Imagine a world known as Altreni, a fantastical world filled with monsters, magic, and deities. Mortals would pray to their chosen god(s) and potentially receive blessings in exchange for the power boost the deities obtained. However, things weren't always like this, for you see, deities did not always exist. They started out as an idea that the mortals came up with to explain why they themselves were alive and living. Through prayer and faith the deities were born from a mysterious magical energy known as "Divine Magic". This was separate from "Arcane Magic" which came from a mortals inner self. Deities lived very well, praised and worshiped by the mortals. However, this was not always meant to be.

One day a deity known as "Jeno" betrayed the rest of the deities. While fights with deities were common, especially between minor ones, this was different. You see "Jeno" was revered as a saint, a deity who did no wrong and would always help those in need. He had a huge base of worshipers which sent him power, and while he wasn't the greatest he was still easily in the top five most known deities. Practically everyone knew of him, save for a few isolated tribes and such. Despite having one of the largest base of worshipers Jeno was not known for his combat expertise, and instead preached peace, love and nonviolence. However, Jeno was in reality power hungry. He was not always like this, and used to be all about peace and love, but as time progressed he wanted more and more power. To be the top god and rule over everything and everyone, and create a new kingdom and era. So continuing his charade he finally met with the strongest deity known as "Alithos" who trumped every other god in worshipers. Jeno set up a trap and caught Alithos off guard using artifacts to augment his fighting capabilities. During the fight Alithos was injured severely, however his raw magical power was enough to overcome Jeno, defeating him with a decisive blow before opening up a portal to the void, a pocket dimension with a huge size containing no matter or light. Jeno was imprisoned there, and soon enough his powers would fade as his worshipers energy would not be able to cross dimensions.

News spread throughout the Upper World, (heaven - home of the deities) and eventually reached the mortals. The mortals believing that Jeno was innocent and that this was simply propaganda began to renounce their faith leaving the vast majority of deities weakened. Mortals began to distrust the deities, and eventually wars were started over this incident. In the end the worshipers numbers were cut down by a large margin, to the point where humans (who were by far the largest species population wise) only made up two and a half times the total number of worshipers as the second largest minor species known as elves, with dwarves right behind them. Now that the deities have been weakened some prefer to stay in their own pocket dimension and hide away, some prefer to live on Altreni amongst the mortals and blend in, while a few have even sought to defend the mortals from creatures in exchange for worship.

In this RP you will be able to take on the role of either a mortal or deity. PC Deities are powerful beings and will start off 1.5x times stronger than the minor miscellaneous gods, whilst mortal PCs will start off at 0.75x as powerful as the weakest miscellaneous deities.

Is anyone interested?

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BCTheEntity will be co-host of this RP.

Greetings, all. I'm going to be the co-host for this game, as gamma will be able to confirm, and I'm personally looking forward to seeing who'll show up to participate.

Oh, i was looking for a god rp.

I am currently in a nation RP, but its low intensity so i have loads of time left for a second rp.

So colour me interested.
So let's say i want to make a god, for example a sorcery god or a war god.
What can i do? Can i soar down from the heavens and pwn some armies at will, or is it more like in exalted where yes, you are powerful but one needs to use some effort to destroy a group of troops. And can basically not harm armies unless one is VERY powerful?

I'd guess something leaning on the latter, which i'm fine with.

So what can one do?
Will it be like turn based with loads of rules and stuff?

I think i will reincarnate an idea i had for an rp where one as a god led a nation. That rp died before starting so i never got to play him.
It's basically a black armoured war god of chivalry and the forge. Powerful but not power hungry, but will of course try to improve ones power.

So you have one interested.
I guess there will be a pantheon of gods as NPC's as well as any PC gods?

@Klomster I'd say it's more like exalted, but you should find it fairly easy to defeat a medium-sized army. A larger army might cause you to receive some strain, though you should still be able to win. For the most part it's only the exceptional mortals, other deities and "mysterious beings" that can really push you to your limits. A swarm of civilians would easily fall to you unless there were millions of them, and even then they wouldn't be able to harm you all that much.

Battles are turn based in the sense that you attempt to perform an action and I parse it. Only certain battles do not need to be parsed by me, mainly battles between two PC characters where both players have already predetermined the outcome, or battles between player made NPCs that are more part of a "sidequest".

