NDNESVI(Reboot): Myths, Legends, and Gods

Ninja Dude · Jun 1, 2016

Greetings! Welcome to NDNESVI, an NES that aims to put players into a fantasy setting of their own design. Players will take up the mantles of gods, goddesses, horrors, heroes, rulers, monsters, and perhaps more. This NES will progress in distinct stages:

Stage 1: Players in this stage are required to assume the title of God (or the equivalent of such). The world is fresh; a sea of nothingness easy to bend to your will. Both the terrain of the world, as well as a massive chunk of its lore will be determined during this portion of the NES. Think of it as creating the background for the more "detailed" stages of the NES. It is also important to note that updates in this portion will cover large periods of time, so extremely complex schemes and time-sensitive plots are probably best left for later. Approximate length of this stage is 5 updates. After that will we transition to...

Stage 2: People may play as Gods, legendary heroes, creatures, adventurers, or rulers. Lots of scheming, epic battles, and probably anything else you'd want. Story telling will be a huge factor in this. Updates will cover one year. While there is no set amount of updates we'll be shooting for, there will be times where I'll ask the players if they'd like to do a a more general. sweeping update in order to advance time faster, or to bring us into the third and final stage.

Stage 3: Players can no longer play as Gods, although almost everything else is still on the table that was available in Stage 2. While conceptualized as the stage that focuses more on the actions of rulers and individuals, we will just have to see how the previous stages shake out before planning this stage out completely. Don't want to get ahead of ourselves!

Rules

Different stages and player-types necessitate different rules depending on the player.

Spoiler Stage I is Complete :

Stage II Rules

Keep in mind that players in Stage II can occupy two roles at once, but never on the same same "tier". For instance, I could play as a god and as a state somewhere on the opposite side of the world. I could play as a group of bankers, as well as an individual adventurer, and so on and so forth.

God Rules and Stats

Name/Player Name
Annual Actions:
Description:

Given that we are slowing down the pace of the NES considerably and moving towards yearly updates, we cannot have Gods using the traditional system any more (Or else we would run into people raising up continents even other year). Instead, a new point system will be introduced to allow much more subtle but consistent action on the part of the Gods, while still enjoying the wow-factor of being an all-powerful deity at times

Points are divided into Weak/Medium/Strong. A weak point is on par with producing a decently talented mage, blessing a mortal with unusual strength, or increasing fertility in a small area. Weak points are basically minor miracles or events that could potentially be attributed to dumb luck or mistaken for the works of a different deity. Medium points will be undeniable proof of divine intervention. Examples would be smiting a particular mortal with a bolt of lightning, creating a magical item, or appearing as a vision to a holy man. Medium points will be what drives forward many plans and plots, although they still pale in comparison to old Minor Actions. Strong points are almost equivalent to the Minor Actions of Stage I, allowing Gods to birth new races, vastly change the climate of a limited area, or created a massively powerful magic item.

In a given year, the average God can expect about 3 Weak Points, 1 Medium Point, and 0 Strong Points. Accomplishing extraordinary goals, suddenly amassing tons of followers, or otherwise gaining power from elsewhere could potentially result in gaining a Strong Point.

Spoiler God Example :

Country Rules and Stats

Name/Player Name:
Government:
Leader/Governing Body:
Factions:
-Faction Descriptions
Annual Income:
Annual Expenses:
Military:
Military Description:
Cultural Description:
Description

Name: Self explanatory. This will be the name of a given country, accompanied by the player in control of it.

Government: What type of government controls this government. Given the wide variety of races, the prevalence of magic, and the utter chaos in this world, types of government can vary quite a bit.

Leader/Governing Body: Who is in charge of this country?

Factions: Rarely will everyone in a country be on the same page. Factions represent large and/or influential groups within a country who may or may not be happy with the direction things are going. Factions can lend their support and offer to fund a war they deem as just, or actively conspire to bring destruction to a decaying empire. Each faction will be given a short description to give you insight into their power, level of cooperation, and values.

Annual Income: Another rather self explanatory stat. As of right now, there aren't many commonly used currencies, so we're just going to go with an arbitrary number to represent wealth. This income is how much money the government or administration of a country bring in; a relatively prosperous country with low taxes might be considered rich, but its income will reflect the fact that it has not really tapped into that wealth for spending purposes. Income can be banked, although vast stores of wealth lend themselves to being the target of adventurers, beasts, and corrupt government officials alike.

