Random idea. Thoughts? I've been itching to use Unseen Reawakening for a while now.
From my reading of the way that would go, it's basically the same thing as what Vividry was meant to do. Am I misunderstanding how that's supposed to work?
More drafts for you and me! This is based on the gods from another piece of media I used to consume. I'm not too sure about the act tier.
Oh hey, I had my own version of an Act to create a system of Divinity that I posted a while ago. Mind giving some feedback? I'm thinking of Authoring it next Epoch.
Quick threat interest check, how does everyone feel about this?
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Establish the System of Faith, Myths, and Gods (Cosmic)
Every intelligent being has Free Will, which is aligned with their Heart and their Will in the Cosmic Narrative. To give Faith is to exercise Free Will, to make a choice and believe in something, anything at all. The context of the choice is irrelevant, so too is the rational behind it, only that a conscious choice is made. This Faith is drawn together in the souls of the dead, unawakened souls of the living, and spirits of the Unseen who would give answer to it, filling them with power and changing them. Faith is by nature a chaotic power, which only becomes more so the case as it gathers, having no hard limits or rules for how it may affect a being that collects it. Where enough Faith accumulates, it might ignite into the Flame of Chaos and create a Myth, a kind of proto-God without a physical form.
Myths are complex narrative entities that reflect whatever had gathered the Faith to create them, but distorted by the ideas and desires behind the faith itself. As beings of Pure Heart and Will incarnate, Myths may wield the magic of Ardency as naturals, without the inherent difficulties that mortals might have with it. Myths can normally only interact with the material world through imposition of their narrative onto people, places, and things that they're associated with or which give Faith to them. By contrast, their power over the realm Unseen is sufficient to build entire worlds for themselves and their mortal followers after their death. Should a living mortal make a Pact with a Myth they would become their Avatar and gain access to their powers allowing the Myth greater ability to interact with reality. The drawback of becoming an Avatar of a Myth is that one actually becomes the Myth themselves in truth, and so they are denied an afterlife or any chance of reincarnation as their soul merges with their Myth entirely.
Myths vary in power and complexity, the weakest Myths being Least Myths and the most powerful being Ultimate Myths, with older Myths generally being greater due to accumulation of Faith. Myths can grow or fall in power according to the Free Will of people actively choosing to believe in or abandon them, with death coming to them should they ever be completely forsaken or forgotten. Where Legend and Myth meet in an Avatar, Divinity is born and a mortal becomes a God, equivalent in power to the Legend that they carried. However, a Myth can only bond with a Legend compatible with its personal narrative. A Myth would generally be inclined to build its own Legend to reach Apotheosis through an Avatar of more humble origin, rather than making pacts with already Legendary mortals, though whether a Myth bonds with their own Legend is still ultimately dependent on their own choice.
Divinity carries the same depth of power and complexity as Myths, being set between Least Gods and Ultimate Gods, but Gods differ from Myths in several respects. A God, like any other intelligent being, has Free Will though it does not possess the Pure Heart and Will of a Myth. Gods are bound to physical vessels that may exist in only one realm at a time, and if their body is broken than so is their Divinity, killing them in totality beyond resurrection. Gods don't need to receive any Faith to perpetuate themselves and furthermore they no longer decline in power from lack of mortal belief, but in turn they cannot grow simply from being worshipped as Myths could after their Apotheosis. Gods may only grow from expanding their Legend in the direction of their Myth through worthy achievements, with the limit of their potential being the strength of their Myth.
The Least of Gods is barely above mortality, still being subject to the effects of age and disease albeit reduced, and should a demigod be born they would always be of Least Divinity. Most Gods would fall near this end of the scale, with only a rare few among countless aspirants reaching the pinnacle of Divinity. The Ultimate Gods are transcendent beings beyond concrete notions of physical scale, capable of impossible miracles contrary to the laws of reality and even designing new laws entirely should they be willing to die for it, limited more by the purpose, meaning, and beauty of their concept than anything else. They are of arbitrary scope unbound by space or time, their physical forms existing in their own dimensions separate and distinct from one another as extensions of their bodies, independent from the rest of the universe.
The Divine Laws set by Gods are yet inferior to those Cosmic Laws forged by the Makers, and not only may they be broken and potentially destroyed forever if confronted with sufficient power brought in contradiction to them, they are also subject to the effects of erosion should they conflict with one another, dooming them to gradual decay. Where the divine shards of broken laws will fall is unknowable, what they should become as they lay in wait unfathomable, and in grinding and straining and fighting each other, those laws still in place give rise to ever stranger things. In the friction between the rules rise into existence new things twisted in form and exotic in nature or energies that defy classification, for they are born of the still burning chaotic embers of the primordial force of creation.
