[OOC] From the weakest goblin to the Strongest god

[Jangel13]

@Kheliop

Come on silk spinning or learning how to use your elbow for impact? Which sounds more useful to you?

[ReusableSword]

@Jangel13 kinda no really want silk spinning. Would be super useful to catch bats.

[Kheliop]

@Jangel13

My rebuttal

[Jangel13]

@Kheliop

Cause you rolled the dice and you were lucky to be alive even now. (not literally, of course, I don't do dice rolls) Hell I'm tempted to call you the gambling goblin for your ideas during the fight lol

[Kheliop]

I am totally on board with being known as the gambling goblin. Although Barth is heading in a direction I didn't initially anticipate, I rather like how he is becoming.

[Crusader Lord]

@Kheliop If he is going to be the "Gamblin' Goblin", we need him to find a god/goddess of Luck and align to them.

And he needs a cowboy hat. For no reason other than just needing a cowboy hat. And that certain Kenny Rogers song i think

Ahem....anyways, look forward to seeing Reusable's response. XD

[Kheliop]

@Crusader Lord I was already planning on the first part! That's why he isn't aligning with the Death goddess like the three of you. If there is even a God/Goddess of Luck to align with.

[Jangel13]

@Kheliop

Chance.... a god of chance. If you want his attention though.... make a gamble 🕵🎲🎲

[Kheliop]

@Jangel13 Well then. Barth is going to end up being even more brazen. Unless you mean literally gambling.

[Jangel13]

Literally

[Kheliop]

Well now I have plans for eventually. Still going to be a crazy little goblin though.

[Crusader Lord]

@Kheliop He could always come up with the idea to make bets with Nyma over things, and whether he wins or loses he's still gambling? Maybe that'd work, haha! XD

[Darked13]

hope you guys aren't disappointed in the small replies but I just wanted to get something up so you guy can move on.

@Jangel13

I'm just happy the reply came~ And it was succinct but appropriately descriptive.

I should be writing my own tomorrow or the day after, have 3 job interviews xD 2 tomorrow and one Thursday.

[ReusableSword]

Ill have a post up tonight

[Kheliop]

I will be posting as well. Haven't decided if I will wait for Resuable or not

[Haeo]

@Jangel13 Figured out some additional tree sections for your perusal and critique.

Shaman Path (Three Branches)

[Balanced Branch after Shaman]

Trail Walker – Stronger in magic, medicine, and poison than a Shaman. The Life Walker is devoted to the goddesses of both Life and Death, honoring the balance and order of the world that they work together to maintain. These can cast spells and perceive events through the network of interwoven living things around them. They are also able to magically strengthen and speed the growth or decomposition of plants. They can also build shrines to both goddesses and obtain lesser blessings from both as well.

Vale Guardian – Able to see through the eyes of every natural creature within a large area, alive or dead. Bonded with a strong tree, which defines the center of their vale, and two magically strengthened beasts that are meant to honor life and death. Able to wield powerful nature magic of both growth and decomposition in an almost unlimited way within their vale so long as they act in contact with their tree. The Bonded Beasts are able to leave the vale while still revealing all they perceive to their Guardian and retaining their strengths as well as remaining under the guardian’s direction. The Vale Guardian is able to grow any natural plant in their Vale that exists somewhere in the world, sometimes even without a seed or cutting.

[Death Branch after Shaman]

Bog Walker – Significantly stronger in magic and poison than a Shaman. The Bog Walker gives honor to both the goddesses of Life and Death but is more personally dedicated to the goddess of Death and works to honor and preserve the dead from being unnecessarily disturbed or defiled, gaining strength for every set of intact remains that they preserve within their territory. The Bog Walker can perceive anything that happens within a limited area of a dead creature’s remains and can cast spells remotely through any corpse that is already partially decomposed (There is a range limit.). They can build an advanced shrine to the goddess of Death and a simple one to the goddess of life. They are also able to call up and empower the spirits of dead animals to protect the remains of the dead within their care, however, they prefer to wield poisonous plants and similarly lethal beasts instead whenever possible. They can obtain stronger blessings from the goddess of Death but they do not lose any blessings given by the goddess of life as they continue to give her limited devotion.