Annual Expenses:This is a total count of expenses that must be paid every year to ensure things run smoothly. This includes troop maintenance, "other military costs," and domestic spending.

Troop Costs are as follows:

5 Infantry : 1 Gold per year
1 Cavalry: 1Gold per year
10 Levies: 1 Gold per year
1 Ship: 50 Gold per year
1 Siege Train: 500 Gold per year

Costs or troops unique to a nation will have the costs listed in their military stats. For instance, most Vahorsehockeye countries receive a discount on their mages, due to relatively high number of mages they possess. Likewise, nations with giants can recruit them for higher prices.

Other military costs include things like fort maintenance, supplying troops on campaign, and producing arms and armor if your nation utilizes non-standard weaponry.

Domestic Spending is a little bit more flexible, but in general you can expect to pay around 500 per city to ensure it functions smoothly, although giving certain cities or regions autonomy may mean decreases in cost. Infrastructure varies in price depending on terrain, population, and the size of a country. Supporting massive constructions, public works, and other such projects are included in domestic spending.

Military: The military in this stage will be based off of End of Empires, with the bulk of many armies consisting of Infantry, Cavalry, Levies, and the occasional Siege Train. However, given the fantastical nature of this NES, there will also be units like dragons, magi, and other such forces on the battlefield that warrant separate stats. These troops will have their upkeep listed separate from other troop types. In order to hire new troops, simply say so in orders and pay their upkeep for that year. However, the quality and makeup of certain troop types isn't uniform across all nations. States ruled by giants may have infantry that is mostly made up of giants, while levies and cavalry comprise of humans and half giants. For fine details like this we move onto...

Military Description: This is a more qualitative stat than the hard numbers of the Military stat. Situations like the one mentioned above would be mentioned here. What type of magi are popular in this state? How skilled are the infantry in this country? Are the levies comprised entirely on the undead?

Cultural Description: This will be a mishmash of the cultures, religions, and races found in this country. It is likely that not all of the mortals in a country have the same religion, or that they are even of the same race. This helps give a quick snapshot of the demographics of a country.

Description: Link to appropriate wiki page.

Figured I'd use Vasheroth as an example, although some numbers and costs might not be finalized. I took some liberties with numbers here; this isn't necessarily canon and Jeho can point out any mistake I made if he wants to

Spoiler Country Example :

Group Rules and Stats:

Stage II will allow players to assume control of a group smaller than a country, should they so choose. This could be a guild, a cult, or a band of mercenaries! Players are welcome to be creative with this and to discuss with me any questions they might have about a potential Group they wish to play as. A solid rule of thumb: if it doesn't control enough land to be visible on the map but has more influence than a party of adventurers, then it probably qualifies as a Group. For individual characters and parties of adventurers, see rules for Individuals.

Name/Player Name
Leader or Governing Body
Holdings
Membership
Annual Income
Annual Expenses
Military (if applicable)
Military Description (if applicable)
Group Description

These stats are largely identical to those of a country, with the exception of Holdings and Membership. Other than these two different stats, read everything like it would apply to a country.

Holdings: Lands, buildings, and estates under the control of this group. A guild may have facilities in several cities, while a group of mercenaries might control a single fort on the frontier. Some groups might not even have holdings!

Membership: Describes what kind and how many people are within the group at the moment. Keep in mind that this is all relative; a group of cultists might consider dozens of members to be an all-time high, while a prestigious mercenary company might need several thousand troops and camp followers to consider themselves up to snuff.

For this example, I will take the Order of the Adamant, since they are a decently well known group:

Spoiler Group Example :

Individual Rules and Stats

Name/Player Name
Age
Possessions
Followers
Description

Name: The name of a character

Age: The age of your character. Certain beings might find this stat rather inconsequential if they are immortal or very long lived.

Possessions: A character's possessions will be listed here, obviously. This include their wealth, any land or holdings they possess, horses, exotic pets, ect. It must be of significance though to be listed here. A character's wealth will also be included in this stat.

Followers: If a character is a member of a small party, has a family, or even just a dedicated partner, they will most likely be indicated under this stat.

