If we get high enough in earth, we can do some really strong bullshit, like turning a disc under a whole city and thus having it buried in seconds, or throw literal mountains at people.

You're looking too much at the high end there stuff like that is only possible with a maxed out Aspect of Earth.
 
So, something I just noticed that might cause trouble in the future is Evantine getting along with our daughters.

I'm going to assume that mortals with an Aspect/Spirit level ability will be able to ascend, and thus our remaining mortal daughters will do so. This might start to grate on Evantine as he progresses with his Civilization Aspect that makes him disdain the Wild and the Inhuman.

Maybe we should begin work on domesticating Wildcats, or at least making them more well liked by our worshipers?
 
They're probably pretty well liked as it is with so much hot kitty.

Leadership probably synergizes with Earth based Wealth aspects personally.
 
They're probably pretty well liked as it is with so much hot kitty.

Leadership probably synergizes with Earth based Wealth aspects personally.
What do you mean by Earth-based wealth aspects? Gemstones? Food? Or do you mean more broadly the widespread "wealth of the earth" mythology? IMO our earth aspect is going to be bent more toward construction and food until we've reached a safe point to begin metal and gem crafting.

I agree that they synergize in the sense of mutual exploitation -e.g. leadership enables exploitation of opportunities opened by earth, earth funds leadership through opportunities and growth, earth fostered by labor dedicated to well-being. I don't know that they would synergize in the sense of open up interrelated aspects, however.
 
What do you mean by Earth-based wealth aspects? Gemstones? Food? Or do you mean more broadly the widespread "wealth of the earth" mythology? IMO our earth aspect is going to be bent more toward construction and food until we've reached a safe point to begin metal and gem crafting.

I agree that they synergize in the sense of mutual exploitation -e.g. leadership enables exploitation of opportunities opened by earth, earth funds leadership through opportunities and growth, earth fostered by labor dedicated to well-being. I don't know that they would synergize in the sense of open up interrelated aspects, however.
The broader one.
The thing with Earth based wealth is that it is most strongly dependent upon leadership to excel. The crops need organization to harvest and feed the people. Metals require a great level of coordination to produce the skills to smelt and forge them into tools, then the further people to use the tools.

So basically we get Earth and Leadership, work it into Agriculture, then mining, before at a later consolidation fusing it into Wealth(an advanced concept!) and Leadership.
Not sure how it works here though, but the impression I got was that spirit traits are a lot more mutable than Amber Age's trait stockpiling.
 
Not sure how it works here though, but the impression I got was that spirit traits are a lot more mutable than Amber Age's trait stockpiling.

More mutable. Skills and Traits are less fixed definitions and more of a bookmark that a character can do this and has this.
 
More mutable. Skills and Traits are less fixed definitions and more of a bookmark that a character can do this and has this.
Excellent, deities traits merging and mutating have always been an interesting element of religious evolution, and it helps evade the packrat or completionist approaches of trying to get everything, because they'd slide into each other over time or just straight out splinter off into a new spirit
 
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[X][Spirit] Focus on Blessing Followers
-[X] Avawyr
[X][Spirit] Focus on Bolstering the Harvest
-[X] Avawyr
[X][Avatar] Construction
-[X] The Ava Cove Passage: 4/11 Progress x3
[X] Experiment
-[X] Better ways to move stones and other heavy things.
[X][Leadership] Ava Cove Passage x2
[X][Leadership] Focus on Blessing Followers
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The broader one.
The thing with Earth based wealth is that it is most strongly dependent upon leadership to excel. The crops need organization to harvest and feed the people. Metals require a great level of coordination to produce the skills to smelt and forge them into tools, then the further people to use the tools.

So basically we get Earth and Leadership, work it into Agriculture, then mining, before at a later consolidation fusing it into Wealth(an advanced concept!) and Leadership.
Not sure how it works here though, but the impression I got was that spirit traits are a lot more mutable than Amber Age's trait stockpiling.
I don't know that I would want to work (Earth? Both?) into an agriculture/mining/wealth aspect. I feel that Earth, at least, provides benefits that none of these except perhaps Wealth can match. And even then, Wealth - while it can probably create fertility in soil and livestock, further the extraction of gemstones, the production of art, etc. - is unlikely to be able to (deifically) move mountains and raise walls of warded stone. So it will depend on whether or not we have people or personal aspects that can serve that roll.
 
