NationStates

IC Thread
Chapter 1

Before the awakening , there was nothing. No light, No space, No time, and No form. Immense spiritual beings, The Gods, slumbered in the nothing. In that timeless state they remained for an eternity and and only an instant all at once. What woke The Gods is unknown to any among their own ranks.
Heralded by the birth of the first star, The Gods would soon meet to discuss the fate of this world.

Chapter 2
Following the first events of the dawn, reality is becoming more fixed and solidified. Mortals begin to proliferate from their earlier stock, and gods that know not of the world before creation, secundus , appear slowly.

Unique mechanics: In this era it costs significantly more to create anything from scratch, the general shape of the world may shift a bit but it's becoming more or less set. The mortals show the strange ability to extend the range of a God's power through extensive and sustained worship ( long periods of time and large numbers of participants), furthermore mortals seem to have some innate resistance to direct control by a God, while they can be influenced and extorted, they do seem to posses a free will. And, as the mortals begin to perish a strange new plain that abides very different rules than the material or untime planes begins to take shape.

-Creation of New things costs 4x more
-Use mortal worship to extend the range of your abilities
- the mysterious spirit plane begins to form, you will have to explore it to discover more.

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Welcome! This is a brand new Deity based RP as I am sure you’ve gathered from the name of this thread. But what exactly does a Deity RP entail? And how will this one be similar or different from those that preceded it? As a God, you will have immense power which can be used to create, destroy, and influence the world. You are also immortal and invincible, while you cannot truly die, you could be rendered into a near catatonic state in severe circumstances. So let’s get a couple base rules out of the way while we are here.
Basic RP Rules:
-Be respectful of your fellow RPers
- try not to hold grudges in real life for in character actions
- no meta gaming ( cheating, or using info you shouldn’t know to act)
- try to keep OOC and IC separated so we don’t have massive ooc discussions clogging the IC thread
- As a summary, just be courteous of your fellow RPers and focus on making a fun. And engaging story rather than mucking it up for everyone else.

Game Rules
Now this is what’s very very important to grasp, as it’s what sets us apart from previous Deity RPs and is essential to participating in this.

All Players have a large, but set amount of power. This power is a little bit up to interpretation but essentially the ‘cost’ of creating something with your power is in proportion to how complex the thing is, how big it is, and how fast you are trying to do it. So for example creating life and creating something very large would be similar in cost.
For ease of use all players start with 100% power, which can be split however you’d like. A series of less powerful Gods , or even a choir of angelic beings is well within possibility. Just don’t exceed your allotted power amount.

Another mechanic I will use in this game is competitive creation. You have a domain because you place parts of your power mantle into it’s existence, which allows for multiple players to have partial control over a specific thing, should they want to.
The more of your power that is placed in creation, the less physical form you have. A player who used 100% of their power will be in said nearly catatonic state, with very wide influence (able to call powerful storms from afar, but unable to create a simple protection on it’s temple.) think of it like a sliding scale between very concentrated and very wide power.

No God works alone, the power you have is not enough to create everything, you’ll need to cooperate and make decisions about what in your domain is most important to you.

If three quarters of the active gods agree on it, The can preform a Null. A Null removes something from creation over a period of time and returns it to divine power and space dust.

We will maintain a map, to be placed here when applicable. If you have specific designs and ideas, send them in image form to be incorporated.

These rules are up to be changed, and each chapter will have a unique take on how they are used.

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Applications
These applications don’t just serve as an entry, think of them a bit like a character sheet, they can adapt and change as the game goes on. For example, the domain section should begin at 100% divine power as nothing has been created by you yet(it seems people have not been understanding this part. If you do please write the number thirteen in numerical form at the bottom of your app), but as the game goes on that will be changed.
If you have multiple characters, say how much of your divine power is vested in each.

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[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Domain:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b](The more detailed is better)
[b]Appearances: [/b](an image or description of the most commonly used forms, or if You are using an angelic race, a general description is fine)
[b]other/updates:[/b](any major events in the game that shift your character enough to be mentioned can be put her when applicable)


PRIMUS

Sample APP/ Xyhistus
Ashora
Nagy Farkas
Oher
Kona
The Dark Cloud
Zracon
Adea
The Eternal Ice
Umbra
Chubnik
Maerion
Her
Caverasine
Elendelle Githronel
Anamara
The Exalted Serpents: Maligant, Attaval, and Ossedax
Lethargo
Ah Eh Ioh Uh

SECUNDUS

Kaos
Yaldaboah
Aecus
Validus the Conqueror

MORTIS

Elves
Humies
-Archivists
Ikotu

Maps will go here.
I will be posting a sample application and more info as the day goes on, as well as editing and proofing this section.

