Topic: God Kings: Crystalizedmire edition (Read 2190 times)

Demonic Gophers · « **Reply #15 on:** May 22, 2024, 01:48:55 am »

Deshir Gelai woke among the people of her latest project. A comforting presence; at least all her work wasn't lost with her imprisonment, and she could still try to protect her creations. She took some time to move among them, looking them over and reassuring them as they recovered from their disruptive and unexpected arrival. Much as the process of imprisonment had limited Deshir's access to her power, it had also... stabilized the Laishin. Influenced by their surroundings as they arrived in this reality, they had settled into form as hairless humanoids with webbed toes to more easily swim in the ocean surrounding their new home, prehensile tails, and no external ears. Their skin was a gradient of two vivid colors, with each individual showing one of several patterns. Their slit-pupiled eyes invariably contrasted with the color of their face. Deshir noted that each of the Laishin had short claws on one hand, sharp enough to neatly cut the stems of the local grasses.

The Laishin seemed to be settling in well - just as Deshir would expect. She set her mind to providing them with better tools to survive and thrive. Interesting tools, of course.

Major Intervention: The Rune Shrines
Deshir creates and places a number of small shrines, each of them holding a symbol that she links to a magical concept - some simple and physical, like stone, metal, water, or darkness; others more abstract, like protection, movement, and insight. Anyone who knows one of the runes can write it, then will power into it to create some simple magical effect, such as using the rune of fire to ignite a campfire or briefly shield the caster against flames. However, the mastery needed to bring about stronger or more complex magic requires visiting the shrine in person and spending a short time in meditation there, to fully attune oneself to the nature of the rune. Runes can also be combined and empowered together. A rune of fire and a rune of protection together can ward off flames much longer than either could on its own; Water and Insight can allow the caster to scry in the surface of a pool. Runes usually fade once their power is spent, but with the rune of persistence, one can mark runes on an object to give it mild magical properties that will last as long as the markings are undamaged.

Each shrine is placed somewhere moderately hard to reach - in caves, where possible, but otherwise places like cliff tops and mountain peaks, hidden spaces in deep swamps, and craggy islets off the coast. Anyone near a shrine they haven't visited can feel its presence in the area and sense the general nature of its rune, but not its precise location. Deshir feels that mastery of a rune is a prize that should be earned.

Deshir starts by placing shrines for her favorite runes, and some of the ones she considers most immediately useful, on Turnathat where the Laishin will have immediate access to them. If a major intervention allows it, she will also scatter some rune shrines around on the other islands, but if her power doesn't allow her to influence that large of an area at once the system can always be expanded later.

Minor Blessing
Deshir grants her favor to those explorers among the Laishin who best exemplify both curiosity and kindness. Faint magic of light and shadow drifts around them, assisting in their efforts - but only when they need the help.

Prophet · « **Reply #16 on:** May 22, 2024, 04:42:17 am »

Nebu-Shala felt contentment in it's imprisonment. The Divine Land felt love, hatred, apathy, and fascination for all things that had been born upon it. The cycles of creation and destruction continue.

Major Intervention: Naken, Progenitor of Monsters.
Deep in the forest of Radeton, the trees quivered and ground shook as the primordial power of creation fed into the heart of the forest. For a moment, it was as if the island was preparing to split apart, until it's pulsing quieted.... only for a shrill howl to break the peace! The cry of Naken, first born of the Isles, sounded out for the entire island to hear! A great leathery wyrm, towering over the trees! It's snout housed two closely set pairs of hungering, yellow eyes and opened into a cavern of serrated teeth! It's stout legs were aided by four arms, ending with sharp claws! Two sets of large bony wings, their flaps displacing and disturbing the air all around it, lined it's back!

It was a beast without equal, and it would go where it pleased, devouring any flesh or plant that it desired when it hungered. For it was the first born of the land, ruler of all that it could reach. It would spread it's legacy across all it's beloved parent's lands, devouring to feed it's life essence, and whenever it grew full it would regurgitate out a egg sac. From that would spawn a generation of Lesser Naken, mortal sized worm-like creatures, that rapidly and radically mutate to change into a form suited for the environment their progenitor was nesting in at the time.

Minor Blessing:
Nebu-Shala stokes the lingering energy that was used to form Naken, sustaining and empowering it's child as it takes it's first steps into creation.

