GodNES - The Beast with a Thousand Backs

[Lord_Iggy]

We'll get along swimmingly.

 

[Terrance888]

Beware the flaying pirana. You would wish they had eaten you alive.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

GodNES? I can't pass this up.

Deity name: Ballestoniormelatimusty
Embodiment: Alcohol, Drugs, Lust, and Parties
Player: Thomas.Berubeg
Description: A fickle and flighty god, Bal spends the time until sentience develops by playing with the alcohol produced by bacterias and yeasts.
First turn realm: A fertile plain full of grapes, fruits, and Grains.

 

[Terrance888]

I'd like all our plains together please! Other gods please confirm.

 

[Arrow Gamer]

Is it wrong I want to change my god again?

Edit: yeah, doing it. Reserving luck, change and fate.

Sorry about my indeciveness, but that's Arrow being Arrow, I guess.

 

[Milarqui]

I'm quite certain that all of us overlap, to various extents. Certainly you may profit from all this life, Primanus, but do not forget that every beast and plant casts a shadow.

There is no life without death, and no death without life. That is a truth that is unavoidable.

 

[Arrow Gamer]

Deity name: Jarquin
Embodiment: Luck, Chance, Fate, Prophecy
Player: Arrow Gamer
Description: Jarquin is a shapeshifter, with nearly no bounds on what he can assume, ranging from a massive giant to an ant. However, his favored form is that of a slim, teenage boy, with chestnut curls and golden eyes.

Although fate and change seem a strange juxtaposition, they are in fact deeply intertwined. Death is often preordained, yes, but all else is constantly changing with the actions of the subject and others. While a prophecy will always come true, its exact meaning is often vague and may not even be known without careful examination, and often has hundreds of possible fulfillment.

Seen as a trickster, Jarquin often presents that facade, but is in fact quite serious when something of import arises. He does not involve himself in the conflicts of the gods as a general rule, as he does not know their outcome, but can be swayed to through the dice.
First turn realm: Create a land of rock where those who enter oft times go insane from their constantly changing nature and the fact that probability is hopelessly skewed under the twisted arches.

 

[Tycho]

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Bair, want to be rivals?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

There is no life without death, and no death without life. That is a truth that is unavoidable.

Oh, I am no deity of death. I am merely concerned with fear, and the living experience it in fantastic abundance.

 

[Bair_the_Normal]

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Bair, want to be rivals?

Tsamnir respectfully shoots down that opinion.

Tsamnir is perfectly fine with chaos, as long as there is order to balance it out. Tsamnir suggests another rival for Lafindreeth, maybe the High Judge of the Universe, Lawgiver of Existence, Lord of the Laws can work?

Just one of Tsamnir's prods, you know.

 

[Terrance888]

Tsamnir should lube his prodding.

 

[Shadowbound]

Everyone wants a ride on his badass goat.

Deity name: Rintrah, He Who Shapes What Is, Lord of Revelation, Feeder on Impurity
Embodiment: Fire
Player: Shadowbound
Description: Rintrah is, depending on who you listen to, born from the flames of the First Sun or the First Sun given divine form. He is a burning, glowing being, indistinct and yet present in a way that is difficult to comprehend. He is a being of fire, but views that fire as a tool: a way to shape, and change, and mold both the physical, the mental, and the spiritual towards perfection. This drive for progress, an ill-defined concept, defines him, and he sees eternity as a constant pursuit of a platonic ideal that is constantly changing as he does. To reach it is inconceivable, it is the progress itself that is the goal. But if he ever attains his personal or external goals, he will find that it is not the enlightenment he seeks, as he himself has changed in his definition of perfection in the process.

Rintrah's goal, his eternal process of shaping and becoming, brings him into conflict with other Gods frequently. He is never content with the way things are, seeing the good as the enemy of the perfect, the stable as a hindrance to the better. Every system can be improved, every society is flawed in some respect. He is a being of Chaos, as he is of Fire: they are tools. And the multiverse is his workbench.

If he ever gains worshippers he will constantly drive them through divine visions and trials, having no difficulty in discarding those who fail to meet his exacting standards. Most depictions of Rintrah, as carved by mortals, will possess multiple limbs, heads, or aspects, in order to emphasize his superhuman capabilities. Six arms, a thousand wings, many heads, a great snake eating its own tail: how else should mortals see the Feeder on Impurity? He is ever-young and always different, as fire is reborn every day. Religious rituals to him will involve sacrifice and offerings through fire: wealth, food, humans. His followers prove their worthiness by giving up worldly possessions. He has two aspects in mortal worship: the destructive quality and his role as a creator. Creative destruction, or recreation of the destroyed anew.

Reincarnation and enlightenment play an important role in Rintrah's view. Afaja is not truly dead, but simply remade as the world, and his death was simply the next step on the road to perfection. Mortals, likewise, are aspects of Afaja, much as Gods are, and their purpose is to improve themselves so as to improve the world as a whole. Rintrah, likewise, is reborn with every "death" as a new being.