Reserve weather please

Name: Ashora

Domain:

• Stars - 75%
• Weaving and Textiles - 3%
• Song and Music - 5%
• Ceramics and Pottery - 3%
• Dogs - 1%
• Divine Power - 13%

Personality: Ashora is a quiet, plaintive goddess well-respected for her compassion and cleverness. Nonetheless, she has a volatile side when provoked either by personal slights or blatant injustice. She rejoices in beauty and kindness, loving the race of men even above all else in creation. In her pity at the suffering of mortals, she gave them the stars, music, and crafts, and soon set about trying to moderate the more impulsive behaviors of her siblings.

Appearances: Ashora is most often depicted as a lovely maiden with a noble aspect and a tumble of chestnut curls. She is wrapped in a silvery gown of starlight and is seldom seen without her divine loom of many colored silk. Her eyes are a deep, emerald green. Nonetheless, she can also take the form of a lunar moth or a playful black dog.

Other/Updates:

• Ashora created the stars after being charmed by the beauty and curiosity of the first star, what mortals call the sun, and seeing that the monsters that her siblings had birthed devoured the gentler races amid the prevailing darkness. This gift of light was meant to be a boon to mortals and a lesson to the sun deity on the importance of love and creation.

• Ashora descends down to Argo on the back of a great wolf, one of Nagy Farkas's children, after having a fitful waking dream. There, she discovers a mortal maiden named Canonica, who had been raped by Lethargo. Incensed by her brother's wicked act, she decides to comfort the woman and punish him. She creates a pot to hold terror and dread, transforms her wolf companion into a dog to be the girl's companion, and ties a strong length of crimson silk to the girl's waist. She then sets out to find Lethargo.

Finished

Name: Kona
Domain:100% Divine
Personality:Kona is a neutral diety and tries to exude that as much as he can.He has a gentle and friendly side but also a wrathful and furious side as well.
Appearances:


other/updates:Basically this universe's Zeus.

SAMPLE APPLICATION/Character sheet
You can refer to this to help make your own.
Name:Xyhistus
Domain: 10% race of beings
10% small continent
5% personal moon
5% divine meeting moon (like Olympus)
30% ambient magical force
total remaining : 40%

Personality: Xyhistus is defined his curiousity of the world, and his state of existence. Pushing the boundaries of his mind and power alike, he will undergo great efforts to discover new things and create his ‘art’. While outwardly this makes him appear to be one of the friendlier more gregarious Gods, this is simply untrue. His motives and actions are pursued solely for greater contemplation and he does not abide those who stand in his way.
Appearance: Before creation, Xyhistus will appear as a vaguely diamond shaped being composed of interlocking geometric plates, with ten tentacle-like arms on the sides of, but not attached to, the central diamond form. He is often accompanied by a small cloud of roiling mists.
Other/updates: Continue to monitor this character sheet to see how creation might effect your divine beings.

All please keep in mind the world has yet to be created, your domain is still very fluid and not locked in. For example, do not be offended I chose yours it was just easier to point out, there is yet to be a world and therefore yet to be a moon. If you want to create a moon, go ahead, but you may not be the only one to do so. Something Similar can be said of dragons.

Formerland wrote:Cut.

I understand. I'll change my domain accordingly.

Fahran wrote:

Formerland wrote:Cut.

I understand. I'll change my domain accordingly.

No worries, once we actually get started your domain will fill out. Essentially it allows you to donate parts of your power to different things, so you could for example be a sea god with some magic, or a magic god with some sea. or just general control over a very specific area, like a continent. The creation cost system allows for a number of different types of gods to exist in this world.

Tag.

Hmmm... what to do for a domain... fire and forges maybe? Either that or the hearth. By this I mean what I’ll mostly be creating.

Tag

I am hoping we can begin relatively soon once we get a couple more apps in.

Formerland wrote:I am hoping we can begin relatively soon once we get a couple more apps in.

Sounds great.

Right so this is my first time doing a forum rp, guess I’ll give it a go.
Name: Oher
Domain: 80% Divine, 20% Stories
Personality:(The more detailed is better) He is cool, calm and collected. His entire personality revolves around considering all options before taking an action: even in combat, he pauses and considers. He is sometimes, very rarely, filled with complete and utter rage. He has one obsession, though, one thing that eclipses all else; gaining information. You have a scroll? A scroll that contains forbidden information? He shall plot and scheme to get it, appearing to be a mad collector.
Appearances: (an image or description of the most commonly used forms, or if You are using an angelic race, a general description is fine) A very soft and old face, with robes that swish around when he walks. His eyes are a deep, deep blue: so deep that it seems one could dive into his eyes and be greeted by an ocean. His robes are also blue. Before creation, though, he will appear as a blue orb with several plates of metal floating on it.
other/updates:(any major events in the game that shift your character enough to be mentioned can be put her when applicable)

Tag

Name: The Nagy Farkas (Great Wolf)
Domain: 60%
Personality:(The more detailed is better) Very serious, but compassionate. Treats it’s chosen ones and followers like its children, a part of its pack. So, compassionate. Doesn’t have normal interactions, as his eyes normally speak better than his words.
Appearances: (an image or description of the most commonly used forms, or if You are using an angelic race, a general description is fine) Normally takes the form of a wolf.

