- Location
- California
Definitely agreed with this. Psychopomps are the best death gods.
The Amber Age: Pantheon Edition (Collaborative)
- Thread starter Powerofmind
- Start date
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King Tharassian
Governor-Militant
- Location
- Victory Bay, Kronus
I do wonder if anyone has even heard of the game that goddess is from anymore, though...
- Location
- The Great Beyond
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
People are generally not swayed by angry ranting about how much some dude hates the thing they are voting for. You want to convince people the other thing is cooler, not that they have failed morally for not sharing your values of hatred.
That just tends to make people think you are an ass.
Pandemonious Ivy
Panties, Revolution. Big Drawers. Parachute.
Fair enough. That wasn't really noticeable from your approach, but that being said, unless it's just an aspect of death you dislike (because there's a variety of approaches to death we can take), then we never had a hope of convincing you.
Here's hoping you still stick around though
- Location
- Earth
Psychopomp seems the better choice, I agree. At least it's arguably helping people (is the default fate if you don't worship a god oblivion?). Alternatively, we could lean into the evilness of being a death god and condemn our enemies to true oblivion, but I'm not sure I want to do that.
Okay; that makes sense. It wasn't mentioned in the description, which is why I was confused.
So right now, we have the following for Fear/Awe/Faith:
Legend Spending
Fast random-trait gain via great action
Slow directed? trait gain/discounting for free
Fast trait-of-choice gain via sleep
Legend / DE Gain
Base / Accelerated
Accelerated / Base
Base / Accelerated
Is this correct, or I am still missing part of the picture?
- Location
- Earth
You COULD say it's just an aspect of death I dislike, but it's complicated. Basically, even though I know that in many fictional worlds (including, presumably, this one) afterlives are real, in the REAL world they aren't, and there are plenty of people who take how precious life is for granted. Plenty of people who even think death is a GOOD thing. I guess you could say I'm just bitter due to the prevalence of idiotic opinions about death in real life, but there's also the fact that fiction is both a reflection of our real values and also shapes them.
King Tharassian
Governor-Militant
- Location
- Victory Bay, Kronus
Not to be difficult, but we can't really know whether or not there is an afterlife. Arguably i feel like there isn't sometimes, but we can't know until we're... y'know... dead?
- Location
- Earth
To avoid starting a thread consuming debate, I'm not going to engage with this other than to say that in absence of evidence for an afterlife, it doesn't make sense to believe in one any more than it makes sense to believe in a teapot floating in space. Sure, you can't prove it doesn't exist any more than you can prove that it does, but that doesn't mean they're both equally likely.
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- Location
- California
How about we don't do this.
Pandemonious Ivy
Panties, Revolution. Big Drawers. Parachute.
"I dislike the concept of an afterlife" is a lot less likely to slide into an unnecessary religious debate while still being an on topic response.
- Location
- Earth
I DID say I wanted to avoid starting a thread consuming debate, and thus that I wasn't going to engage any further.
Pandemonious Ivy
Panties, Revolution. Big Drawers. Parachute.
I ship it.
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Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
- Location
- United States
You. Are.
Immemorial time. Immemorial existence. Yours is the grave of a hundred hundred that came before. Victims of time, victims of folly, victims of circumstance... Victims of Eleie'Ko. A presence such as yours need only linger for a moment to feel the wonders of a life long lived, a childhood tragically shortened. You are the Buried Place. The cracked black earth, the ashen tombs, the cold floes of stone. You are a place of sorrow.
The Men, the Women. They come to you, they know what you represent. Death. Oblivion. Blackness. They come to scoop up the ashes, to paint their faces and perform their funerary rites. When they are done, they give you new ash, rich with bone.
+1 DE
[] Reach Out (1 DE)
[] Snuff Out (1 DE)
HOLD FOR INFO POSTS
Immemorial time. Immemorial existence. Yours is the grave of a hundred hundred that came before. Victims of time, victims of folly, victims of circumstance... Victims of Eleie'Ko. A presence such as yours need only linger for a moment to feel the wonders of a life long lived, a childhood tragically shortened. You are the Buried Place. The cracked black earth, the ashen tombs, the cold floes of stone. You are a place of sorrow.
The Men, the Women. They come to you, they know what you represent. Death. Oblivion. Blackness. They come to scoop up the ashes, to paint their faces and perform their funerary rites. When they are done, they give you new ash, rich with bone.
