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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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Shine said:
We're referencing Dominions 5, an incredibly creative high fantasy grand strategy game where you play as a Pretender who's just enthralled an existent culture. As the previous Over-Deity is dead, you're now on a race with other Pretenders to seize and consecrate the sacred places of the world, be it through mortal strength or by rediscovering apocalyptic magics (unless it's a small map, it's probably the latter).

Once you do so (and hopefully it's you), your Pretender ascends beyond fantastical sorcerous power and into true divinity, subjugating or casting down all others and beginning an eon of uncontested celestial domination… until, eventually, the same fate comes over you as the previous Over-Deity.

A strange ennui overtakes you; you lose all interest in the world that is, instead strangely fascinated by the siren song of distant stars. You grow more and more passive, until, eventually, you disappear entirely, banished to places unknown. Once loyal vassals, new children, ancient enemies locked away- all realise your absence, and the ultimate prize now freely at hand.

And so the cycle begins once more.
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Now that I think about it a quest where your just a regular person trying to survive a Dominion style god war sounds pretty fun.
 
wabbitking said:
Now that I think about it a quest where your just a regular person trying to survive a Dominion style god war sounds pretty fun.
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Behold:

A masochist

(Two parallel games- one a grand strategy game between four or five pretender deities savagely duking it out, the other about a convoy of desperate refugees fleeing the end of a shattered world.

Hmmmm….)
 
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Shine said:
Behold:

A masochist

(Two parallel games- one a grand strategy game between four or five pretender deities savagely duking it out, the other about a convoy of desperate refugees fleeing the end of a shattered world.

Hmmmm….)
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I'm not saying it wouldn't be horrifying just fun.

The quest starts with you being some nobody from a small questor generated civilization and ends with you leading an army of demons and halflings against the bat people who've stolen the sun. Lots of room for weird scenarios.
 
[X] You do, yes

Well, Gabriel is suddenly acting quite rude. And that makes me paranoid, is he planning to betray us?

If we have to confront him, better do it now that he dosen't have outside support.

I hope this is just my inner Crusader Kings player talking, but if he is really planning something....
 
Mystic Pentagram said:
Well, Gabriel is suddenly acting quite rude. And that makes me paranoid, is he planning to betray us?

If we have to confront him, better do it now that he dosen't have outside support.

I hope this is just my inner Crusader Kings player talking, but if he is really planning something....
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I think he fears being compelled to betray us. Or maybe he thinks we're dumb enough to do something Christians see as evil (like raiding) while traveling with a Squire of approximately equal power to us sworn to fight evil.
 
He's in love with us and knows that if we meet again it will have to be as enemies. His people do not take a spot of incidental murder and pillaging as lightly as norsemen do and will not make peace with us.
 
The Lone badger said:
He's in love with us and knows that if we meet again it will have to be as enemies. His people do not take a spot of incidental murder and pillaging as lightly as norsemen do and will not make peace with us.
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Eh. We're unlikely to meet as enemies...we've never raided them and even Steinarr did it all of once and will be dead in the blink of an eye to people who live that long.

He's definitely in love, but I think he's more worried about separation than being forced to fight us per se.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Eh. We're unlikely to meet as enemies...we've never raided them and even Steinarr did it all of once and will be dead in the blink of an eye to people who live that long.

He's definitely in love, but I think he's more worried about separation than being forced to fight us per se.
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Then its better to remember him once and for all that if he wants to stay with us he is welcome.

He could even have his own land if he wants, after the last years there is much free farmland in the Valley. With Aki family leaving and Stigr farm begin abbandoned too.

Maybe we should explore those lands with our Fylgja in the next turns, just to make sure nothing dangerous has made its nest there. And maybe we could buy them for ourselves if they can be used.
 
Mystic Pentagram said:
Then its better to remember him once and for all that if he wants to stay with us he is welcome.

He could even have his own land if he wants, after the last years there is much free farmland in the Valley. With Aki family leaving and Stigr farm begin abbandoned too.

Maybe we should explore those lands with our Fylgja in the next turns, just to make sure nothing dangerous has made its nest there. And maybe we could buy them for ourselves if they can be used.
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Oh, 100%. That's in the plan and I voted to push the issue like everyone else.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Eh. We're unlikely to meet as enemies...we've never raided them and even Steinarr did it all of once and will be dead in the blink of an eye to people who live that long.

He's definitely in love, but I think he's more worried about separation than being forced to fight us per se.
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We'd be an enemy because all norse are enemies of his society. But we'd be unlikely to actually meet on a battlefield, true.
(Unless the norns will it otherwise ofc)
 
The Lone badger said:
We'd be an enemy because all norse are enemies of his society. But we'd be unlikely to actually meet on a battlefield, true.
(Unless the norns will it otherwise ofc)
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That's not really true though, Wessex trades with the Norse sometimes, like everyone in the vicinity. Gabriel said it, but he's in a bleak mood and was raised in, basically, an isolated boarding school...his viewpoint is very sheltered in a lot of ways.
 
Mystic Pentagram said:
[X] You do, yes

Well, Gabriel is suddenly acting quite rude. And that makes me paranoid, is he planning to betray us?

If we have to confront him, better do it now that he dosen't have outside support.

I hope this is just my inner Crusader Kings player talking, but if he is really planning something....
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Its probably just stress from being reminded that he is a christian, that he has duties, of the tension between his people and ours.
He is between two worlds.
 
It's interesting that even here in Christian lands our Odr gain is stable. Like whatever process converts between the local Fervor/Faith/Zeal and our Orthstirr/Odr isn't particularly time consuming or difficult
 
Orbmorb said:
It's interesting that even here in Christian lands our Odr gain is stable. Like whatever process converts between the local Fervor/Faith/Zeal and our Orthstirr/Odr isn't particularly time consuming or difficult
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I mean, it makes sense. Even if you travel to far reaching lands you bring your Culture with you, so the cultural Resource would remain.
 
Orbmorb said:
It's interesting that even here in Christian lands our Odr gain is stable. Like whatever process converts between the local Fervor/Faith/Zeal and our Orthstirr/Odr isn't particularly time consuming or difficult
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Huh... I thought we were in some part of the Dane law or close enough.... What with Hala sensing the world dying, so it's still somewhat contested territory, even if Christianity is winning...
Oh well, guess the world will die more for Norseman the further we go from the northern influences, like the Dane Law and become.... Not livelier but.... Purer, perhaps, to Christian?
At least, going by both Halla's and Gabriel's exchange.
 
TheCount said:
Huh... I thought we were in some part of the Dane law or close enough.... What with Hala sensing the world dying, so it's still somewhat contested territory, even if Christianity is winning...
Oh well, guess the world will die more for Norseman the further we go from the northern influences, like the Dane Law and become.... Not livelier but.... Purer, perhaps, to Christian?
At least, going by both Halla's and Gabriel's exchange.
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Cultures bend their environment to their paradigm, Halla can't sense it because she's not part of that paradigm, so it feels dead to her.
 
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