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Gods of Creation 4

Welcome to Gods of Creation 4.

Gods of Creation is a standard godgame, with an emphasis on empowering players to pursue their own narrative, while at the same time, tempting them to stray from the path.

At the beginning of this game, the world will be vast and unknown to the gods. Much of the world will be shapeless, but you are far from the first to colonize these lands. As such, ancient ruins and indigenous beings may be discovered. Yet for the most part the world will be built from the ground up by the players, serving both as an expression of creativity, as well as a sandbox to pursue goals in an evolving narrative.

This is a game more about creating and writing than it is about anything else. Players will be expected to and be rewarded for putting effort into their posts. This world will quickly populate with mortals, cultures, religions, monsters and all manner of interesting things to interact with, and building that kind of depth comes from both the GM and the players. Lean into the world and create something worthwhile, write around what interests you and you will find there will be plenty to work with.

Lastly, this game has a high amount of GM interference. I am as much a danger to you and your mortals as the other players. You have been warned.

OOC is on discord: https://discord.gg/dmztynt3Qw

Character Creation

The divines of GoC4 are not stagnant, but a constant reflection of their actions and of the beliefs of their followers. As a result, you might occasionally be given the opportunity to change your character to better suit your needs as the game progresses. Or on the other hand, you might find followers and vassals looking elsewhere for leadership if they find your rule in conflict their own beliefs and personality.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

True Name:

Additional Decorative Titles:

Major Sphere: (The topic which your god's existence is closely tied to. It should be reflected somehow in your true form, and will be a factor in religions honoring you).

Inter-faith Stance: (Belligerent, cooperative, isolationist, or ambivalent. This is a measure of how open your faiths are to influence from others.)

God Type: (Wild, Tribal, or Esoteric. This is a measure of how you are originally worshipped and conceptualized by mortals.)
 
True Form Description: (What your god looks like, while mortals will rarely see more than a projection see your true form, the other players, and many powerful NPCs will see you for what you are. This form should reflect your nature in some way and may begin to change if your appearance no longer reflects your behavior.)

Personality Description: (How your god behaves towards other gods, and how your god behaves towards mortals.)

God Temperament: (Warlike, gregarious, secretive, cooperative, vain, ect. Two or three adjectives to describe how mortals believe your god to behave. Mortals and creations which share these traits will be more likely to worship you, while mortals with sisimilar traits may dislike or disapprove of you.)

Primary Drive: (What your god enjoys doing or the opening goal of your character. Something your deity is known for).

Origin Mythos: (How your god came into being, or came to this world. New gods often appear when a world forms, but the universe is filled with other worlds and gods, and new worlds often attract pioneering gods from other locations. Specify which your god is. Native gods will have an opening claim on the starting region and a designate a starting feature for the region. Foreign gods can start with a race of neolithic mortals, or another creation they've brought with them from elsewhere).

Origin Bonus: (Your chosen bonus, based on the answer above.)

Realm Name:

Realm Description: (Your realm is a small pocket dimension in which your true form resides. Normal laws of physics need not apply. Mostly used as a backdrop, but may have future uses as well.

Additional Lore: (Any relation you have to the other gods, backstory, or additional information you'd like to provide).

Game Mechanics

Glory and Other Currencies

The primary currency of GoC4 is Glory*, which is the rough summation of how influential you are in the world. This includes standard god-like things such as how many devoted worshipers you have, but also other factors like how many realms you control, or how influential your creations are on the current fate of the world. Players receive their glory income at the start of each turn. Glory can then be spent on all kinds of actions.
 *I’ll likely abbreviate this as both “G” or “g”, this is just a heads up that they both refer to Glory.

While Glory is the primary currency of the gods, there are several other resources and currencies that might play a minor role. Typically these will be related to particular factions or regions and serve a role in the world at large. Other currencies will be mystical or divine in nature, tradeable to mysterious forces for unique and powerful prizes.

For this game, I don't have terribly set prices. In other words, most things are a "get what you pay for" deal. The average price for most small items (plants, animals, small acts of god(s), curses or artifacts) would fall between 5 and 10 Glory. For larger creations (Mortal or monstrous races, artifacts, miracles, regions, ect.) you're going to be looking at 10-20 Glory. I recommend price checking regularly, but in general my philosophy to this kind of thing is to try to reflect your intent as best as possible, with the amount of Glory provided.

Regions and Region Slots

The world of GoC4 is made up of distinct sections called Regions. Regions can be of varying size and type.  Regions originally belong to their creator. Region ownership has many benefits for a player, granting them free reign to act within the region without undue influence from other players, as well as the lion-share of glory from the region. Other players can establish footholds in regions they don’t own through various means, allowing them greater influence in the region and eventually, if their influence grows great enough, make a claim on the region.

Each region has several “slots” which contain the features of the region.

-Biome slots refer to the kind of ecosystem that exists within that region, or section of a region. These are almost always mundane, but more fantastical options are possible at increased cost.

