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Animus Ex Nihilo - A God Quest

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Nigerian Duck said:
Is this what they call 'voting politics' ? I may be swayed to this....


I'm not saying that we have to have a massive population rise or anything, but the fact is we don't put much focus on land living. Houses, infrastructure, livestock, exploring the land itself, all things that most of the voters seem to shy away from in light of more sea-faring things. We know it's possible to live on the land (how else would the Forest People do so), so I don't believe that attributing it to technological development would apply. Not to mention, hello, magic powers pew pew?
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Tbh, if we're invoking magic powers, then that just means that any build is viable and based on personal preference, no? Either things are still bound somewhat to realism for now, which means that food productivity/security is king and settling by rivers and bodies of water teeming with wildlife is ideal, or realism is thrown out the window and I prefer playing a seafaring people to one that resides mostly on land. :p
 
Nigerian Duck said:
Is this what they call 'voting politics' ? I may be swayed to this....
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You'll get burned and learn your lesson then. Namely, don't trust the word of strangers on the internet as they rarely keep it.
Ehbon said:
I agree, it might be easier to just take the Death domain from the Devourer than it would be to develop our own at this point, if we even still could. For all I know there could be a one god per domain limit, but there could just as easily not be. (Though I'm not sure how well that holds up to the knowledge that we lost most of our control over the winds to the Sky Child)
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I'm hoping we'll be able to track down and devour the Devourer next turn so we'll soon see if domains can be stolen this way or if we'll need to push for gaining it some more after it dies.
 
[X] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[X] A muscular man with blue hair and green eyes whose hands were tattooed with triskeles on their back.
-[X] A kraken
 
Ghostdevil said:
We follow Proud Waters and trade. My support in exchange for your support!
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Hnnngh, this sounds pretty good, but almost too good to be true.

Raichu1972 said:
Tbh, if we're invoking magic powers, then that just means that any build is viable and based on personal preference, no? Either things are still bound somewhat to realism for now, which means that food productivity/security is king and settling by rivers and bodies of water teeming with wildlife is ideal, or realism is thrown out the window and I prefer playing a seafaring people to one that resides mostly on land. :p
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Mhm mhm, I agree. That's sorta what we've been doing, except although pew pew magic exists, we're limited in what we do. We can't do anything, but thre's still a fair amount of mundance problems we can solve that would inhibit expansion into a larger part of the land. Blessing the goats, our herds, animals that feed on that sweet sweet grass could easily solve hunger away from the river, not to mention that we probably haven't been given as many options for land because we haven't explored it

Remember the "[] Bless the Hunters" action? Yeah, that shiz disappeared early on, and I'm banking on it being due to the blatant ingnoring of land, which may have made the people shy away from it. I can understand that you like seafaring (ships and ocean life are pretty cool) but consider what's good for them to grow. Not to mention that people will always live mostly on land, because that's just how we are. It's where most materials come from and all that stuff. That doesn't mean we'll take away from the sea/ocean aspect, but we'll be able to cover more of our bases and help the people.
 
[X] Ghostdevil

I already disliked that shitty eel but now its starting to get personal, on top of it starting to get dangerous. @Azel In future turns, would it be possible to get the sky child to help us hunt the eel down?
 
flotter said:
[X] Ghostdevil

I already disliked that shitty eel but now its starting to get personal, on top of it starting to get dangerous. @Azel In future turns, would it be possible to get the sky child to help us hunt the eel down?
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It will be an available action next turn, now that you figured out roughly where to look.
 
[X] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[X] A whirlpool, dragging evil like the Devourer to the seafloor where they are transformed into vibrant sea life.

There is something thematic to this. A theme of rebirth where it is not merely a matter of one thing becoming another but that even the evilest and most destructive of things can become something beautiful and exuberant. That in Proud Waters swirling depths isn't emptiness or the serpent's hunger but a revitalization. In a way, they are the physical manifestation of a fundamental law of the universe, a constantly spinning cycle where death isn't the end, but another beginning. The whirlpool in that way could take on a much more significant religious and cultural connotation with the sea people's ideology and iconography shifting towards the existential and abstract. That they don't merely think Proud Waters and their fellows as great divine champions but as reflections of the universe itself. Beings that inspire a deeper understanding and meaning to the world around them.
 
Okay, by now I am beginning to buy the argument that the dice won't let us have the Death Domain. Because darn it, it's like clockwork.

Also, I would like to throw my own hat into the ring appearence wise. I was thinking of taking something a bit Hindu inspired, as their depictions of deities work really well to make something "Human but obviously not", and applying it to what has no doubt become a symbol of ours. Bonus points for keeping it "gender unknown", as I am 88% sure no one else knows how to properly sex carps.

