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Respect Your Elders v2 - Galactic Boogaloo [Warhammer Lizardmen Quest]

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[X] Micqeuctli, the Buzzing Corpse

I can not lie, I love the idea of bee hive mummies.

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Didn't realize I could vote for multiple things, in that case:

[X] Nantli'atl, the White Crocodile, the Fog of Death and its Guardian
 
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Im voting for

Name: Ata'botl, (literal translation: the prophecy/sequence of permanence), the Rippling Womb, the Yet-Made, the Nothing Devourer, Watersnake, the One Who Stands Between,
Representation: rippling water, two separate stones surrounded by intersecting, concentric waves, a blank followed by a dot followed by a circle, a Water Moccasin, a Mauisaurus (it's long neck like a predatory snake emerging from the ocean)
Category: Creation
Variety: Craftslizardship, especially the birthing pools
Domain: the interface layer between Material and Warp, particularly as is used in geomantic process of designs that cause a sequence of changes to ripple back and forth between the two until they cause something to come into being,
Methods of Worship: making a new temple where previously there was nothing, sinuous shifting formation based line dances, percussive music, a recounting of the rippling chain of causation from the birth of a lizard folk to great events caused by that birth, a specific geomantic construction that sets the border of reality thrumming in time with the percussive music. Birthing Pools, a Slaan expounding on the prophecy of the Old Ones
Favored Foes: saboteurs, destroyers, and natural disasters. Those that would break what it has made.
Blessing Thematics: geomancy, enhanced construction quality or speed, enhanced craftslizardship, increased birth rates at the Birthing Pools, added features or phenotypes not in the original design. Bubbles of the twilight state of being halfway between Material and Warp, allowing safer venture deeper into the warp or somewhat limiting the capabilities of a manifest daemon.

It appeals to my love of infrastructure management and construction on an almost primal level
 
[X] Nantli'atl, the White Crocodile, the Fog of Death and its Guardian
[X] Pactli, the Fog Hunter
[X] Calquetzqui, the Great Architect, the Builder-in-Shadow
Name: Pactli (from the Nahuatl "Cipactli")
Symbols: Crocodile, Mist over Still Water
Category: Death
Variety: Rebirth/Resurrection
Domain: Fog
Methods of Worship: Sensory-Deprivation Meditation
Favored Foes: The Ruinous Powers/Nurgle
Blessing Thematics: Fog, Stealth/Ambush, Torpor

Incorporates the Seed of Fog
-Tied to Fog via Domain
-Tied to Slumber via ritual effects (see Numb) and description of afterlife ("place to rest and recuperate for a time")
-Tied to Numb via ritual effects (fog "to lull them into unnatural sleep or numb them with the chill of death until all that remains is to wait to die")

The Lizardmen's god of death was formed in the wake of their arrival on Mochantia - forged from the shattered husk of the Mind Fog that had so bedeviled the Communion for long millennia, to guard against the Ruinous Powers in turn. Pactli is a silent, patient hunter; hidden power lurking just beyond sight like the great river crocodiles of Lustria that she is made in the image of. Death is silence beyond the concept of sound, darkness beyond the touch of light, and as such she whispers to her priests as they sit in trance in spaces that mirror that void, speaking in the space between heartbeats.

Lizardmen are the scions of the Old Ones, crafted to be their great instruments upon Mallus and to be beyond the frailties of age and degeneration. There is no afterlife for them as the younger races would understand it; a soul left to languish beyond the veil in perpetuity is a waste when its experience could still be retrieved and returned to serving the Great Plan. Pactli instead guards a liminal space, a fog-shrouded realm where the souls of the Lizardmen can rest and recuperate for a time before they might rise once more - reborn from the spawning pools, just as fog condenses back into water. And for any who would be so foolish as to attempt to breach that realm, there is no sure path but the one Pactli leads; invaders might wander for an eternity, adrift in the fog... easy prey for the god of death, and for the dead themselves.

In the mortal realm, Pactli's blessings allow the faithful to stalk their foes with unnatural stealth, to wait in utter silence and stillness for the perfect moment to strike. Her fog can be called forth to swamp a battlefield - to confuse the enemy and make them see enemies where allies stand, to lull them into unnatural sleep or numb them with the chill of death until all that remains is to wait to die, or even just to provide a shroud under which the Lizardmen can hunt with impunity. Finally, for a short time, Pactli's fog can be called upon to invoke even the dead who are yet to rise again to terrify the enemy and drag them across the veil to the crocodile's waiting jaws.
 
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[x] Ayotzl, the Mist Swimmer

Calquetzqui feels more useful. Ayotzl feels more humane, however.

I feel like first god is... a quintessential 40k kind of god, what with Eldar and Imperium using their near-dead as just another source of troops (also Imperium really loving their skull aesthetics).
Second one, however? An actually pleasant afterlife?! That's something of a... not even rarity, as Warp makes a peaceful post-death slumber near-impossible.

I want to face the Imperium of Man with a real alternative to what the Emperor has to offer. A pleasant afterlife is a pretty good appetizer, I think... or rather, a sweet dessert.

Oh, and also the solution to Chaos Warp (with a healthy dose of dramatic irony), letting Lizardmen have fun, and using Fog seed to it's fullest.
 
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[x] Ayotzl, the Mist Swimmer

[X] Tlanalotl the Dawn Butterfly

[X] Micqeuctli, the Buzzing Corpse

[X] Nantli'atl, the White Crocodile, the Fog of Death and its Guardian

I like how this plan uses all the god seed, it makes me feel like we are really insulting chaos. The feel is pretty good too. (Ayotzl)
Edit: Added three others for approval voting.
 
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[x] Ayotzl, the Mist Swimmer
[X] Nantli'atl, the White Crocodile, the Fog of Death and its Guardian
[X] Micqeuctli, the Buzzing Corpse
[X] Pactli, the Fog Hunter
 
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