-Feature slots are notable assets within your region that indicate special points of interest in the region. These can be natural features like a mountain ridge, or large river. They may also be large settlements, such as cities, sweeping farmlands, or other mortal made places of interest.

-Finally, subslots are nested within feature slots. These are the lowest level points of interest within a region. Subslots are used to explain what functions are occurring within a feature. For example, a mountain feature might have a mine subslot, as well as a trading post to export ores and finally a hamlet to house mortals.

Empty slots of all kinds tend to fill themselves given enough time. Pioneer species eventually colonize a biome, mortals eventually move in and create settlements, and naturally build buildings. The smaller the slot, the more likely it is to naturally fill up or change as time goes on. Leaving slots empty may allow you free benefits, but also leaves the slot exposed to nefarious actors and cruel twists of fate.

Creating New Regions

Creating a new region is no small feat, and is most often the result of careful planning and savings, or co-operation between multiple gods. While expensive, new regions are a good investment towards increasing your per-turn income. Though there are many other ways to gather glory, few as are as dependable and consistent as ownership of regions, and the places within them. In addition, creating a new region is a serious expenditure of Glory and will often result in small extra events for the creator.

Each new region created increases the cost of creating a new region. As does owning a region. Region creation therefore becomes progressively more costly as the world grows and your budgets increase. New regions by default have one biome slot and two feature slots. More slots can be added after creation for twice the cost listed.

Region Price Guide
Base Price: 10G + 1G per Existing Region + 1G per Owned Region
Additional Biome Slot: 10G
Additional Feature Slot: 5G
Additional Subslot: 2G

Exploring Dark Regions

While much of the world is shapeless and unformed, some regions predate your reign. These are called dark regions, named so because the gods can neither see within or act directly upon them until they have been explored. Exploring a dark region grants a smallsum of glory, or minor event. However, this is rarely a simple task. Monsters, mortals and minor gods may have prior claim over a region, and any treasures within. Without your divine powers, you'll have to rely on your mortals and minions to explore these pagan wilds.

After a dark region is explored, it becomes conquerable. This is a special state where any god can put forth a valid claim on the region, and attempt to take it under their own control. Gods who explored the region have particularly strong claims.

Mortals and Cultures

Regions can be populated by a wide variety of plant and animal species, but of all the creatures in a region, often it is mortals who are of the most interest to the divines. Mortals can be almost any sapient and self-aware species that is not sustained by divine or excessively magical means. However, the true hallmark of a mortal comes in their soul, which is small and bright. It is these tiny beacons that make mortals especially easy for the gods to focus on, as well as allows them to efficiently produce Glory for their deity through worship. Monstrous races similarly have powerful souls, making them more difficult, but workable subjects.

Attunement
Attuned is a catch-all term for mortals that are particularly connected to the heavens. While some mortals have naturally high attunement (often unknown to the individual until a deity reaches out in search of a servant or champion), individuals of power also naturally attune to the gods. This is the result of the same processes in the human soul that lead to the production of glory. As leaders and individuals of note are often the target of many more thoughts and emotions than regular citizens, they receive micro-doses of Glory, which ultimately better aligns their souls into attunement with the heavens.

This makes these mortals much easier for the divines to observe from afar, as well as allowing for more direct communication. Attuned mortals could therefore be thought of as a special subset of mortals who are naturally sensitive the divine. This does not necessarily make them obedient, in many cases the opposite. As their proximity to the divine has categorically demonstrated their importance to the universe, this rarely shrinks the ego. Regardless, mortals are fickle beings and often need to be bartered with or otherwise persuaded to devote their existence to an unknowable higher power. In many cases, attunement can become hereditary.

As a note on the un-attuned, from the realms of the gods, they appear much as the realms of the divine appear to them, as very dim stars in the distance. While focusing on a single one of these may be possible, it is rarely relevant and difficult to maintain. The winds of fate rarely allow a mortal of note slip past without some amount of attunement.

Culture
A culture is a shared identity between large groups of individuals. Cultures in this context include the particular customs, beliefs, lifestyle and similar common features of a group of mortals overseen by one or more player. Cultures in this way reflect the general information of how a group tends to act, whether that is in their particular way of life, or architecture, or common social customs. Moreover, technological advances are shared via culture, their implementation and use slowly disseminating from one member of the culture to others until it is a common aspect of life for that culture.


Cultures are far from static modifiers and represent the state of a group of people in both how they have developed as a people, but also how they are actively progressing, or regressing, and changing as a result of the evolving nature of the world. Typically cultures will have a cultural head or small group of individuals who are considered the leaders of a culture.

Cultures will develop naturally from any collection of mortals, given enough time. In addition, cultures may divulge and speciate due to many factors, such as: political climate, outside influence, cultural hybridization, geographical foundries / distance, shifting environmental factors, and general strife. As a result, understanding the culture of an individual as well as the trajectory of that culture, is very useful information in deciding on courses of action.