[X] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[X] A large, fourlegged carp with a human arm coming out of every scale

Obviously the extra arms are for showing that Proud Waters can heal and help any amount of living beings in the metaphorical sense, and for giving our people lots of headpats in the literal.

Also, on the assumption that approval voting is allowed:

[X] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[X] One of the People, of indeterminable gender, with hair like kelp and eyes like pearls, with skin of an ocean blue hue, possessing a stern, proud, but kindly presentation.

I like this one, it has a nice, ethereal design. If we're gonna be a humanoid, this is what I want Proud Waters to look like. Except maybe with more limbs.

[X] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[X] A whirlpool, dragging evil like the Devourer to the seafloor where they are transformed into vibrant sea life.

I really like the idea of just having Proud Waters be some kind of "natural" phenomenon that people are worshipping. I am not sure a whirlpool is the best fit for that, considering that to humans at this point whirlpools are large, destructive forces that protect no one and cannot be bargained with, but I have no idea what other shape would be better and I will admit the image of our people worshipping a giant healing whirlpool is amazing.
 
Hmm, remember the first expansion attemptions?

The people that went north died to a cold feeling, including our blessed fish.
Azel said:
One day, you felt an icy chill through your very being. For a brief moment, you panicked and thought yourself hurt, something that seemed not so preposterous and idea anymore, but it receded after a short while. When you had calmed down again, you noticed that you could no longer feel the cod that had travelled north and you knew immediately that they and the boats would never return.
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This Devourer, who we now know has the Cold domain, might owe use more than some corpses.
Definitly voting to try and hunt him down next turn.
 
[X] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[X] One of the People, of indeterminable gender, with hair like kelp and eyes like pearls, with skin of an ocean blue hue, possessing a stern, proud, but kindly presentation.
 
I really think I found a fantastic image reference, that plays with a number of themes others have noted, and of course my own personal taste, something with some level of mutability is always more interesting.

[X] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[X] A great serpent rising from the ocean, their form composed of clear water housing sea life within, many arms sprouting forth, ever flowing, sometimes with the face of a woman and other times with that of a man, their hair composed of the sea spray, with pearl jewelry adorned into a filigree headdress.

Art by Camille André, source link.
Edit: Assuming we're allowed to do approval voting

[] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[] One of the People, of indeterminable gender, with hair like kelp and eyes like pearls, with skin of an ocean blue hue, possessing a stern, proud, but kindly presentation.
 
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[X] No. You will stay unseen and formless.

[X] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[X] One of the People, of indeterminable gender, with hair like kelp and eyes like pearls, with skin of an ocean blue hue, possessing a stern, proud, but kindly presentation.
 
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[X] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[X] One of the People, of indeterminable gender, with hair like kelp and eyes like pearls, with skin of an ocean blue hue, possessing a stern, proud, but kindly presentation.
 
*pokes tally*
Adhoc vote count started by Azel on Nov 6, 2021 at 6:28 AM, finished with 59 posts and 30 votes.
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Pretty spread out right now. As it stands, I would call in favor of a human form and mix and match the details.

Vote still open.
 
[X] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[X] A kraken
-[X] A whirlpool, dragging evil like the Devourer to the seafloor where they are transformed into vibrant sea life.

[X] No. You will stay unseen and formless.
 
[X] No. You will stay unseen and formless.

[X] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[X] A great serpent rising from the ocean, their form composed of clear water housing sea life within, many arms sprouting forth, ever flowing, sometimes with the face of a woman and other times with that of a man, their hair composed of the sea spray, with pearl jewelry adorned into a filigree headdress.

[X] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[X] A whirlpool, dragging evil like the Devourer to the seafloor where they are transformed into vibrant sea life.
 
[X] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[X] A whirlpool, dragging evil like the Devourer to the seafloor where they are transformed into vibrant sea life.
 
[X] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[X] A whirlpool, dragging evil like the Devourer to the seafloor where they are transformed into vibrant sea life.
 
[X] Yes. Claim a form for yourself and show it to the people.
-[X] A great serpent rising from the ocean, their form composed of clear water housing sea life within, many arms sprouting forth, ever flowing, sometimes with the face of a woman and other times with that of a man, their hair composed of the sea spray, with pearl jewelry adorned into a filigree headdress.
-[X] A large, fourlegged carp with a human arm coming out of every scale

I do quite like @ComiTurtle's water serpent, plus its many limbs lets me pretend it's like my own write-in. Arms are good, y'all.

Upon further thought I don't really feel the whirlpool or the ephemeral humanoid. I feel like I would be a bit annoyed if they won over other options, and that's generally a sign that you should change your vote.
 
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