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Wow, all this Diva banter. Chronicle hasn't said a word this whole post and she's still the sassiest of the bunch.

I'm tempted to have Chiral Phi's spirit stroll into Pictaraika and try to join in only to be that one tag-along misfit in the group of Cool Girls.

'hey guys'
'look at me i'm a diva too'
'kinda'
'guys?'
'NO WAIT COME BACK'

I'm half tempted to make a male grouping of a similar conxept. But every time I do, I just the Auditors from Discworld.

"Can we please go back to taking care of reality? Making sure that gravity works and that atoms spin. That sort of thing?"

I found a picture of some acalya in real life. We're all doomed.

I found a picture of some acalya in real life. We're all doomed.

Isn't that more like Jvan's crystal tree thing minus the spooky skeleton?

My mind went to acalya due to the hexagons all over it. They do have similarities, though.

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Isn't that more like Jvan's crystal tree thing minus the spooky skeleton?

DID SOMEONE SAY SPOOKY SKELETON?!

The key difference between Acalya and Lens is that Acalya is crystalline, and as such forms all those pretty lines and hexes in neatly ordered patterns. Lens trees, on the other hand, are made predominantly of bone, glass (an amorphous solid) and liquid silicone. They form fluid organic shapes and are actually very flexible. Also, Lens obviously doesn't spread- Each individual is a distinct tree.

@Muttonhawk Okay, but that much is obvious. In all seriousness, Logos takes Teknall's chosen and shows him the Citadel, something far beyond what he can understand. He introduces him to Toun and reveals the origin of the Hain...

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Well, if any mortal can take that kind of information, it's Gerrik. Remember, almost all of his Hero powers went to his mind, so he's the smartest mortal or Hero on Galbar. He's already spent time with Teknall and Kyre, so meeting gods won't be a huge shock to him. His super-logician mind and vastly boosted mental processing capacity would temper his response to the Citadel (although he'd still be deeply awestruck and still wouldn't know how most of it worked, and it will bewilder him forever). As for Toun and the origins of the hain, most hain cultures already have grains of truth in their origin stories. Gerrik has travelled far and wide, and his mind is perfectly geared to integrating information from many sources like that, so the truth would hardly be surprising.

Teknall might be somewhat upset that you're disrupting his plans for making civilisation for the hain, though. I'd be miffed, too.

How would Logos even know the origin of the Hain?

The Hain need a break, like a long vacation. They keep getting messed.

How would Logos even know the origin of the Hain?

Logos could probably tell that Toun made the hain, but probably not the circumstances surrounding their origin. I think it was implied that Toun would be doing the talking if I'm not mistaken.

The Hain need a break, like a long vacation. They keep getting messed.

Well, I hope to have an arc up eventually where they get together something to be proud of and git gud compared to most other sentient races. However, that'll take some time.

Hey, hey, hey. Gonna punch myself a chaos god!

@Double Capybara@Muttonhawk

Vestec: Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen to Divine Jeopardy. I have with me here tonight Logos, god of Logic and Order.

Logos: I'll take Deities for 500.

Vestec: Cute. The Hain, a species of porcelain covered bipedal sentient life on Galbar, were created by this god.

Logos: What are they covered in again?

Vestec: Gleaming. White. Perfect. Porcelain.

Logos: Oh, then the answer is Who is Jvan?

Vestec: . . .

Logos: Burn then all my pretties!

@BBeast But seriously, would you be bothered if Gerrik got yoinked at one point.

To the class now: okay, watched the goddamn coronation scene fkr LOTR like fifty times now to do Elysium's. Now I ask this...

Very different type of ruler from Lipfrasil and Amartia. But Logos also calls himself the God of Kings for a reason. Divine Providence and all that jazz.

If he was to burn One Might for the Coronation of Elysium, what sort of effect might that have?

If he was to burn One Might for the Coronation of Elysium, what sort of effect might that have?

Depends, have you seen how expensive royal gowns can get?

@Dawnscroll I meant in the sense of knowing the story behind it. It's obvious its Toun, but I see no point in just saying "Oh hey, this is the god that created ya" especially when overall a lot of Hain cultures already have a Toun-like figure as their father god.

Spending might doesn't mean anything by itself, like when Ilunabar spent one in Lif's palace despite it being within the realm of the attainable by free, it was about showing off. I guess it would be a point into royalty, but please don't pick that or I will have to truly steal pride from Amy.

But... Coronation of Elysium you say?

You know... There is a goddess who is quite good at this whole event setting thing. Literal owner of aesthetic, excels at interior decoration, also got the best jewelry around. She would to it for free even.