+1 DE
[] Reach Out (1 DE)
[] Snuff Out (1 DE)
HOLD FOR INFO POSTS
Character Statistics
Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
- Location
- United States
Siah'Ah Ikki, Village of Ash
ATTRIBUTES
Avatar 2, Shrine 6, Influence 7, Faith 3
SPHERES
Destruction: Warrior 1
Peerage: Majesty 1
Dominion: General 1
Creation: Toiler (Medicine) 1, Loremaker 2
Secrets: Ritualist 1, Mystic 1, Magi 1 (1 unspent)
TRAITS
Forms: Ashform (+10% chance to negate all damage in a failed Destruction contest)
Spirits: Spirit of Death (Gain action: Slay, +5% chance of success in all Destruction contests)
Elements: Element of Fire (Enables Fire-based Divine Magic)
Enhancements: Inspire (Gain action: Inspire)
OWNED SHRINE BONUSES:
Kut Shrine: +1 Unique Luxury Dye resource/turn
KNOWN RITUALS:
Ritual of Diminishing (Degrades and ruins mineral materials and crafts one step): Components - Glass Color Array, 3 Sustenance, 2 uncontested rounds
Turn by Turn Current:
6 Sustenance per turn for actions
18 Stored DE
0/3 Ambrosia
10 unspent legend
10 Stored Unique Dye
+1 Unique Dye stored per turn
1 Green Silken Robe (+5% success chance as Majesty, +5% success chance when contesting Earth manipulation)
Legend: It's a map and there's a lot of shit on it. Green is Ari'See's shrines. Black are yours. Orange is THE SHRINE OF THE ENEMY!
ATTRIBUTES
Avatar 2, Shrine 6, Influence 7, Faith 3
SPHERES
Destruction: Warrior 1
Peerage: Majesty 1
Dominion: General 1
Creation: Toiler (Medicine) 1, Loremaker 2
Secrets: Ritualist 1, Mystic 1, Magi 1 (1 unspent)
TRAITS
Forms: Ashform (+10% chance to negate all damage in a failed Destruction contest)
Spirits: Spirit of Death (Gain action: Slay, +5% chance of success in all Destruction contests)
Elements: Element of Fire (Enables Fire-based Divine Magic)
Enhancements: Inspire (Gain action: Inspire)
OWNED SHRINE BONUSES:
Kut Shrine: +1 Unique Luxury Dye resource/turn
KNOWN RITUALS:
Ritual of Diminishing (Degrades and ruins mineral materials and crafts one step): Components - Glass Color Array, 3 Sustenance, 2 uncontested rounds
Turn by Turn Current:
6 Sustenance per turn for actions
18 Stored DE
0/3 Ambrosia
10 unspent legend
10 Stored Unique Dye
+1 Unique Dye stored per turn
1 Green Silken Robe (+5% success chance as Majesty, +5% success chance when contesting Earth manipulation)
Legend: It's a map and there's a lot of shit on it. Green is Ari'See's shrines. Black are yours. Orange is THE SHRINE OF THE ENEMY!
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Infodump Land (Compiled by my helpful advisor Abby)
Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
- Location
- United States
Filling...
Well I suppose you can post now.
Well I suppose you can post now.
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King Tharassian
Governor-Militant
- Location
- Victory Bay, Kronus
Guys, he said to hold for info posts. Maybe they're relevant.
Or maybe I'm just paranoid. That's a possibility.
Or maybe I'm just paranoid. That's a possibility.
- Location
- Earth
I wasn't quite sure what he meant by that. I thought he meant he was holding the space in his initial post for info posts. In hindsight that doesn't make much sense, but it's too late now.
- Location
- Hell
[X] Snuff Out (1 DE)
Fear Spirit hear we come!
Gaerig, a toast to thee~!
As I have done.
Fear Spirit hear we come!
Gaerig, a toast to thee~!
...but I did try to have a volcano spirit ._.
Not necessarily, we can all delete our posts between his.
As I have done.
- Location
- Earth
[X] Reach Out (1 DE)
That wouldn't exactly encapsulate my actual opinion on the subject, though. I DON'T dislike the concept of an afterlife; I wish one existed. But it's my opinion that they don't, and that blindly hoping that one does is dangerous and causes us to not only take life for granted, but stalls progress on efforts against death. That said, we're entering very dangerous territory, and I think it might be best if nobody says much further on the topic (including about the possibility of starting a huge debate itself, as that discussion seems to be feeding the fire) except as it relates to the quest.
That wouldn't exactly encapsulate my actual opinion on the subject, though. I DON'T dislike the concept of an afterlife; I wish one existed. But it's my opinion that they don't, and that blindly hoping that one does is dangerous and causes us to not only take life for granted, but stalls progress on efforts against death. That said, we're entering very dangerous territory, and I think it might be best if nobody says much further on the topic (including about the possibility of starting a huge debate itself, as that discussion seems to be feeding the fire) except as it relates to the quest.
King Tharassian
Governor-Militant
- Location
- Victory Bay, Kronus
[X] Reach Out (1 DE)
Don't fear the reaper children, for he comes to grant you sleep....
Hm... Maybe I'll do a "give us eyes" parody later for the hell of it.
Don't fear the reaper children, for he comes to grant you sleep....
Hm... Maybe I'll do a "give us eyes" parody later for the hell of it.