Wisp Guardian – Vastly stronger in magic than a Bog Walker and innately poisonous such that their touch alone can kill most living creatures, the Wisp Guardian has chosen a barren place to be a burial ground under their protection. A small group of beasts serve them by gathering and moving the bones of dead creatures and people to the burial ground, but the defense of the place is largely left up to the magic of the Wisp Guardian who has largely abandoned physical form and become a creature of light and fog. All plants and animals that inhale the fog of the Wisp Guardian become thralls of it, strengthened by it’s magic and made immune to poisons while becoming poisonous themselves.

[Life Branch after Shaman]

Breath Walker – Significantly stronger in magic and medicine than a Shaman, those who walk this path are more personally dedicated to the goddess of Life while honoring the goddess of death to a lesser extent. These devote themselves to healing injuries, opposing disease and working to enhance longevity in all forms of life, gaining strength from every successful effort. They can perceive events that occur, and cast spells remotely through, any living creature or plant that they have already treated in person. These can build advanced shrines to the goddess of life and simple shrines to the goddess of death. They can also bind large numbers of beasts to their service and empower them so that they can better protect the area around the shrines and the Breath Walker. However, these beasts are not bound to the Breath Walker’s will. They will act of their own volition to accomplish these few priorities. The Breath Walker can form direct Pacts with two strong beasts which will then serve their will directly and be able to travel with them freely.

Life Guardian – Vastly stronger in magic than a Breath Walker and having both a healing touch and a purifying breath, these have decided to never limit themselves to a single territory and instead devote themselves to traveling and doing the most good for the most living things that they can. They are able to form pacts with up to five beasts and can mark trees or other long-lived plants with their magic, allowing teleportation between the plants that are marked. (The Life Guardian is only able to transport one passenger along with them and their pact marked beasts via this method and the passenger must be on good terms with the goddess of life or the magic will not touch them.)

[Jangel13]

@Haeo

Very impressive I will admit. It adds a whole new religious element too the fans however gods are very possessive of their servants. If you devoted yourself more to one god then the other then the one your not worshipping as much wouldn't be any Stronger. It would essentially being the same as just showing up to church and waiting for it to be over.

[Haeo]

@Jangel13 It could be done exclusively as well, with the worship of the one being abandoned. However, what I had in mind was how common it is for different people in the same religious group to be drawn to distinct spiritual methods. Everyone is trying to get to the same place but they all try different paths, to one extent or another. In this case, the viability of this approach seems to lean on these questions. How jealous are these deities? Are they opposed and in conflict, indifferent and parallel, or allied using their differing specialties for a combined goal? And, as things stand, I am not the one who can answer these questions.

So, if the particular nuances of dual worship strike you as being incompatible with your world then that is a thing that would have to be changed somehow.

[Jangel13]

@Haeo

Jealously depends on the diety as they control different aspects they can of course be jealous of their older oor more powerful siblings.
Most are opposed to each other or at least shirila ands duevlena are opposed to each other and are in conflict because of shirila lack of followers and duevlena growing strength. Hence why now shirila is trying to regain get strength by having Gina seek as many followers as possible. I fully expect a war to break out eventually to be honest. However those like the chief deity like the god of sun our chance have no interest in conflict and are simply indifferent.

That help?

[Haeo]

@Jangel13 It does. It also means that Shirila and Duevlena would be fighting over anyone who gets to the Shaman stage since they'd be "undecided". Perhaps those who wish to advance beyond Shaman along that tree should have to choose between tasks or quests offered by Shirila and Duevlena. If they choose to follow neither path then they end up with the balanced road, basically staying out of the rivalry and giving up any chance for the greater blessings and such. If they do choose one goddess and achieve the goal set out for them then they gain some kind of artifact as a reward?