To quote a wise man "people die when they are killed."

There is no afterlife, at least not one that can be reached by man or even god.

So basically, no known person knows if the afterlife exists, not even a deity.

To quote a wise man "people die when they are killed."

There is no afterlife, at least not one that can be reached by man or even god.

So basically, no known person knows if the afterlife exists, not even a deity.

Yay my entire character needs to be reworked then. There can't be a courier if there's nowhere to take to.

Could you then explain how gods of death could work so I can try to salvage my reaper-esque one?

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Yay my entire character needs to be reworked then. There can't be a courier if there's nowhere to take to.

Could you then explain how gods of death could work so I can try to salvage my reaper-esque one?

Ouch.

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Yay my entire character needs to be reworked then. There can't be a courier if there's nowhere to take to.

Could you then explain how gods of death could work so I can try to salvage my reaper-esque one?

Ghosts and spirits still exist, so it's possible that a reaper god could focus on helping his/her worshipers escape death by having their souls form an ethereal shell, allowing them to stabilize and become a ghost/spirit.

Or alternatively, your deity could just have a lot of errors regarding the lore in religion. (mainly concerning the courier, and probably where your reaper-god lives and such)

What kind of system were you trying to make exactly?

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Ghosts and spirits still exist, so it's possible that a reaper god could focus on helping his/her worshipers escape death by having their souls form an ethereal shell, allowing them to stabilize and become a ghost/spirit.

Or alternatively, your deity could just have a lot of errors regarding the lore in religion. (mainly concerning the courier, and probably where your reaper-god lives and such)

What kind of system were you trying to make exactly?

I wasn't trying to make a system, I was just trying to adjust to whatever there was. For example, if there was an afterlife, she would've been like anubis and guide them there after death. As it is, I'll probably go with "mortals often believe in an afterlife and she was born from a religion that believed in one, but since there isn't she just (insert to be determined character traits here)."

@DarkwolfX37

Sounds good. If you have any other questions, concerns, or just need general help feel free to ask or PM me.

Edit: One thing you could do as a grim reaper-esque character is show up near dying mortals and reap them of their life to spare them from their pain. That would work pretty well I think.

@DarkwolfX37

Sounds good. If you have any other questions, concerns, or just need general help feel free to ask or PM me.

Edit: One thing you could do as a grim reaper-esque character is show up near dying mortals and reap them of their life to spare them from their pain. That would work pretty well I think.

That's one of the things I was considering.

Sorry for day delay, there were issues with roleplayerguild website when I was online and later on I needed to go to work. Today I will complete CS with finished concept.

The guild has had a lot of problems lately.

Looking forward to more cs's.

@Kejmur@Klomster Roleplayerguild was acting up almost the entire day for me yesterday. Luckily it seems to be a lot better this morning.

I applies the changes you suggested. If I need to add something or change anyway, feel free to mention it.

@Kejmur

I was really busy yesterday and I need to get going in a minute. I'll review your character when I get back from work if possible. (roughly 6.5 hours by the time of this post.)

@Kejmur
Add Gender and Age (2,000 - 12,000 years old) fields.

Just for clarification you have no other appearances right?

Personality: How does your character feel about other Mortals and Deities? What about Jeno's banishment?

Preferred Field of Magic: Just for clarification, is "mind magic" like causing confusion and illusions, or is it like mind control and rewriting memories and things of that nature?

Pocket Dimensions And Home: Is this pocket dimension her home? What is in this pocket dimension?

Fighting Style: What would happen if she was in close combat?

Biography:

Does the sentence, "Since the creations of first dreams (around 4,000 years ago) Islena knew that she always tried to provide something special, something that would present alternative to the standard 'cruel' world." indicate that Islena is 4,000 years old? Also dreams should have been present before Islena (or any god) was born.

"She also decided that control over category like hope also helped to support her main goal" You can't choose your own categories, but you may work towards them and "evolve" in that way. This would take a long time to do though.

"Clearly happy with her choices she also realized that exist certain type of magic called illusions. Intrigued she grasped the main objective" Is this implying that you did not know about illusion magic and worked your way up to it? (clarification)

What species tends to worship your deity? Are any views the worshipers hold incorrect? (clarification)

@Kejmur
Add Gender and Age (2,000 - 12,000 years old) fields.

Just for clarification you have no other appearances right?

Personality: How does your character feel about other Mortals and Deities? What about Jeno's banishment?

Preferred Field of Magic: Just for clarification, is "mind magic" like causing confusion and illusions, or is it like mind control and rewriting memories and things of that nature?

Pocket Dimensions And Home: Is this pocket dimension her home? What is in this pocket dimension?

Fighting Style: What would happen if she was in close combat?

Biography:

Does the sentence, "Since the creations of first dreams (around 4,000 years ago) Islena knew that she always tried to provide something special, something that would present alternative to the standard 'cruel' world." indicate that Islena is 4,000 years old? Also dreams should have been present before Islena (or any god) was born.

"She also decided that control over category like hope also helped to support her main goal" You can't choose your own categories, but you may work towards them and "evolve" in that way. This would take a long time to do though.

"Clearly happy with her choices she also realized that exist certain type of magic called illusions. Intrigued she grasped the main objective" Is this implying that you did not know about illusion magic and worked your way up to it? (clarification)

What species tends to worship your deity? Are any views the worshipers hold incorrect? (clarification)

4,000 years old Female. I forgot to add.

She's polite towards other deities, but keep certain distance. She's a goddess which enjoy human company, kind of like 'mother hen' as she threats them like her children.

Confusion, illusion, mind control.

