside here. The Orb Star changes colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, then purple, and the cycle continues forever. As such, there is no such thing as night. Time here is measured in the Colors. There are two species of moving plants that have gained sapience, but more may follow. These are the Bevavi, plants that appear like birds, with wings of leaves, legs of stems, and feet of roots. They make nests out of plants that have already died, whether it be due to not being in the sun, or due to being parasitized by the various parasitic plants that evolved here. Bovavi tend to spend most of their time soaring in the sky, soaking up the light of the Orb Star, however, come the time of Purple, each Bovav finds another and begins making a nest. After the Purple, when the nest is built, comes Red. Each Red, the Bovav pairs trade microspores and megaspores o they each produce seeds for the nest. Each nest can contain up to 16 seeds, 8 seeds per parent. When the Red is over, the seeds hatch into young Bovav, which spend the Orange and Yellow learning to fly and communicate. There is also the Koveli, these creatures appear as beetles the size of Bovavi. They grow from within other mobile plants, such as the Rold, snake like plants that crawl along the ground and climb the trees to get to the sun. The Koveli work as one, Each Kovel working to help everyone else. Every Green, the Koveli send scouting parties to search for new prey to hunt. Come Purple and Red they attempt to raid the nests of Bovavi. Both the Koveli and the Bovavi have languages and they use symbols to represent things, which for now sets them apart from the other mobile plants of Regna
Power:1
What do you require to summon your presence?: Plant 36 plants in a circle, 6 plants of each color of the Orb Star, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, and lay down in the enter of the circle, limbs outstretched, then chant "Gardenzia, goddess of Regna, I summon thee" to summon me. If you wish to summon creatures from Regna, do the above, but instead of chanting my name, chant "Creatures of Regna, I summon thee"

((would this work?))

[micelus]

Spoiler: Outer Lord Vasov (click to show/hide)

Name/Description: Vasov, An androgynous bipedal yak with 158 teats and 158 legs, Vasov's face is alluringly beautiful to all who look upon it. The throat of Vasov contains within itself a pharyngeal jaw, which Vasov brings out to speak and eat in deeper tones. Kept neatly tucked in within Vasov's cheeks are a pair of arms with which she uses to grasp and gesture. Vasov's teeth are sharp like a canine. Whilst taking the form of a yak for his own amusement, Vasov appears to many people in many forms. Vasov is draped in a coat of ivory-coloured silk, that upon it bears a red and black sigil.
Domain: Major= Destiny, Minor= Fate, Order
Power:1
Plane Name/Description: The Opulent Miasma is a series of many interconnected rooms that are decorated and furnished as if they were part of a palace. Not of the same palace, but of many myriad palaces from all sorts of technological eras and cultures. Some are waterlogged swamps with polished marble stone benches, some are carpeted with the finest of flax and lit by roaring fires. There exists gardens, ponds, dungeons, guardhouses and hovels across the Miasma, all reflecting the myriad opulences of many possibilities. However, there is but one throne room. At the very centre of the Miasma is a simple stone dais, itself upon a small step pyramid. Nothing sits upon it and any who dares does so finds that they cannot leave it. A faint purple fog permeates throughout the Miasma, which can be toxic to non-residents.
What Do You Require to Summon you Presence?: A part of one's body bloodied by one's own liquids or wealth [not just currency, but food, pets or things of sentimental value] considered significant by the applicant. An ally, who freely gives their life, or one who is sacrificed without their knowing. An enemy or their kin or allies. Any of these are acceptable. The completion of a grand destiny is a road of sacrifice, not one walked with ease.

[Glass]

Re: Gardenzia: you should probably go for something more higher-order, like Life or Growth or Nature, as your central sphere, and then have Plants as one of your subdomains.

[Naturegirl1999]

Re: Gardenzia: you should probably go for something more higher-order, like Life or Growth or Nature, as your central sphere, and then have Plants as one of your subdomains.

Thanks, will do. Also added description
EDIT: Major=Life, Minor=Plants and Adaptation, will that work?

[TricMagic]

Spoiler: Outer Lord Liberum (click to show/hide)

Name/Description: Liberum
Domain: Freedom, Awakening & Choice.
Plane Name/Description: Magna cum nubibus caeli- An endless sky of clouds supporting lands floating atop and within. The sky above is clear, and the world below(mortal realm) near impossible to reach. It has it's own day night cycle, and the center of it revolves around pillars made of a white stone reaching to the heavens. In the shape of an actual planet with no real core. If one sinks down deep enough, they will find their way to the mortal realm. Likewise, one can ascend to live in the Cloud Sea on it's islands.
The islands have their own ecosystems, and run off of divine power to grow and live, as is only natural, breathing the air and taking in the energy. As well, within the Cloud sea, some areas from cloud islands, and there are beasts of tremendous size as well that one can take to living on. Animals and fish exist as well in the ecosystem, some normal, and others special, mystical, making use of the energy floating freely..
Power:1
What do you require to summon your presence?: Water, Light,[These two simply need to be present in some way] and a symbol of a pillar surrounded by clouds.(This can be in any form, scratched into being, painted, or hand-carved. Or even an actual tower reaching toward the sky.)

[chubby2man]

Submissions look good! I’ll be taking submissions till midday tomorrow, aiming for diverse roster.