TricMagic · « **Reply #17 on:** May 22, 2024, 12:40:22 pm »

The breezes stir as an ethereal being looks down upon the lands. Empty, devoid of thought, 3 races are seen. Their mind spins into thought what they shall do.

Major Intervention=Three Minor Interventions upon the newborn villages.
Guidance for the Laishin: Zephyrus watches over the Laishin, imparting wisdom and insight. Their pursuit of knowledge aligns with his fallen curiosity, and he subtly nudges their path toward enlightenment.

Playful Whispers to the Mao Miao: The Mao Miao, playful and carefree, receive Zephyrus’s gentle influence. He whispers secrets in the rustling leaves, guiding their games and mischief, weaving threads of fate.

Stonebound Blessings for the Callum: The Callum, builders of stone settlements, find favor with Zephyrus. His touch strengthens their structures, aligning the jagged rocks into resilient foundations. Luck dances upon their stony endeavors.

The Whispering Grove of Redaton: Zephyrus weaves a grove of ancient, silver-barked trees on Redaton Island. Their leaves shimmer like stardust, and their branches sway in harmony with the wind. When mortals enter this grove, they hear faint whispers—secrets carried by the breeze. These whispers reveal forgotten prophecies, words from lost loves, and glimpses of distant constellations.

The mind of Zephyrus is a strange thing, of numbers and languages forgotten, and advancement beyond their kin. Though it may never come to fruition, these instants will ripple throughtout their development.

Maximum Spin · « **Reply #18 on:** May 22, 2024, 01:59:20 pm »

Wheels unfathomably turning, RE:HORAKHTY intervenes upon the world, releasing from the depths of its machinery a series of comets which rain down onto the islands and the sea indiscriminately. Where the comets fall they breed Cometspawn, a new race of sentient beings of flexible shape, endowed with the mysterious ability to communicate across long distances by subtle means. The voice of RE:HORAKHTY rumbles in their newborn minds, bidding them to spread and multiply, and to learn about the world and its places of power.

RE:HORAKHTY also selects a leader for the Cometspawn arbitrarily, and blesses it and its future progeny with a minor blessing of sound judgement and martial prowess.

Megam0nkey · « **Reply #19 on:** May 22, 2024, 05:19:49 pm »

The Warrior, Tanth, approached his worshippers, who had been pushed to this Barren land. The Callum, reptillian like with jagged, rocky scales to blend in, had little to eat or drink. The rivers were drying and food was scarce...and there was little trees around to help their stone societies. When suddenly, their god appeared...glaring at the ground, he began smashing into it...as stone began crumbling into gravel and dirt, and great strange lengths of hole were being constructed around their city. Then suddenly, with a swing, he punched a wall, as a great river broke through, entering through the passageways, as life suddenly unnaturally bloomed, and a forest full of food and rivers burst out around the craggy hills, as a thriving ecosystem of life around stone became present!

Major Intervention=With his own martial skill, terraform some of the earth to create enough life to support the food, water and non-stone reasources the Callum may need!

Crystalizedmire · « **Reply #20 on:** May 22, 2024, 07:14:26 pm »

Quote from: TricMagic on May 22, 2024, 12:40:22 pm

The breezes stir as an ethereal being looks down upon the lands. Empty, devoid of thought, 3 races are seen. Their mind spins into thought what they shall do.

Major Intervention=Three Minor Interventions upon the newborn villages. 1 Minor Intervention on Redaton Island.(Free)
Guidance for the Laishin: Zephyrus watches over the Laishin, imparting wisdom and insight. Their pursuit of knowledge aligns with his fallen curiosity, and he subtly nudges their path toward enlightenment.

Playful Whispers to the Mao Miao: The Mao Miao, playful and carefree, receive Zephyrus’s gentle influence. He whispers secrets in the rustling leaves, guiding their games and mischief, weaving threads of fate.

Stonebound Blessings for the Callum: The Callum, builders of stone settlements, find favor with Zephyrus. His touch strengthens their structures, aligning the jagged rocks into resilient foundations. Luck dances upon their stony endeavors.

The Whispering Grove of Redaton: Zephyrus weaves a grove of ancient, silver-barked trees on Redaton Island. Their leaves shimmer like stardust, and their branches sway in harmony with the wind. When mortals enter this grove, they hear faint whispers—secrets carried by the breeze. These whispers reveal forgotten prophecies, words from lost loves, and glimpses of distant constellations.