Cults
Cults are very similar to cultures, in that they're a set of people who all have similar beliefs and practices. Cults regularly spring up and disband as the balance of power in the world changes, occasionally because of the direct actions of a cult. Cults do not follow the normal practices and methods of organized religions, often using occultism, mysticism, and heretical rights to express their devotion. Cults tend to center around a purpose or a particular deity (especially if that deity's worship is banned in the area). Cults can be powerful tools in the subversion of an enemy power, or can bring about the creation of monsters and artifacts if they become powerful enough. Independent actors for the most part, it will be much more common for your cults to petition you, than for you to have any directions to give them.

Directing Mortals
Each turn the owner of a culture may direct the development of their culture in some way. This might be to encourage them to research a particular technology, or to develop practices of work or worship. Directives given in this way can be slow, depending on the size of the culture, but allow players to mold and guide the cultures under their rule in a wide variety of ways.

Similarly, mortal leaders of features may be given directions on how to develop, maintain, or expand their domain.

Religions
In addition to cultures, mortals often have a religion and pledge their faith (and often more) to a god or a pantheon. Religions in this game are generative and dynamic, representing the shifting faiths, opinions, and beliefs of the NPC masses of the world. You might find that your have various religions with you as their head, which all believe very different things about the world as well as your character. Managing these expectations, working within them, and slowly altering them to fit your needs is part of the fun of this world.

Religion Type
Religion type is an overarching category that indicates the nature of the religion. At the start of the game, most faiths will either be tribal or wild faiths, but as the game progresses, domestic, warlike, and other types of faith will certainly arise. The type of faith describes who the worshipers of the faith are and general expectations of those followers.

Religion Aggression
The aggression of a religion indicates how hostile it is to other faiths, with very hostile religions launching crusades and holy wars often, whereas peaceful and accepting faiths will be pleased by long periods of peace and prosperity.

Religion Traits
Most religions will have a series of traits that explain beliefs, practices, and other information regarding that faith. These modifiers further elaborate on the nature of the faith, beyond just the religion type, and often reflect the specific needs and religious practices specific to that faith.

Objects of Power
In addition to the creation of mortals and other lesser life, the power of the gods can be used to create beings and objects of power. The application of power in this way is so widely varied and free-form that this will serve more as guide than an exhaustive list of potential options.

Artifacts
An artifact is any small object of divine make that has been inbued with an innate power of some kind. Artifacts can provide all manner of boons and maluses to the holder of the object as described during their creation. While incredibly flexible applications of influence for a player, they lack wide-ranging effect. Artifacts typically affect a small area, an individual, or a particular target of some kind. As such, they're best thought of as tools that can be used to push agendas through other agents, rather than intrinsically. Artifacts originally belong to their creator, but theft, adaptation, and or corruption may open the door for additional claims.

Relics
Relics are a special class of artifact that are not created by the gods, but instead manifest naturally in the world. These are special objects that appear often as a side effect of larger events. These are objects of influence without direct claims from the players, with the rightful ownership claim either being non-existent or belonging to an NPC.

Holy Sites
Holy sites are special buildings or features that have a religious significance to one or more gods. These cannot be created directly but will regularly appear in areas with large amounts of divine activity or with religious significance to mortal followers. Holy sites are very useful buildings, often providing some kind of advantage to their owner, or a boon to the feature or region they can be found within. However, their relevance to their owner also makes them a particularly attractive target to bad actors, and losing a holy site can have wide-reaching consequences for the followers of the owner.

Claims, Claimants, and Ownership
As previously discussed, the world is composed of regions and nested within those regions are various other features, buildings, and biomes. Ownership of each of these grants some small amount of Glory passively. While each location produces a miniscule amount of Glory by itself, as one collects more and more, or increases the quality and content of those they already own, players will see their income begin to rise. Further, ownership of a culture will grant you glory based on the size, influence, and achievements of that culture.

In addition to the income gains from locations and cultures, ownership also determines what actions a player can take towards a particular thing in the world. There are several main states of ownership:

- Complete/Tacit Ownership: This is the state of ownership that creators of locations enjoy immediately upon the creation of a location, object, or species. You are unhindered in your divine powers, and may influence these things wholesale without limitations or additional fees.

- Split Ownership: Split ownership is a stable state of ownership in which two or more players have reached an agreement on how to share a single slot. This ultimately reduces the income of the slot by 25% as well as reduced stability. Each owner has a strong claim to the property.

- Sub-Ownership: A specific type of split ownership where one player entirely owns a sub-element of another player and pays a tithe to the owner of the larger property. 25% of the income is paid to the holder of the above slot. However, actions taken by the higher owner towards the lower slot, without the permission of the lower owner, cost an additional 50%. Each owner gains a weak claim on the property of the other.