The pantheon of gods will both have NPCs and PC characters. There will be far more NPC deities than PC deities, though most of them will be rather minor and/or unimportant to the actual story.

You may also choose to play as a mortal if you so wish. Mortals can be of any sentient humanoid race, and along with their own racial bonuses and skills, will be considered very powerful for their species.

If you have any more questions feel free to ask.

I'm liking the sound of this.

I managed to dig up the old character sheet, so i can easily modify it to properly suit this rp.

So how many players are you hoping for?
Will gods need "mana" or "prayers" or "Divine magic" to make wonders? Like if i want to appear at a battlefield out of a lightning bolt (if i was a Zeus type fellow) would i just do that? Or do i need some points? Or is it like i just describe that and poof, it happens?
Can i return to the celestial sphere at will or do i need to find some portal? Or is it impossible? Or do my mortal form need to die or something?

Also, mostly of curiosity, but how big is a medium sized army?
Most people have different ideas and i don't even know how i classify it too myself.

I'm building up a bit of hype now.
So prepare your pantheon for "Ha,god of the forge."

I can answer some of these questions, @Klomster. The main point is that so long as the deity is receiving worship in some form- be it prayer, monuments and temples dedicated to them, or even sacrifice of mortal creatures in their name- they have a pool of divine magic to draw from, which is obviously larger the more popular they are. So far as I'm aware, you don't specifically need to "spend" discrete points of mana or anything to utilise magic, though precisely how divine magic differs from arcane magic is kind of a point we need to establish between ourselves.

So far as I'm concerned, creation of portals to and from the Upper World, or else use of teleportation for the same effect, should be feasible for any deity. They don't, as far as I know, need to take on "mortal forms" to go to the material plane, since amongst other things, they already have their own bodies to utilise.

With regards to army size, I'd use a relatively loose scale - a small army is several hundred troops, a middling army is several thousand troops, and a large army is tens of thousands of troops. An army of hundreds of thousands of troops would be massive beyond what I think is likely to show up in this game, so that should be a reasonable scale.

With all that said, I like your idea for a Forge God. To me, Ha sounds like a fun guy. Badum tshh... I'll see myself out...

Hahaha...

@Klomster

I'd say 6 - 8 players would be nice, but a little more or less wouldn't be all that bad. (Preferably at least four players)

To return to the upper world (or one of the various pocket dimensions), you need to form a portal. However this may not be possible if you are extremely injured or are in the middle of combat as it takes a few moments to actually form a portal.

Deities do not have a "mortal form", as they have their own bodies which are made out of divine magic.

BC pretty much answered everything else I was going to say.

I'm interested in trying out a Moon "god" with great power over Arcane Magic.

I'm interested in trying out a Moon "god" with great power over Arcane Magic.

Sounds good! If you have any questions feel free to ask.

What can Arcane Magic do?

@ActRaiserTheReturned Divine magic can basically be used for anything so long as you actually have enough magical power to perform the spell. Divine magic comes from prayer and worship. Arcane magic on the other hand is much more specialized, and comes from the inner self. It allows you to specialize in one or more areas of magic, and when combined with divine magic is extremely powerful.

Keep in mind that deities who focus on arcane magic, generally have less worshipers, and only use it to offset their lack of divine magic.

Ah, but a Moon god seems especially powerful.

Ah, but a Moon god seems especially powerful.

There can be more than one Moon god (or any god really)
Regardless of your choice, your character will be as powerful as all other PC deities.

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There can be more than one Moon god (or any god really)
Regardless of your choice, your character will be as powerful as all other PC deities.

But i guess one can get more powerful during the game?

Apart from the few things i'm not sure of (and normally you can't know beforehand) i'm all for getting started!
Dunno if you want more interest first or not. And of course it's up to you.

I just got some hype going :P

@Klomster Yes of course, as with most RP's you can gain more power over time.

Also I'm glad you enjoy this premise so much. ^^

Interested in joining. Leaning towards trying a reaperesque god of death character, if possible.

Interested in joining. Leaning towards trying a reaperesque god of death character, if possible.

That's great! Glad to have you aboard. :)

Do you have any current questions regarding the RP?

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That's great! Glad to have you aboard. :)

Do you have any current questions regarding the RP?

Nope. It seems pretty straightforward.

So we have the god of the moon, the god of the forge and the grim reaper.

Is there any others in the pantheon we should know of?