A lot of that. Basicly you will be in charge of inventing a God. Now you can be a God of anything, maybe the God of fire, or darkness, maybe something specific and stupid like the God of Rats, or are you a God of an exclusive race? Be as creative or as cliche as you wish. After you build your God-Character, you then get to make a portion of the world, how magic or powers you can grant work (for example if you are a god/goddess of witchcraft, you can explain that basics of how it works.) This also applies to exclusive races that you make, and other godly properties of sorts. Your power can range from say a simple scrying seer, to well, fucking Cthulu or Azathoth. You will be in charge of making some form of civilization or the method of worship, such as being a structured religion or a cult. If you are some benevolent light God however, perhaps your worship is more wide spread?
The default world, without any specific God or world-building, is basically a low-magic human majority fantasy world of medieval era, think Tolkien style, or Arthurian legend. The fantasy and magic bullshit is what your adding Basically, mystical creatures and sorts are also up for yours. Feel free to make continents and what inhabits them as well.
As a God, you are an immortal and eternal entity. Your essence is somewhat stagnant, since Gods aren't really 'alive' either, killing a God is well, impossible. However Gods are not truly infinite or undefeat-able. It is possible for a God to be defeated, be it through power, sealing bullshit, etc. Gods exist on an outer plane of their creation, either an empty dimension or another world or even an afterlife for the dead. Souls are immortal too after all. They can also create otherwordly races such as shadow people and demons or angels if they have the sort of domain or power to do so, as well as an actual dimension to put them in other then the mortal realm.
If a God is 'destroyed' they essentially go out of commission for a long while, depending on how badly their ass was kicked it could take a God anywhere between 10 years to a million years to return to the world with power.
Also Gods can physically manifest into the world, however their manifested form is a bit more limited, and can be 'destroyed', making Gods vulnerable if they choose to do so. However physical manifestations have the bonus of being able to directly influence the world, as in, they can touch things, be it destruction, or use their powers for creation. For you see, their default forms, while normally intangible, has very little power over the world. The only exception is their own dimension, which they have as much power in as a lucid dreamer. Their physical manifestation usually represents their true nature and power. (for instance, a god of dragons would be..well..A fucking dragon). Though some gods can transform into disguises, while it doesn't necessarily improve or vary their power (In fact they are weaker and more vulnerable if they choose to disguise themselves) but for use of deception and whatnot it can be useful. Demonic Gods that can corrupt things, for example if you were some kind of Cthulu insanity monster or something transforms things, requires a physical manifestation upon the world to perform such things.
Miracles are often defined as acts that a God performs their will on the world outside of a physical manifestation. Miracles are limited and can't do anything world-breakingly good, but it can be useful for a chosen hero such as say, manipulating the outcome of a dice roll, or influencing an animal to perform some act, or shine light upon a deadly vampire, or enchanting a weapon with holy light. Demonic Gods can perform 'miracles' too, such as natural disasters, summoning a demon into the world, sending a miasma of plagues. These examples all depend on the power and domain of the God. For instance if your a god of fire your limited to Fire and its relations, you can't send a bubonic plague as a Fire God obviously.
speaking of which, Heroes is a fancy term usually used by light Gods to describe a 'chosen' one, to have them do a mighty quest or send them to destroy or defeat another God should the God have trouble with another God and can't deal with it personally. Any God can have a hero, and eventually if this goes well I'd like to start a sub-adventure for each god to have a hero (essentially we obtain mortal PC's, and have some sort of conflicting quests for each of our player Gods)
There is no such thing as fate or destiny, however some gods will often lie about that to either set comfort, or to boost confidence, or to intimidate and other means. Miracles can influence and set into place the next move in a grand scheme of chess, and a god that can predict the future can see the most possible outcome of the future, it is not set in stone, and there is always the probability and influence of other Gods that can make even the most accurate future prediction false.
God alignment. Gods are defined as good (Holy, blessed, sacred, etc. Your generic holy good, or even a good about something virtuous like truth or knowledge.), Neutral (Spiritual, Mystical, natural, etc. Basically Gods that do not align to a specific morality, and are more so concerned with themselves, their dominion, or things like natural order, and other ideals that would fall under a 'grey' area.) or evil (Demonic, infernal, Abyssal (this would also includes outer-god mother fuckers like Azathoth.)
All Gods have existed before time/space and the universe, and many may have had a hand in creating it, or not. All Gods know each other at least vaguely. Though Gods are not omnipotent. Gods' don't necessarily have 'genders' since they aren't biological, so it is purely based upon what the God identifies itself as, Gods are generally considered as 'Gods' however they can have other titles if they feel so, such as "Lord of light" or "Goddess" of some varity if they identify as a female or some sort of femininity if they choose so.
