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Hmmm. Based on your reply on the slime, I want to run my idea by you before I fully commit to it.

My idea was there are a group of people like druids who had found something like the world tree in Norse mythology. It grew to embody multiple dimensions, worlds, whatever you want to call it. After having lived for several eternities there comes a time where it wishes to procreate, much like other plants would. But given the immense power, the tree blesses one of the druids the seed within their person, guiding them to seek new soil where it can sprout and grow its roots and canopy into new worlds beyond the reach of the current world tree. A person with all the knowledge and power of the world he came from, but the experience of a man whose entire existence is not even worth noting in the life times the world tree existed.
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I have an idea in mind but I'll wait for the CS first.
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CS template is done, bit I'm working on the example character before it goes up.

@Villamvihar I think you understood the assignment, but the necessary "some asshole" to do the yanking presents issues, as no such person could exist.

@Randomness Not a fan of this idea for two distinct reasons: introduces the idea of other dimensions in a way unrelated to the character's ascension, and the character didn't earn this incredible power, just had it thrust upon them, unrelated to their own agency.
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@Dead Cruiser Fair enough. The key point is that he is not pleased at being away from the people he shaped with his own hands, especially as he worked very hard to reach where he is now and was looking forward to some peace.
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@Villamvihar I think it would be fine if your character accidentally apotheosized themself through some celestial confluence or arcane mishap, and is unhappy about the turn of events. The only problem is having another agent responsible for it.
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That... could be an actually interesting take. He had a monument built that is literally too awesome for this world and ascended. Hah!

I like it.
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@Dead Cruiser Where da template?
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Also @Dead Cruiser how do you think the Architect ended up where he is? Like I have a similar idea to Orren except more clockwork mechanus tyrant
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Very much the whole "replace the flesh, for steel, replace the heart for gears." so going full Borg-like assimilation except more painful for both the mind and body.
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So yeah uh very much the bad guy.
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Stubby little mini sheet and a tale about one my character's many exploits in her original world.

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@Kassarock that is one sexy looking CS!
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@Dark Cloud Consider this: widen your perspective. It is not the body that needs to be made perfect as clockwork, but the world. Every part of the world is a gear, striving toward perfection, but cannot see the greater whole. The Architect sees. He sees that even his entire universe is a gear in a greater machine, and he cannot perfect the design without knowing all of the components.

@Kassarock So more Musashi than Meti. Interested to see how she shakes out, but she should fit in fine.

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@Dead Cruiser I wrote out kind of the rough draft of its backstory, but thats basically the barebones idea of the Arc for it that I had, if this doesnt fit to what you were looking for, i can totally come up with a new idea entirely

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More fleshed out backstory of a goblin. Kinda tapers off in detail at the end, but I think the origin story bit is more important than the shonen style escalation/shark jumping that happens after the instigating villein is overcome.

Anyway, enjoy a goblin overturning a generic fantasy universe:


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So the CS template and example are both up. Seht mostly exists as an example of what I'm looking for in terms of depth/length of CS. This is an easy concept to get too bogged down in details within.

That said...

@Moonlit Ghost Gods aren't beings that our characters will have had direct dealings with before the events of the RP. And while the slime may have a story, it still doesn't really have an arc. Where is its pathos, its will, its drive? That's more important than how many universes it's destroyed.

@DracoLunaris I'm gonna be straight with you, I'm not reading all that. The CS is up, consult the sample for the length of story that I'll be reviewing your character based on. Having all of those details is fine, I just want to work with base-level concepts and themes at this stage.

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The bearer wouldn't exactly have the power thrust upon them. This particular person would have spent his life up until that point training and willing to accept the responsibility of the seed. Also, I can nix the dimensions thing. It really only existed to better tie into Norse mythology. The world tree could simply just be a tree with roots that caress and manage the entirety of the one world it's on.

Highly unlikely that would change your mind, and that's fine. I just wanted to explain that detail.

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@Randomness The different dimensions thing was the part that would not have worked at all. The rest we can discuss. My main concern is for this character, compared to any other, it would not be "their" power, they would explicitly owe their place to a higher authority, which would be unable to access them once they leave their home world.
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The character knows that once it leaves the world he was born, he expects to be unable to commune with it. Any power he has will be granted by the seed. It's like a symbiotic relationship. The seed grants the character power, and the character will seek out the best place for the seed to grow. The world tree's motivation is it has lived for so long, it is seeking to procreate onto another world. Whatever world that happens to be is beyond the tree's control which is why it was granted to a seed bearer to seek the best place of that world.
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@Randomness This all really just sounds less and less like your character is meant to be the Inheritor, and more like this tree should be.
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