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No, no, he's an ugly barnacle.

@dragonmancer Is there any way you can give us a brief rundown of what all has mankind accomplished during the Silence, both self-beneficial and detrimental?

@SepticGentleman

Most of the survivors had built a great capital city, self sufficient of the gods albeit still with Renaissance at best tech. The capital is located on the southern port of the central continent. And from that city small towns and villages sprouted upwards on the continent forming various god-denying human settlements in that region.

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Alright alright, ill get the IC post open as soon as possible. I have classes started in about an hour so ill get to it later tonight.

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@SepticGentleman
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@dragonmancer
Hmm... I could just drop the infinity aspect and focus more on impossibility and madness. To be quite honest, I don't mind playing a "weaker" God, I was just interested in playing a God who's domain is over the conceptual rather than the physical. Much like Sombra. But at the same time, morally untargetable unlike Sombra who could be seen as "evil" by mortals.
A God who's primary power is to negate preconceived laws and rules... But I'm just thinking, having the power to break rules and laws (set even by the Eldar Gods) doesn't that make it incredibly overpowered? Meaning no amount of stipulation or anything that is under the influence of a "law" is meaningless against this God. So how far can this "law-erasing/breaking" power go?
Also as far as reality distortion goes... isn't that like a "base skill" for most Gods have? At least within their domain? Like I'm fairly sure Nahargu’ul is capable of cooking up whatever bs he pleases at least within the ocean.

@Tangletail
Hmm... I'm toying with your idea of abstraction but that sort of seems like its in a different direction than where I was thinking. But I do like the idea.

@HueMan

Sounds good to me.

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A good example of why many gods like Kilgarrah do not start populating planets willy nilly with their creations.

Enter Kilgarrah.

"A planet of a dragons, a realm where my creatures can roam free!"

Dragons die out due to cannibilization of having no other food source, or water since kilgarrah can only contribute heat to the planet.

"Shit."

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Alright before I start heavy-lifting with the CS, I'd like to see if this is ok. How would you all feel about a God of Infinity and Impossibility joining you?

The God would be sort of considered an "outsider" even among other Gods and be rarely worshiped by mortals. As a matter of fact he isn't even that well known. He would go by the title of "The Outsider, The Stranger, Lord of Oblivion". His domains and powers would include things regarding impossibility and infinity (duh) such as the infinite space, a bottomless pit, the largest or the smallest number in existence, etc.
His primary attribute would be madness and fear; madness to represent the insurmountably ridiculous and impossible existence (such as an infinitely large number), fear since any mortal's most primal emotion to the unknown starts with fear. If a man falls into the ocean and sees an infinite black pit of dark waters beneath him, and he feels fear, this God would be the one who's responsible for such and be "with" him.
On the other hand, he is unknowingly somewhat worshiped by intellectuals such as scientists since the exploration of the unknown sheds light on the real nature of what seems impossible. However, he enjoys presenting an infinite number of challenges to be solved to those who dare challenge him in this manner. And eventually, this produces mortals who are mad on seeking out the true nature of this God - also known as knowledge beyond the possible (mad scientists/wizards anyone?).

Ofc I will get more details up with the main cs but this is the idea i'm rolling right now.

@HueMan

Damn why does everyone want to make distant gods.

Alright so the first 'issue' with this is that gods already by technical nature are 'infinite'. Their existence is essentially a certain level of infinite. Now your probably wondering how can their be certain level of infinities. Mathematically speaking there are hundreds of different sizes of infinities, with some infinities being larger then others. There is a good vsauce video that explains that in depth, but a more simple explanation would be like comparing pie to the square roof of 2, each have an infinite number of digits but pie is bigger then the square roof of two.

a God that is more influential then say another less influential god, while both being infinite, is more 'influential' in terms of power and whatnot.

This shouldn't be that concerning to the rp, hence I haven't really mentioned it, but unless you were an elder god (which I will not be adding a 4th), being a more distant god would equate to a 'weaker' god.