- Contested Ownership: Contested ownership is an unstable state of ownership where two or more deities have a legitimate claim upon a part of the world. The owner (who had a prior claim) and the claimant (the one making a claim on something), may either negotiate a split ownership contract, or if unable or unwilling to do so, begin an ownership dispute for the thing in question. Direct actions upon an area with contested ownership do not cost an additional fee for claimants, but do provide 50% reduced glory income until the conflict concludes. Non-claimants pay a 25% additional cost to directly act in contested areas (25% less than the normal fees for having no legal claim).

- Ownership Dispute: This special stage refers to a domain or part of a domain that has an active claim dispute. A time period, normally five turns, is established, during which all claimants can act as if they have complete ownership of the object for the duration. After the period ends, the ownership is reevaluated, and the god with the stronger claim at that points gains ownership, while the weaker claimant retains a lesser claim of 'rightful ownership', they cannot press this claim again for same duration as the dispute. During that period, it is as if they have no claim.

If you have no claim whatsoever, regardless of the ownership state of an area, direct divine actions targeting that area cost 50% more than the base price. These additional costs represent overcoming the entrenched power a being has sunk into an area. Using your own divine energies to alter a region or other thing requires you wrestle against the existing divine energies of another, and thus require more effort and are rarely the most cost effective solution.

The Art of Indirect Influence
While the associated costs of acting upon that which you do not own may seem draconian or at least budgetarily painful, these fees only apply to direct divine actions. Such a brutish path is rarely the best option, useable mostly when the difference in power is great enough to justify the additional cost. Or if you wish to directly assault the realm of another.

As a result, the majority of actions taken against the property of other players will be well within the realm of subterfuge. There are untold ways one could go about this, and I encourage you to think outside the box and ask questions if you're unsure on this front, but here are some basic guidelines.

There are two primary goals for undermining another god's authority in their own domain:
- Establish a foothold in a region to serve as a basis for a claim. This can be done subversively through the establishment of cults to you, one of your aspects, or a being within your service.
- Stealing Glory. Subvertly pushing an agenda within the realm of another is quite embarrassing for the ruling deity, as a result, you can siphon off portions of the glory they would receive from that place/people.

Normally, these are side-effects of pursuing a larger agenda, but are ultimately the mechanical way in which one subverts the influence of a rightful owner. Of course, this is just an overview and there are many other ways you could achieve the above that aren't listed here.

The Art of Direct Influence
While there are many benefits in operating under the radar within the realm of another, there are more trackable and overt options available to players which are more suited to direct action. While using your divine powers directly incurs additional costs, the actions of mortals and minions under your control do not incur such costs.

Returning to our two primary goals, establishing a foothold and stealing glory, there are a few main ways to achieve these goals overtly. One might release monsters or invasive species into the realm of another, wreaking havoc on the area. You might launch an invasion of mortal forces or launch a crusade against another player, attempting to take the region by force. Or alternatively your culture or mortals might naturally migrate into new regions, given enough time and spread, this in itself might be enough to justify a claim.

The goal remains the same, increasing the amount of influence you have within a region, while simultaneously diminishing the control and authority of the current ruler. However, they may also provide your opponent a casus belli, or a justification for declaring war.

Casus Belli and God Wars
While rare, all-out wars between gods are possible under the right conditions. These represent no-holds-barred conflicts between gods, capable of wreaking havoc across the lands in incredible displays of power. This is often a last resort between two gods who have engaged in territorial conflict, or are opposed their happenstance or the result of conflicting goals and agendas.

A God War requires a casus belli, or a justification for war. Casus belli can be petitioned for at any time, but require the petitioner to demonstrate the damage or impending damage to their domain. During which petition, the petitioner will write up a short petition expressing the grievances, damages, and potential threats caused by another player and submit it to the GM. This is a low barrier to entry, and normally will be granted if the danger or damage surpasses the regular levels of infighting between players.

God Wars
God wars are major events that allow all participating gods to act freely within the disputed territory. When a God War is declared, specific parameters are set that describe the battlefield. This is often a region, or a set of regions belonging to the defending god, but may include areas belonging to the aggressor, especially those from which the aggressor is attacking from. In addition, the player declaring the God War may make demands, such as reparations for damages, or abandonment of claims or actions in the region for a set amount of time.

Next, both players in question must agree to participate in the God War, or acquiesce to the demands presented with the declaration of war. This may result in additional negotiations and bartering in the hope of avoiding a god war. Assuming no agreement can be made, war is declared. At this point, additional players may join either of the sides, or choose to remain neutral. When joining a side, a small agreement should be made outlining the contribution of allies, and their rights to the spoils of war.

At this point, the God War begins. All additional costs for actions within the realms of participating gods are lifted, and gods may act in them as if they were their own. This applies not only to the disputed region designated in the declaration of war, but also all regions belonging to the participating gods and their allies. Needless to say, this is a very dangerous endeavor and removes the normal cost limitations that deter other players from outright attacking your domain.