Pocket Dimension is her home indeed. For anyone who would enter the dimension, it's mostly white plain terrain with strange white leaf trees forest. Nothing more, nothing less. Islena say that each tree represents each dream of each mortal being.

If close combat happened, she would mostly rely on touch spells. In other words if someone gets too close, she would cause an illusion, distraction, etc. and again take a fight to distance.

Yes, she didn't know about illusion magic and slowly worked on mastery over it.

She doesn't pick any species over others as her categories is something all of them share.

I will edit my CS in my earlier post later on, I just posted it quickly here to explain some things.

So what is the ETA of this?

It seems this needs a few more CS's and then it's a go go! Am i right?

So what is the ETA of this?

It seems this needs a few more CS's and then it's a go go! Am i right?

Yes we pretty much just need more Character sheets before we can begin.

Would it be enough if the ones posted already were finished, and you @gammaflux and co-gm add your chars?

So i was wondering, what sort of power does the characters actually have? What can they do.

I remember that mortals would have 0.75% power or something, but how much is 1.0?
Can gods just casually split an ocean or is it strenuous to summon a lightning storm? How is the "mana" counted?

Mana being divine energy and/or arcane energy reserves. Or is the arcane energy always drawn from the surroundings?
What is the divine energy regen?

Just a few questions, i will probably have more, but this is a more classy way of bumping :P

@Klomster Thanks for the bump. Realistically, what you're asking depends on the magic reserves available to a deity. Having consulted with gammaflux on this, we've established that typical PC deities, at roughly 1.25x the strength of the weakest deities, could exert most or all of their Arcane and Divine power to reduce to energy the mass of a decently-sized mountain range, though deities focused on less offensive disciplines such as healing may have issues with channelling all that as pure destructive force. Standard PC mortals (SPCM), at 0.75x the strength of the weakest deities and therefore possessing around 60% of a standard PC deity's power, can reduce to energy around 60% of the mass that a standard PC deity (SPCD) can.

However, it should be noted at this stage that the power is rather relative between the two groups. Whilst a SPCM would be soundly thrashed in a one-on-one fight against a SPCD, and the deity's mere presence would be considered a huge deal to most mortals whilst the same is not true in reverse, the fact that a SPCM is as strong as they are would be considered a major feat by most of their fellows, and they would likely hold major positions within at least their race, if not the religion as a whole (and I recommend that SPCMs are built around roughly this specification unless there is a good reason to avoid doing so); by comparison, a SPCD is rather small fry amongst the ranks of the divine, and Alithos would likely be able to take on every PC-level deity alone with little more than scratches from them. Not to mention that a good portion of a deity's power, size dependent on the deity themselves, is Divine rather than Arcane, which is a further damper in many cases if they don't want to expend the former.

Since we're on the topic, Divine magic is accumulated rather more slowly than Arcane magic recuperates. Any being acquires more Arcane mana at a rate proportional to their Arcane mana reserves, such that even if they fully expend all of their Arcane magic, it will recover entirely with about a full day's rest, give or take up to an hour. By contrast, Divine magic has no explicit limit on how much can be accumulated, but methods of acquisition are by their nature far slower:

-Active worship of a deity by any mortal will grant them some Divine mana, adding up to a reasonable amount over the worshipper's lifetime, with a minimal gain over time via being a passive part of that deity's worshipper base;

-Temples, churches, statues, and other monuments dedicated to a specific deity will grant that deity Divine mana based on the amount of dedication put into them (based on traits such as size, effort of building, build quality, how well they exemplify the deity's merits, and so on), with relatively minor monuments providing less mana per time unit than even a single active worshipper, whereas large and substantial projects such as a very large cathedral would even grant mana during its construction as though it were a form of mass worship and continue to provide a significant stream of mana even after construction ends, though in any case, the monuments will provide Divine mana until they become decrepit enough to not be significant to the faith of the deity any more, a potentially much greater timescale than any mortal could provide for them;

-Sacrifices to a deity, of any sort, will provide an immediate and comparatively large boost of Divine mana, though this is obviously only a one-time thing per sacrificed being, and varies in significance depending on the sacrifice itself - food and drink sacrificed "in spirit" will only provide small boosts, whilst animals may provide a somewhat greater boost depending on how well they're prepared, and mortals will provide more mana based on the preparations taken, and the devoutness of both sacrificer and sacrificee, with the greatest boosts coming from fanatically-loyal worshippers placed into either role (perhaps both simultaneously, if they commit ritual suicide in their deity's name), though a worshipper of another deity sacrificed by a sufficiently-loyal worshipper can provide almost as much strength.

Deities can also provide other deities with their own Divine power, though this is a relatively uncommon occurrence given that it's a rather precious resource; aside from transfusions via direct contact, the most common way for this to be done is by soaking food or drink with Divine energy for another deity to consume, though this only has any significant effect within about two weeks of the initial energy soaking, since it rapidly drains away over time. Notably, a mass sacrifice is the only way to bring a new deity into existence quickly, as energy obviously cannot be transfused to a being which doesn't yet exist, and the initial requirement to bring a new deity into being is so large that any other method of worship will almost certainly take anywhere from a hundred to a thousand years to achieve, whereas the comparatively large boost from a sacrifice of a large number of people, performed all at once, could well bring a new deity into existence almost immediately, though if the entire worshipper base died as a result, it could be that the deity is immediately put into a situation where they have to start preaching their own word to gather replacement worshippers.

Speaking of sacrifice to bring a new deity into being, expect my character for the game to be created shortly.

Sorry for lack of a CS. I can't seem to come up with anything that I'm still satisfied with after a day or two. I'm still working on it though, just so you're aware.