Spoiler Individual Example :

It should be noted at you can be almost anything as an Individual; I will permit beings of any race or social status, so long as you show a genuine interest in staying in character. Yes, this includes playing as magical beasts, mundane peasants, and traveling magi. If playing as a non-sentient being, don't expect to have many possessions or followers. However, you will still be updated on...whatever you're doing.

Ninja Dude · Jun 1, 2016

Statistics

Spoiler God Stats :

Spoiler Country Stats :

Ninja Dude · Jun 1, 2016

Spoiler Country Stats Continued :

Spoiler Group Stats :

Spoiler Individual Stats :

Races

Many races occupy Creation, as well as other planes of existence that are connected to it. Humanity is easily the most common and familiar to outside observers, yet even the basic human of Creation is far more powerful than the average human on our own Earth. I encourage you to refer to these links when you run across beings you are unfamiliar with.

Magic

This is a world of gods, and so it is unsurprising that magic permeates throughout it. Aside from divine powers that provide gods with nearly limitless abilities, mortals have access to their own schools of magic and techniques. Different types of magic have different sources, side-effects, and risks. Aside from the schools of magic listed, many mortals practice a generic type of magic you might think of when you imagine a stereotypical wizard. Self-taught mortals or those blessed by Vash have their magical abilities manifest in this way.

Artifacts

Artifacts are magical items or ones of significant importance within Creation. There are no doubt countless artifacts throughout Creation at this point, but these are those that have been relevant to the affairs of gods and heroes at this point in time. Each page should also reveal the location of an artifact, if that is public knowledge.

Spoiler Political Map :

Spoiler City Map :

Spoiler Good ol Climate Map :

Spoiler Populations :

Ninja Dude · Jun 1, 2016

Updates and Stories

Spoiler :

LINK TO OUR WIKI JUST IN CASE YA MISSED IT

Ninja Dude · Jun 1, 2016

Update 6 Finished!
Orders and applications are tentatively due July 14th

thomas.berubeg · Jun 1, 2016

Nyubar: God of Life and Death.

Nyubar takes on many forms. Always human, most often male, Nyubar the deathly and Nyubar the shining appears in the shape most needed by the individual. Nyubar ensures the safe passage of souls both into the world and out of it. He greets each being born and comforts every dead. Yet, despite this, Nyubar serves as warden and gatekeeper. What exists on the other side of that gate is not for him.

Major Action: the Gift of Life
Nyubar ensures that all life has a chance to prosper. He gives humans, and all who come from humans the Will, resolve, courage, and, most importantly, hope, with which to eke out a living even in the harshest of conditions.

Minor action 1: Nyubar will find the tallest mountain, and at its summit, nyubar will carve his citadel.. within it's stepped walls will be a fertile Vale, and rich lands with trees and plants not seen outside (golden apples, lotuses, singing flowers)

Minor Action 2: Nyubar will take the wisest, the bravest, the best of all people, and bring them to his citadel to see as it's caretakers.

inthesomeday · Jun 1, 2016

Rüla/inthesomeday

Description: Rüla rose from the sea as doubt, a shapeless shadow melting its way into the corners of the world and the twitches of the alive and dead alike. Rüla manifests as any number of shapes, sometimes biological and sometimes geometric, sometimes natural.

In control of fear, doubt, madness, Rüla's creations will be those creatures that crawl in the dark and under cover of forest canopies. Slithering and crawling critters belong in the breath of Rüla.

Major action: Bite into the greatest peaks of the world, and sink fingers curled like claws into the deepest chasms, flowing into them the shadow of a screaming darkness, and fill the minds of the creatures wandering the ground with the fear in the back of all thought.

Minor action: The Many Minds of Rüla have just as many voices; however, Rüla is singular in action, and it may serve a beneficial roll to simplify into a singular physical form in a dark place for council with mortals and immortals who wish to serve the passions of Rüla. Work towards a centralization of Rüla's form as well as creating a place to live, probably a forest with evil trees.

Minor action: The creatures born from Rüla first are those that fill the nightmares of the conscious, and only three were able to escape the grasping maws of the Tendrils of the Many Minds: Spiders, who were stretched from stones in the dark, snakes, which were born of the dripping spirals of blackest blood, and the first Raven, whose offspring would serve Rüla well as mouths from which to spread fear across the world.

erez87 · Jun 1, 2016

First there was nothing, and then it was cold.