Around how many apps will we need before we are able to start?

Name: The Dark Cloud/The Visitor
Domain: 98% Divine Power (Beginning to Form a Domain of Transitions)
Personality: A Leader of the Drow, loves the mortal races, sees themselves as a agent of change
Appearances: An Androgynous Elven-like form with silver hair and an almost ebony pigment.
other/updates: Has altered some Men and Elves into the Drow, created the passing of seasons, helped build the Civilization of the Drow

Name:Zracon, Host of legions

Domain: 80%. 20% has been used to make Dnd villains, 40k Daemons and Cthulu spawn

Personality: Xyhistus and Zracon are similar in their curiosity. However where they differ is the methods. Zracon will go to any lengths, any price to improve his powers of creation. This sometimes leaves him seeming similar to a mad scientist. He detests those who stand against him, as well as those who do not have the stomach to make difficult albeit necessary choices.

Appearance: Zracon usually appears as a faceless vaguely aquatic being surrounded by obsidian black crystals with the hint of other creatures moving in his shadow. From the back of his neck various bone like structures congregate to form a large crest like symbol. However he will change his form occasionally to prevent stagnation, but still commonly returns to this one. Before creation he takes the form of a black tinted mirror that uses a twisted version of whoever it is facing to talk.

Other/updates:

Turkducken wrote:Name: The Dark Cloud
Domain: 100% Divine Power
Personality: Fearful of the unformed world, violently and traumatically ripped into this plain of existence upon creation of Reality. Inquisitive. "Speaks" by telepathy.
Appearances: A seemingly endless mass of Dark Energy, constantly shifting and seemingly ever expanding. It's geometry is elucidian, seemingly inescapable and impossible to ignore.
other/updates: None for the moment.

Erm... nobody has a domain yet, just 100% divine power

Name: Adea
Domain: 100% power
Personality: A natural confidence that begets influence, Adea take a great deal of pride and joy in guiding others to work together to improve themselves and their community. Adea radiates authenticity, concern and altruism, she is unafraid to stand up and speak when she feels something needs to be said.The interest Adea has in others is genuine, almost to a fault – when she believes in someone, she can become too involved in the other person’s problems, place too much trust in them. Luckily, this trust tends to be a self-fulfilling prophesy, as her altruism and authenticity inspire those she cares about to become better themselves. But if she isn't careful, she can overextend her optimism, sometimes pushing others further than they’re ready or willing to go.
Appearances:
other/updates: none as of the moment

Name: The Eternal Ice
Domain: 38% Divine Power - (Used 40% of my divide power to turn a good chunk of the North to a winter-wonderland. Adapt the crops, animals, trees, etc, to the frozen climate. Adapt the humans in the North to live in said climate, and create a landmark bearing my God's name deep in the North to bring in followers.)

Gifts to Northmen - Total of 12% Divide Power
3% - Basic Administration Skills
4% - Basic Mathematics
5% - Gift some devoted followers, the power to bend water and it's contingency of water-based elements.

Personality: Like the snow itself, the Eternal Ice is cold, unfeeling. It’s sole purpose is to bring Eternal Winter across all plains. There is no compassion or love - there is only the freezing cold to comfort you in your pain.
Appearances: It’s just a block of ice
other/updates: N/A for now

It’s late where I live, but this should be enough apps to get going! When I get up in the morning I will create a post in IC to set the stage, and all can then begin to RP.

Name: None as yet, designates itself as "the Star"
Domain: 100 % divine
Personality: "The Star" is a troubled spirit yearning for a purpose and meaning to its existence. Though awakened with the rising of the star "the Star" harbours a degree of skepticism about the creation of something in nothing, as "the Star" worries that creating things to a meaningless existence is cruel and unjustifiable. "The Star" is respectful, even reverential to many of the other deities. A late awakener "the Star" regards these deities as venerable elders and hopes that perhaps they know the mystery of creation and can impart some knowledge that may allow "the Star" to fill the void within it and determine its purpose.
Appearances: "The Star" takes the form of the first star in existence and the energy that radiates from it, and has not yet taken on a more corporeal form or an identity distinct from that celestial body.
other/updates:(any major events in the game that shift your character enough to be mentioned can be put her when applicable)

I am excited for this rp.
Btw, the Nagy Farkas is a version of a godlike entity that people in my nation worship called the Great Wolf, who controls a part of nature and the wilderness, and grants strength to those who believe in it.
I’m just waiting to see how this develops. I’m wondering what Nagy Farkas would would use his power for at first, if he’s not really godlike in my modern day nation.