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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover

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I've updated the numbers for our Triton population over on the Imperial Tritons page.

All told, we're up to at least 20,556 Tritons. The aquatic district of Sorcerer's Deep is booming.
Soldiers:
Arcane Protectors:
Arcane Beings
Experts
Monthly costs: 3,980 IM

Camp Followers: 19,049 Tritons (6,000 can be called up as Triton Militia)
 
Arawndil said:
[X] Azel

I assume by his company that this Kami is already square with the Merling King and we're not going to have a God-Off due to overlapping domains? (I am not opposed to a God-Off, especially if we can get it on MirrorVision).
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Announcer: "It's a God-Off, people!"

"In this corner we have the Ferryman, famed wielder of Blue Dragonsteel, AKA "the Look".
And the challenger, recently awarded Water Kami of the Year, Suijin!"
 
[x] Azel

Can Kami even do anything special other than their SLAs? Difficult to get worship in a capital city if that's the best you can do.
 
Azel said:
I suspect this guy to have some Mythic Ranks, so I'm slightly inclined to loot him.
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The fact that we're seeing a Kami moving around at all is fairly unusual. I was unironically tossing around ideas of looting landmarks in hopes of stealing Kami along with them, but here comes one swimming right to us.
 
Azel said:
I suspect this guy to have some Mythic Ranks, so I'm slightly inclined to loot him.
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Yeah, I suspect there is some interesting backstory here that I'm eager to learn more about. An elemental Kami with enough Mythic juice to start granting spells, perhaps even on the path to ascension to godhood, choosing to relocate like this, even if accompanied by most of its followers, is highly unusual.

I think it's probably being stifled or outright forbidden from advancing by the more entrenched Kami who have already filled the niche he wishes to occupy, so it's moving on to greener pastures, so to speak.

[X] Azel
 
[X] Azel

Friendly fish god get!

I wonder if like the Golden Empire that our Empire will in time have a great deal of godlike beings spread across its borders, mostly focusing on certain regions and such. Can include kami, fey, and similar creatures whom grow in power due to worship.
 
A_Somebody said:
[X] Azel

Huh yeah hoepfully nothing here triggers Yss since this seems interesting.
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So long as the Kami isn't already claiming godhood, which comes with certain expectations like being able to protect followers in the afterlife, Yss shouldn't care if it is merely working toward such an eventuality.
Crake said:
I only care if he has some domains that are useful to us.
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It's likely to be quite useful, especially since our aquatic population is growing and the Water Elemental Creche should be online and producing Water Elementals for us this month (we'll need to do a retroactive order for them soon, since it was scheduled to become active in the 3rd month). Even base Suijin are fairly powerful, and this one might have a bit more under the hood than is typical.

If it does manage to attain godhood, it'll be on the weaker end of the deific power scale for a long time to come. A single Domain would make sense in that case, and it would probably be Ocean. That would work out well for us.
 
I'm pretty sure we will see a lot more minor godlings that act as wardens of particular areas or perform similar functions for the state once we have the Imperial Pseudo-Deity going.
 
silvanknight said:
Just asking because neither Scholarum was on the turn plan.
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My fuck-up then, I was rather scatter-brained on the matters of "what built where" and the gdoc spreadsheet didn't have them marked as part of provinces on the turnplan, so I assumed none are ready yet.

Eh, whatever.
Let's say they were given a month to get ready before crown assigns any projects.
 
[X] Azel

Doesn't the divine scale work based on the population of active worshipers? We could probably shape godlings into designer deities by manipulating how they interact with the imperial populace and providing some carefully shaped material support.

If we make all the best paths to godhood the ones that benefit us the most he'll do things like take domains we like by default.
 
BronzeTongue said:
[X] Azel

Doesn't the divine scale work based on the population of active worshipers? We could probably shape godlings into designer deities by manipulating how they interact with the imperial populace and providing some carefully shaped material support.

If we make all the best paths to godhood the ones that benefit us the most he'll do things like take domains we like by default.
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I don't see it as an urgent matter, since these things take forever, but this is pretty much the deal I want to offer him and others once we got the big barrel of divine juice to wave around as a incentive.

Would be funny if Yi-Ti joined the Imperium not because of anything we did with the mortals, but because the Kami told them to kneel so that they can get some of the good stuff.
 
Azel said:
I don't see it as an urgent matter, since these things take forever, but this is pretty much the deal I want to offer him and others once we got the big barrel of divine juice to wave around as a incentive.

Would be funny if Yi-Ti joined the Imperium not because of anything we did with the mortals, but because the Kami told them to kneel so that they can get some of the good stuff.
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I was thinking more about the "natural" approach than the god juice. Pushing the zoning of his temple around to put him in a high traffic locale of the primary worshipers we want him to have, offering him public affiliation with certain projects in exchange for favors, and a little bit of overt PR work to top it off. If he's the type to take sacrifice we could throw in some of that as well.

We could net him a serious number of worshipers by including him as a side note in an Imperial Times article about gods, and simultaneously control how his numerous new devotees see him. We'd need a light touch, but handled properly it could work.

The question is whether or not we'd make any worthwhile progress before we have enough god juice around to make all this effort irrelevant.
 
BronzeTongue said:
I was thinking more about the "natural" approach than the god juice. Pushing the zoning of his temple around to put him in a high traffic locale of the primary worshipers we want him to have, offering him public affiliation with certain projects in exchange for favors, and a little bit of overt PR work to top it off. If he's the type to take sacrifice we could throw in some of that as well.

We could net him a serious number of worshipers by including him as a side note in an Imperial Times article about gods, and simultaneously control how his numerous new devotees see him. We'd need a light touch, but handled properly it could work.

The question is whether or not we'd make any worthwhile progress before we have enough god juice around to make all this effort irrelevant.
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Given how long it took to give Yss the Commerce domain while we spent a lot of effort on it, I think it will take quite a while, so I think waiting for the barrel is just fine.
 
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