In the center of all rose a pillar of true cold. Not ice but the pure idea of what cold is. The pillar stood there, it's cold slowly spreading to the world around it, freezing anything that was too near.

The pillar grew as more around it became a cold wasteland, it grew further and larger than anything before it. Larger than the largest beast, bigger than the biggest mountain. Then, when it reached the top of the world, it cracked. The crack took days to move through the entire pillar, but when it reached its top the pillar shattered.

I came out of it. Me. Inside the pillar I drew the energy of all that was around and formed myself. Of all the creatures that lived I took the form of a humanoid. An enormous humanoid made of water that froze by the coldest of temperatures. But the power of the pillar ceased when it shattered and I became the cold. Blue deep eyes of mine looked into the distance. I watched my body stretch, my legs, my hands, my head moved about. And then came the time that I took my first step.

It didn’t matter what direction I took, for all was south of me. I was the North. The cold frozen north. As my leg came up above the forming ground under me winds begun to blow from where the pillar once was and where I was moments ago. The winds blew strongly outwards in all directions, and anything around became frozen for all eternity. As my steps continued The wind grew stronger and covered more lands.

As I walked the great tundra created around me formed my truest of homes. Where cold rules supreme over all else, where life can barely etch an existence beyond my will. I looked around into the endless frozen wasteland and felt a joy. It was a strange warmth within, within that human call a heart. It was a strange feeling, nearly painful, but I wished for more of it. More frozen lands, more of what I may call home.

I continued my walk and saw the humans, they were dying from my never ending cold. Some looked up as I walked passed them, screaming in voices I could barely hear. I continued my stride, as joy filled me more and more and cold filled the world.

I reached a point where my winds turned weak. I crossed large swaths of land, and my cold weakened. Warmth covered my body, but left my inside, joy was no longer within me. I looked back into what I have created, the vast endless frozen lands of what I called north. The humans on the edges of my cold frozen lands did not die as quickly as the others. I looked at them moving about, hunting the animals that I allowed in my tundra. I was surprised to learn I enjoyed watching them, moving about, building their tents, hunting game, fishing fish, birthing more humans.

The humans far beneath me saw me as well. Some ran away screaming whenever I came near, but others moved closer, and screamed those screams I heard before. This time I lowered myself to the human nearby, and took it with my palm, putting it near my ear.

The human was simplistic. He asked that I allow them to live within my frozen lands. He asked for the ability to survive the extreme cold far to the north of here, closer to where I was born. I thought for a moment, took to human closer to my mouth and blew a great cold wind at him.

As the cold entered his veins his size begun to grow and expand. What was once a tiny human now grew ten times larger, perhaps more. Bigger than many of the beasts of this world, the human was now a giant. Instead of its old warm red blood, it turned blue and frozen. Instead of warmth it now seeked the cold. The giant, now half of my size looked at me, thanked me, and asked that I do the same to his family.

As the tiny humans came near I blew upon them all my greatest breath yet, and a new family of giants I created. They thanked me and returned to their old doings of hunting and fishing, of birthing and playing about.

Pleased with my creation I begun to walk back to where I was born, to see if my home is ready.

Cold North - god of the north, god of cold and frozen lands, creator of giants, the largest of all, that who came from the pillar. Called Kross in giant culture.

Major action: Out of the pillar came a great cold that creates a massive northern frozen land that covers as much as allowed. This land is home for strange creatures, both biological and ice beings born of the cold. The biological creatures tend to be either very small or very very large. This cold land is my home as I walk around it, and it is innately cold, it creates the cold, and only a great power could stop it from being frozen.

Minor action: Take a human family and breath it into giant humans, ten times the size of a normal human. These giant family will behave as if they were normal humans, but they will have blue cold blood of unknown probably magically cold material, and will seek the cold. They will also seek strength as it becomes the key to their culture in the frozen lands, as only the strongest survive.

Minor action: Out of my cold land a never ending wind will blow outwards in an attempt to freeze the entire world. It could be stopped by massive physical barriers or by an opposing hot front. The wind will have periodic times where it gets stronger and weaker, creating a very cold season every hundred years all over the world, only to be followed by a sudden hot summer as the winds instantly go back to being their regular strength for another hundred years. This wind is a form of magical energy that can be tapped into by non-godly beings with the ability to use magic if ever one comes to exist...

