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ShieldCrown said:
I imagined that the Domain would allow me to create, manipulate, and move around Souls.
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Could I get more concrete examples please? How would you use this power ingame? Are you going to create bodiless ghosts that can't do much except moan? Fiddle with souls so that they're physical substance instead of weird non-physical soulstuff? Suck souls out of the bodies of mortals because you're a dick? Rob afterlife banks to feed your soul addiction? etc.
 
Demonic Spoon said:
Could I get more concrete examples please? How would you use this power ingame? Are you going to create bodiless ghosts that can't do much except moan? Fiddle with souls so that they're physical substance instead of weird non-physical soulstuff? Suck souls out of the bodies of mortals because you're a dick? Rob afterlife banks to feed your soul addiction? etc.
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That second one is actually an idea I was going to use. I would also maybe give certain mortals particularly abilities relating to souls or allow certain souls who make a deal with me into beings similar to Shinigami from Bleach or Heroic Spirits for Fate/Stay Night to handle annoying, possibly world ending situations.

I may come up with more.
 
ShieldCrown said:
That second one is actually an idea I was going to use. I would also maybe give certain mortals particularly abilities relating to souls or allow certain souls who make a deal with me into beings similar to Shinigami from Bleach or Heroic Spirits for Fate/Stay Night to handle annoying, possibly world ending situations.

I may come up with more.
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I guess that's fine?
 
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Empyrean, Soul of Light and Darkness
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    • Demonic Spoon said:
    I guess that's fine?
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    Cool.

    Name: Empyrean
    Domains: Light, Darkness, Souls
    Appearance:
    Personality: a God who knows the value of patience and analyzing a situation before acting, though on occasion he will forget this if he gets caught off guard and may react hastily. He seeks to maintain a balance between his two domains of Light and Darkness, actively trying to ensure one does not overpower the other. His takes his station as God of Souls seriously and despises any attempts by others to control souls of the deceased. If something were to try to do something that would result in the loss of of his domains, his most likely reaction would be to smite whoever was doing it.
     
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    • ShieldCrown said:
    Cool.

    Name: Empyrean
    Domains: Light, Darkness, Souls
    Appearance:
    Personality: a God who knows the value of patience and analyzing a situation before acting, though on occasion he will forget this if he gets caught off guard and may react hastily. He seems to favor his dominion over Light over Darkness, but he does acknowledged how both are useful. His takes his station as God of Souls seriously and despises any attempts by others to control souls of the deceased.
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    Oh joy. New competition. lol.
     
    Janus said:
    The Magic Sphere pulsated as the god of magic cast one of the Ultimate Spells. A Spell of the "Alteration" school of magic, all dragons would grow in power with age. This would counterbalance the effect of being unable to reproduce. Dragons were immortal, so a dragon that would live for millenia would be like a god compared to mortals. The Plagueborn and other diseased dragons that remained immortal would outgrow their diseased bodies. ((Being diseased however, these dragons were probably mortal)). The Wellspring of Magic, also known as The Magic Sphere, shook the universe, almost literally, as it seemed to create of it's own free will.
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    So I'm going to process this as a dragon domain action, because we talked about how the magic domain would work, and it does not work like that.
    The nature of The Universe changed, as Gragnedagh wrote on the Wellspring of Magic, his Sphere, a living sphere, that as long as the dragon races survived, the mortal worlds would prosper. If the dragons grew scarce or worse, were eliminated, the worlds would grow old or be cursed. But this was not the intention of Gragnedagh. With dragons still alive and prosperous, the mortal races that followed could channel their energy for both scientific and magical purposes. The very Dragon's mitochondria could be harnessed for vast amounts of electrical power, even outside of Jormungand. A single small vial full of dragon's blood could be used to enhance the longevity and health of thousands of people. The appearance of Liang dragons in the clouds of certain nations would allow great bonanzas of crops to grow from the ground.

    On Jormungand, dragons had become one with Nature.

    ((Dragons have become one with The Nature Of Jormungand. As long as Dragons are one with Jormungand, they bring a sort of mutually beneficial relationship to it)).
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    You're doing two separate things here. A) you're linking dragons to the wellbeing of Jormungand, B) You're giving dragon body parts superpowers. I'm willing to put the "dragonsblood is op!" stuff into the first dragon domain action, but the linking is going to use a second domain action (probably magic domain), meaning you'd be using both your domain actions.
    ((1 Domain action remaining))
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    As such this would be incorrect.
    ShieldCrown said:
    Cool.

    Name: Empyrean
    Domains: Light, Darkness, Souls
    Appearance: Personality: a God who knows the value of patience and analyzing a situation before acting, though on occasion he will forget this if he gets caught off guard and may react hastily. He seems to favor his dominion over Light over Darkness, but he does acknowledged how both are useful. His takes his station as God of Souls seriously and despises any attempts by others to control souls of the deceased.
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    Why is he god of darkness if he's not the god of darkness? Seems somewhat odd.

