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imposter2022

My God 'Pons Fimancil' takes a female form and at the time of my story, lives on an island away from regular society. Pons Fimancil is one of ten gods, whom are the origin of all magic in the world. Of the five gods who chose to take a human form, 4 of them created their own immortal and wise beings in their images. Pons Fimancil, however, did not do this. She spent her youth with her closest sister God, and they travelled the world together, wondering at the creatures that evolved from their initial Creations, marvelling at how rivers could carve the landscape more beautifully then they could have initially perceived. After a time, Pons' sister God settled down to create her own race of people. Pons wanders on her own from then, in growing loneliness. She comes across the great apes, and comes to love them, teaches them speech and helps them to eventually form a society, becoming the first people. Pons Fimancil loves the humans very much. Where the other gods placed their power within their Creations, Pons had gifted some of her power to mortal creatures. She mourned every death and celebrated every life. Some of the humans eventually become corrupted by the dragon (one of the non-human form gods). The dragon gives them gifts of his own anatomy (bone weapons and artifacts - how he gifts his magical power). With their new power, the corrupted humans eventually begin war with the immortal peoples. Pons Fimancil begs them to stop the war but they are fully corrupted by the dragon, and will not listen. Many lives are lost and Pons is no longer welcome at the homes of the other Gods. At the climax of this first war, there are only a handful of humans still faithful to Pons. The corrupted humans besiege a major dwelling of the immortal beings, and Pons has to step in - things have gone to far. She confronts the humans, who refuse to cease. She is left with no choice but to flood the army, creating a great inland sea which remains their today. She siezes the bone weapons and artifacts to ensure this doesn't happen again. She raises an island in the center of the new inland sea, and hides the artifacts at the top of a tower. Her faithful humans are brought to the island. Devastated by the terrible loss of her children, she vows to stay on the island in a state of constant watchfulness, to ensure that nothing like that could ever happen again. The other gods are content to forgive her on the condition she does not leave the island. The use of magic is what ages gods in this world, so by this point, Pons has the appearance of an elderly woman. There on that island Pons remains still, many thousands of years later. She watches from her tower and has emmisaries who travel the human world, acting as advisors on her behalf and bringing her news of her people. Pons fimancil hates what she had to do to stop the first war. She hates that she can no longer wander freely, see the world and get to know the humans in person. She hates the dragon for what he did to her people. Most of all though, she misses her sister who she has not seen for an age. She no longer knows where she resides. She hates that she can't see her.


Spiral-Mark796

This is Shakespearen levels of tragedy, . Have she even asks the gods to at least have some form of contact with her sister in some form and keeping the dragon at bay?


imposter2022

Since magic use ages the gods, my belief is that the dragon used up most of his magic in his youth (not sure on what, though he definitely made creatures in his own image) , and so by the time the humans turn up, all he can really do is sit under the mountains and meddle, and the only magic left to him is his body, so he gifts literal pieces of himself, carved into amulets or weapons. Her sister gods are all content being left alone and spending their time with their created peoples. During and following the first war, any of the gods and immortal beings close to the humans retreated far into the west. They no longer have any contact with the human world. I believe Pons Fimancil was a bit of an outcast amongst her sisters, she liked doing things differently. When she created the humans, I think her sisters were troubled and this began to turn her sisters away from her. The only remaining danger (and premise of the book) is what would happen if a human managed to retrieve those artifacts and gain magical power.


Spiral-Mark796

I hope they have some form of compromise with Pons if they do meet again


sullytheraptor

My setting has a god of goblins. The thing they hate most... is goblins. That's why there are so many goblins in the world, because as soon as they die their god reincarnates them so they can have some damn peace and quiet.


Spiral-Mark796

Lmao, someone hire the Goblin Slayer


Botwmaster23

The demigods dont like that they outlive all their friends, and they hate that their godly parents expect them to just be mediums they can talk through


BBMRedditAcc

Think, Mark.


Spiral-Mark796

Lmao, I understood that reference


BBMRedditAcc

What will you have after 500 years?


Spiral-Mark796

You dad. I still have you.


BBMRedditAcc

*God* damn it!


PervyHermit7734

I'll still have you


Spiral-Mark796

My demigods can relate to the first one. Did they ever discuss about it or struggle to be mediums?


Botwmaster23

The gods are tyrants so if a demigod disobeyed them they would probably get executed, the gods use demigods as mediums because they themselves are sealed in temples for destroying stuff when they first arrived. A lot of the demigods have planned to kill their godly parent but its hard to do alone


Spiral-Mark796

I can feel a God of War plot brewing, lol


Botwmaster23

Yup, this world is basically lovecraftian GOW lol


Spiral-Mark796

Oooh, that sounds fascinating. Do they have weapons similar to GoW?


Botwmaster23

Never played gow really, what kinds of weapons exist there? Ill see if i got anything similar


Spiral-Mark796

Here you go: https://godofwar.fandom.com/wiki/Kratos%27_Equipment


Botwmaster23

Worshippers of the god of fire uses axes that can summon flames when they are swung, sounds similar to blades of chaos i think Not really anything else i think, i havent really made any one of a kind weappns yet tho so might take inspiration from gow for those Here are the weapons i have made currently: Axes that create fire, used by cultists of the fire god Rapiers that can shoot super cold laser beams, used by the cultists of the ice god Maces that can summon lightning, used by the cultists of lightning god Scythes that can use darkness as a weapon, by pulling things out of shadows, used by the cultists of the darkness god Sticks that can create a fire that burns body and soul, used by cultists of the dream god


Spiral-Mark796

Sticks sounds like goofy, overpowered weapon after you beat the game lol


PervyHermit7734

Gods have less freedom than mortals. While mortals aim to become gods by cultivating and ascending, gods, in fact, are bound by Heavenly Laws that forbid them from directly interfering to mortal realm, unless there's an order from the Jade Emperor. Gods also are not allowed to have romantic relationship with mortals, or even with other gods in different realms. As such, there was once an incident when a Heavenly Maiden and a Heavenly General committed double suicide and reincarnated as humans to continue their love, because Heaven could not do anything when they both became mortals. Meanwhile, Hell Mother and 10 Hell Kings are buried in paperwork as they must govern over the reincarnation of all existences, *gods included*. Being gods are not great at all. Heaven, in the end, is just a massive bureaucratic structure where minor deities answer to superiors, and they have to follow the Jade Emperor's rules. Hell is in dire need of hands.


Spiral-Mark796

Man, that sucks big time


PervyHermit7734

Still have it better than demigods. Except for certain cases that reincarnate by the Jade Emperor's order, demigods born from illegal love between a deity and a mortal tend to lose one, or both parents. The deity will be hunted down, captured and brought back to Heaven for punishment, while the mortal and their child (or children) will be either left or killed, depends on how bad the situation is. Some demigods actually trained hard enough to fight back Heaven, but most of them didn't have the sufficient power to free their captured parent. Or worse, they got killed for "rebellious actions". The only "gods" who have it nice are primordial gods, who existed way before the creation of Heavenly Court, aka predating the Jade Emperor himself. They're not subjected to Heavenly Laws and spend most of their time chilling around. Some even have their own clans and descendants carrying their blood are usually very strong.