First turn realm: VOLCANOES.
FIRE SHAPES THE EARTH AS IT SHAPED THE HEAVENS/
THEY SHALL CLEANSE THEMSELVES OF IMPERFECTIONS/
WHEN FIRE ON EARTH AND FIRES IN HEAVEN MEET/
THEN NOT EVEN A GOD CAN STAND THE HEAT.

now in Iambic pentameter!

 

[Terrance888]

Mhm. I wonder if I should submit something more Premidoriwhatial. Thwapp is a more early cultural trickster/cursed figure.

 

[Patchy]

Deity name: Rintrah, He Who Shapes What Is, Lord of Revelation, Feeder on Impurity
Embodiment: The Sun
Player: Shadowbound
Description: Rintrah is, depending on who you listen to, born from the flames of the First Sun or the First Sun given divine form. He is a burning, glowing being, indistinct and yet present in a way that is difficult to comprehend. He is a being of fire, but views that fire as a tool: a way to shape, and change, and mold both the physical, the mental, and the spiritual towards perfection. This drive for progress, an ill-defined concept, defines him, and he sees eternity as a constant pursuit of a platonic ideal that is constantly changing as he does. To reach it is inconceivable, it is the progress itself that is the goal. If he ever gains worshippers he will constantly drive them through divine visions and trials, having no difficulty in discarding those who fail to meet his exacting standards.
First turn realm: VOLCANOES. FIRE SHALL SHAPE THE EARTH AS IT HAS SHAPED THE HEAVENS, AND THEY SHALL REACH TOWARDS EACH OTHER AND PURSUE PERFECTION, FOR WHEN THE FIRES OF THE EARTH AND THE FIRES OF HEAVEN MEET THERE SHALL BE SUCH AN INFERNO THAT EVEN A GOD CAN FEEL THE HEAT.

... Did you even read all the applications? I've had the Sun domain for a long time, so I'd appreciate it if you changed your application.

 

[Bair_the_Normal]

Tsamnir thinks that this world needs more suns.

It would balance gravity in all that jazz.

Except Tsamnir doesn't know what gravity or jazz is.

 

[Shadowbound]

... Did you even read all the applications? I've had the Sun domain for a long time, so I'd appreciate it if you changed your application.

Actually, no, I just checked for Fire gods. But, now that I have read, I recommend you do the same. Read the OP, you'll see that Ahaja's death was caused by the First Sun. Ergo, you, as the right eye of Ahaja, cannot be the creator of the First Sun. You've managed to contradict what little canon there is, while also claiming to be one of the Primordials when such is dependent on the strength of the application.

Also, the Sun is a big place. We can share.

EDIT: I've switched it back to Fire as I'm going to contradict someone anyway. I would warn you that it is the quality of your application that plays a role in being a Primordial, not who got here first or who claims to have made the First Sun. First come first serve rewards those with lots of free time and has an imperfect correlation with quality.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

OOC: Or we could go with my proposal that we have two suns... as much as a god of darkness would loathe that.

 

[Shadowbound]

Mhm. I wonder if I should submit something more Premidoriwhatial. Thwapp is a more early cultural trickster/cursed figure.

Most pantheons have a trickster-like figure figuring prominently into the founding mythos, assuming important roles. Prometheus, Hermes, Anansi, Coyote, Loki, Lorkhan.

 

[Patchy]

Actually, no, I just checked for Fire gods. But, now that I have read, I recommend you do the same. Read the OP, you'll see that Ahaja's death was caused by the First Sun. Ergo, you, as the right eye of Ahaja, cannot be the creator of the First Sun. You've managed to contradict what little canon there is, while also claiming to be one of the Primordials when such is dependent on the strength of the application.

Also, the Sun is a big place. We can share.

That's not what I got from the intro and I read it thoroughly. Furthermore Angst said that my submission was perfectly fine so you're wrong about the contradicting part, once again I suggest you actually read the thread before posting stuff.

Not sure if Angst will allow there to be more than one Sun God. He said that there can only be one Primordial Death god but the two applications were significantly different.

 

[Seon]

Actually, I chose not to become a Death God in the end because of a simple reason.

The only reason why this world exists is because of the DEATH of a demonic turtle.

This follows that, for the demonic turtle to be killed by the First Sun, that the concept and the physical reality of death and dying PREDATES the Primordials and the demon turtle.

Ergo, my god of Memories and Secrets does not cause the death of things. It merely comes to take down their life story when death naturally comes to them. If the Grim Reaper can be understood as a Harvester of Souls, the Curator is more like a scavenger. The Harvester reaps, the scavenger finds.

Despite the fact that the Curator's can only be perceived as a disembodied voice in a passing wind, here's how some minds may view the Curator:

Spoiler :

TL;DR

There can be no primordial God of Death because Death existed before the Primordials.