    It'd be like if a god of Ice and Fire kind of just ignored ice and made everything of fire, though he does acknowledge that ice is useful for some things stuff like keeping meat cold. Domains aren't window-dressing, they're core parts of your god.
     
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    Demonic Spoon said:
    So I'm going to process this as a dragon domain action, because we talked about how the magic domain would work, and it does not work like that.

    You're doing two separate things here. A) you're linking dragons to the wellbeing of Jormungand, B) You're giving dragon body parts superpowers. I'm willing to put the "dragonsblood is op!" into the first dragon domain action, but the linking is going to use a second domain action (probably magic domain), meaning you'd be using both your domain actions.

    As such this would be incorrect.

    Why is he god of darkness if he's not the god of darkness? Seems somewhat odd.

    It'd be like if a god of Ice and Fire kind of just ignored ice and made everything of fire, though he does acknowledge that ice is useful for some things stuff like keeping meat cold. Domains aren't window-dressing, they're core parts of your god.
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    Right, I'll make some changes and try to find a picture that fits better. Sorry.
     
    Demonic Spoon said:
    So I'm going to process this as a dragon domain action, because we talked about how the magic domain would work, and it does not work like that.
    You're doing two separate things here. A) you're linking dragons to the wellbeing of Jormungand, B) You're giving dragon body parts superpowers. I'm willing to put the "dragonsblood is op!" into the first dragon domain action, but the linking is going to use a second domain action (probably magic domain), meaning you'd be using both your domain actions.
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    I'll edit it. I don't want to use both of my Domain actions.
     
    Janus said:
    I'll edit it. I don't want to use both of my Domain actions.
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    I thought as much, which is why I told you.

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    And there came a time when the gods power began to wane, and this distressed Endless Forms, Most Beautiful, for she detested restrictions in all forms. And she worked furiously for ten days and ten nights, as she sought to finish whatever she could, and in her struggle she began to turn more towards trickery to satisfy her demands.

    And with her ten thousand magnificent brushes she painted on the creatures of the forest and the creatures of the sea and the creatures of the sky. And she gave them spines with which to kill, and spine in which to hide. And she gave them poison, and disguises so that they may deceive one another.

    She taught those that hunt to stalk their prey, the art of the hunt, so that when they choose to strike, their prey has no where to run. And to those that hide, she taught to be clever, and to use their teamwork and cleverness to turn the tides on their hunters, and to become the hunters themselves.

    And over the world, to nigh every animal she deemed fit of the gift, Endless Forms most beautiful gave cunning and trickery, so that they may forever seeks to outwit and surpass each other.

    And Endless Forms once more materialized among the Aemer, and showed them what she had done, saying-
    Look, see, oh beloved children mine. See the animals of the forest, see how they armor themselves in spines and hunt cleverly. See the animals of the sky, see how they stalk what they seek, and strike at the opportune moment, most cunningly. See the animals of the sea, see how they most cleverly defend and attack, and turn the tide on those who threaten them.

    These gifts and more I have bestowed upon them, and these gifts and more I have bestowed upon you, for are you not my favorites? Go and learn from the world around you, and make it your own, oh beloved creation of sister mine.

    But soon after, Endless Forms began to worry for the safety of those Aemer she loved dearly, for she had made the creatures of the world much more dangerous. And so she worked for 4 for days and 4 more nights to carve and craft holy weapons and armor from the world she had helped create, and she scattered these throughout both ends of the Sky Vein for her beloved of creation to find, so that they may help them.

    And with this act completed, Endless Forms rested in her citadel in the star far above the highest point of the world, a structure of infinite mazes of excruciating complexity and beauty, for she was exhausted from her efforts.

    1 Domain: Bestow the gifts of cunning and trickery over almost every animal on the world
    1 Domain: Create holy weapons and armor, carved of bone and wood and stone, and etched and painted delicately, to protect the Aemer from the cunning beasts around them
    1 Generic: Pep-talk the Aemer
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    In hindsight my prompt was kind of ambiguous (meant that you already gave animals trickery, so maybe you want to do something for mortals), but who cares, this is some great stuff. Animal ninjas everywhere.
    1 (or 2) Generic: Rest. (Forfeited to make up for the pretty wide reaching 1st domain action)
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    Generic actions still don't work that way, but your domain stuff is fine.
     
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    Demonic Spoon said:
    I thought as much, which is why I told you.


    In hindsight my prompt was kind of ambiguous (meant that you already gave animals trickery, so maybe you want to do something for mortals), but who cares, this is some great stuff.