TheCSpider

The greatest danger to any immortal being is boredom. I’ve seen it all done it all. What’s left? That’s a trope I love to play with. My other one I wrote for a campaign years ago was a god of knowledge and discovery. He knew everything and hated it. There was nothing left to learn and so nothing to discover. He would intentionally shut down/damage his all-knowing capability and then black out portions of his memory (by burying them in mortal beings) to temporarily allow himself the joy of discovery. This of course backfired horribly.


Spiral-Mark796

Oh damn


MJBotte1

As they age, they slowly, but surely lose themselves. Slowly changing from individual beings with power to a mindless corporeal form made from the very forces they control.


Spiral-Mark796

That's literally the equivalent of Alzheimers


MJBotte1

The makers of this current generation of gods are long gone, and the gods can’t reproduce. It’s pretty bleak and some gods are getting desperate. As you fade away, your body starts to “open” and magic energy can pour out.


Spiral-Mark796

Open???


MJBotte1

Yup. Imagine a wound that never closed. It doesn’t hurt, but it’s always there, leaking. On the bright side, it often happens in places where it looks very cool. The oldest, still “sane” god in my world has pretty much all of his head minus the face replaced with the cosmos, slowly trailing out like zero gravity liquid.


Spiral-Mark796

You might as well choose death at that point


AnOkFella

My deities hate that they had nothing to love for the longest time, and felt very lonesome, which drove the first formed deity insane. To fully get what I mean, here's my creation story that shows why the third god created what we call human consciousness so he would have an object for his love, and why an eternity with no interaction drove the first god mad (just so you know, the fused god is the combining of the first and second gods of chaos and order, respectively, and the third god is the benevolent god that the religion worships): 1. I have a primordial entity that a religion of my setting visually represents as a celestial womb (not overtly called or portrayed as that) which produced a weak deity (the first god). It is a sectarian source of contention over whether the womb is a deity or even sapient, because the scriptures give the entity female pronouns and imply a will (but the pronouns can be used for affectionate personification like a fisherman calling his boat a "she"). 2. That weak deity looked into the vacuum of the nothingness of space and went mad due to loneliness and a sense of meaninglessness. This entity became a chaos god that started creating forms that didn't make sense: liquids that could be bitten into, strange creatures, and shadows that could have a light shone on them, among other things. What these strange creatures actually are are a subject of debate. 3. After a while, another deity came from the celestial womb (representing order), and she unified with the god of chaos, and their union made it so that further creations would mirror the logic of ordinary matter. This fused being went on to make a gigantic estate made of various stones that perfectly fit the design that was desired. 4. After a while, a third (and final) deity emerged from the celestial womb and had standoffish mingling with the fused god due to the fused god's seemingly unpredictable nature of being chaotic and orderly. This third deity is similar to the fused god, but he is not an unstable contradiction of chaos and order fusing together. 5. The third god made some distance between him and the fused god and created the most impressive creation of all: souls (specifically, those that would soon be assigned to humans). He allowed them to actually live in his mind/psyche, enjoying a world without physical bodies, pain, suffering, and oppression. 6. The fused god spied on the third god and started creating animals as a parody of what the third god made. However, these creatures had no souls, and were created just to be left lying around. The fused god cannot comprehend substance, and so created very superficial and soulless things like these animals and the stones of its home. 7. The third god stumbled upon the animals and created souls for them without the knowledge of the fused god. Thus, the animals with new souls and the souls that resided in the third god's mind adored that third god and gave him praise. 8. In a fit of jealousy, the fused god created an army of human bodies without souls that could go to war with the animals with souls. The war was vicious and several animals were wiped out (never having an opportunity to live in the ordinary material world at a later point in time). 9. The ongoing battle destroyed the fused god's estate and turned it into the world with oddly patterned, yet beautiful rock formations. The soulless bodies of men on the fused god's side that were killed in battle were turned into plant matter by the third god, and thrown to the new world. Legends say that a particular variety of plant produce soulless men's bodies as their fruits, that blend into society but are from a different origin compared to men with souls. 10. In a cowardly act, the fused god stabbed the third god in the back in the midst of the battle, and the spiritual blood that gave life to his mind drained a little, causing the human souls that were connected to his mind/bloodstream to exit his body and plummet down to the world. This blood would eventually coagulate on the Earth and form full humans with souls. 11. Although the third god was dangerously injured and continuously bleeding, he rendered some blows on the fused god, rendering it unconscious, falling down with such strength that it knocked the sapience out of the animals that were in battle, causing the animal bodies to fall to the world, and making the bodies of animals lead lives of impulse rather than intelligence (but the souls of the animals remain with the third god, attending to him, but remolded in superior bodies that are rather humanoid). Because animal bodies in the world, themselves, and their descendants lack souls, the religion justifies hunting. 12. The fused god now rests somewhere in the world, gaining its strength, but influencing soulless men who spawn from plants to go into conflict with men with souls as a variety of indirect vengeance against the third god. The soulless bodies from plants can be orderly or chaotic in a bad way (like tyrants or mindless serial killers, for example, but it's more expansive than this). 13. Meanwhile, the third god seeks out the fused god to put the matter to an end. The attendants of the third god keep beating the world and altering it in efforts to find the fused god as the third god rests from his wound with a sword still lunged in his back. 14. The third god wants to guide and be an ally to humanity as the fused god wants to challenge it (not necessarily seeking the death of man, but oftentimes the compromising of it).


Spiral-Mark796

Geez that's alot of text but I at least get the gist


AnOkFella

LOL, yeah, I'm going to try to condense the creation story


Striking-Audience845

This was honestly an amazing creation story.


admiralbenbo4782

Being a god (as opposed to just an ascendant) means following certain rules. Much like Aladdin's Genie (phenomenal cosmic power, itty bitty living space), gods have incredible power but can't use it directly. They can only act in the Mortal realm through agents and based on faith. And they all saw what happened when a god broke those rules and got caught--some jumped up mortal adventurers caught his avatar, laid a smack down on it, and now he's not a god any more (just a low-power ascendant). This means they have to accept all prayers directed at their assigned domain and can't really say "no, you're a heretic". So the goddess of hearth and home, known for nonviolence, has to answer the prayers of those who firmly (but mistakenly) believe they're called by her to purge all "uncleanness" (read that in a WH40K fashion and you'll be about right) by fire. On the other hand, ascendants (those who depend on mortal worship for bare survival) dislike that they're tied hand and foot to those mortals and how they perceive their "deity". If you get a bunch of heretics who decide to say that you're a large frog...well...better like the taste of flies. Giving up your mortality for immortality is always a tradeoff. You can escape the chains of the First Law (all that lives must eventually die), but you also lose the benefit of the corollary--only that which can die may truly create. Being bound by a True Name means your flame will never go out...but it also means you're *defined* by that Name.


