- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Control over death? Being able to shape the afterlife and interact with the souls of the dead? There is plenty interesting about being a spirit of death.
The Amber Age: Pantheon Edition (Collaborative)
- Thread starter Powerofmind
- Start date
- Original
Control over death? Being able to shape the afterlife and interact with the souls of the dead? There is plenty interesting about being a spirit of death.
Pandemonious Ivy
Panties, Revolution. Big Drawers. Parachute.
I think it's both the novelty and the difference in playstyle.
Being a place instead of a thing/plant/animal is an interesting and different type of character. Plus you have to think: what about you made you a spirit?
Being a spirit of death attached to a location means that, roughly, your location became shrouded in myth and legend due to how mortals interact with you to the point where you've become sapient. Maybe parents warn their children about you to the point where you've become a cultural staple. Like the different regional variants of the boogeyman. Or? Maybe it's something else.
"If you die at X place, it's said that you become Y."
Which is less about the death and more about how the death changes you.
Lots of possibilities, not all of them are inherently negative, a lot are pretty interesting, so I can see the attraction!
Also mysticism, rebirth, and (according to @Powerofmind in the Discord) medicine.
Indophenol just seems to have some kind of broad grudge against the concept of death which also carries over into themes/traits in roleplaying games. To each his own, I guess.
Don't forget the fact we could be a volcano. Volcanoes are awesome.
So just to be clear, this means that if you anywhere except the center of that track, there is a canonical "correct" way of behaving, regardless of your goals.
If you are a spirit at Fear X, then you want to do terrifying actions only, and avoid generous actions. Fear X+1 is strictly better than Fear X or Fear X-1, because you can get from the former to the later for free and generate DE in the process. And of course, the opposite is true for Faith X.
So I guess every spirit has a mechanical incentive to "act its nature", or if it isn't willing to do that, to "cash in" and either stay at Awe or start moving in the opposite direction.
As for the next part, I must say that I find it somewhat backwards that Awe generates Legend while Fear/Faith generates DE. I would have expected the more intense and roleplay-prone Fear/Faith extremes to be better fits for generating and spending Legend.
Pandemonious Ivy
Panties, Revolution. Big Drawers. Parachute.
I'm glad you're here. I've missed you, my mechanical oriented friend!
- Location
- Earth
I do, in fact, have a grudge against the concept of death. And I generally attribute the attitude of anyone who DOESN'T have a grudge against it to sour grapes.
StellarMonarch
Myrmidon
- Location
- Québec
You know what would be cool? Having an entire other civilization that also worships us within our afterlife. We could be an actual God of the Dead. Bangsian stuff.
- Location
- California
That would actually be pretty awesome. Then in times of great need we can call upon the dead to serve us in the living world. Because who doesn't want a ghostly army at their beck and call.
And it's not like we'd have to go very far get stuff to burn the damned if we go that route.
- Location
- Israel
To be honest, I like crocs way more than turtles, and in general carnivores over herbivores (omnivores are at the top though).
The only good turtle is a snapping turtle! (Snappy FTW) (or is it a tortoise? And isn't it at least partly omnivorous? Not all turtles are herbivores after all)
The only good turtle is a snapping turtle! (Snappy FTW) (or is it a tortoise? And isn't it at least partly omnivorous? Not all turtles are herbivores after all)
StellarMonarch
Myrmidon
- Location
- Québec
With lots of Pyramids, naturally.
...Hm. Can we extract worship from the Dead? If so, we could min-max that shit by having a cycle of reincarnation whereas you are reborn in our Afterlife when you die in Real Life, and when you die in our Afterlife you reincarnate in Real Life.
Probably stretching it tho. And pseudo-Buddhists escaping our reincarnation contraption would be annoying.
- Location
- California
Hell is so blasé. Just have the sinners wiped of their memories and experiences and re-enter the world as brand new people.
Of course, we also do the same with the saints, because you have to keep things fair.
We'd probably need to spec into Life as well for that to work. Guiding the dead into and out of the cycle of reincarnation is probably the limits of a pure death god.
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Geez, hours past the vote open, I finally wake up and not one proper volcano spirit.
[X] Very Young
[X] Plan Fire On the Mountain
-[X] Fire
-[X] Peerage: Majestic 2
-[X] Peerage: Actor 1
-[X] Secrets: Magi 2
-[X] Secrets: Ritual 1
Hopefully we actually have time to try to turn the vote though
Anyway the key is:
Skills are chosen based on proximity to ritual volcanic sacrifices. All shall gaze upon the fire in awe!
[X] Plan Death Mountain
Approval
[X] Very Young
[X] Plan Fire On the Mountain
-[X] Fire
-[X] Peerage: Majestic 2
-[X] Peerage: Actor 1
-[X] Secrets: Magi 2
-[X] Secrets: Ritual 1
Hopefully we actually have time to try to turn the vote though
Anyway the key is:
If we pick Fire on a Tropical Mountain Island, the most likely source of natural fire is the volcanic fumarole.
Skills are chosen based on proximity to ritual volcanic sacrifices. All shall gaze upon the fire in awe!
[X] Plan Death Mountain
Approval
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Life probably isn't that hard to get into. A boneyard like this is an ideal place for all sorts of plants, fungi, bugs, lizards and birds. It's just a place of death for medium and large mammals.Hell is so blasé. Just have the sinners wiped of their memories and experiences and re-enter the world as brand new people.
Of course, we also do the same with the saints, because you have to keep things fair.
We'd probably need to spec into Life as well for that to work. Guiding the dead into and out of the cycle of reincarnation is probably the limits of a pure death god.
- Location
- California
True, but we'll have to wait and see what the best options for us are.
Though I'm not going to lie, if we do end up as the death god, I hope we get to pick a reincarnation afterlife because I have some ideas I would like implement.
Let's just say it involves a big stone wheel and a very large set of doors.