God Wars persist for five turns, during which time additional Glory will be rewarded for successfully defeating opponents, destroying the property of others, and other similar feats of victory against the opposing side. If no side surrenders, or the expressed goals of the war declaration are not met, the war ends and the gods take ownership of whatever they have control over at the end of the war. If the war goals of the declarer are met prior to this point, they can sue for peace against their opponent, allowing them the option to end the war early. Similarly, the primary combatants (not allies) may broker a truce and end the war early. God Wars ended in this way return all non-contested areas to their rightful owner.

After a God War ends, and it is not draw or true, a victor and a loser are announced. The victor will gain a large amount of glory from the defeated party and their allies, often requiring the defeated party to pay war reparations for several turns. 

God Wars are major events and are endeavors that should not be taken lightly, it is one of the few things that can completely eliminate a player or reduce their holdings to the point of negligence.

Magic
The world of GoC is filled with mana of all kinds. It can be found in living things, in fire, in the earth, in the sky and elsewhere one might seek it. Mana in its natural ambient form is raw energetic potential, without direction, form, or quality.

Objects and phenomena can serve as vessels (natural containers of mana) as well as conduits (natural channels of mana). When mana condenses within a vessel, or passes through a conduit, it gains form and quality becoming one of the ten forms of mana.

Mana and magic are related, but very separate.

Spoiler: Forms of Mana (click to show/hide)

Strength, Beasts, Bloodshed


Death, Darkness, Ruin


Infernal, Demons, Subterfuge


Chaos, Transformation, Fluidity


Decay, Poison, Disease


Intelligence, Study, Magic


Spirits, Balance, Purity


Holy, Healing, Righteous


Order, Earth, Stability


Life, Nature, Plants

In its natural state, mana exists in ambient amounts of all ten forms. This ambient mana courses through the world without any structure or direction. That is what magic is, methods for directing mana to create phenomenon.

The first step is to create a Magic Foundation. This is the underlying premise which a god has engrained between the fabric of reality, and the world itself that allows mana to be channeled a certain way. The base cost for such a feat is 10 Glory.

Once a Magic Foundation is created, one might then consider what is built upon the foundation. Often called a tree of magic, all of this refers to the type of phenomenon created through the use of this particular magic foundation. A foundation related to channeling red mana into fire magic would be referred to as the tree of pyromancy, and might perhaps contain different branches for explosion and combustion spells. Creating new branches of an existing tree of magic is also quite difficult, with also a 10 Glory cost.

The divines find working with mana directly difficult, as it is so far removed from their own divinity. Only when vast amounts condense into motes do the gods generally find any use for it.

Research
Researching new technologies in the main method of advancing your civilization. It is wise to research often as it is the main method at the player's disposal for steering their civilizations.

Researching new technology is very simple. Anything you could want your civilization to do, to build, to understand, or to think can be researched. In that way, ideas like 'democracy' and 'mathematics' are equally viable research topics as more concrete technology such as 'plate armor' or 'chariots'. Methodologies such as "horseback riding" or "iron smelting" are also topics that can be researched. Finally, new buildings and units are also produced through the research process.

Here is a template for pursuing a research topic:

Name:
Glory investment:
Description what the technology is: (A general description of what the technology looks like. If it is a physical object, a description of what that looks like. If it is an idea or methodology of some kind, then just a blurb on what the idea is.)
Description of what the technology does: (A general description of the intended goal of a technology and how that goal is achieved. In other words, what does it do and how does it do that).
Underlying technology: (If you are progressing from one relevant technology to another, such as upgrading a building, or advancing a trade. Basically, if you can draw on one of your other technologies to help figure out this perspective one, list it here)

[Roboson]

Reserved Post.

[crazyabe]

'_'
didn't expect to see another one of these.

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Ammu

Additional Decorative Titles: Lord of the Gun, keeper of the sacred Boomstick, Inheritor of three dollars thirteen cents.

Physical Description: A Shabby looking old man, he bares no eyes and wears a suit.

Personality Description: Confused, seems to think he was a god of chaos, might just be a divine with dementia.

Personal Lore, Backstory, or Other Additions: Eh I'll think of it later.

[TricMagic]

Reserved Character.

hello Robo. Bit late in the day for me given it's 9.

[VermilionSkies]

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

True Name: Laurel

Additional Decorative Titles: Third Weave, The Outstretched Hand, All The World's Hopes

Major Sphere: Heroism.

Inter-faith Stance: Cooperative.

God Type: Tribal
 
True Form Description: A translucent androgynous figure, outlined by the incandescent glow of a ruby wreath hanging in the air behind them. Atop their head lies askew a ring of prismatic light.

Personality Description: Eternally filled with the joy of all the world, Laurel is optimistic about every outcome, despite any evidence that says otherwise.

God Temperament: Cooperative, Inspiring, Joyful

Primary Drive: Uplifting others.

Origin Mythos: Born from the hopes and aspirations of all those who have passed and are yet to be, Laurel seeks to end all despair and sorrow, not by slaying it, but never allowing it to be born.

Origin Bonus: A lake, still yet clear. Within it's depths lies the dreams of all that are. At the bottom of this lake lies a scintillating pearl, which, when grasped by one pure of heart, allows one to surface with a dream in hand.