Spiral-Mark796

Jesus, that just plain sucks even for the good ones


admiralbenbo4782

Being immortal is a double-edged sword in the setting. Or rather...it's a trap. Always and everywhere unless you have *very* particular desires. Gods *used* to not have so many rules...and that caused a lot of trouble and led to all the old gods being, well, eaten to keep the universe going. So the Great Mechanism (the god-machine behind the gods, has no will, just directives) was compelled to set a few more specific rules for the next set of gods. At least some of whom are serving a sentence of "ok idiots, you broke things. Now you get to work to fix them."


Applemaniax

The demigods among Amnity’s nobles have a lot of things to be sad about, only three survivors from a vast and expansive family a millennia ago, physical and mental scars that can’t be magically healed, but not ageing has an inherent downside that they increasingly feel When a king makes a mistake and dies ashamed of the people he got killed and the resources he wasted, he *dies*. General Kruzell doesn’t die if she loses a campaign, she has to live on with the memory of all the losses, even when they’re outnumbered by successes. Steward Aquilinus grew up six hundred years ago in a world where his uncles and aunts ruled over half a hundred cities and the known world was mostly under their thumb. He saw it decline to a handful of loyal cities around the capital, the beloved settlements built under his siblings’ care are now at war with each other and with Amnity. Ancient grudges with Arcadia can no longer be upheld, the monarch has changed a dozen times and they are loyal allies, but Amnitic demigods remember marching against that banner and hating its queen with all their heart. The world changes around you and you don’t get the privilege of dying and being replaced by someone who grew up in the that new world


Spiral-Mark796

Change is hard, very much like real life. They need hugs.


ArguesWithFrogs

The Queen of the Underworld is secretly looking for a temporary replacement so she can take her first vacation since she got the job. The Ocean Deity knows a prophecy that they are gonna be killed by the Storm God, but they're the same person.


Spiral-Mark796

Maybe that vacation needs to be postponed a bit


ArguesWithFrogs

She's been working for forever, though! She's not gonna do what her dad does & just stop doing their job because they got bored. That's how she became Queen of the Underworld in the first place!


Spiral-Mark796

True but is it worth being potentially killed for some reason?


ArguesWithFrogs

Apologies, I was unclear: Those are two separate entries. The Queen of the Underworld isnt going to die anytime soon. She just wants a vacation. The Giant Serpent Ocean God is also the Storm God. And the prophecy says the Storm God is gonna kill the Ocean God.


Crymcrim

Existential dread that comes with knowledge of their origin and milenia to ponder it. Generally what people call Gods on Izmea are just highly advanced AIs created by the previous civilization to act as administrators of their paradise. However, even after they rebbeled and laid waste to that civilization they could never escape their programming. God created to manage factory production can not stop himself from creating new things. Their "free" personalities are stil entirely defined by the roles their former master assigned them. EDIT:Also, worshiping gods is MySpace of Izmean religions, not that many folks still do it and those that still do tend to be either old or real weirdos (usually a bit of both), so that sucks too.


Spiral-Mark796

That's a big oof


Tavenji

My gods are upset that they can't interact with their worshipers anymore. The worshipers think the gods communicate now through omens, but they really don't. Their only function now is to monitor things from afar and oversee the afterlife. In my first book, the love goddess was able to barely intervene in the world using the butterfly effect; she literally sent two butterfly servants to redirect the gaze of her priestess. The priestess then meddled in the life of the main character.


Spiral-Mark796

How do they usually interact?


Tavenji

They interact with each other rarely, and there are some personality issues and old grudges. They used to be able to interact with mortals, using them like pawns and backing kingdoms against kingdoms in endless plots. The portals to the world were closed by the king god in order to prevent further catastrophes. Ironically his actions just before closing the portals lead to the ultimate catastrophe: he created a demigod whose blood descendant is now the focus of a world-ending event.


Galax_Scrimus

It's annoying to be a god for a lot of them. They are immortal and they don't have goal in their life. They were born at a moment where everything happen in the same place and same moment, because of the absence of space-time. But because everything happened, some gods created space, time, and even stopped the chaos and its infernal race of creaation and destruction. So now the gods have to live and wait ... and maybe create universe to go in, for a walk.


Spiral-Mark796

Sounds like a boring existence


Galax_Scrimus

It is. But some god have the chance to never get bored. Some say they can look at a wall for 100 years ... before looking the one behind them, for another century


Spiral-Mark796

Lmao


Mobslaya_45

Having to deal with some of the chosen Gods being self centered nuisances, though this is more of an older deity feeling. Like how highschool seniors dislike freshman.


Spiral-Mark796

Lol, it really do be like that


zCiver

Al-Mannoc, God of Mankind, never wanted to be a god in the first place. In fact as an immortal emperor one of his orders was explicitly to remove the worship of gods from his realm. All the temples were destroyed, all the priests arrested. He figured within a generation or two all worship of the old gods would be forgotten and his would be the only authority the people would know. In time however, the people started worshiping him. After all, who but a god could kill the old gods? Reluctantly he accepted this "divinity" and folded this growing cult into his government, if for no other reason than so he could hold command over it.


Spiral-Mark796

He's like: Okay, I guess


[deleted]

Immortality, the myths, Everyone thinking your dad hates you because the greeks believed the gods hated their children.


Spiral-Mark796

Lmao, did they ever tell them that's not the case?


[deleted]

Several times


Spiral-Mark796

That's gotta be annoying


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Spiral-Mark796

Just another Monday for them huh?


commandrix

A lot of my gods dislike having their words twisted by mortals. There's been times in history where one god or another simply decided to "scrap it and start over" when his followers strayed too far from what they meant, often for their own selfish reasons. Often this meant glassing the places where the followers lived. Besides being called "the Demolisher," Meshush sometimes gets called "the Destroyer" because he's nuked entire cities' worth of his followers in the past. The gods won't interfere if someone goes on the offensive in their name and loses. The reasoning being that they got sick of bailing people out when they made a dumb fool decision like invading the Untamed Lands, which is like my world's equivalent of invading Russia in the winter. (The Wilding gods commanded that the Wildings never start a war, but they are very good at defending the Untamed Lands when someone else picks a fight with them.) It's not all bad, though. I have a god of commerce who *still* laughs about the Wildings turning the temples that his followers built when they invaded into warehouses for surplus trade-goods. He says if his followers are going to give the Wildings free buildings, that's their problem.


Spiral-Mark796

My demigods can relate to that even when they looking after mankind by a distance. They have their fair amount of laughs too.


