-Grimloq's island (Unmarked) -Rytia's archipelago (Unmarked) -the bay forest/swamp (Unmarked) -Mount Pervanon and surrounding range -Aella's retreat -Plains of Madness -Purple Grass -Surm and the Sea of Suremus
I'm going to have Lei take over a mountain pass in the southern continent and put a portal between it and the citadel, so she has a base on both continents. That's all I can think of so far.
Nah, don't worry about it man. She may not agree with Larry's unreasonable hostility, but she doesn't dislike him too much yet. In a while if nothing else pops up, Aella might actually visit Larwen's territory (since they're neighbors now, pretty much), we could collab that stuff. It'd be pretty cool if Larwen and Aella were actually friendly with each other! She doesn't seek conflict :p
Yuu won't mind Larwen much either, at least while there's nothing really important to corrupt perfect yet. He could come chill.
Edit: One question: Do Gods know the name their siblings gave to land or creations instinctively?
This one's entirely up to you. Going off the Divinus precedent, we could say that divinely created stuff has a kind of 'tag' or 'scent' that vaguely indicates its creator, so maybe that has information about the name as well, especially if the creating god announced it (maybe there's an echo).
Gods can try to be sneaky and erase their trail, of course. We just haven't seen much of it yet.
@Leotamer in that case you'd be adding to your creation tally without necessarily creating anything, which defeats the purpose. I don't think adding together quarters is too much to ask.
@Leotamer Since you spent four Miracles at once creating those species, you can take them as a bundle and consider yourself having spent 1 Might to create rodents, lagomorphs, canines and felines, if you want. That way you can include stuff like jackals, foxes, hyenas, tigers, porcupines, beavers, capybaras, squirrels, etc. etc. for free (provided there's living space for them).
I'm going to make Yuu a character and then we're clear to end the turn when you guys are all ready (and I have time).
Mater Lei landed amidst the cypresses, pleased to find another deity already birthed and active. As she passed his creatures, she chose one out of every five and made it into either a hyrac or a chalicothere, creatures slower but more suited for life in thick woodland and swamp. She let them retain their ease of taming, and as the little dawn-horses clambered through the thickets and the chalicotheres pushed over saplings in the swamp, she sent the original horses out of her citadel, and enriched the grasses beyond to speed them on their way.
And then she walked on, to their creator.
"Faliir..." she said, with a bow, tasting the name even as she spoke it. "...You don't wait around, do you? Three minutes into existence and you're already a father. I'd advise Seidhara and Kap Gam to get away, but..." A transparent black figure of the Centaur arose from her palm. "...Judging by who mothered your first son, I'm not quite so concerned."
Lei didn't chuckle, but you could feel her smirking through her mask. She turned away and waved to the young god behind her. "Regardless, you've created something special. May your light-" Something scampered between the trees in front of her, and Lei stopped dead.
"An automaton!"
Mater Lei scurried after the painter-golem, and Faliir's introduction was cut short.
Lei chased the little golem, securing it with a pounce. It struggled for a little while in her arms as she opened its mind and saw what lay inside.
A daughter of Lasis, wrought to rebel. Against whom? Anyone. Always? Yes. Hmmm.
Lei let the little thing go, then watched as it graffitied a wall of her brutalist citadel. With a snap of her fingers, the fog of her magic grew thick around the golem, and covered the entire wall with art in its style- not a replication, just a homage. The golem looked around in fright as it saw that it was now painting the same patterns that adorned the wall for fifty metres around, and promptly changed its style.
Lei followed invisibly as the golem went about its business. Every time it changed style, she replicated it; when it took up sculpture instead, she littered the forest with every shape it could think of making; when it started defiling the art she had made, she wiped it clean; when it ignored her entirely she forced its hand; when it fought back she let it do so to its hearts content.
On and on she went with the charade, normalising everything the golem could do until all the only thing left to defy was its own miserable existence. The golem threw itself from the highest floor of the Keep, and the Goldari below obliged it gladly.
Just as planned.
Mater Lei hummed a merry tune as she danced her way back to the garden below.