@Double Capybara
But she has yet to give Galbar what it really needs.

@Double Capybara

Its obviously Niciel, right?

@LokiLeo789

Have you never seen Jvan?

@Double Capybara Its moreso to kinda stick it to Teknall, but I don't need to. Logos's interest in the Hain is slim at best.

As far the Royalty Portfolio. Yikes, hate to break it to you, but I always intended for Logos to branch into that since day one. He literally is the God of Kings. Maybe branch into Democracy?

And I already wrote up her coronation. But genuinely, Royalty/Sovereignty is a portfolio I'm looking to pick up.

In the event of Elysium's coronation and the might usage, because Logos is involved, is this the first actual instance of Divine Mandate?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_o..

And if so, does this make her reign more or less Legitimate than someone like say Lipfrasil who more or less crowned himself but has the backing of numerous gods.

@Double Capybara Its moreso to kinda stick it to Teknall, but I don't need to. Logos's interest in the Hain is slim at best.

As far the Royalty Portfolio. Yikes, hate to break it to you, but I always intended for Logos to branch into that since day one. He literally is the God of Kings. Maybe branch into Democracy?

And I already wrote up her coronation. But genuinely, Royalty/Sovereignty is a portfolio I'm looking to pick up.

In the event of Elysium's coronation and the might usage, because Logos is involved, is this the first actual instance of Divine Mandate?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_o..

And if so, does this make her reign more or less Legitimate than someone like say Lipfrasil who more or less crowned himself but has the backing of numerous gods.

Logos: Hey guys, I have some more rules!
Literally every other god: lol

Anyway, if Logos and Ilunabar are going to use royalty stuff to different ends, you guys could come up with a compromise, or at least differing things that only overlap a little. See, if Logos gets something like Authority or Dictatorship while Ilunabar gets something more like Regalness or Presence or something? I dunno, just throwing stuff at the wall.

@Double Capybara Its moreso to kinda stick it to Teknall, but I don't need to. Logos's interest in the Hain is slim at best.

As far the Royalty Portfolio. Yikes, hate to break it to you, but I always intended for Logos to branch into that since day one. He literally is the God of Kings. Maybe branch into Democracy?

And I already wrote up her coronation. But genuinely, Royalty/Sovereignty is a portfolio I'm looking to pick up.

In the event of Elysium's coronation and the might usage, because Logos is involved, is this the first actual instance of Divine Mandate?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_o..

And if so, does this make her reign more or less Legitimate than someone like say Lipfrasil who more or less crowned himself but has the backing of numerous gods.

It does and doesn't. It is not Europa Universalis where you can say Elysium gets +10 in legitimacy for being under Logos.

Again. It is not the might usage. Getting Royality would mean Logos would understand the intricacies of realms, kingdoms, rulership and tradition better. It would mean that for Logos doing stuff into that area would be easy and natural. It doesn't mean, for example, that you can just arrive and say "oh, Elysium is far more royal and legitimate than Lif so yeah, bow to her".

If you are picking a cultural/conceptual port, I think you can't play it as if it were any other godly concept. The return for spending might into stuff is usually very meaningless to the god in terms of stronkness, which is in fact the why my goddess is in such a delicate "defenseless" spot despite being a Level 6 goddess with 6 portfolios, 4 avatars, some of the highest level heroes and a lot of influence over mankind.

If you try to use it like Fire, or Physics... It turns into something very odd and munchkin-like. And I will be blunt about the example, because I have always told it was a problem and we waited until it went completely overboard to voice the complaint. But Amartia's Sin Auto-Win posts about Xerxes going big extremely fast were an example of trying to use a conceptual/cultural portfolio as if it was a the same as a god of fire making a magma sword or a god of the earth making a super metal hammer.

Though this is just my opinion, I'm not a co-gm or anything. I'm probably being a hypocrite too and there is probably someone out there who thinks Ilunabar fits the shoes of lameness I described, but whatever.

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Logos: Hey guys, I have some more rules!
Literally every other god: lol

Anyway, if Logos and Ilunabar are going to use royalty stuff to different ends, you guys could come up with a compromise, or at least differing things that only overlap a little. See, if Logos gets something like Authority or Dictatorship while Ilunabar gets something more like Regalness or Presence or something? I dunno, just throwing stuff at the wall.

Prestige maybe. My idea was just to be able to expand from Jewelry to general Royal stuff like thrones, tapestries, palaces, big events and stuff without stepping on Loki's toe by taking Pride. I don't care so much about the rulership aspect as that is more of a side effect of being goddamn fabulous.