The mind of Zephyrus is a strange thing, of numbers and languages forgotten, and advancement beyond their kin. Though it may never come to fruition, these instants will ripple throughtout their development.

You can only use 1 intervention per turn with exception of splitting up a major intervention into 3 minors.

TricMagic · « **Reply #21 on:** May 22, 2024, 08:12:18 pm »

So I can't use that last one? Just strike it then.
I Assume that also applies to throwing around minor blessings.

Crystalizedmire · « **Reply #22 on:** May 22, 2024, 09:13:24 pm »

Quote from: TricMagic on May 22, 2024, 08:12:18 pm

So I can't use that last one? Just strike it then.
I Assume that also applies to throwing around minor blessings.

It doesn't apply to Minor blessings In Both this and nakeen's version

Shadowclaw777 · « **Reply #23 on:** May 24, 2024, 12:28:42 am »

Mao Miaos: The Mao Miaos are just snow lynxes with pink hair that have equivalent human intelligence or are smarter then the average human, and opposable thumbs on their frontal claws.

Convert a Major Intervention into a Major Blessing: Felinicia will bless the entire species of the Mao Miao Kingdom so that they can prosper and build that most advanced feline civilization possible.

Minor Blessing: Bless a Minor amount of Mao Miaos to be Ice Jarls that can rule the Mao Miaos as a militaristic, expansionist, and economically sophicated advanced civilization.

Minor Blessing: Bless a Minor Amount of Mao Miaos to want to advance to be Naval Explorers, Shipbuilders, and even Seafarers, even with their current level of technology.

Minor Blessing: Bless the exact center of Crathurn so that everything that can go possibly right goes there for the inhabitants, a lucky zone for mortals.

(You don’t need to have 2 Might to use Major Blessing right?, and have your vessel explode?)

Egan_BW · « **Reply #24 on:** May 24, 2024, 08:54:04 am »

Use a major intervention to perform three minor interventions.

1: Create with hard clay and scales of rock guardians around my heart. They are only a handful, but very strong.
2: Create vineworms, which burrow and leave behind underground tunnels, and can destroy them too.
3: Create Deepstriders, spider-like plantoid angels to spread word of me to the mortals. Place them on Turnathat.

Bless the Deepstriders for the duration of their quest.

Demonic Gophers · « **Reply #25 on:** May 24, 2024, 03:56:56 pm »

Since there are several others influencing Turnathat this round, I'll note that Deshir Gelai favors a cooperative approach and will happily take part in religions worshiping multiple deities, as long as the others are willing to do the same - in case that matters for determining reactions or the like.

Egan_BW · « **Reply #26 on:** May 24, 2024, 04:35:59 pm »

i just picked the first inhabited island tbh

TricMagic · « **Reply #27 on:** May 24, 2024, 05:55:05 pm »

Quote from: Demonic Gophers on May 24, 2024, 03:56:56 pm

Since there are several others influencing Turnathat this round, I'll note that Deshir Gelai favors a cooperative approach and will happily take part in religions worshiping multiple deities, as long as the others are willing to do the same - in case that matters for determining reactions or the like.

So long as none have more Awe than I. Cause that means 50% split to me and the rest get barely anything..

Egan_BW · « **Reply #28 on:** May 25, 2024, 12:08:07 pm »

You have merely 3 Awe? Skill issue.

Crystalizedmire · « **Reply #29 on:** May 28, 2024, 05:38:38 pm »