SouthernKing · Jun 1, 2016

Achandasha, Goddess of Night and Heavenly Knowledge is immaterial. She has no form; she is the night itself. There can only be day in her sleep; because all things must sleep, even night. She has little care for mortal affairs, so long as mortal affairs do not touch the universe.

Major Action: Achandasha, wishing to give the resting world a spectacular backdrop, creates a spectacular, multicoloured display in the heavens - orders of magnitude more brilliant than our own. A great world, like our own, but in all the colours of the rainbow, dominates the heavens, surrounded by five smaller worlds; the keen-eyed can discern that one appears to be a vast ocean, one appears to be an ice world, one appears to be molten, one appears to be a desert, and the last appears to be a lush garden. Behind this are the stars themselves. All this rotates like clockwork.

Minor Action: Achandasha creates a divine crystal-like object containing all the secrets of the universe - the workings of the heavens amongst them - and buries it under an island. Touching it allows one to commune with Achandasha herself.

Minor Action: Around this crystal, Achandasha bestows its inhabitants with all the world's knowledge and the task of protecting it and enlightening those whom they deem worthy. A nocturnal community forms on the island.

Double A · Jun 1, 2016

Rios, the Random Number God/AA

Description: RNG is actually a polyhedral shape with infinite sides but usually takes the form of whatever it damn well feels like, because that's how it rolls.

Major: Portals linked to one another exist pretty much anywhere and everywhere. Each one has a key: an object, a tune, a thought, jogging, a mood, etc. Some even lead to other planets, but none are permanent. Rios lives in a hub of portals which constantly changes location, time, and state of matter.

Minor: Five human families far from each other are blessed by Rios. The firstborn of each generation is destined for great success and/or great failure. Their lines will never go extinct.

Minor^2: Every god needs a favored race, so now penguins can shoot laser beams (ie: a concentrated beam of light on a distinct wavelength) from their eyes. This will simultaneously make hunting and defense easier while also teach them the joys of cooked meat. They can also fly.

Ninja Dude · Jun 1, 2016

Double A said:
Rios, the Random Number God/AA

Description: RNG is actually a polyhedral shape with infinite sides but usually takes the form of whatever it damn well feels like, because that's how it rolls.

Major: Portals linked to one another exist pretty much anywhere and everywhere. Each one has a key: an object, a tune, a thought, jogging, a mood, etc. Some even lead to other planets, but none are permanent. Rios lives in a hub of portals which constantly changes location, time, and state of matter.

Minor: Five human families far from each other are blessed by Rios. The firstborn of each generation is destined for great success and/or great failure. Their lines will never go extinct.

Minor^2: Penguins can shoot laser beams from their eyes.

Aside from that last point, I believe everything can work here. Creativity is appreciated, but so is trying to create an immersive environment

Welcome aboard!

Everyone else: Applications look good! I'm shooting for around 10 players before I begin work on the update, although having more than 10 is perfectly fine!

Double A · Jun 1, 2016

do I need to invent penguins first or what

Novice_Writer54 · Jun 1, 2016

Definitely in. Just give me a sec to decide what to do.

As I'm mentioned I'm quite new to writing, so advice would be appreciated.

(EDIT: Highlighting that as a novice writer, advice would be appreciated making my plots work.)

Patron, God of Ambition

Description: Patron is not distinct from humanity- it is humanity, and cannot survive without it. An abstraction of the human respect for epic heroes, Patron cares for one thing, and only one thing- the creation of Epic Stories. To Patron, moral value consists of playing a role in a sufficiently epic Story and either achieving heroic feats, particularly martial or strategic, or dying in the attempt. It consists in unshakable loyalty to men or ideals, which would not die even if the Universe itself faded. It does not consist in human life, freedom of choice, or anything else.

Patron will take a human, implant in them ambitions beyond their reach, and have their crash and burn spectacularly trying to achieve them. And it will think it is doing them a favor.

Major Action: Patron will create the principle of "Chi", applying to all races capable of long term ambitions and not in any way dependent on favor from Patron or any other God.