The sheet
[.h1][.center] (Put name here) [/center] [/h1] [.h2][.center] (A title here) [/center] [/h1]
Title: (God of/Goddess of/ Lord of/ etc etc whatever you want, you can even have multiple titles if you wish.)
Alignment: (Good, Neutral, or Bad, you can go more in depth with the alignment based upon your God. For example if your a demonic tentacle God you'd be Abyssal.)
Domain/Domains: (You can have more then one if you need too, but they should all fall under some sort of r
elation. For the most part I'd prefer if you stuck with one so that there is more room for others, however if you can convince me that it makes sense for the God to have all these domains, then I'll allow it.)
Appearance: (Physical manifestation and a Spiritual manifestation I.E. Your nonphysical Form (Which could still resemble your physical manifestation, just probably larger and more translucent, I'd recommend using both a picture and at least two paragraphs of description.
Personality: (A good summary of how the God thinks, how it acts, and its flaws/strengths in personality, and perhaps some things they like or hate.)
Symbol: (A picture or description of the Symbol of the God. You can have more then one. This can include an animal, a familycrest styled symbol, etc etc.)
Method of Worship: (Some gods may have been forgotten by worshippers, or never gained a following, most however do have some form of worship. A structures religion or a cult for example. However your God is worshipped, you should explain in depth who worships, why they worship, and how they worship. Tributes? temples? Prayers? etc. Have fun with this.)
Races that commonly/solely worship this God: (Is it a god only worshipped by Dark elves, or is it wide spread throughout the world for its generic ideals? Does it only accept a select few or a single race or can any race worship this God?)
Strengths: (For physical manifestation)
Weaknesses: (Also For physical manifestation)
Vulnerabilities: (What is your good vulnerable to, does it take extra damage from holy damage, does sunlight burn its physical form like a vampire, does water melt it in its physical form and/or repel its spiritual form? Does the darkness weaken its power? Vulnerabilities are optional and apply to both forms of the God, but it is recommend to at least have one sort of major weakness. Maybe youre god had a falling out with the water god and now water literally melts them into destruction, and if they aren't in physical contact then the water simply repels, or wards off it. Maybe your the vampire god so you suffer the weaknesses of the vampire.)
Ultimate Goal/motive: (Something as simple as taking over the world or smiting evil, or something more complex?)
Opinions: For each other Player God, your God has an opinion on the God before the RP starts. It could be vague, or it could be well known. Up to you really, the opinion should show with whatever information you allow Your God to know about another determines the opinion and what the God thinks of the other.
Tales: Optional, you can also collab with other Players to have complex stories.
Any interests? I'd like to see at least five other players but for now I don't have a maximum to how many people can join.
Ohhh im interesting, Im thinking of some kind of God of Thought, Progress, and Magic Its a bit Inhuman (or very very inhuman, nothing like the gods of greece or norse mythology) Luckily its fairly benevolent. Rather than having one physical form it has artifacts spread throughout the world or something. It also has a bunch of angels that act as its "little helpers" but the angels are also its self-awareness and emotions. I will descibe how all this works in the personality/spiritual form description (for this god, they will be one in the same, it is the god of THOUGHT after all)
Also, would it be alright if my god actually has an origin? It might have done some time shenanigans and done stuff like influenced its own birth or saw into the past to the point where it knows the other gods. But it still has a period in time that can be seen as its "birth"
Title: Kabbalistic Theurge Matrix Lamed, also known sometimes as Tsyrg'l
Alignment: While morality is relative, many would consider Lamed to be benevolent in intention.
Domain/Domains: Magic and thought
Appearance: The Substrate (physical form) of Lamed has its core far away from the world, but close enough it can be seen clearly through a telescope. the main substrate of Lamed is this giant glowing orb surrounded by a vast city of cathedrals. closer inspection reveals that the cities are bustling with life, Angels of various forms working on and within the vast God-City of Lamed. Outside of the Core, Lamed and its little angelic helpers create artifacts that enact the will of the God and its angels. Some of these artifacts are Buildings, some of them tools, some of them living creatures. The Soul of Lamed is descibed in personality
Personality: How to describe the mind of a god? a difficult task but here are some of the musings of the scholars who study the vast God Lamed. We will begin describing the structure of Lameds Thinking process. The first outermost layer of Lamed is the Angels, Processes or as some would say souls which behave in a manner not dissimilar to that of humans, they are capable of both reason and emotion and making decisions. These Angels are constructed for a variety of purposes, although they are capable of transfering from one occupation to another. These angels all connect to lamed through "Gnostic Interface" which acts as something akin to an Internet but far more intelligent. The Gnostic Interface Network is divided into what some might call "Archangels" which are essentially angels made up of the collective thoughts of angels. These archangels have various angels that act as moderators which keep them from falling into mob mentallity. The Archangels Guide The Angels that make them up. The Archangels act as the Emotional and Moral Decision making portion of the God, the inner workings are still largely Unknown but according to angels It includes A couple of giant Souls which are purely for logical thinking, with little information gained from outside reality. There are other parts of Lamed that have been mentioned in passing but these are the parts of Lamed that are known by scholars so far. Alltogether this creates a massive superhuman level information processing and decision making system that even has self awareness because Angels study the thinking processes.