Fear is already taken by edgelord mcgoo also.

What you can do, is either make a god based off of illusions (making an illusion of an infinite pit for mortals, keep in mind any god could probably make infinite 'microuniverses' or private dimensions, or even afterlifes, but require time, effort, and commitment to make.

I also like the idea of your 'impossible' existential creations. So you could also make a god whos basis is to defy the laws set about by the elder gods (That isn't technically magic, while magic sort of 'bypasses' the laws of physics such as conservation of matter and energy, it doesn't exactly break them more so becomes an exception.) Examples of this would be reality disortion, corruption, temporarily changing the laws of reality of the mortal world. (Although it will have to be minor as to not be incredibly op) and such.
You can combine both of what I said earlier and in addition madness or whatever if you wish.

This is also fairly midieval teched fantasy world, astronomers would have a little sense of the world outside of earth, and cosmology. While they wouldn't be foreign to the idea of infinite space, it wouldn't be widely accepted unless if your god directly influences that ideas.

@SepticGentleman
Its not so much as they are limited to one planet, the gods have power over the entire physical universe (or multiverse) to a pretty powerful extant, its just that earth is the easiest to domain over since its a lot of commitment and time to put into creating or modifying a planet, putting lifeforms in and balancing all that shit.

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Is it too late to join this? Looks very interesting.

@HueMan

You can join! there is always room in the pantheon!

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A planet with no landmasses where Nahargu'ul keeps his misbehaving kids.

@SepticGentleman

I am getting a super LOVECRAFT vibe from you, and I like it.

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@dragonmancer Obviously this won't matter in the main game but, are there any other planets besides Gaea? And if so, could the Pantheon take claim over them as well?

@SepticGentleman

Space is much like real-world space, with planets and galaxies and whatnot. Typically the only planets with life would be the only one with gods, as it stands earth is the only 'god-claimed planet' unless another god decides to build on another planet for whatever reason or such. An entire seperate pantheon would require an entirely huge cast of players or npc's created by the group of us.

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_{What is it with these gods having a bunch of their ideas specifically when they're drunk.}

EDIT: Wait, can gods get drunk? Wouldn't they have like, fucking extremely alcohol-resistant livers by default alongside their other physical defenses and immunities?

@SepticGentleman

Yes, but unless you have weak god drinkers, most can take mortal alchohal easily without getting tipsy. Ambrosia however, now that sh** can get almost any god wasted.

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Thu-Mmmok looks pretty cool! He won't be the only God to majorly take a human form.

Speaking of Nnmerra, I want to run this by my fellow players first before I fully incorporate the idea. I would like one of Nnmerra's creations to be mankind. This would incorporate humans and those greatly similar to humans; elves, dwarves, the works. She of course would not hold any responsibility over the humanoid races created by the other Gods or things like vampires.

The story behind it would be that, seeing Gaea for the first time, Nnemerra would be inspired to meticulously form creatures of mesmerizing beauty and power from raw gemstone. She boasted she would populate all of Gaea with them as she showcased them to her brethren and bless them with godly magic. Members of the Pantheon would feel threatened by their potential, however, seeing them as a potential threat to their divine superiority and would destroy the few Nnmerra had made before they could leave the Aether. Devastated, Nnmerra would flee to Gaea and acrimoniously form the first man and woman out of clay, both malformed as to make a mockery of the Gods' image. She would abandon her abhorrent creations, but they would continue to grow and populate the world, in which she would grow more partial to them and eventually introduce the concepts of agriculture and the arts.

(The Gods who destroyed the predecessors as described above would be up to whoever thought it more fitting for their character.)

Nnmerra herself would be birth after the primal Gods but before the kobold race was created.

If it seems a little, for lack of a better term, "OP", or if Dragonmancer already has a definite origin story for mankind, I can make it purely a myth formulated by one of the tribes that worship Nnmerra. I can also cut out the elves & dwarves and make purely humans her creation, in case anyone else would like to claim that.

@Karkinos

Seems good to me.