Cycle 7 - Northern Exploration
[X][Spirit] Focus on Blessing Followers
-[X] Avawyr
[X][Spirit] Focus on Bolstering the Harvest
-[X] Avawyr
[X][Avatar] Construction
-[X] The Ava Cove Passage: 4/11 Progress x3
[X] Experiment
-[X] Better ways to move stones and other heavy things.
[X][Leadership] Ava Cove Passage x2
[X][Leadership] Focus on Blessing Followers

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The cycle starts off well enough. Your healing and blessing proves decent enough, aiding the mortal villagers of Avawyr even if it is not great as they could be while you also bolster the crops planted for this cycle's harvest.

Meanwhile Bronwyn focuses on blessing your non-spirit daughters like Seryn did with Aeryn. You offer to try the same, but your daughters turn you down as they are not particularly interested in your spiritual aspects while their mother's Aspect of Beauty is very appealing to all of your daughters.

It goes incredible well as between Bronwyn's extremely focus on the matter and her existing connection to them, the attempt is pulled off without a hitch.

The rest of the year goes well for Avawyr and the other villages that your family commands. You devote most of your energies to continuing construction on the mountain passage to Ava Cove, including experimenting on how to more easily move the heavy rocks that are needed to be move about as part of the construction.

In the end, you figure out how to reshape the rocks and stone of the Ava Mountains. It is not an Aspect, but a lesser spirit ability like healing or ridding mortal fatigue. As of such, this new ability lacks power and you are limited in how much rock and stone you can shape at once.

Nonetheless, your new ability proves useful in your work and you are able to make significant progress on the passage. In fact, you are pretty certain that in this cycle, you have been able to double the previous progress made.

Meanwhile, things are interesting in Avawyr. Rather than leading Avawyr as usual, Bronwyn instead focuses on more artistically inclined pursuits. She and Gwyn have been spending much of their time carving, drawing a good number of mortal followers into it.

Primarily using soil-rock commonly called clay, Bronwyn, Gwyn and the other Avawyrish villagers shape and cook the clay and whatever else they use to create objects. Some are purely decorative and lack practical use while others soon prove useful as containers for items, food and water.

There are some limited attempts to create weaponry from the fire-forged clay, but all of it proves useless as the spears and arrowheads break too easily. Instead, your warriors and hunters will continue to use stone.

Crafting is not all that Bronwyn does as your wife also encourages trading and exchanges of goods with Evalon. It is not an uncommon sight to see an Evalonish in the village throughout the cycle.

And while Bronwyn does slack off when it comes to leading the village, Eulyn and Terwyn step to the task. Some villagers expressed discontent that having two girls who are less than a great cycle old and others have developed a general disliked of being commanded by the women in your family when you are the chief.

But you and your family are greatly respected by most so minor grumblings are all that occur and things do not worsen beyond that.

Over the cycle, you get news trickling in as Evalonish arrive and Avawyrish with news alongside their goods.

Seryn and her villages of Bedywn and Bedynn are quiet as little happens while Seryn focuses on finishing the repairs to her two villages. And whilst the material damage is mostly done, it will still take time for their populations to build back up, especially with Bedwyn which lost close to half of its population one way or another over the last few cycles.

Still quiet news is good news as it means nothing bad has happened.

Evalon has had exciting news to bring by the end of the cycle. This cycle has been an especially good one for the Evalonish. Evatine has spent the year working on metal equipment, forged them with the metal he calls Iron with his Aspect of Metal. Unlike last year, these are not spears or any other type of weapon, but tools used for everyday life in activities such as farming or woodcutting.

Beyond his forging of iron tools, Evatine had a particularly potent cycle of blessing and inspiring this year. Under his guidance, his followers explored the north as while Bedynn is to the north-west, Bedywn in the south-west and Avawyr in the south-east, the north and north-east remains unknown to any of the people or spirits in your four villages.

Open fields exist along the coastline in the north-east before turning into hills as you go further in-hill, but those hills remain unexplored at the moment.

When exploring the north, the Evalonish followed up the northern river. While it continued to forested on the western side, they swiftly came to a split into a river where it either continued north or went west. Northward, it was mostly hills, but slightly beyond the western turn, there is a large patch of flat, grassland.

And it is there that the Evalonish explorers discovered the village of Bedygan. Two sister spirits rule the villagers of Bedygan and the two of them are opposites.

Where Lynellt is light and bright, the Elairamur is darkness and shadows. While Lynellt is orderly, Elairamur is carefree and disorganised. Despite their differences or perhaps because of them, the two spirit sisters of Bedygan get along quite well.

The initial contact with Bedygan has gone well. While wary as the Evalonish are the first outsiders that the Bedyganish have encountered, your brother's followers have left a good impression on them.