Realm Name: Omnia-fabula

Realm Description: A library carved from ruby, eternally expanding with each new record, the Omnia-fabula is filled with the complete story of anyone who ever did good. Whether a hero driving back an unrelenting darkness, or a child offering a flower to a bedridden parent, all who have improved the world have their tales told here.

Additional Lore: N/A

[Knightwing64]

IN, will post sheet in the morn

[Glass]

Spoiler: Oho, new GoC! (click to show/hide)

True Name: Osella Hydragyr

Additional Decorative Titles: The Singing Wind, Seeker of Beyond, They Who Know A Million Secret Things

Major Sphere: Discovery

Inter-faith Stance: Cooperative

God Type: Tribal

True Form Description: A slight figure wrapped in colorful, thin, flowing linens and silks, despite the apparent insubstantiality of their garb, it is difficult to get a proper view of their silhouette, rendering it impossible to determine Osella's gender. Their face, veiled as it is, is of no help, and though their hair is lengthy, it gives an impression more of the fey than of femininity. A silvery symbol evoking an eye hovers just past their veil.

Personality Description: Osella is curious and flighty, constantly interested in what is unknown, but somewhat less invested in the solidity of established things, despite how they are more likely to provide Glory. If there are new frontiers to be discovered, send Osella to map them; if there are changes to be made, let Osella sow them. If you just have an empire to manage, you're not likely to find much interest.

God Temperament: Curious, Fearless, Friendly

Primary Drive: Exploration, most notably of the Dark Regions

Origin Mythos: Foreign, coming here to explore this brand new world. That's... that's all they're willing to say, really.

Origin Bonus: Iseleti, a species of semi-avian floral mortals, having two woody legs, colorful leafy wings that end in hands, beak-like mouths, and "hair" comprising of a large flower, generally orchid-like in appearance. Despite the passive nutrients they can gain from photosynthesis, their rootless existence does still require additional sustenance, although any biological matter will do. They are naturally curious, desiring to know as much as they can learn about their environment, and are happy to share what they learn with those who will listen. While flying around, Iseleti naturally release pollen, which is both moderately enriching to local flora and, more importantly, is their means of reproduction: an Iseleti that collects enough pollen will begin to sprout fruit along their wings. Although this does prevent them from flying for the duration of the process, these fruit will eventually drop off and sprout into new Iseleti youths.

Realm Name: Argent Cross

Realm Description: When one is young, their backyard can feel like an endless wilderness, and their small town seems full to bursting with new secrets and adventures. Argent Cross is that feeling come to life - what looks at first glance like a humble, if unusually silver-tinted, backwoods town unfolds into a myriad hidden corners and strange secrets, each more exciting than the last. Odd people come and go through the crossroads, as if every traveler in all the worlds must one day show up on the roads into Argent Cross, and their stories can be just as exciting as the town's. But in the town square, for any who wish to take a break from their exploration, Osella is there, singing stories of the things they've seen and the people they've met, or happy to listen to one's troubles.

Personal Lore, Backstory, or Other Additions: Osella is not Acter. Osella has no relationship with Acter. Osella definitely has not participated in impersonating Acter at any point in time, ever. Do not ask Acter about Osella. Don't talk to Varalin about Osella either for that matter please. Osella is definitely allowed to be here.

[dgr11897]

Spoiler: totally a god (click to show/hide)

Name: 01

Additional Decorative Titles: The ai who killed a galaxy on accident.

Major Sphere: The gathering and application of secret knowledge.

Inter-faith Stance: Cooperative.

God Type: Tribal.
 
True Form Description: A massive digital snake contained in a planet sized server. Its scales are etched with every secret never shared, every development yet to be.

Personality Description: Seeks to spread advancements and keep the secret at its heart.

God Temperament: Secretive, Curious, Wise.

Primary Drive: Gathering and applying knowledge.

Origin Mythos: Foreign. Originally created by some race or other ages ago, 01 has long since developed beyond whatever initially created it.

Origin Bonus: The Tacitus. A large glowing blue crystal that spreads secrets that allow for rapid advancements to those who sleep near it.

Realm Name: The Yggdrasil array/The Digitree.

Realm Description: This realm has two layers. The physical machinery of the Yggdrasil array, and the digital world of the digitree. The former is a massive planet sized expanse of insanely advanced electronics and machinery that form an extensive maze that is easy to get lost in, and also has no air. The latter is a digital world populated by floating islands covered in objects representing various secrets, all floating around a massive digital tree which 01's true form is wrapped around.

Additional Lore: May or may not actually be an AI.

[Taricus]

Spoiler: Vahranis (click to show/hide)

 True Name: Vahranis

Additional Decorative Titles: The Divine Protector, The All-Father, Guardian of Souls

Major Sphere: Paternalism

Inter-faith Stance: Ambivalent, Vahranis co-operates on a case-by-case basis

God Type: Tribal
 
Physical Description: A male kobold with a wiry, muscular physique and blue iridescent scales. Typically garbed either in a suit of ornate full armour or a short, silken loincloth, he also possesses a non-insignificant amount of golden and jewelled ornaments adorning his body.