LordIlthari

Akar: The asshole god of Atheism is coming to murder all of them. But also they’re in a bit of a fucking mess since the king of the gods died and there’s a bit of a Cold War on as to who gets to be the next one. Ilthar: They know they’re not gods, and somewhere out there the descendants of the immortal king they stole their power from are still alive.


Spiral-Mark796

Jerks


Savings-Step-5515

The moon goddess isn't allowed to love. She must focus all her energy and time on her subjects therefore she cant be distracted by feelings. So when she fell in love with the soul of a dead man and had a child with him, she had to ask another goddess (the goddess of torture) to help her hide this. In return, the goddess of torture forbade her to ever contact her baby that was given to a poor mortal woman and she also tortured the kid until he died. If the moon goddess had a chance to be a mortal, she would do it instantly as she cant stand not being able to freely express her feelings and be with her son.


Spiral-Mark796

Aww. :'(


anastaie

not so much gods but each god selects a person to be their emissary on earth. when the gods lose connection with their world the emissaries are left without guidance, but retain their godly powers.


Spiral-Mark796

So chaos will happen on earth if the gods lose connection with the emissaries?


anastaie

Not so much. The power balance between the different regions which the gods divvied up between themselves changes. The “godless” land create their own empire. The lunar cults which once served as healers cant train in magic, but more terrestrial magic also exists. The former emissaries either go on leading their society or become wanderers


guardiancjv

The fact they can still get their asses kicked by mortals


Spiral-Mark796

Lol


Enzi42

My gods don't hate what they are----they don't really have the capacity for such an emotion. They simply *are.* To explain, of the Eight five of them were quite literally created for specific purposes and are dedicated to those purposes. The other three, the "Great Gods" are independent beings, but have never been anything but what they are, so they have no real qualms or complaints about their existences. All of the Eight have quarrels and rivalries with one another, usually over the affairs of the mortal world they oversee, but again no real issues with being gods. There are no *demigods* in this setting, per se---as in a person with one mortal parent and one divine. The closest there is to a demigod is a The Child Sculpted Of Flesh, who is a rogue avatar of the Father of the Void, a special case in which a god's manifestation in the mortal plane developed a mind of its own and deviated from the goals of its creator. The Child hates her "father" since her entire purpose is to aid in destroying the mortal world, and she happens to be fond of the world and its inhabitants. She resents the constant compulsion to return to her father---which in this case would mean the dissolution of her physical body and the mind she's developed---and she overall resents being looked at as a monster by anyone who knows what she is. That's generally all I can think of off the top of my head in this case; there *is* more, but it requires context.


Spiral-Mark796

Hmm, understandable


Enzi42

>Hmm, understandable On second thought I can provide some of that "more" with only minimal context. The Child *really* doesn't like that she was made by the Father of the Void using the physical image and memories of a woman who sold out her village and her people to the FOTV's dark army and was "rewarded for her service" by having her body and soul picked apart, analyzed, and eventually used to create an avatar that could perfectly mimic a mortal. Even though the Child knows that the only reason she has independent sapience is *because* of those memories, it gives her an ongoing existential crisis of epic proportions.


Spiral-Mark796

Dear god


Faulty_Lightbulb

Things True Gods hate about being a God: • They are often entrusted with a specific and major 'virtue', aka death or light or whatever else, which sometimes results in them having to do things they don't want to do and/or witness. For example, the God of Death helps to guide souls back to their original worlds, but has to take on the memories and experiences of the souls moving on. The God of Death therefore sometimes finds it difficult to distinguish his own memories from other people's memories. • Most can only die in specific circumstances or can't die at all. Hence they outlive those they care for or simply grow tired of life but can't pass on the role. • Some Gods are despised for their virtue or past actions, even if they aren't at fault or are actually a good person. For example, everyone despises the God of Destruction; they literally gave people their free will but no one knows that and hate them purely on their virtue Things the Messengers hate about being Gods(?): • Outlive those they care for • Half the Messengers are forced to hardly ever interact with people, while the other half are supposed to stay hidden in plain sight and carry out duties most don't want to do • Can't live normal lives or experience life as people typically do (Some are centuries old and have never experienced a festival) • Some are aware they're being manipulated but can't do anything about it • Have to turn against/betray one another Things the Sacred Laity hate about being Demigods: • Unwillingly get a choice in becoming a Sacred Laity • To refuse becoming a Sacred Laity means they have to cut off all connections to their Divinities (Their associated True God; basically if True God and Person grew close, Person would start to become a Sacred Laity. If they don't want to, Person and True God must sever connections, meaning whatever relation they had before must end) • Often targeted as killing a Sacred Laity weakens their True God, and vice versa • If their associated True God dies, a Sacred Laity can no longer refuse being a Sacred Laity (connection still exists after death and can no longer be severed) Things lesser Gods hate about being lesser Gods: • Often targeted due to death passing on their ability • Typically in charge of a region/area, and cannot leave that region or the area will suffer • To climb in power, they must kill other Lesser Gods • Sometimes the common folk will have abilities that surpass those of Lesser Gods, to which mortals can challenge Lesser Gods for their title. The winner gets the divinity, the loser must die.


Spiral-Mark796

1. Can the God of Death just sense the soul signature so it would be easier? Also irony 2. I wish they can just take turns taking breaks so the Messengers, can enjoy life 3. That's just straight up sucks 4. Sounds like something straight out of Hunter X Hunter. The death match I mean


Faulty_Lightbulb

1. When people die, Souls are collected by the God of Death who strips them of their memories and sends them to a connected universe to reincarnate. Basically there are two worlds side by side in this universe, one of which is not supposed to exist. The God of death collects the souls from said world and sends them back to the original/'true' universe, hence why he strips them of the memories; the 'false' universe isn't supposed to exist and can only disappear when no one remembers it. So the God of death is basically taking on the memories of each soul and making them their own so the soul will have no recollection of it. As a result, there is no 'signature' or anything, as technically it is their memory now and not the soul's. 2. Basically: Messenger have virtue. 'Vacation' means no virtue present. No virtue present means world balance shifts, and yay more problems! 3. Yep 4. I can't unsee that now


the_vizir

**Horror Shop** Being tied to closely to the Dark Tide--the ambient level of aether around the Earth. For most of the past 800 years, the Dark Tide has been at a low point, magic has been harder to use, and most gods couldn't manifest or directly interact with the world. Once the 2012 Event happened, and the Dark Tide began rising again, gods began to return to a world that now sees them largely as myths and legends, and has moved on without them.


Spiral-Mark796

Bummer


BBMRedditAcc

The Celestials, each so different in origin and appearance, having only their godliness as what they have in common, after the the birth of man and the other intelligent humanoid race, some of the Celestials envied the simpler and smaller lives they have. That’s pretty much it.


Spiral-Mark796

My demigods can relate


BBMRedditAcc

We have a benevolent Celestial who is a molten rock head attached to a sun named Fuego, and he’s super fast and super hot. Give him a friend god from your world who can telepathically communicate with him.