Halfway up the northern river, it splits again as part of the river splits off to the south-east into the unexplored hills north-east of Lake Eva.

At the end of the northern river is a massive lake, easily twice the size of Lake Eva. The western and eastern sides of the North Lake are open grasslands while the lake is backed up against mountains in the north.

It is in the North Lake the Evalonish explorers encounter the fishing boats of the Prylake villagers. Located on the eastern coast of the North Lake, the Prylakish rely upon the lake and not the earth to provide for them.

Their spirit embodies this as Isorine is a water spirit and is specifically linked to the North Lake in her Aspects.

Despite having recently fallen upon hard times in this cycle and the last, the Prylakish welcome the Evalonish expedition with open arms. The faraway people offer friendship and kindness to your brother's followers.

And in return, the Evalonish share their supplies with the Prylakish. While this leaves the explorers with no time to do anything, but return home lest their run out of their tightly-stretched supplies, the Prylakish are very grateful for this act of kindness.

All in all, a pretty good cycle by your standards. Nothing major is going wrong at home and the north has been explored, discovering two new villages and three spirits.

***​

Basic Spirit Actions: 2 Actions available
[] [Spirit] Focus on Blessing Followers
-[] Avawyr
[] [Spirit] Focus on Inspiring Followers
-[] Avawyr
[] [Spirit] Focus on Healing Followers
-[] Avawyr
[Spirit] Focus on Bolstering the Harvest
-[] Avawyr

Avatar Actions: 4 Actions available
[] [Avatar] Explore
-[] The Mountains to the South-West
-[] The Mountains to the East
-[] Lake Eva Western Coastline
-[] Lake Eva Northern Coastline
-[] The North Lake
[] [Avatar] Construction
-[] The Ava Cove Passage: 8/11 Progress
-[] Boat Pens at Ava Cove: 0/??? Progress
-[] Stone Wall around Avawyr: 0/??? Progress
[] [Avatar] Hunt
[] [Avatar] Visit
-[] Evatine at Evalon
-[] Seryn at Bedywn
-[] Seryn at Bedynn
-[] Lynellt & Elairamur at Bedygan
-[] Isorine at Prylake (Costs 2 Actions)
[] [Avatar] Experiment
-[] Write-in.

Leadership Actions: 3 Actions available
Leadership Actions are used to improve other Actions such as Avatar or Spirit.
 
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[X] Plan Finish the Road
[X] [Spirit] Focus on Blessing Followers
-[X] Avawyr
[X] [Spirit] Focus on Bolstering the Harvest
-[X] Avawyr
[X] [Avatar] Construction
-[X] The Ava Cove Passage: 8/11 Progress x2
[X] [Avatar] Visit
-[X] Lynellt & Elairamur at Bedygan
[X] Experiment
-[X] Practice shaping stone by creating a statue of beloved Bronwyn out of stones of interesting and accurate color.
[X] [Leadership] Focus on Construction x2
[X] [Leadership] Focus on Visit to Bedygan

Idk, something like this.
I want to strengthen our stone-shaping skill because that's useful, but it's better to retain finer focus rather than just suddenly expand it, imo. Also, I don't want our character to be completely kept out of the beautiful-things world by our wife's Beauty aspect.
Alternately, though, we could always try to transmute rocks into other rocks??

Otherwise, finish construction; bless followers & crops; introduce ourself to the closer of the newbies.
 
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[X] [Spirit] Focus on Blessing Followers
-[X] Avawyr
[X] [Spirit] Focus on Bolstering the Harvest
-[X] Avawyr
[X] [Avatar] Construction
-[X] The Ava Cove Passage: 8/11 Progress x2
[X] [Avatar] Visit
-[X] Lynellt & Elairamur at Bedygan
[X] Experiment
-[X] Practice shaping stone by creating a statue of beloved Bronwyn out of stones of interesting and accurate color.

You forgot Leadership.
Leadership Actions: 3 Actions available
Leadership Actions are used to improve other Actions such as Avatar or Spirit.
 
You forgot Leadership.
I edited it in together w/ a explanation <3

Can we transmute rocks to other rocks using stone-shaping?
Will expanding the range in which we control things decrease our finesse?
Does Bronwyn get a bonus to crafting & etc. from her Beauty aspect? Why is she so interested in crafting things?
Is it worth doing a write-in to try to invent gutters and other things that will help our path endure or can we assume that it's already being built in a sensible way?
 
Can we transmute rocks to other rocks using stone-shaping?

Will expanding the range in which we control things decrease our finesse?

