Distant Stars. (a WH40K/Xianxia civ Quest).

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Mostly? By aging but they can speed it up with dedicating time to train (but only by very little) warring with others gods and clashing with domains speeds things up the most.
Does it have to be life and death or is the opportunity of a friendly clash part of the utility of a pantheon?
So this is probably why slannash started off by murdering the other Eldar gods.
Also probably why Ynnead was so hyper-specific compared to the other Eldar Gods. "The Eldar Afterlife" rather than "Life" "War" "Clowns" etc, so as to overcome Slaanesh's more broad domain.
 
What would we need to do to unlock intentional godforging? Whether from scratch or from the willing sacrifice of a Third Step's Pillar.
 
What would we need to do to unlock intentional godforging? Whether from scratch or from the willing sacrifice of a Third Step's Pillar.
Not happening.

Our sacrifice of a pillar to Kuvara basically covered the last 5% of the process AND gave her a physical avatar body to hide in real space from the chaos gods.

It would take decades to centuries of focused belief by the whole key race at minimum to create a new god, AND it's extremely unlikely we'd get another cultivator talented enough AND with the right mindset and pillar to give such a god a body.

And without that, or a MUCH stronger Kuvara and Shikatu, it's near certain.such god wouldn't survive long.

Also another god would mean splitting the empire's divine QI further.
 
Yeah, but as much as Wind is cool, we could really use a god with a more specialized domain like Souls or Keku so they get more bang for their buck in terms of protecting our people's souls.
Kuvara can already protect MANY Keku souls, and there's still that insight to steal the claim of... The war chaos god, I think, over part of the keku souls.

The problem is that, basically, if the chaos gods want something badly enough, NOTHING can stop them. It's why we've been told that, as things stand, if Shikstu dies there's nothing Kuvara can do to stop the chaos gods from claiming his soul.

We're not quite as hated as the Anathema, the god-emperor of humanity, but we HAVE the potential to reach that level of enmity from them. And we're far weaker than him, so we're much more vulnerable.
 
Kuvara can already protect MANY Keku souls, and there's still that insight to steal the claim of... The war chaos god, I think, over part of the keku souls.
Yeah, but even with practice, she's never going to be as good at it as a proper species or death god. We lack the raw power to do more than make things more difficult for them, but that's more reason to pursue ways to use what power we do have more efficiently, not less.
 
Yeah, but even with practice, she's never going to be as good at it as a proper species or death god. We lack the raw power to do more than make things more difficult for them, but that's more reason to pursue ways to use what power we do have more efficiently, not less.
She is the patron Keku god, she already got the best claim on Keku.

The few that slip her grasp aren't worth making a whole god.
 
She is the patron Keku god, she already got the best claim on Keku.

The few that slip her grasp aren't worth making a whole god.
I don't think it will be "few" that slip through, but I agree that it's still not worth a new god.

I'm hoping Kuvara will in time grow strong enough to claim our soul successfully if we die, or that we'll find some alternative. Like, I don't know, a soul gem to store our soul in until such a time as it's safe to release it, or to later infuse it in a new body or something.


Even soul annihilation would be better than having Shikatu's soul end up in the chaos gods ' grasp.




That said, while I don't really want to split our divine QI income in multiple directions, I'd be willing to consider adding Okertatu to our "pantheon". It depends on what he'd offer and if he's interested
 
In regards to intentional god forging, it's possible -at least theoretically- You don't even have to have a higher cultivation step.

Its just going take a lot (like a lot) of fuckign time, effort and knowledge that you don't currently have.

The pillar sacrifice had more to do with birthing the physical avatar rather than creating the god.

Like on of the random event, I had (which had a very, very low chance) was a "god is born" sacrificing the pillar just made that from a random event to fixed one and gave additional bonuses (in the form of an avatar).

I'm hoping Kuvara will in time grow strong enough to claim our soul successfully if we die, or that we'll find some alternative. Like, I don't know, a soul gem to store our soul in until such a time as it's safe to release it, or to later infuse it in a new body or something.
There are a few thing you could do, you had an insight that allowed you to ensure your soul wont be taken by Khron which would ensure he wouldn't allow anyone else to have it, there are probably rituals that could help, if you ever find the eldar and get on the good side of them they might allow you to learn a bit on how they store their souls.

Nascent soul would have a few things to help (the most prominent that your soul could actually fight them -or at least help in fighting them off), getting a domain would help for the latter and give you a way to actually contest them (not well mind you but still).

Runes might also hold an answer and maybe alchemy.
 
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Also, we know divine insights provide insights out of echos of gods who may be or might have been, and well, one of the insights is about Shitaku the god of cultivation, I wonder if we can ascend in some way, or if becoming a sixth step going to make us functionally a god, since we know it gives us a domain, which may be what being a god is.
 