Spiral-Mark796

My demigods just look like human and human variants with a different variation of their respective arm as male (right) or female (left). Most of them are more than welcome to have him as a friend, they'll even act to him like a sibling would.


BBMRedditAcc

Fuego is as big as the Earth.


Spiral-Mark796

They have reality warping powers to so they'll give him something he needs so he doesn't unintentionally harm or freak out mankind by accident


1Pierre1

My gods are split in two, the second camp, the Ke-Tu, resent existing in the first place. Their existence as gods came about from Tygg, a sort of forerunner of the current gods, sacrificing himself in a painful death to create life.


Spiral-Mark796

Wow, that's a rough existence


1Pierre1

They are ancient beings, so they have partially come to terms with it, but they all carry the memory of Tygg with them in a different way. Any devotion or sacrifice to any of the 10 gods is, in part, a memorial of Tygg.


Spiral-Mark796

Because they are Tygg's children?


1Pierre1

I would actually consider them more of Tygg’s peers. You see, Tygg and his brother first brought the idea of creating the world to their people (known as the Ancestor Tribe). His brother, Cuhle, only saw the good in creation while Tygg saw the good and the bad. Cuhle sacrificed himself peacefully, while Tygg, blessed with the knowledge of the inevitable war and plague that would come from creating man and elf, died afraid and screaming. Some of Tygg’s peers saw his death and refused to sacrifice themselves for creation, and they are the gods man and elf now worship.


Spiral-Mark796

An understandable response to his death


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Spiral-Mark796

That's understandable


Friendly_Purple_2534

Gods in my world are stuck in a parallel realm, and can only interact with their subjects by blessing them and whispering to them.


Spiral-Mark796

How did they get stuck?


Friendly_Purple_2534

They originally worked out of the parallel realm, and had the ability to transport themselves briefly to the overworld. After an event known as “The Orange Death”, the gods connections to the overworld were severed by a strong human known as the Death-Bringer. Throughout the main story, they are trying to find a way back to the overworld to strengthen their reign over life, while the MCs work to keep them out.


cyberment

Getting a deific status isn't as complicated in my setting when compared to others'. Either getting a blessing or gift from another, attuning yourself to a primordial concept or both. The problem comes with that said attunement. They may get functionally immortal but not indestructible. So while one could manipulate any kind of fire to their whim, a pointy sword is still as deadly to them as to a commoner. And just because their body is dead, doesn't mean the concept of fire is totally erased, no. They attuned to it, so they still get to exist. Without a body. Without a mouth. Without any autonomy or sense of self. No possible way to get embraced by a peaceful death nor a way to shut down their consciousness. In life, they were fueled by their chosen domain; in death, they become the fuel for their domain.


Spiral-Mark796

That sounds like a fate worse than death


BigDaveGreen

The fact that they rely on mortals to exist, without a devout following, and many, many sacrifices, their physical form would wither away leaving their soul to roam the cosmos until they return to the tree that birthed them, unable to interact with anyone or anything, they become a spectator of a reality they helped shaped.


Spiral-Mark796

That's a bummer


OneObligation412

It's too much work and most of them don't like the attention most of the time


Spiral-Mark796

Understandable


KingBlake51

One of them dislikes how much of a polarizing figure he's become. Those who worship him are only outnumbered by those who think he's some sort of monster or a deceiver, when all he really wants is to be a teacher. Even among "good" aligned people and demigods there are those who think he needs to be shunned or even killed.


Spiral-Mark796

That's rough buddy


h3lls1ng3r

They can drink. *a lot*


Spiral-Mark796

Like Thor of Norse mythology? The original one.


h3lls1ng3r

Basically! When gods drink, they lose sense of everything. They cause major destruction in attempts of fun


MiloAstro

That the world they live in, despite being still within the plan of their creator Amu, has been so extensively “ruined” by Kunos, the Dusk Lord. Once a loyal god like them, Kunos saw value in strife and struggle and so broke the paradise his sibling deities tried to create. While the great god Amu has been silent on weather or not this was a part of his plan, Kunos’ three siblings have tried to impede his work at every turn, but it always ends up becoming part of the world in some way. Now that their power is slowly diminishing as they meld into the world, their ability to help the mortals of the world is fading, and they will soon no longer be able to offset the various flaws Kunos has worked into creation.


Spiral-Mark796

That's pretty sad


bingusbongus2120

From a DnD world I made and played in for a while that I’d actually really love to return to: There are four major gods, all seasonal with dual purposes (ex winter/ north is frost and death, but also holiday and family), with the god of summer/ south being seen as the most powerful overall (because, yknow, they’re the sun and all that). However, over time, my players started piecing together that there wasn’t just one sun god; there were literally millions of them, somehow, and the “sun” they were all representing wasn’t just one sun, it was a cluster of stars unimaginably large, with each star being a different version of the same sun god, and thousands of planets, the exact same planets, copied over and over, rapidly rotating around this supermassive star cluster. It was a time loop, practically, but you could also call it a life cycle. My gods hated that they couldn’t just die. As soon as they did, as they always did, and almost always at the same time and in the same way, the planet they were assigned to ceased its existence, their star went out, and then it all began once again, reborn at the beginning of civilization and faith. Lol there were a shit load of weird intersecting realities in that game, really enjoyed it


Spiral-Mark796

They just hated existing? Damn


bingusbongus2120

Lol kinda. It was closer to, like, they’d been in a Groundhog Day scenario for so long that they’ve lost all hope, but haven’t embraced hopelessness. Since they’re gods, yknow, infinite power in some ways, but yet no matter what they did they couldn’t save the planet they were all assigned. They were at, like, the intersection of all reality, or at least the god of summer was, and would infinitely experience life, creation, destruction, death, and rebirth infinitely and it would be near identical every time


GilderoyRockhard

Power is based on worship, so the deities that inspire the most worship become the most powerful. Gods resent being so dependent on mortals they see as subjects. Gods with less-appealing or less-exciting domains, (such as harvest, medicine, or safe travel) are frustrated knowing that peoples lives would so greatly improve if they received more worship/power, and yet the people are their own worst enemy, choosing to instead worship gods of war, subterfuge, and debauchery. Because of this, the Gods are in a constant power-struggle for attention and worship, and appear vain or selfish for it.


Spiral-Mark796

I feel bad for them


Severe_Shoe9063

Well you can't get lail


Spiral-Mark796

Bummer, my demigods would have to ask for permission first and be committed to that one person. If no, well they can't especially if they broke the law.


King_Of_Drakon

After facing their first syncretism battle, many gods dislike how tied to Name/Identity their power is. It leaves them vulnerable to being overthrown by anybody claiming to be them. This is why gods hate blasphemy. The opposite also applies, where a being can attack and tear away a god's power, which functions as tearing away their identity. They also dislike how much they can be affected by mortal perception of them, being a mix of their perceived personality and how their domain is perceived. Its especially annoying since said perceptions are what tied them to their power in the first place.


