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That One Guy
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Because she's a fifteen year old girl.
Because she's a fifteen year old girl.
Oh I get that. Just wondering how you can make it internally consistent without obvious handwaving.
Misreplied with this but figured you deserved a more in-depth explanation: The most awful yet entirely true thing to say to that is that she doesn't care about those people.
Oke but >>>>>Parahuman<<<<<<
Sorry for any confusion here, I thought I was replying to entirely the wrong fellow for a moment there and made a long explanation about warlords in Africa which had nothing to do with your entirely fair concern!Oh I get that. Just wondering how you can make it internally consistent without obvious handwaving.
... with appropriate windfalls for appropriate events. The city flooding, for instance, would create an awful lot of Death (Purple) and Water (Blue) gems. As the seasons turn hot Fire (Red) and Nature (Green) will become a bit easier to find at possible expense of some other types. The hardest to locate will probably remain Air (White) and Astral (Pearl).
In the end, I'll just have to do my best to make it seem reasonable. Without intentionally handicapping myself by literally rolling to see how many she can find each week or month I'm unsure how else I might do things.
She found a relative fortune in the Bay because nobody else could see the gems, so obviously the easiest way to get more would be to take a month-long trip to another city or two.The thing is nobody else can see the gems so she is either gunna have to find a way to find them faster or allow people to see them if she wants to gather them in a decent time period.
Also, combing through the sites of Endbringer Battles should yield loads of gems.You could have fire gems be available in an area Lung rampaged through. Air where Stormtiger had been active. Purple where the gang fighting was going on. And so on. If her power changes the residue of shard powers into equivalents, it would bring her to the conflict areas.
If she wins a fight, more gems.
Like end game is full of nations:
... yeah gems are worrisome in how are they going to be explained to have sense... especially as you said magic site searching spell would find no sites??? Not even natural places like volcano, geyser or springs?The 'long buildup' isn't actually all that long, to be fair; given these gems literally didn't exist within the Wormverse over, oh, three to four months ago.
In addition to the other reasons:Oke but >>>>>Parahuman<<<<<<
Edit: sorry did not see your second reply.
A likely storyAn entirely logical and consistent serious of events that I do not intend to explain any time soon has caused Taylor to effectively become one of these.
Someone has.A likely story
(seriously, you should probably make sure that at least someone who isn't you has had a chance to peek at this logical and consistent series of events to make sure it is indeed logical and consistent. If it is logical and consistent enough, you can foreshadow it for extra bonus points.)
Please. Have a little faith in me. I'm not that lazy.Considering that godhood is involved, it's just as valid to say the last god decided to throw stuff at Taylor and see what happened. Literal in-story ROB, in other words.
Doesn't have to be lazy. I meant that if you wanted to you could give a previous god a reason, motivations, an explanation for how it works, etc, and have them behind it. In the end, without trying to be insulting, it all boils down to ROB.
I suppose. The term is just so synonymous with no-effort story openings, though.Doesn't have to be lazy. I meant that if you wanted to you could give a previous god a reason, motivations, an explanation for how it works, etc, and have them behind it. In the end, without trying to be insulting, it all boils down to ROB.
Yeah, there's that. A lot of terms, really ('crack' comes to mind for a start).I suppose. The term is just so synonymous with no-effort story openings, though.
Gods in Dominions are far from omnipotent. There is plenty of lore describing how the previous supreme god mentioned in the first story post took various precautions against potential threats. So, while he was powerful enough to decisively dominate the Dominions world, it seems that he was not so powerful that he could afford to completely disregard the threat posed by others.Considering that godhood is involved, it's just as valid to say the last god decided to throw stuff at Taylor and see what happened. Literal in-story ROB, in other words.
Actually no, a Pantokrator is literally omnipotent.Gods in Dominions are far from omnipotent. There is plenty of lore describing how the previous supreme god mentioned in the first story post took various precautions against potential threats. So, while he was powerful enough to decisively dominate the Dominions world, it seems that he was not so powerful that he could afford to completely disregard the threat posed by others.
There is lore that clearly implies that they aren't literally omnipotent. For example the lore for the Keeper of the Bridge pretender describes how the Pantokrator carefully guarded his citadel of power by only having it accessible by a single bridge and guarded by a keeper that never sleeps. Other examples include people managing to hide important things from him. Combined the many pieces of lore on the subject makes an interpretation of the Pantokrator as literally omnipotent not very viable.Actually no, a Pantokrator is literally omnipotent.
Nobody and nothing can oppose them at all until they choose to leave the world of their own free will.
That's the entire point of the Ascension War, the reason that all of the Pretender Gods want to become the next Pantokrator, or at least stop anyone else from becoming the next one.
Hence, Pretender God.Term "god" starts to be sooooooooooooooo overused if gods can be killed, world not made by them and are not that much better morally then random human... among other limitations of their power and knowledge.
I'm not sure. From what (admittedly little) I understand of the crossover, it seems to me like the Gods there are capital G gods, it just works a little differently: One of them has to be the last one standing for it to properly count, and they die (only) when they want to which starts the argument all over again, once they're the last god standing they've got power and knowledge over everything but until then there's multiple gods so each has their own slice of the pie (so to speak). Anyone can feel free to correct me on this, as I'm in no way an authority on the subject!Term "god" starts to be sooooooooooooooo overused if gods can be killed, world not made by them and are not that much better morally then random human... among other limitations of their power and knowledge.
Nah, that's what they are trying to become.I'm not sure. From what (admittedly little) I understand of the crossover, it seems to me like the Gods there are capital G gods
To be fair to Pretender Gods, they are insanely strong. The mere fact that a theoretically mortal Pretender can start potentially start with multiple magic paths above five already puts them above anyone that isn't Kurgi, the Slave to Unreason. Even then, a supposedly mortal mage Pretender can start with Astral 10 and more besides; meaning they have more magical power than a timeless immortal monstrosity responsible for some of the most powerful artefacts in the game and who makes it a habit to consume the minds of other powerful beings.Nah, that's what they are trying to become.
A "Pretender God" is "One who pretends at Godhood".