Settling the Tiber would be... interesting. Building our core territories northwards towards the resource rich Alps would be a good strategy, keeping us even further away from the more capricious Greek Gods so we can mine all that silver for the Colossi... Northern Italy, provided we develop it with good infrastructure (our civ focus, incidentally) will provide more than enough stopping power to build a powerful Bronze Age civ. We can settle Venice to trade with the rest of the Mediterranean, powered by a Florence-Milan-Genoa-Verona axis (or retarded rectangle, ehh whatever you want to call it) to keep the wealth and resources going. We can leave southern Italy to be colonized by other Greek city states, and in a few centuries time they'll be ripe for conquest when we come barreling south. With the whole of Italia under our control we'd be a force to be reckoned with, and perhaps could even pull a Rome and reskin/palette swap our Pantheon into beings more to our liking. Ares -> Mars, Zeus -> Jupiter, that sort of stuff but a bit more drastic.
Could be an alternative to the God Problem. Assuming we have enough pop and great works we could perhaps try to divest Hephaestus from the Greek Pantheon entirely. Turn pseudo-monotheistic with him as the all-father of a new age of men and machines.
Vulcan, God of Human Industry and Progress...
Of course, this all hinges on the view that humans and gods influence each other in a circle, and that one defines the other. I don't think it likely, but If the Gods were indeed all actually here before mankind and cosmology is fixed and not a I-Believe-Therefore-I-Am system then we're screwed. Until that's a confirmed fact though I'll keep posting theories and potential long term plans.
We'll see how High-Fantasy or High-Tech we get.
Both our QMs and Goldfish come here from a quest where killing gods is definitly possible, so you shouldn't rule it out.
Indeed.
@DragonParadox has a very open and refreshing approach to Questing. If we put in the effort, forethought, sweat, and tears, there's little that's literally impossible to achieve. Tough as Hell? Sure. But not impossible. I'm not positive on Azel because I've not played under him a lot (with him yes, but few times as my QM), but he's at least sympathetic to the cause, so there's that.