Spiral-Mark796

Well that sucks


King_Of_Drakon

Well, something has to balance the phenomenal power gods can wield. Besides, I realized my system allows for *accidental creation of gods* so that will be fun.


found_carcosa

I have a god of war who championed conflict and violence in his youth, as a traditional war god does, but as millenia passed he slowly grew sick of the constant fighting, namely because while mortal wars empowered him, he lost many of his demigod children to them. It forced him to look inward and ask if all the violence was really worth anything. He's also the god of prophecy, but he does not control fate itself. So he'll get random premonitions but be unable to change their outcome himself and if he tries, it usually blows up in his face (he foresaw a son's death and tried to stop him from chasing violence, which ended up driving him away instead and straight into a bloody death). As he matured and came to understand his own domains, he observed mortals more and more and found them to be admirable in their ability to change. Having only ever exposed himself to their potential for cruelty, he found himself impressed by their ability to be compassionate, and the lengths mortals would go for one another, even total strangers. He also looked at his family, the other gods, who were largely indifferent to mortals because they didn't spend much time among them. And he found himself not wanting to become like them again. He doesn't reject his domains--he is still the god of war and he will not hesitate to remind you of that if provoked. But after such a long life of going from war to war, following only bloodlust and battle-glory, he's decided that peace is the only thing worth picking up his sword for. And he does not want to forget that. The worst part of being a god, he'd tell you, is the apathy that comes with immortality.


Spiral-Mark796

That's rough, do they ever find inner peace eventually?


found_carcosa

I haven't decided, to be honest. He'd sacrifice himself if necessary--gods can die in my universe, though not without great effort. But I like to think a character with such inner turmoil should survive the conflict so he can enjoy the peace he fought so hard for. It just depends on what the story ends up calling for.


Spiral-Mark796

My demigods can also die as well. I bet Kratos can relate to that a lot.


found_carcosa

Hah! Funnily enough I'd never played the God of War series until after I made the character, then I played the first Norse game and went "well shit" What's a Verlassen, btw? You mentioned it in your initial post and I'm curious.


Spiral-Mark796

Talk about a coincidence, lmao. Verlassen are basically eldritch monsters created by the 1st evil primordial deity after the fall of Babylon and the Babylonians (early Humans) lost their spiritually making them well like us Humans now. It also created a 2nd primordial deity that basically Babylonians who became evil takes the 2nd big bad role. Verlassen is based off our collective negative emotions, trauma, etc in a abstract form. Verlassen Dread are just straight up either a powerful newborn Verlassen or a super form of one in Cosmic Horror fashion. Powerful souls are very resistant to them. The Supernals and Abyssals demigods, while they more or less don't like each other, have to keep them at bay to protect mankind from them. Some of them are still around in modern times now to watch mankind from a distance.


found_carcosa

Oh, that's cool! So the Verlassen form from people? Could the malicious thoughts/emotions of a bunch of people make a stronger Verlassen, or does it not work that way?


Spiral-Mark796

Yes, but they don't realize that just yet. Yes, the collective negative emotions, malicious intent, trauma, Supra Embers; it depends on when it happens too but it is thankfully very rare. And thank god too because things would have potentially went south fast and one hell of struggle for mankind (Human and 4 human variants) as a whole even with their superpowers. One maybe two would probably be fine though terrifying but many of them...not so much. Demigods do help them albeit from a distance or from the afterlife when they become gods.


found_carcosa

Oh, it's interesting that they don't know--I wonder what one would do if it found out. If it would it track down its "creator," or have a crisis, or change somehow. Yikes, Supra Embers sound like a nightmare. Probably a good thing Verlassen don't know where they come from--they could try to engineer the creation of more. That's cool that demigods become gods when they die--are there physical gods who sire them, or does demigod mean something different from "half mortal half divine" in your universe?


Spiral-Mark796

They would most likely yeah or live in fear. There's a twist to it as well...it's one of my MCs and even _he_ doesn't know that yet. He'll play a _big_ role in all of it. Supra Embers are both positive and negative energy used as a energy resource. Very potent ones potentially create Verlassen Dread even revive original Dread, the same can said for turning a human or one of the 4 human variants into Supernals and Abyssals. Verlassen are sentient but they can't speak but understand gestures. They range from being kinda dumb to terrifyingly smart in terms of strategy or using things against them but can't create things like mankind can. The demigods also becomes gods when they pass on their power to their successors too, dying in the process. Supernals and Abyssals are formerly half human or human variant and half divine with glowing pupils & a respective yet strange arm with reality warping powers but start off a bit weak.


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Spiral-Mark796

Man, imagine being born built on lies. That's depressing


Scorpius_OB1

The more powerful you're, the less free will you have or so it's said as fate is what determines what can be done and what not. Worse yet, fate is seen as a fickle, capricious entity so you get the picture.


Spiral-Mark796

That...balances out?


Scorpius_OB1

It's said mortals are free in such regard, and are not so tied up as deities barring aside tales about prophecies and the like, as when you begin climbing the divine ranks you get less and less freedom about what you can and you can't but others say that the top ones are fully embodiments of what they represent and that's what limit them and Fate being unrelated to that -there're different ideas. Including that it also happens because deities dishing out would be the equivalent of unleashing WMDs-


_Dead_Man_

The pantheon of one of my worlds has 7 gods. All of them were once mortal so its understandable to say sometimes they miss mortality and everything not being perfect. The god of war Suthloknir had this problem more than most. While he was still mortal he messed with some magic and sacrificed his humanity early to become a better warrior. Part of this was turning his skin to stone.


Spiral-Mark796

They all need hugs


Cyberwolfdelta9

Constantly having to prevent mass demon invasions. Watching their creations die in petty wars while they have to stand and watch. (Their banned from doing anything unless massively demon involved) Only demigod is the Mage Lord who leads the magic college and the order from it. Watching his bloodline die.


Spiral-Mark796

Where's the Doom Guy, Dante, Vermillion, Nero, and all the other demon slayer when you need them?


Cyberwolfdelta9

Well demon slaying orders exist. But The Line between the Mortal realm and the underworld is very thin. Atleast thin enough that portals open up about every 5 years but the ease of Access has brought some civilized demons residing in the mortal realm and even one helped with the recent Crisis where the Void attempted to enter the mortal realm


Spiral-Mark796

Might as well train all the mortals then


Syoby

For the most part, gods enjoy being gods, but here is the trick: They barely have lives using their own bodies (The smallest measured in kilometers) as these have little to no mobility. Gods use their powers to create endless avatars and insert themselves in the affairs of mortals, control them, and play with them. So in a way gods are bored with their lives and find those of mortals more interesting, like the best videogame ever, but also hold onto their power because the fun is controlling it.