[Nakéen]

Spoiler: Aviel, Outer Lord of Value, Sacrifice and Despair (click to show/hide)

Name: Aviel
Description: A gorgeous lady wearing a ceremonial white dress. Her skin is ivory and her long hair as white as the dress. Her usually closed eyes have a black sclera and crimson irises. A constant stream of ruby crimson tears flow from her weeping eyes, tainting her pure white dress.
She carries a bone knife in her left hand, and a head sized eye in the right hand. Mortals gazing at the eye will see reflected to them what they hold the dearest in the world.

Domain: Value, Sacrifice, Despair

Plane Name: The Tears of Lost Value
Plane Description: A misty expanse across which flows a weeping river of blood. Laments and cries echoes constantly from the river, and they tell of the precious things that were lost. This is where everything that was sacrificed to Aviel end up.
Power:1

What Do You Require to Summon you Presence?: Aviel requires the sacrifice, or unwilling loss, of what the caller holds most precious in the world. If they have nothing left in the world, they must offer their whole being to Aviel.

If someone wrongly sacrificed something that they wasn't the dearest to them, Aviel will nonetheless appear only to show them what must be sacrificed to properly summon her. The mortal will gaze into the eye, and the eye will gaze back. Aviel will scream in anguish and stab the eye, from which will come forth a stream of black blood that will cover the mortal. If they attempt to summon Aviel again with a wrong sacrifice, the Outer Lord will attempt to take their everything, and lacking that their soul.

[Rahx]

Spoiler: The Ouroboros Levion, Outer Lord of the Endless (click to show/hide)

Name: Levion
Description: To mortals, a mirror view of any moments possible in time, for good or ill. To the other outer lords, A being mixed of flesh, metal, and magic that changes its look on how it sees fit. Always has either a clock, an Ouroboros, or another representation of time/infinity.

Domain: Time, Creation, Destruction

Plane Name: The Infinity's Gaze
Description: A simple room with the feeling of an endless void staring at you. Kind of like space but breathable. You can even see the world you live on if you ask Levion nicely. Can give "predictions" of the future or give a history lesson if you can interpret Levion's controls of the room's image. Levion speaks to mortals in its true form while they are in the room (if that is possible).

Power:1
What do you require to summon your presence?: Items that depict endless possibilities or being endless in of itself, such as the infinity symbol. Prerequisite of intending to contact Levion.

[Smoke Mirrors]

Spoiler: Outer God Phos (click to show/hide)

Name: Phos
Description: A handsome young man with ink-black hair and pure white skin, though you can hardly see it anymore as he has written all over his own skin. He is dress in all white formal wear, but it looks all black as he's written over it so much only he can still discern what's written. His eyes have black sclera and silver irises. He can technically remove the stories he's written from his skin and clothes if he wants to, but he often rights something new so quickly it doesn't matter. In his right hand he holds a quill already read with ink that can change color at will, and in his left hand he holds a book full of every story.
Domain: Stories, Dreams, Heroes
Plane Name: The Pages
Plane Description: A constantly shifting world taking on whatever shape interests it at the time. The world acts out any story written within it by Phos or that appears in his book. When it begins a new story, it takes it from Phos's body, clothes, or book, and when a story is finished, it returns. A story will continue on its way unless acted on by an outside force. Multiple stories can be acted out in separate areas, but will not normally interact unless made to. When a story is modified, it's modified version is recorded alongside it's original. Things independent from a story can appear if they are written about, and Phos can cause a new story to start or an ongoing one to stop at any time.
Power:1
What do you require to summon your presence?: Tell or create an impressive story, and Phos will be there to record it.

[Taricus]

Spoiler: The Chained Lord, Outer God of Order (click to show/hide)

Name: The Chained Lord
Description: The Chained Lord, as befitting the name, is a humanoid entity bound with layers upon layers of chains. In spite of the unusual garb, he has no trouble on moving, and is seemingly strengthened by each and every chain forged and attached.
Domain: Order (Slavery, Authority)
Plane Name: Arkonis
Description: Arkonis is a wonderous, and well-sculpted realm. Here, thousands upon thousands of souls are bound in chain and put to work serving their master, expanding the realm little by little, and sculpting it according to his wishes. For those fortunate enough to be scions of authority the lord of order recognises their skills and imbues them with the power to oversee his legions of slaves and servants. For the dutiful slave, the realm is a reprieve, for now their service is to the chained lord himself.
Power: 1
What do you require to summon your presence?: To bind oneself in chains, and submit to the authority of the Outer Lord of Order

[Madman198237]

Spoiler: Hahahahahaha dangit my creativity has fled (click to show/hide)

Name/Description: Hroar, the shattered remnants of a deity that came closer than most to succumbing to the Aegis. Usually appears like someone who is dead or dying, the particular appearance changing wildly even while you look at him.
Domain: Afterlife, Souls and Death
Plane Name/Description: Valta, a somewhat scattered realm with shards of afterlives influenced by the beliefs present across the world, with souls wandering the shards. The bare remnants of weak-willed fools wander next to the shades of ancient kings and the mighty souls of great heroes.
Power:1
What do you require to summon your presence?: Attempts to cheat death in any way, murder large numbers of people, or save people from death will all attract his attention, very negatively.