I would definitely be curious to see what happens with making a God child, and we could give it something useful while also making sure it isn't so strong that it is a problem. @Omegahugger I know you love monsters, I do too! But I think we should try having every type of kid rather than just going monsters. Now is the perfect time to give our husband a great manageable gift. If we give up the monster for a turn or two we can get a being that will help our people instead of eating them and get a jump on growing stronger to shore up our pantheon. I think we can do it with just the monster bring replaced, but the silvermen could be done as well/instead of that. It would give us enough sustenance to pick an additional trait for him and thus plug in humanity to lean it heavily towards faith. Please consider going along with this.
A shapeshifter baby that turns into a spear, obviously.21st year god child just doesn't ring out the same, even if I recognize that it might be a safer choice. Nonetheless I hope it goes through, because what is better, a baby with your beloved wife, or a spear?
A demispirit with him would be basically useless. It would be at least 15 turns before it turned around and became truly useful, and would probably be in his village so we wouldn't interact with him much. Meanwhile a god child can immediately start blessing people and help provide for our populace. It can also start gaining traits and growing strong and helpful. Having a mortal child as our first with our divine entity husband just seems like a copout. Go all in with Saiga or don't even bother.
We literally have a Faith Spirit on demand if we blow up Seski, so if that's what we want we can just go do that. There's a limit to how much Faith a population can provide, and by the same token a limit to how many Faith Spirits they can support, so it's not a decision to make just because. Especially since with Gaerig around Population could suddenly drop due to accidental moonlasers.
Seven and three, two very magically potent numbers multiplied together.21st year god child just doesn't ring out the same, even if I recognize that it might be a safer choice
It isn't divisible by 9 though.
We'll have to wait for turn 27 then!
Nine.
Correction, turn 9 was your first glut, the hilarious wild magic accident, and when you managed to blow up all of your shrines.Nine.
Nine is the number of the sea, nine portals, three ways to enter, one Goddess, power unknowable.
Eight is blasphemy! Heretic! Everything with the Sea Mother is related to Nine. Even retroactively!
Great and terrible is she! All shall love her and despair!
Well that's much better.
And faith spirit primarily centered around mischief that can't actually help out that much. Saying if we need a Faith spirit we can just wait for her to die some day in the future is extremely dumb. We have no idea when she will die and she won't rise up as something immediatell helpful on a large scale. A God would be more useful than some future spirit that will show up some day.
It's kinda cute how you thought I suggested waiting for Seski to die on her own.
I am just not comfortable cluttering up the Faith Base when there are no obvious expansion points, at least two rivalling pantheons nearby and three children closing in on an Ascension. Especially given that a non-insiginificant part of our playerbase want A&F, which will add Gaerig to that pile as well.
This is really tangential to the actual point, but Demispirits are Ur-spawn. Specifically, they're the old term for what is currently called Ur-Children.