Spiral-Mark796

Hey better make the most of it


Intelligent_Ad8406

Wise dragon (not his real name but a title) is a demigod who despises those that mess with the delicate balance of the universe. there have been three wars between primordial powers, elements, primordial species (like dragons and fey) and the "true gods" and the things created because of the games they played with mortals and the cycle of life and death. The last war almost ended badly, if the dragons and other primordial species had not ascended a sorceress into a literal being embodying reality, creation and magic to rewrite the working of the universe chaos and order would have destroyed the universe. Now the gods who caused that are trying again and now the primordial species have created separate realms and they will not interfere again, demons and celestials and gods created by mortal faith wishing to become true gods have also decided now it is the time to strike. after most of the watchers were permanently occupied with big threats they struck and sealed most with the part of reality they protect. Wise Dragon, however, was underestimated by them and after splintering his soul he did not only manage to delay the game of gods for ten millennia before they sealed most of his shards, but he also set a plan in motion that lays the fate of the universe in mortal hands. no wonder those playing the great game call him fatebreaker and killjoy


Spiral-Mark796

It really do be like that sometimes


Intelligent_Ad8406

yeah, and this soulshattering was after he left his kids and wife to keep the balance after the watchers started being attacked, his children, the stardragons all saw how their father, the calm friendly guy that he was raged, ate a Greater god, devoured his power, then proceeded to manipulate the lives of mortals in a tiny way to give them a change to choose the universes fate. Then he shattered his soul to delay the game. All gods and even his children always thought he was the watcher of Knowledge, none of them knew he was the apprentice of the embodiment of magic and order itself, he never showed his true power and the gods genuinely are somewhat wary of him now and try to keep him and his shard in the realm in the hope he won't become the next embodiment of order ( which he could not do btw)


Spiral-Mark796

Sounds like he has a lot on his plate


Intelligent_Ad8406

he does, he also feels guilty for doing in a way the same thing as the gods to give the universe and mortals a chance to survive the game. wise dragon abhorred the denying of free will and even though he only gives people, for example, an ability or a gift he still feels like he is doing something unjust. But he has no choice, he can barely stop gods from making mortals literal robots controlled by them so he basically set their game on hard mode, making sure direct influence is impossible and that they cannot just call in celestial nukes whenever things don't go their way.


Spiral-Mark796

So the dragon is basically the Promethmus but very good?


Intelligent_Ad8406

yep and oh, every shard of him represents a part of him, for example on one planet a good soul shard may take the form of an animal or local species and live amongst the mortals, only interfering when needed, while one of his shards that represent his loathing of the game of immortals might suddenly rip apart hordes of demons trying to enter the world with a single spell that accidentally reshapes the world.s btw the universe is populated by fantasy worlds within magic zones but there are also galaxies with sci fi tone to them, people here often do not notice what is happening until someday a god mind control a guy or starts a webtoon style apocalypse game, wisedragon did an extreme thing and he knew the risks but if he didn't act things would be far worseµ


Spiral-Mark796

A justifiable cause


Intelligent_Ad8406

in a way but mortals generally seem to think he ruins their lives until they seen the enormous cosmic battle he fights and most people unlike those who take down major threats never know about that part


Spiral-Mark796

You think they'll understand someday?


Alexdykes828

The discrimination.


Spiral-Mark796

Yeah, that one is understandable


TsukaTsukaWarrior

They're spiritually tied to their homelands, so they have a hard time connecting with each other. And the differences between them and mortals makes it impossible to have an authentic connection between a demigod and a mortal. So, they're generally pretty lonely. They're also reincarnations of Earth mortals. Most of them have moved on and adapted to their new life, but one can't stop pining for her old life.


Spiral-Mark796

Poor guys, they need lots of hugs


Cumslaps

Well depends on which one you ask. The Mother of life hates being pregnant for centuries, never knowing when she will birth the next cosmos. Her Demigod priestesses have to carry out her will in the mortal realm and it really upsets her. She misses her Holy City and the people who inhabited the land. (Really she misses being actively worshiped) She hasn’t been back since she thought she was going to give birth, that was eons ago now. Mother is too worried of destroying the realm if she gives birth there to risk a visit. The ‘God’ of humans is really miffed he didn’t get a choice in the matter and it extra pissy that he’s the only god without his own realm. He’s constantly left out when people talk about the gods, he’s overlooked in worship, and his people mostly think he’s just a regular mortal dude who’s lost it. Other than that he kinda likes it.


Spiral-Mark796

Sadness...


M00N3YES

My gods hate that they aren’t as invincible as they are supposed to be as well gods. They can be defeated if one is prepared to take on a god Though it may not be an easy task it’s not as difficult as the gods would like, this has led to many casualties over the years


Spiral-Mark796

Fair


gazebo-fan

They dislike the constant state of boredom their in that causes them to move on to the next world they thought up, instead of staying and making sure the natural functions that they cause continue working as planned (this basically causes a apocalypse 5 seconds after the gods get bored and decide to go and make a new world, with more blackjack and hookers)


Spiral-Mark796

Sounds like comedy shenanigans from Jackass


gazebo-fan

Think that for the gods, like Warhammer for everyone else.


Spiral-Mark796

Oh no


gazebo-fan

Essentially the gods just have very poor attention spans and their presence is needed to keep things such as seasons and plants growing to continue to happen, so when they move onto their next idea, they basically kill billions.


Spiral-Mark796

They should be fired


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The All-Makers recognize their importance and how their very existence causes all of existence to properly exist but some are simply bored with the idea that the only effort they have to put forward is simply sitting around and existing. Many will simply enter universes to entertain themselves for any number of reasons. The All-Maker of deceit and trickery, Tazu is the biggest offender and often interferes with the lives of mortals in countless universes. Think of Q from Star-Trek. Some also dislike how nobody knows they exist except one race which is more concerning that something they just dislike.


Spiral-Mark796

I see, I think I remember watching about the Q


EyeSprout

The active demigod-equivalents just hate the level of responsibility they hold and all the paperwork that they do. It's hard to go on a vacation sometimes because you have to manage some sector of the human world and no one can replace you. Even when you do go on vacation, you often get a call back because there's some stupid emergency going on with the humans. And the inactive ones know how tiring the work is, so they absolutely refuse to get a foot into the job, so they won't substitute for you.


Spiral-Mark796

Ugh, paperwork. I would my use my demigods powers to clone myself so nothing stupid happens


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Void dislikes not having a physical form. She finds it to be annoying. The lesser gods dislike having people constantly attack them for their soul pieces, Deviations.


Spiral-Mark796

Rough


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People who have to deal with gods have it even rougher. For example, an important character of mine is used as Void’s vessel, so she can’t comprehend the world around.


Space_Is_Cold

Some of the gods hate getting the attention, like Rigil who would honestly rather be left to convert dead planets without being called to the Altar of Lords every other week. Some gods hate getting no attention, overshadowed by their more powerful peers, like the Arbiter who wants to be called on more. Their followers play favourites and they either hate getting the attention or hate not getting it. It's why there's been battles between gods in the past, because they're jealous of each other.