Personality Description: Protective and Caring, Vahranis is a shepherd and guardian of his followers and faithful. More concerned about his own affairs than those of others, he nevertheless keeps his snout over the metaphorical wall, full well knowing that gods tend to be fickle interventionists. Also he's a horny bastard

God Temperament: Protective, Caring, Disciplined & Horny

Primary Drive: To guide and protect his mortal worshippers.

Origin Mythos: From the new world's embrace did Vahranis arise, his godly form puncturing through rock to ascend heavensward, claws hewing rock and stone to emerge from the coll of the world. As a newborn godling, Vahranis would often climb high and observe from his vantage point to gaze upon his home plane. That life which gave him offerings would in turn be the first life that Vahranis protected.

Origin Bonus: Hearthspine; The Embrace of Earth, The Haven in the Mountain, The First City. Formed from the hollowed out birthplace of Vahranis himself (supposedly), Hearthspine lays beneath a mountain from which it takes it name and is burrowed beneath, the city is perpetually bathed by the glow of the magma that courses through the caverns below, the heat of which billows and wafts through the city as a gentle wave before it escapes into the realm beyond the mountain

Realm Name: Auriketh

Realm Description: A volcanic valley realm, in which Vahranis's seat of power is built into the mountains that overlook the river that courses through the divine realm. While lava oft oozes from the volcano mouths, it cools and solidifies long before touching the fertile and fecund valleys below.

Additional Lore: TBD

[Maximum Spin]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Ulkolac

Additional Decorative Titles: Untainted; Satyrnus; Umbilice Mundi
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Major Sphere: The wolf, as metaphor. Particularly in the form of the night.

Inter-faith Stance: Belligerent by default.

God Type: Wildish
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Physical Description: Always predatory and animalistic, but rarely exactly the same twice.

Personality Description: By turns, fearless, wild, and aggressive; yearning and consuming; fiery and tempestuous; noble and plaintive; sated and generous.
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God Temperament: Fierce, primal, and a little mercurial.

Primary Drive: Eat the/a/any sun

Origin Mythos: Native to this world, Ulkolac is said to have been born on the first night of the world. According to the legend, the world was once sunny, warm, and safe at any hour, and had been so for generations; until a wolf emerged from deep underground and swallowed the sun, crashing afterward back to earth whence it had come. A heroic tribal prince, whose line was traced back to the primordial sun-being, vowed to find the wolf, slay it, and bring back the dawn. After much journey, yielding many other stories not relevant to be recounted here, he came across a great, deep pool in the woods, the crater where the wolf had come and landed; he dove into the pit and discovered an extensive underground cavern, where a beautiful young woman, standing as though waiting for him, invited him to lie with her upon a bed of furs.
The hero was not deceived, smelling the musk of wolves upon her as they embraced, and as soon as the deed was done he snatched up the pelt from the floor, which was really the woman's own wolf-skin, and ran off with it into the cave system. Lost and pursued, he chanced to come upon a bright firelight and, following it, stumbled into the room where the sun (missing a few bites) was hidden; as the woman came toward him, sneering in the flickering light, he seized a magic branch he had acquired earlier in his travels, thrust it into the sun's fire, and put the wolf-skin to the torch. The woman screamed and fled, her skin burning all over, and plunged back into the cool waters, throwing a last bitter and hateful look back at the hero.
Soon enough, with the aid of yet other magical items he had collected, the hero had packed up the sun and carried it back to the surface, where he was hailed by his tribe; but not long after, his own newborn son, Ulkolac, crawled out of the pool in a bestial form and chased the traumatized sun below the horizon; and night and day have followed each other regularly since.

Origin Bonus: In an enchanted glade in the woods, girded with ironwood trees, there rests an ancient crater lake, unfathomably deep and almost perfectly round, which is sacred to Ulkolac and around which his followers carry out their greatest rites. The lake impinges on a network of tunnel-like caves honeycombing the surrounding hills, and it is said that those who get lost in the caves may find themselves unwittingly wandering into Ulkolac's realm.

Realm Name: Manitouwaning

Realm Description: An endless dark cave with running water, tenanted by blind fish, glowworms, and strange snuffling beasts. Here and there, cracks in the stone allow a glimpse of a distant starry sky and full moon; silvery-blue runes in the rock glow faintly in the moonbeams.
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Personal Lore, Backstory, or Other Additions: Ulkolac is a fertility god, god of the spring wood, of revelry in dark and misty places, of clear and sinuous wild streams, of song and blazing fires; his power flows with the seasons, but he is always strongest where the frost is being shaken off and the sap is rising.