Turn 1
Runes and Shrines
Some adventurous Laishins sensed something odd. They strayed far from their settlement and sensed something nearby. Looking at the direction of it, the three adventurers spotted two shrines. It was difficult reaching them because of the boggy ground but they made it. Zephyrus gave them wisdom of how the shrines worked. After meditating on the shrines placed by Deshir, all three learned how to use and create rune magic. They were able to help others gain this ability and soon a quarter of the Laishin were able to control stone and movement. The two shrines are now safely guarded by two of the three who originally found them. However, many rune shrines remained unexplored.
Playful whistling of the icy wind
The Mao Miao loved to play on ice, so much so that Zephyrus whispered words of mischief in the icy wind. However, it didn't last. Although Felinicia blessed them, they made a few Mao Miaos who resent the playful life, who'd rather conquer the sea. Every other resented this idea but the Ice Jarls took control anyways. A few Mao Miaos wanted to become seafarers but the level of technology didn't allow them to. Felinicia also blessed the center of Crathurn.
A roar coming from the forest
In Redaton, a monster lurks. Born from the flesh of Nebu-Shala, a great wyrm opened it's mouth of serrated teeth to find something to satiate it's hunger. The forest fears it and it's creator. Naken used it's powerful bony wings to fly to Yuralis to feast on the poor Callum.
Those poor Callum
Poor Callum suffered from Naken. Tanth created rivers and forests on Yuralis which then worshipped their creator. Zephyrus gave structure to Callum's home by strengthening it. If not for the combined efforts of the two gods, they would've certainly died.
Such beautiful falling stars.
Comets descended down the world. Most of the world only felt the earthquakes of the impact and many didn't know the cause was related to falling stars. The center of Crathurn was slightly affected by it meaning that the Mao Miaos were mostly left untouched. The Laishin were able to mitigate the damage by using their newfound magic. Naken was flying at back to Redaton and wasn't at all affected. Which left the Callum hanging on by a thread after some were swallowed up by the earth. Their infrastructure remained safe, though.

All the comets landed on Moniph, leaving the cometspawns confused in the environment. Many died on landing but their newly made leader was able to salvage the situation by setting up a settlement.
Down into the earth
The Callums that were swallowed up by the earth died on impact when they reached the core. DRATHALIKA used the blood to fuel her viney creation of Deepstriders. Those vines just so happened to be in Turnathat so the Deepstriders spread worship to the Laishin first. Then, DRATHALIKA used what remained of the skin of the unfortunate ones to fuse with the rocks. What was created were rocky guardians of the heart. DRATHALIKA then used her vines to create vineworms.
Laishin Culture
Due to the previous events, Deshir Gelai no longer was the most important god towards the Laishins. However, a few Laishin felt it was ungrateful that most no longer worshipped Deshir so made their own cult where Deshir was the only god they worshipped. They call themselves the Runewielders as Deshir created rune shrines.

Worship charts:
The Laishin worship the vessel of DRATHALIKA(4), Zephyrus(3), HORATHKY(2), Deshir Gelai(0)
Runewielders worship Deshir Gelai
The Mao Miao worshipf Zephyrus(3), Felinicia(1)
The Callum worship Zephyrus(3), Tanth(2), Nebu-Shala(1)
Naken worships- Nebu-Shala(1)
Cometspawns worship the construct of HORATHKY(2)
Deepstriders worship the vessel of DRATHALIKA(4)
Vineworm worship the vessel of DRATHALIKA(4)
Rocky Guardians worship the vessel of DRATHALIKA(4)
Trees worship Naken and subsequently Nebu-Shala(1)
italicized for importance
bolded for even more

Everyone failed to coalesce a major intervention!

The full Compendium of the Old World 3rd edition part 2
Center of the World
>Rocky Guardians - Guardians made from the earth around DRATHALIKA
DRATHALIKA's vines and vineworms can be found throughout the archipelago

Nebu-Shala and the ocean
>Turnathat - the southernmost island and nearest to the equator. Has tall grass.
>>Laishin - bicolour hairless humanoids with prehensile tails and webbed feet. They have slitted pupils and short claws on each hand. Strangely, they have no ears or at least external ones.3
>Crathurn - Northernmost and coldest island covered with a layer of ice.
>>Mao Miao - playful pink snow lynxes.
>>>Ice Jarls - Leaders of the Mao Miao
>Yuralis - Easternmost island with lots of jagged rocks.
>>Callum - reptilians with jagged rocky scales.
>Damini - An island east of Turnathat and is extremely boggy.
>Redaton - North of Damini and Yuralis. A large dense forest lives here.
>>Naken - a leathery wyrm. Its yellow eyes were close and had a mouth of serrated teeth. Stout legs were aided by 4 arms, each ending in sharp claws. You can hear one by the sound of its bony wings flapping.
>Moniph - North of Redaton and south of Qualla. A desert expanse.
>>Cometspawns
>Qualla - South of Crathurn and north of Moniph. Extremely steep cliffs.

Prisoners:

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