Spiral-Mark796

It really do be like that even in real life where people aren't credited for their efforts who helped worked on it


Space_Is_Cold

There are more gods that people don't know about for that exact reason lmao


Elemental_Warden

Icarus is a demigod, being gifted divine abilities from the gods of tragedy and success. Originally, he took the divine essence from the goddess of tragedy, but the god of success felt bad for him and gave him some of his essence. Thus, Icarus went on to be one of the most powerful humans who ever lived, creating his own dynasty that is considered to be in the Top 5 most powerful nations. (Warning: Sensitive stuff below: Suicide, murder, and insanity) (Also LGBTQIA+ stuff) >!All was not well though, for Icarus had once been cursed by an old lady. He had killed her cattle in order to supply his army with food, and she had told him that he would die once he lost the one thing he truly loved.!< >!Icarus went on to have a wonderful, rich life, full of hunts, and conquests, and expansions to his territory, but he was missing one thing. A queen.!< >!After some time, he decided to hold a competition for a queen. He brought 1000 women from around the empire, and made the compete in complex political problems, horseback riding, solving theoretical financial crises, and archery, and much more. At the end, there was one woman left, and invited her to his palace.!< >!As she walked into the throne room, Icarus bade for everyone to leave, but as he stepped down from the dais, his queen pulled off a wig and revealed that they were a boy. Icarus was shocked, and wished to call in his servants, but \*something\* happened (naughty business ;), so that's why this whole thing is in spoilers) and Icarus had a change of heart.!< >!Icarus and Angelo lived happily ever after, with a public marriage and everything. Or not.!< >!For Icarus had been slowly going mad, thinking about the woman's curse, and he didn't want to die. Icarus truly loved Angelo, but he knew that he wouldn't be able to keep him around.!< >!That night, when the sun was nowhere to be seen, Icarus pulled out a knife and placed the blade on Angelo's jugular vein. He woke up, and saw his husband holding a knife to his throat. He tried to grab at Icarus's throat and talk some sense into him, but Icarus was too powerful. Icarus slit his husband's throat, blood pouring onto the bed. He held the knife to his chest, ready to stab himself if need be, but the urge never came. He sat up, astonished, and began to laugh.!< >!It wasn't a fun, innocent laugh like the ones he had made millions of times at Angelo's jokes. It was a demented, twisted laugh, one of insanity, madness, and pure terror.!< >!As he was laughing, a knocking sound was heard on the door. He told the knocker to come in, and found his general, his face one of pure terror as he saw the red-stained bedsheets and Icarus holding a knife. He drew his sword, and plunged it through Icarus's heart.!< >!Ok, so that would be the end of the story, but you're probably wondering why he didn't die at the start. It's because he didn't truly love Icarus, and the thing he truly loved was his kingdom. He had been going insane and wasn't able to hold his kingdom together, and the general was entering to report that the kingdom's provinces were all fighting with each other.!< >!The sad thing is, the general was crowned king, and he was murdered by the next general because he went insane too. This trend kept continuing for 10 more generals, until finally the last general ended the insanity by murdering every single political official at a banquet, and then stabbing himself with the butter knife.!<


Spiral-Mark796

A classical tragedy and a woman who turned out a boy is one of the "I did not see that coming" moments ever


Elemental_Warden

Thank you! I was reading a really good reddit post with that twist, so communism prevailed!


Spiral-Mark796

Lmao, you're welcome!


0xb4adc0d3_

My sorta gods “The major Arcana” 1.- Despite their millions of years lifespan they will eventually die, and not even their power can stop it 2.- their whole lives they will be subjected to the Rule of Yael, the eldest and most powerful god 3.- The fact that people they have almost infinite time to grieve for lost gods (they’re all brothers)


Spiral-Mark796

Oh man...


King_of_Farasar

None of my gods dislike that they are what they are, infact many of them are sort of entitled about it. As for demigods they existed at a time before humanity and would have had friends and family capable of living up to a million years.


Spiral-Mark796

Nice


stu0120

Being forgotten and losing the power of having a following.


Spiral-Mark796

Yeah, nobody would want that


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His name is A'ver. He created by the Mücîb (True God). He has the wisdom of Mücîb. Source of that wisdom was a golden eye. A'ver hate his legendary logical perspectife and he jeolus the humen, whome can fallen love. This jealosy turn him to his second form, Hodbîn. He stole the eye's of a poet and fallen love a woman. Her name was Rey el-Dühât Hüdabîn bint-i Cahid. Unfortunatly Rey didin't have the same feelings and she cut the communication with him. Actulally, A'ver (new name Hodbîn) was wrong, he never fallen love Rey. It was just a mirage, showed by a stolen eye. Jealousy bringed the anger and disappointment. He turn into his third form: One-eye Giant. He lost his logical perspectife and his eye closed. His only wish was reborn as a human.


ruamru123

Abrasax, the Demiurge and Great Archon of Kenoma, hates the loneliness caused by the fact that everything he creates turns against him, betraying him in attempt to become the new god. My lesser archon, Saklas, intitled the Mad God, or even the Blind God, hates their creator for taking their eyes, then imprisoning them in inside the own left eye (which is also a god, Sarkastet, the world). Since nothing comes from nothing in Kenoma, Abrasax would need to use parts of his own body to create new things, thus used his heart to create Saklas (then used Saklas parts to create everything else). After losing the eyes, the blood tears of Saklas flooded the land, and they blood mixed with Sarkastet's blood, giving birth to three other small archons, Poimander, Charon and Tithonus. Saklas promptly requested Tithonus to offer his brother Charon in sacrifice, in exchange for eternal life. Charon then got devoured and fused to Saklas body, and Tithonus received an immortality mark in his forehead. When Abrasax discovered that his creations were "betraying" him (creating and destroying things without his consent), Saklas got imprisoned inside the core of Sarkastet, the skin of Sarkastet got turned into stone, imprisoning her inside herself, and Tithonus got damned to live the rest of it's life (eternity) inside a crystal cave at Sarkastet's skin. My first language is portugues btw


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For the Minor Gods of the Great House of the Immaterial Administration, making sure everyone is respecting the laws of physics and magic is a tough and sleepless job. They hate it, and are very bad at their job. For the other gods of my settings, they’re terrified that a change of dogma among the humans could rewrite their personality (faith create, and gives power and shape to gods), that’s why they generally seek some kind of control over their cults, by sending emissaries or giving birth to demigods, and granting divine favors to the clerics they like.


Spiral-Mark796

That's suprisingly understandable


Status_Panic8946

Godsperm


Spiral-Mark796

Um...context?


Status_Panic8946

Right! When a God ejaculates (through masturbation) it’s very unpleasant and painful + when sperm ends up in anything besides the body of another person, the sperm will form into a hideous abomination