    Generic actions still don't work that way, but your domain stuff is fine.
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    Generic Actions, maybe you could help us understand by clearing up the difference between Free Actions and Generic Actions.
     
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    Generic as fuck
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    • Janus said:
    Generic Actions, maybe you could help us understand by clearing up the difference between Free Actions and Generic Actions.
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    Free actions: don't exist, with the possible exception of talking to your fellow gods.

    Generic Actions: Doing relatively low-level god stuff. Most relevant is poking the world, poking the mortals, poking demigods, and such. Domain actions can be converted to generic actions, but generic actions generally have zero direct relation to domain actions (though you can capitalize on domain actions by talking to mortals and such)
     
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    Free actions: don't exist, with the possible exception of talking to your fellow gods.

    Generic Actions; Doing relatively low-level god stuff. Most relevant is poking the world, poking the mortals, poking demigods, and such. Domain actions can be converted to generic actions, but generic actions generally have zero direct relation to domain actions (though you can capitalize on domain actions by talking to mortals and such)
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    If I decided to create champion Dragons that taught other Dragons the spells needed for Platonic Children, would that be generic actions?
     
    Janus said:
    If I decided to create champion Dragons that taught other Dragons the spells needed for Platonic Children, would that be generic actions?
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    Domain Action. Unless Champion is just a title with no effect, then you could use a Generic Action to teach the spell to a handful of dragons who could then slowly teach other dragons (with the ritual probably getting corrupted somehow during the teaching process)

    Probably more efficient to use a Knowledge Domain Action to teach all dragons the ritual.
     
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    Domain Action. Unless Champion is just a title with no effect, then you could use a Generic Action to teach the spell to a handful of dragons who could then slowly teach other dragons (with the ritual probably getting corrupted somehow during the teaching process)

    Probably more efficient to use a Knowledge Domain Action to teach all dragons the ritual.
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    Ah. What if I waited until after Genesis was over? I don't want to just deny Murhatar's actions.
     
    Janus said:
    Ah. What if I waited until after Genesis was over? I don't want to just deny Murhatar's actions.
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    Your ritual is unlikely to no-sell the plagues in any case. So like, whatever. I try make sure most actions have at least some lasting impact and can't be counteracted trivially. A concerted effort over more turns could stamp out the plague completely, but your ritual isn't even doing that, it'd just make newborn dragons more disease resistant. That's peanuts, since most dragons are avoiding plague zones anyway, and it's hard for Feverhatched to ambush them since the clouds of filth and sickness give them away.
     
    Demonic Spoon said:
    Your ritual is unlikely to no-sell the plagues in any case. So like, whatever. I try make sure most actions have at least some lasting impact and can't be counteracted trivially. A concerted effort over more turns could stamp out the plague completely, but your ritual isn't even doing that, it'd just make newborn dragons more disease resistant. That's peanuts, since most dragons are avoiding plague zones anyway, and it's hard for Feverhatched to ambush them since the clouds of filth and sickness give them away.
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    Interesting. Okay, so what if I create more Primordial Dragons? I'm thinking of making New Races meant to be the keepers of knowledge in Jormungand.
     
    Janus said:
    Interesting. Okay, so what if I create more Primordial Dragons? I'm thinking of making New Races meant to be the keepers of knowledge in Jormungand.
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    The more dragontypes you make the less likely they're to be relevant as subraces, or come up as individual subraces instead of just being called "dragons" all the time. So, you're choice.
     
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    The more dragontypes you make the less likely they're to be relevant as subraces, or come up as individual subraces instead of just being called "dragons" all the time. So, you're choice.
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    Got a different idea. What would creating animal level dragons and dinosaurs take? Like, could I use 3 Generic Actions for that? Dragons aren't Dinosaurs but they're close.
     
    ShieldCrown said:
    Cool.

    Name: Empyrean
    Domains: Light, Darkness, Souls
    Appearance: Personality: a God who knows the value of patience and analyzing a situation before acting, though on occasion he will forget this if he gets caught off guard and may react hastily. He seeks to maintain a balance between his two domains of Light and Darkness, actively trying to ensure one does not overpower the other. His takes his station as God of Souls seriously and despises any attempts by others to control souls of the deceased. If something were to try to do something that would result in the loss of of his domains, his most likely reaction would be to smite whoever was doing it.
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    ShieldCrown said:
    Alright I've made some edits, how's it look now?
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    That seems fine. You are now the sole person on the waitlist. No idea when you'd be joining the game though.

    Janus said:
    Got a different idea. What would creating animal level dragons and dinosaurs take? Like, could I use 3 Generic Actions for that? Dragons aren't Dinosaurs but they're close.
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    Creating non-intelligent dragons is still a domain action.
     
    Hey, could I assume that we are all aware of the changes made by other gods? For example, we all know about the halls of the dead?
     
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