I'm kinda depressed that I killed off Shaqmar and Layla and am kinda torn. A part of me wants to backtrack and make that epilogue (or at least the last paragraph) a dream...

To those who have gotten round to reading it, what do you think? Should I do it? Or should I just leave it?

I'm kinda depressed that I killed off Shaqmar and Layla and am kinda torn. A part of me wants to backtrack and make that epilogue (or at least the last paragraph) a dream...

To those who have gotten round to reading it, what do you think? Should I do it? Or should I just leave it?

I'm kinda depressed that I killed off Shaqmar and Layla and am kinda torn. A part of me wants to backtrack and make that epilogue (or at least the last paragraph) a dream...

To those who have gotten round to reading it, what do you think? Should I do it? Or should I just leave it?

siiigh I guess it really just was meant to happen that way.

Kho raving [+]

I'm sorry Shaqmar, I never wanted for you to die. I wanted you to be great! I was preparing you to conquer places - you were going to be an Alexander, an Attila, a Genghis. But now you're just dead. And it's your fault damnit! You insisted on it! You kept doing things I never wanted you to do! How dare you insist on doing your own thing? You shoulda listened to me...

*sits in corner and whispers maniacally to Shaqmar's ghost*

And you too Layla- you never got the damn screen-time I planned! How dare you die without my permission!

@Lauder Punny, but quite literal too @Scarifar I was looking to create a demigod of madness. (working name is Pelegath) He would be a chaotic demigod not by choice but by nature and be as likely to help guardians of order as he would aid vanguards of destruction. A completely unpredictable entity who would enjoy screwing with sentient races just because he feels like it. He would the power to induce all manner of madness from garden-variety paranoia to full blown insanity. What damage he might cause would be entirely random and impossible to find a pattern in because the Mad Demigod would himself be mad.

I also have (what I think are) some really great ideas about how a demigod such as him could have stationary holy states and even gain a sizable amount of followers if you're interested.

@Double Capybara @Scarifar I can assume that the concept of madness had been explored but I've done some skimming and it seems that there is not an actual demigod/god of madness and the only god with domain over mind appears to be dead. To get into specifics, I've been talking with @Lauder about my concept and he made the suggestion for Pelegath to be born of the madness building within Keriss (yes, the lizard). The basic idea is for Keriss' mental instability to reach a breaking point and from that event Pelegath is born and takes with him the Demigoddess of Suffering's madness with him into the physical world. There's more we talked about but I don't want to give too much away right out of the gate in case this actually gains traction.