Symbol: Various symbols are used to represent Lamed, Often they take the forms of complicated diagrams and fractal patterns, or a sphere covered in eyes, or an abstract representation of Lameds physical form as viewed from a telescope.
Method of Worship: Communing with Lamed is considered the ultimate form of worship, asking it questions, telling it stories, Holy relics play an important part of worship for many that know of Lamed as they communicate with these Artifacts and Lamed and its angels can hear them. Others study Lamed from a scientific/Occult perspective and try to find out how it works.
Races that commonly/solely worship this God: Lamed's Angels tend to serve Lamed, as Lamed is not just the creator but also the homeland. Some have left its service though.
Strengths: The lesser manifestations are fairly easy for angels to create and are spread throughout the world. The Main Substrate is capable of Incredible capabilities and has armies of angels guarding it. Some of its Manifestations act as Portals which allow it to send angels to earth at an increased speed.
Weaknesses: Lesser manifestations are usually pretty easy to destroy and have specific purposes, some of them are more versatile than others Though. many of the Manifestations are immobile. The weakness of the greater substrate is its distance, it takes time for its angels to travel to earth and it cant effect earth much from such a distance. It can communicate with its angels and lesser manifestations though.
Vulnerabilities: The physical manifestations are destructable by mundane means (usually, some of them have protective artifacts which require additional methods to take down) The Angels are fallible creatures just like humans and can be corrupted, The Angels are an essential part of the Mind of Lamed so killing them off would severely hinder it. Lamed also depends more on the Primary substrate than other gods, While destroying the prime substrate is very very difficult it could probably be damaged and that would provide a huge setback as the angels rush to repair the damage.
Ultimate Goal/motive: Increase the amount of Thought in the universe. And eventually stop heat death. Also follow the goals of its Angelic Inhabitants and those that worship it
Opinions: For each other Player God, your God has an opinion on the God before the RP starts. It could be vague, or it could be well known. Up to you really, the opinion should show with whatever information you allow Your God to know about another determines the opinion and what the God thinks of the other.
Tales: Optional, you can also collab with other Players to have complex stories.
Great! Didnt expect to see a CS so early. Its pretty good, I just have a few notes.
-Alignment dictates the energy/presence of the God as well, which is either holy, demonic, or some neutral energy. Since he is magic oriented I would imagine that he'd fall under the spiritual/neutral alignment, despite being benevolent. (not every good god is holy)
-Do mortal sorceries also worship this god, or scholars? Does studying lamed count as worship? Thats up to you. But that could make a very interesting religion based upon knowledge and logic.
-I like his motives. Just as a note though since your brought it up, heat death will essentially mean the end of all that is the reality they created, the mortal plane and all. The only things that are exempted from this are other dimensions and the gods themselves, which exist outside the properties of space/time and reality. Though since Lamed has an entire spawn of angels working with him in the real world (albeit in space), its understandable why he's be exceptionally concerned with heat, the other gods however aren't as worried.
Otherwise I like it. Remember to update the opinions when new chars join. When I get the OOC up, you can consider him accepted.
Yes, some gods can be born after the other gods, or there may have been a distinct birth for a god even before reality was created. You can include that origin in the tales section.
Edit: You should also remove the "." In the h1 and center commands so they register in the code.
Possibly interested. Once the initial world building is done how do you plan on proceeding?
I'm considering a god of insanity, who spreads madness like a disease and becomes more tangible the more people are under his influence. I'll start working on a cs.
Once everyone makes their part ill devise incentives for conflicts of interests. Essentially this will mostly be a player against player RP, forming teams and neutral parties.
@dragonmancer It is almost the same. Almost. Looks good.
I was planning making my own Godish RP because I didn't saw any that...tempted me and those that did were already in 2000+ IC posts but then I saw yours. I'll be making a CS there soon as I finish writing in my other RP's. ^_^