The stronger a person's ambitions, or in truly extraordinary cases the stronger their loyalty to an ideal or person, the more "Chi" they posses. An individual with Chi is the equal of hundreds of men in battle, and excels just as dazzlingly in speed, strength, stamina, and any martial skill they care to learn. They also gain an immunity to powers used against themselves to a certain extent, whether magic, blood magic, or any other.

Self-doubt or divided loyalties cripples good Chi. Any circumstances that increase motivation (even minor things, such as feeling insulted by an enemy leader) increase the amount of Chi power to a non-trivial degree as long as it exists in the first place. Having a code of honor that is honestly believed in and followed no matter how great the disadvantage increases Chi the more restrictive it is, but only if it is founded in an honest belief in the rightness of the code and if the holder of the code has never broken it.

The bare minimum amount of emotional motivation necessary to have Chi at all is equivalent to the level of a man whose entire family was murdered in front of their eyes out for revenge). But such a man is the equal of hundreds with only the ordinary motivation of conscripted peasants.

Minor Action: The foundation of a group known as the Cult. The Cult are sentients protected and provided for by Patron, who see their role as manipulating the world to encourage the creation of great heroes strong in Chi no matter what they have to do to create it. Cult membership is secret, and the group are very well trained in espionage so they are better able to accomplish their goal.

"Cult" membership is voluntary, but off limits to those who have awakened "Chi" power (people who the Cult are supposed to treat with great respect, even reverence, despite the fact the Cult are often ruining their lives). The member goes through a ritual in which they sell their life to Patron and swear to keep Patron's secrets, in exchange for the Cult training them and Patron providing for them and their families (if secretly). The penalty for breaking this pact is death.

Minor Action: The creation of the "Yinshung" transformation. Any sentient could do it, but the stronger a person's emotions the easier it is. The threshold to make it even possible in the first place is comparable to, for a human, a man who has found their entire family murdered and wants revenge. Instinctively, at that level of emotion the sentient can tap into their Chi and form it around only their single desire.

The Yinshung is totally consumed by one thing and one thing alone. Literally nothing else matters- not laws, not any other emotion, not sentient life in general. However, the Yinshung's Ki increases drastically, including their capacity to be immune to the powers of others without being affected themselves.

Yinshung are capable of romantic love and sexual reproduction in theory, but are not bound to it.

Certain emotions make becoming a Yinshung easier. Usually a Yinshung will be consumed either by love or loyalty to an individual, a great hatred or desire for revenge, or loyalty to some moral ideal that inspires them. Less common are jealousy making them want to overcome or surpass somebody they see as better than them no matter what the cost to the universe or in human life, a desire to fulfill an oath or promise no matter what, or bringing prestige to their "in-group" (family, tribe, etc) in such a way as to compensate for it having been shamed in the eyes of the world. Whatever their motive, innocent lives, moral principles outside their personal code of honor, compassion, and even the existence of the Universe itself is irrelevant except insofar as it affects their goal.

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NinjaCow64 · Jun 1, 2016

Oh, I do love a good god game. Do you have a rough idea of when the first update will begin? I have exams right now, probably not a good idea to make a signup when exams are on.

Terrance888 · Jun 1, 2016

He was. He always was.

From before he could remember he walked through the nothingness that was everything. That is, until nothing became something, and he almost walked into it.

The oceans hissed at the ears he did not know he had. The sea’s stench stung the nose he did not know he had. The steam billowed against the skin he did not know he had.

And yet there’s more.

His face opened, and the salty spray splashed upon the tongue he did not know he had. And he shouted, his voice echoing from the mouth he did not know he had. And the endless seas responded.

His face opened. Twice this time. And a great sea greeted the eyes his did not know he had. And from within, poured forth a great power he did not know he had.

For what is an existence absence of knowing? Is this what it is like to be born, blinking into existence from nothingness? It wasn’t until then that he realized he was glowing with light and power.

Unchained.

For ignorance can breed the greatest terror.

Entire oceans of water boiled away from his first glance, from the unadulterated power flowing from his eyes. His eyes widened, and the sea wailed and the steam billowed, until the very water parted from his sight. He glanced upward, and his burning eyes cleaved the day from the night. And then… and then... he closed them.

For knowledge can breed the greatest horror.