Lei bombards Faliir with father-related innuendo. Prior to doing so, she notices that, horses being steppe animals, they probably aren't going to do so well in the swampy forest inside her citadel, and sends them out along with the grass species required to form a prairie for them elsewhere. Some remain, and are turned into offshoot horses, hyracotheres and chalicotheres. They can still be domesticated, though. 1 Miracle spent on creating steppe flora. 1 Miracle spent on offshoot horses.
She also discovers Lasis's golems, and bullies one until it commits suicide. It turns out to be a very interesting experiment and fills her head with all kinds of ideas. Goddess of Automata, everyone.
Mater Lei 2 Might 2 Miracles Level Four 3.5/8 Acts of Creation
Lei tapped her horn in salute to Césure, who left silently, with keen wide eyes, perhaps still unused to his new godhood, perhaps adjusting swiftly to the sights all around him. She let Promus greet the next arrival, who was of his own nature, and resolute therein. Still. She had to give Regulus some indication of who was Mater.
With a step and a long, single somersault, Lei crossed the skies to land effortlessly on the back of the Island Turtle.
"Well made, Regulus," she called, her voice spanning the intervening distance. One by one the griffins landed around her, watching for signs of chaos and entropy. Lei stomped the butt of her staff upon the back of the Turtle, and a pulse of life echoed into the sea below.
From the water, in wisps of dim magic, tiny creatures grew, helpless to the current yet none the less numerous for it as they sieved nourishment from the brine. Another stamp, and larger forms grew, ones with skeletons and brains, small and large, in the Turtle's shadow and where its flanks were washed by waves; they grew flippers, scales and finned tails, and crawled into the water, consuming one another as their smallest snapped for every flick of planktonic antennae.
Lei curled her hand. A wave doused her with spray, and the moisture formed a sea-lizard in her hand. "You know your duties. You have chosen to accept them. May your arbiters multiply over land and sea- their task is long." She tossed the reptile to the griffins, and they fed.
A flap of silk wings, and Lei soared once more to the horizon.
Lei greets Regulus, and creates pelagic fauna for his griffins to feed on. 1 Miracle to create complex plankton. 1 Miracle to create a multitude of strange sea reptiles around the Island Turtle.
Mater Lei 3 Might 0 Miracles Level Four 3/8 Acts of Creation
I was however hoping that they could perhaps integrate or learn off of other cultures or species - for example learning of bowyery and archery or perhaps farming could be learned from others when they develop or on a simpler term centaurs could join other civilisations or orders rather than create their own.
If you don't mind a Hero playing this role, I'll be introducing Yuu soon, and he's a marksman and weaponsmith by trade. He could have a role in teaching the centaurs to hunt and nock.
ed: one thing done, now I just need to greet Faliir, mess with a golem, save Yuu's ass from some interdimensional strife, and then we can wrap up the turn.
Lei tapped her horn in salute to Césure, who left silently, with keen wide eyes, perhaps still unused to his new godhood, perhaps adjusting swiftly to the sights all around him. She let Promus greet the next arrival, who was of his own nature, and resolute therein. Still. She had to give Regulus some indication of who was Mater.
With a step and a long, single somersault, Lei crossed the skies to land effortlessly on the back of the Island Turtle.
"Well made, Regulus," she called, her voice spanning the intervening distance. One by one the griffins landed around her, watching for signs of chaos and entropy. Lei stomped the butt of her staff upon the back of the Turtle, and a pulse of life echoed into the sea below.
From the water, in wisps of dim magic, tiny creatures grew, helpless to the current yet none the less numerous for it as they sieved nourishment from the brine. Another stamp, and larger forms grew, ones with skeletons and brains, small and large, in the Turtle's shadow and where its flanks were washed by waves; they grew flippers, scales and finned tails, and crawled into the water, consuming one another as their smallest snapped for every flick of planktonic antennae.
Lei curled her hand. A wave doused her with spray, and the moisture formed a sea-lizard in her hand. "You know your duties. You have chosen to accept them. May your arbiters multiply over land and sea- their task is long." She tossed the reptile to the griffins, and they fed.
A flap of silk wings, and Lei soared once more to the horizon.
Lei greets Regulus, and creates pelagic fauna for his griffins to feed on. 1 Miracle to create complex plankton. 1 Miracle to create a multitude of strange sea reptiles around the Island Turtle.
Mater Lei 3 Might 0 Miracles Level Four 3/8 Acts of Creation
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