Nascent soul would have a few things to help (the most prominent that your soul could actually fight them -or at least help in fighting them off), getting a domain would help for the latter and give you a way to actually contest them (not well mind you but still).
Once we get into nascent soul we can store our soul into a ring and become the spirit mentor of a young talented keku with broken cultivation and a fiance that hates him.

For real tho, if we pursue the life/death dao some more I believe our true death will become less and less of a problem. I wonder what effect getting daos has, other than empowering existing related abilities.
 
What energy is there in the warp that Kuvara needs, I am guessing it is not divine qi, or the tyrant god wouldn't buy any from us, is it qi? Something else? Asking since I wonder if a cultivator can basically draw infinite energy from there, if not for all the demons and evil gods, we already kind of saw the warp when a demon was summoned, and Kuvara does need that energy, so I wondered if the emperor knows something.


Are there any benefits to reincarnation, does it strengthen psychic power, do skills somewhat carry over, is there any difference between it and being born normally?

Asking because I know Eldar and shamans used it as a method of immortality, where information carried over between reincarnations, so I wonder if the average Keku get anything out of it, despite not being psykers and thus capable of surviving death relatively intact.
 
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Are there any benefits to reincarnation, does it strengthen psychic power, do skills somewhat carry over, is there any difference between it and being born normally?
That depends on the method of reincarnation, every soul reincarnates in time (aside form those tan by deamon or made into deva/deamon) its just the normally such a process also wipes all their memories.

There is no inherent benefit to reincarnating aside form escaping the grasp of soul eaters temporarily.
 
That depends on the method of reincarnation, every soul reincarnates in time (aside form those tan by deamon or made into deva/deamon) its just the normally such a process also wipes all their memories.

There is no inherent benefit to reincarnating aside form escaping the grasp of soul eaters temporarily.
Can Kuvara make stuff carry over? As skill boosters or having the souls fuse with regular unborn soul to grow progressively larger and more powerful?

Not outright revival, but a way to make reincarnation different from from being born at that moment, because I struggle to think of a difference between being eaten or not if nothing of you pass on.
 
She is the patron Keku god, she already got the best claim on Keku.
That's just objectively not true. QM has confirmed that if her domain was Keku she would be more effective at protecting their souls. A better claim is possible, though admittedly the cost/benefit of creating a god with a better claim is unknown to me right now.
 
I wonder what will all the deva do once Kuvara has enough she can spare, we can probably summon them to reality, have them possess people or objects, or just use their supernatural powers to give us deva actions like cultivator actions.
 
Can Kuvara make stuff carry over? As skill boosters or having the souls fuse with regular unborn soul to grow progressively larger and more powerful?
In time, although the types of souls that are whole enough to carry things over are the best for making deva out of.

Not outright revival, but a way to make reincarnation different from from being born at that moment, because I struggle to think of a difference between being eaten or not if nothing of you pass on.
Well not nothing passes on, as ac cultivator when you start going over the third realm you soul changes and that change carries on, its how I'll be dealing with bloodlines.

I wonder what will all the deva do once Kuvara has enough she can spare, we can probably summon them to reality, have them possess people or objects, or just use their supernatural powers to give us deva actions like cultivator actions.
Your unlikely to get enough deva to spare anytime soon.
 
In time, although the types of souls that are whole enough to carry things over are the best for making deva out of.


Well not nothing passes on, as ac cultivator when you start going over the third realm you soul changes and that change carries on, its how I'll be dealing with bloodlines.


Your unlikely to get enough deva to spare anytime soon.
Will the quest eventually transition into longer turns like century long turns?
 
Well not nothing passes on, as ac cultivator when you start going over the third realm you soul changes and that change carries on, its how I'll be dealing with bloodlines.
Does it carry to children too (aka, new souls born of transformed Keku carry the benefit), or are people with bloodlines reincarnations of people of the fourth step and up.
 
Will the quest eventually transition into longer turns like century long turns?
Longer turns probably not, a decade is a long enough time frame (honestly depending on a few factors we might even go for five turn years) there would probably be a time skip after the apocalypse (assuming you survive of course) which will get you to a point where you are now have at least a few developed colonies outside your solar system.

Does it carry to children too (aka, new souls born of transformed Keku carry the benefit), or are people with bloodlines reincarnations of people of the fourth step and up.
It can if a new soul is crated and the parents are third step and up.
 
It can if a new soul is crated and the parents are third step and up.
So is it like getting one or few of our insights at birth? At least assuming they got the qi to use those insights.

Would higher steps provide more powerful bloodlines?

Did Kuvara get a bloodline in her avatar form? Not sure how much of her being Shitaku's daughter is literal with her body having been born out of his pillar.
 
Well this could be a way to eventually upgrade our species, just make sure the 3rd steps and higher make more kids. Give them extra vacation days or cultivation time or something.

I imagine the bonuses exist for multiple generations, even if they get weaker. Otherwise the effect is still good, just not society-changing (we still got the keku pillar for that!)
 
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