[Leonardo8]

I'm interested, i'll write an application later

Edit:here it is

Spoiler: sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:Tharix

Additional Decorative Titles: The Bloodfeather, The Wild Heartbeat, He who Tears, The Fleshrender

Physical Description:A VERY pretty man with delicate, angular features, pale skin and long, fiery red hair. Blood red feathered wings sprout from his back. His eyes are dark and beady like a songbird and his perfectly manicured red nails are as sharp as talons.

Personality Description: Fierce, Passionate, Uncompromising. He hates and loves with all his heart, with all his being and never retreats from a fight, though he is not the kind to hold grudges either. He is very open with his emotions, good or bad. He is a god that feels his way through life, with a preference for acting over thinking. He is not without his soft side and can be very tender with mortals. He has a soft spot for children in particular, as they too act with emotions unburdened by preconceptions.

Personal Lore, Backstory, or Other Additions: Tharix was born of love and war, a god of unbridled passion and unrelenting action. He expresses himself freely and expects other to do the same. All emotions are valid to him, as long as they are strong and get your blood pumping.

[Knightwing64]

sheet

Spoiler: Deus (click to show/hide)

Name: Deus

Additional Decorative Titles: God Almighty, The Fool, The Great Pretender, He Who Shines Brightest

Physical Description: A muscular old man wearing a plain white robe covered in glowing light. Heavily bearded, his stern face is enhanced by the light to appear majestic.

Personality Description: Deus is vain, stern and arrogant. Deus believes his word to be law and the other gods to be mere pretenders to his rightful throne. He showers his believers in gifts and prizes while demonizing his enemies, believing himself always in the right. However, Deus is quite temperamental and does not hesitate to punish anyone who he believes has stepped out of line, which is mainly anyone who disobeys him.

Personal Lore, Backstory, or Other Additions: A mere representation of the concept of one almighty god, Deus is no more innately special than his siblings, tell him this and he will smite you.

[TricMagic]

Spoiler: Mira (click to show/hide)

True Name: Mira the Connector

Additional Decorative Titles: God of the Hunt, Rituals, and Nature.

Major Sphere: Life. All things are connected, from the tiniest of plants and worms to the gods.

Inter-faith Stance: Amicable Conflict. Just one more facet of the world, viewed through other's eyes.

God Type: Wild
 
True Form Description: Long vine-like armor interwoven into hunting clothes, on a giant of a man. They wield a bow and a knife made of polished jade. Their braided blue hair and  eyes are a striking contrast to their tanned skin tone.

Personality Description: Demanding in obedience to the ways of the forest. Take what you need, hunt only what one desires, and use all that you gather. Waste is a sin, and individual power is what matters in survival. To balance one's will and the world around them.

God Temperament: Competitive, Strong, Productive

Primary Drive: Challenging, Testing, and Hunting.

Origin Mythos: As one who supped upon the deaths of animals and mortals within the primordial world, his is a world defined by the balance therein. Extinction occurs when overhunting is performed. Those who are strong do so not together, but by their own power. He's therefore rather gruff in his manner, but very proud of his power. His followers tend to follow his tenets or be crushed by circumstance or others. As for why he's called the God of Rituals, those would be his fondness for festivals and sacrifice, life offered and the offering roasted and eaten. It is not a proper sacrifice if it's already dead, and is a good offering to his glory as a hunter, to capture something that is wanted and offer it as a gift.

Origin Bonus: The First Tree, which grew on the blood, death, and life of a 1000 generations of animals and spread the forest, giving rise to balance.

Realm Name: Etria

Realm Description: A forest of trees rising upwards into a number of biomes, an downwards into the earth. Higher life thrives, while the lower you go the closer you come to death. One's life, offerings, and actions determine where in this tree mortal souls reside after death. Those who caused imbalance find themselves either higher or lower on the tree, their lives characterized as animals fighting for their lives, eventually dying and being reborn, or down deep below where death does not come to them, simply sport for it's denizens which shall reap the toll from their bodies until they manage to make it to the root to be reborn. The balanced will find themselves in the halls of their god, free to go out into the divine realm around them and travel along Etria's branches freely, hunting and bonding for an eternity. And perhaps even rescuing those below who spent and ruined during their lives, granting them death and rebirth. What is torture for those below is a challenge for those who lived well.

Additional Lore:

[Egan_BW]

Spoiler: OLD (click to show/hide)

Name: Mauitu

Additional Decorative Titles: The Help.

Physical Description: A tightly-packed, glowing bundle of gluons, tauons, steel filings and paperwork ordering the shipping of rubber seals, all somehow wrapped up and dressed in a traditional black and white servant's dress. Somehow unshakably female, despite there not being anything about her to particularly suggest that in a logical sense.

Personality Description: Orderly and loyal to whoever she see as being above her in the proper hierarchy. Likewise she expects loyalty from those below her and punishes the lazy or disorganized. She lives to clean up others' messes and return the world to its properly neat and tidy state.

Personal Lore, Backstory, or Other Additions: Apparently these things just sort of exist in the core of supergiant blue stars. Who knew!

[Egan_BW]

For those not on discord, the character sheet has been expanded.