Does Bronwyn get a bonus to crafting & etc. from her Beauty aspect? Why is she so interested in crafting things?

Is it worth doing a write-in to try to invent gutters and other things that will help our path endure or can we assume that it's already being built in a sensible way?

Not yet.

Case by case basis.

Not at the moment. Potentially in future version of that Aspect, but the moment, Bronwyn's Aspect of Beauty is limited to her personally. Now Seryn's Greater Spirit of Beauty on the other hand...

Not worth while at the moment. The road already has paths for rainwater to go down the cliff side along with a slight barrier on the non-mountain side of the path to avoid falls and you won't be getting much more than that at this point.
 
[X] Plan Finish the Road
[X] [Spirit] Focus on Blessing Followers
-[X] Avawyr
[X] [Spirit] Focus on Bolstering the Harvest
-[X] Avawyr
[X] [Avatar] Construction
-[X] The Ava Cove Passage: 8/11 Progress x2
[X] [Avatar] Visit
-[X] Lynellt & Elairamur at Bedygan
[X] Experiment
-[X] Practice shaping stone by creating a statue of beloved Bronwyn out of stones of interesting and accurate color.
[X] [Leadership] Focus on Construction
[X] [Leadership] Focus on Blessing Followers
[X] [Leadership] Focus on Visit to Bedygan
 
How gosh darn rich is she mfw

Actually the poorer than you and Evalon as she has only just finished rebuilding the war damage to her two villages and is still lacking significant amounts of the original population. Furthermore, her ability just makes things look better. It doesn't actually make them better so it is limited in that regard. Also, Seryn is still getting a handle on her spirit abilities so like Bronwyn, she is currently sticking to the basic stuff.
 
Actually the poorer than you and Evalon as she has only just finished rebuilding the war damage to her two villages and is still lacking significant amounts of the original population. Furthermore, her ability just makes things look better. It doesn't actually make them better so it is limited in that regard. Also, Seryn is still getting a handle on her spirit abilities so like Bronwyn, she is currently sticking to the basic stuff.
Can we export people to her? Also, can we build a road to her?
 
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[X] Plan Experimental Crafting
[X] [Spirit] Focus on Blessing Followers
-[X] Avawyr
[X] [Spirit] Focus on Bolstering the Harvest
-[X] Avawyr
[X] [Avatar] Construction
-[X] The Ava Cove Passage: 8/11 Progress x2
[X] [Avatar] Visit
-[X] Seryn at Bedywn
[X] Experiment
-[X] Practice shaping stone by creating a statue of beloved Bronwyn out of stones of interesting and accurate color.
--[X] Work with Seryn to see if she can infuse her power of Beauty in your work and vice versa
[X] [Leadership] Focus on Construction
[X] [Leadership] Focus on Blessing Followers
[X] [Leadership] Focus on Visit to Bedygan


Something with our Leadership ability I want to try in an Experiment action. Combine the efforts of us and our follower spirits.
 
[X] Plan Finish the Road
[X] [Spirit] Focus on Blessing Followers
-[X] Avawyr
[X] [Spirit] Focus on Bolstering the Harvest
-[X] Avawyr
[X] [Avatar] Construction
-[X] The Ava Cove Passage: 8/11 Progress x2
[X] [Avatar] Visit
-[X] Lynellt & Elairamur at Bedygan
[X] Experiment
-[X] Practice shaping stone by creating a statue of beloved Bronwyn out of stones of interesting and accurate color.
[X] [Leadership] Focus on Construction
[X] [Leadership] Focus on Blessing Followers
[X] [Leadership] Focus on Visit to Bedygan

I like this plan, although I would change the focus on blessing to the experiment, I don't want to split the votes. And while trying to infuse her aspect into our creation is a good thing to try, this is our work to our wife, it doesn't feel right to have anyone else's hands on this, especially since this is our first work of art.
 
Something with our Leadership ability I want to try in an Experiment action. Combine the efforts of us and our follower spirits.
Also, Seryn is still getting a handle on her spirit abilities so like Bronwyn, she is currently sticking to the basic stuff.
a) Idk if she can? b) @Oshha If we voted to include her would we be able to communicate w/ her in time if we aren't visiting her?

Also, did you mean to apply one of our Leadership bonii to the experimental action?
 
especially since this is our first work of art.
Depending on if you judge the jewelry that ascended her to be art, no. But it is definitely our first attempt at pictorial representation.

If she decided to come to you, then yes, but there is no guarantee that she would do that. If she didn't, you wouldn't be able to.
Are we ever going to be able to send messages through vibing the aether?
 
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