Hey
@Alectai, sorry if you already talked about it somewhere, but I was wondering.
These were with the Lesser Daemon Manifestation and I was wondering what they were.
Divine Blessings are our version of the Gifts of Chaos
Affinity is rebranded Chaos Corruption
You recall when VM was talking to Dana about how she and the other Chosen have "space" in their soul?
"I know the words, but I don't think about them any more than other people do. So someone just spits out some nonsense and I just get really confused, and since you're the only one I can question about it..." You wiggle a hand noncommittaly.
"On that note, why is that the case?" Dana asked after a moment. You clapped your hands together and smiled. "Oh! I could, but it'd be risky for them--normal people talking to gods doesn't usually go over well--you're pretty safe--you've got a good chunk of..."
You pause for a moment and dig deep for a word that would make sense in context.
"Space? I guess? Most people I'd say only have a 'Little' space in their soul, whatever their other abilities. It's enough that I can put a finger in" You lift your pinky and wiggle it around for emphasis as your Priestess stares at your explanation. "But if I were to start wiggling that finger around inside them--or goodness, actually try to put my whole hand in, the bits about their spirit that keep them together would rip, and then who knows what'd happen--probably nothing good."
What VM is refering to is the ability of a given individual to accept the Gifts of Chaos, their innate potential, if they don't have enough space and VM tries to "stick her hand in them" or give them Blessings she risks damaging their souls and even causing them to collapse into Chaos Spawn
The Old 4 didn't really care, so they threw their Gifts around willy nilly and giggled if the cultist couldn't handle it and devolved into gibbering monsters, us New Gods are more discerning since we actually care about the well being of our followers
Compatibility with our Blessings is determined by future potential, that is people who could be great but haven't met that potential yet
Dana for instance, if we hadn't interfered, was on the path to become a prominent Cardinal of the Eclesiarchy, we essentially took all the potential that could have gone into that path and repurposed it
It's not that she was "destined" to be great though, more that she had the potential to be great
Affinity, as rebranded Chaos Corruption, therefore denotes how close a follower is to our nature, the more Divine Blessings we bestow upon them the higher their Affinity
Once they hit 100% Affinity we can ascend them to Daemon Princedom, we won't be able to do that for a while still though