Once, everything was nothing, and nothing was everything. Now, some of everything became something from nothing, but he almost made everything from something to nothing. And it was all his fault.

He reaches out tenderly, but the sea hisses and retreats once more from his touch.

He retreats back sadly, unseeing, until only the edge of this… something laid within his senses.

And he begun to pace.

He could feel at the edge of his senses, as something became… something else. Something more. Life. Night… Cold.

And he felt his heat and light flicker as Cold, Cold spread, silencing the life, silencing the sea, wrapping all in stillness.

And he felt his heart that he did not know he have jump. He takes a single step towards the World of Something…

And the Cold retreats.

The Life flickers and withers.

The Night remains forever out of reach.

He will be alone, it seems. With great power comes great lonliness.

He paces again, a single tear he did not know he had falling towards the World.

And his light shines through it, and the first Rainbow graced the world. It shone brilliantly as the tear turned into steam, into clouds. It shone brightly as it fell, wrapping into itself, into falling cloud. And then, as it stopped and flew in a graceful arc from the ground.

It realizes…

It is alive.

Tai

Tai is not just the God of the Sun, but is literally The First Sun. There may be more Suns in the future, but Tai is the first.

Tai is very powerful, but he is also very afraid of his power. The great power within him shines through his brilliant eyes as radiant and deadly light. It emerges from his mouth as the oppressive Tai wind. It emerges from his skin as the First Sun.

Tai is lonely. He has finally realized there is something, but he can never touch it, never see it, without destroying it. And he loves it too much to destroy it, turn it back into nothing. He paces around the world to stay close to it without stopping in one spot too much, but also because he is used to walking since… an eternity ago.

Tai’s power is not limitless. Here, at the birth of the world it is immense and seems endless, but how much can he give without receiving anything?

He can give his love. He can give his light.

And he can last as long as necessary for something to become everything.

Depiction: A sun with closed eyes, a single tear emerging from one of them. Sometimes shown as a brilliant figure, back faced towards the fourth wall, on a constant walk.

Symbols: The Rainbow, The First Sun

Major Action: Approaches the world too closely and wreaks great havoc, then retreats too far and saw the advancing frost, before finding a middle ground marking the heavens with his chosen footsteps. His mere presence is light of fantastical magnitude.

His mere glance boils away the center of the great sea and forms vast continents of dry land.

A gigantic rift reaches from a massive crater of eternal liquid rock all the way to the horizon, where he first carves day from night.

Other than the rift and the molten rock, the rest of the land is virgin and develops naturally.

Minor Action 1: The first chromarchs form. The chromarchs are angel-like or archon-like beings, sentient rainbows trapped within clouds of steam, given life from his light.

Every rainbow results in a birth of a chromarch, at least in these bright, halcyon days.

Chromarchs are curious but shy.

Minor Action 2: I think I’ll just spend this to make sure my other two actions work out

Angst · Jun 1, 2016

AA, I'm sure you are able to participate amusingly without being counterproductively silly

@NinjaDude looks good, tentatively reserving a god of love, expecting to write it out later.

Double A · Jun 1, 2016

I'm sure too, but this is more fun.

Novice_Writer54 · Jun 1, 2016

Question- Anyone interested in starting up some kind of joint story plot? I have some ideas for how Patron's actions can impact the world, but in my view joint stories are always more fun.

I have some ideas of my own, but I'm up to try somebody else's as well.

Ninja Dude · Jun 1, 2016

NinjaCow64 said:
Oh, I do love a good god game. Do you have a rough idea of when the first update will begin? I have exams right now, probably not a good idea to make a signup when exams are on.

I will most likely start working on the update once we hit around 8-10 players. After that, it might take me two or three days to make the update. Join whenever it is convenient for you!

Angst said:
AA, I'm sure you are able to participate amusingly without being counterproductively silly

@NinjaDude looks good, tentatively reserving a god of love, expecting to write it out later.

Thanks! I look forward to seeing what you have in store.

NinjaCow64 · Jun 1, 2016

Ninja Dude said:
I will most likely start working on the update once we hit around 8-10 players. After that, it might take me two or three days to make the update. Join whenever it is convenient for you!

In that case I might not be able to join in for the first round but I will try my hardest to. Good luck with this game regardless.

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