[OOC] Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk. VI

DIVINUS MK. VI



Great, iridescent shards floated above the barren canvas below, only the great darkness of the void above contrasting them. The crystalline ones were only accompanied by Him, the almighty creator of those very shards that gathered around Him. 

He lurched forwards, hands weaving a fine cloak of ever changing colors and textures around His form. Two glowing eyes looked to shards before a great booming voice overtook the cosmos itself as he scanned the world, conveying no emotion on a featureless face. The great being allowed Himself to bask in the infinite silence that was the world for the moment, taking in His accomplishment before He turned a hand to touch the great wound on His chest. He grasped into the wound and from it pulled another shard, another being of His essence. He held the shard above Him, allowing it to shine before speaking.

”You shall be my artists, my architects. You will do whatever it takes to make this world beautiful, for that is all it means to be from my own form. With you, there will be creation beyond even my own imagination, beyond the limits of what can and will be. You shall be my attendants.

You will be gods of this new realm of mine.”



Credits

Praise unto the following, their contributions to Divinus have been much inspiration to me.

@Kho, @Cyclone, @Rtron, @Muttonhawk, @BBeast, and [@AntarcticTermite] for being amongst the GMs for all the Divinus games that I have been a part of, Mk. 2, 3, and GODSPEED. I legitimately thank all of you for being with Divinus. 

@Lord Zee, @Enzayne, and @Not Fishing for being the GMs of MK. IV, I may not have been a part of it, but I did watch it with great interest. 

@Commodore, @Zurajai, and @AdorableSaucer for being the GMs of Divinus MK. V!



Synopsis

Divinus is a story of gods, their creations, and the world to be made by their collaboration.

The realm is ruled over by the almighty Monarch of All, to which all the gods owe their creation to, and He has deemed them to be the architects of the blank canvas of the world that He has made. He is their lord and, ultimately, the supreme being of the cosmos. He expects the gods to follow what He has said for them to do; to fail in such an endeavor is to incur His wrath. Though he is much more powerful than any one god, his rule may not be infinite as the Monarch could perhaps be overthrown one day through the combined efforts of multiple, powerful gods. After all, the gods will grow with time and they shall accrue their own power to shape the cosmos to their whim!

Though these gods may start small, in time they will raise mountains, gouge rivers, sow jungles and freeze oceans, and having done so they can create every manner of flora, fauna, spirit and mortal folk to populate them. Their colliding visions for the world may drive them to invent mighty weapons and field vast armies, conjure horrific monsters, and sanction glorious heroes to defend their dreams from the passion of the other gods.

The game of gods has many rules, but do not be daunted! This RP is about weaving interesting tales, not about such crass motives as winning or losing. All rules are here for your benefit to make sure everyone plays fairly, in a collaborative manner and to work for the betterment of the story. We've put a lot of effort into the system, so I hope it brings as much pleasure to you as it has to us.




The Rules

The Golden Rule--Do not godmod/metagame/powerplay. It’s ironic because this is an RP with actual gods as characters; however, there are definitely limits as to the power level of our gods. We’re trying to make a collaborative story rather than host a game meant to be ‘won,’ so please keep that in mind as you write.
The Rule of Fair Warning--Before significantly influencing someone else’s creations, especially if it is going to be in a destructive way, give them some fair warning OOC so that potential objections can be made ahead of time and plans can be shifted. Ideally conflicts between two gods that lead to destruction or harm of one god or its possessions will be written with the consent of both players, but if you think that somebody is being unreasonable us GMs can intervene.
The Good Summaritan Rule--Somewhere in every post, please attach a hider box containing a short summary of the post’s actions, including how Vigor has been expended in the post if applicable. As Divinus RPs have traditionally had some massive posts, this helps greatly when trying to keep track of all that’s been going on and when trying to make sure you didn’t miss any important plot point within some massive post. That being said, please do still try to read all IC posts and not just the summaries.
The Bookkeeping Rule--We will be using the character tab to store character and creation sheets. For all creations of significance, please make a hider for them in your character sheet post and slot in some information about them, this way we can keep track of what everyone has done to contribute to this ever changing world.
Leave of Absence--Please give us forewarning on the OOC if circumstances dictate that you will become inactive in the RP for a time. I’m sure we’ve all seen the phenomena of people simply vanishing; it’s frustrating and leaves work where the others have to pick up the narrative pieces. Failure to follow this rule can potentially lead to your god being deposed IC.


Mechanics:
The closer one is to the Monarch of All, the greater the status in His court. Each rank brings greater Vigor, and thus a greater ability to allow a god to apply themselves to a further task per cycle, but all the gods merely start out as attendants. Of course, the more a god is an active part in the world then the more a chance that their status in the heavenly court increases. Gaining titles is also done in a more narrative sense, meaning that the Monarch of All will have to interact with the other god and see all that they have done for the world, if He is not impressed then he will not gain the title. This is often treated as the gods gaining honorifics, such as Master of the Monarch’s Robes. With each new honorific comes two more Vigor per cycle to denote their increase in power.

On top of these more honorific titles, there are some that carry with them true responsibility that each god must uphold, these ones include those such as the ‘Champion of the Monarch’ ‘The Emissary of the Palace’, and the ‘Monarch’s Ancient’. Each of these titles’ responsibilities will be explained as they are awarded, additionally they can be usurped by other gods, but these give 3 Vigor for each cycle.

All gods make a base of 4 Vigor per cycle.


Gods will create things using an arbitrary currency called Vigor, representative of the god’s effort in a task. Vigor is used for creating life, heroes, artifacts, and massive landmark creations. Larger and more complex things increase the costs, or more powerful artifacts. Each god only receives and stores Vigor dependent upon their status, with the Monarch of All dictating who gets more. Examples of how to use Vigor is as follows, any questions about a cost can be brought to the GMs who chall make a ruling:

1 Vigor: Create a Champion.
1 Vigor: Bless or Curse, the will of the gods are an ever fickle thing and as such are able to turn crops sour and make the land devoid of crop growth as a curse, or make the fertility of a peoples’ livestock ever greater as a blessing.
1 Vigor: Form a society.
1-3 Vigor: Create an extraordinary species of unintelligent life; plants and animals, with great power. 
2 Vigor: Creating small landmasses, such as islands or mountains, or water sources such as rivers or great lakes.
2 Vigor: Create a single powerful creature, such as the kraken or hydra
3 Vigor: Resurrect a dead creature.
5 Vigor: Create a sapient species, such as humans.
1-5 Vigor: Create an artifact.

2 Vigor: Creating a relatively minor change to the landscape; rending a small valley or canyon, creating a river, raising a mountain or a (small) island.
4 Vigor: Significantly changing the landscape; creating a chain of mountains, or an entire desert, raising a large island or an archipelago of smaller ones.
8 Vigor: Causing extreme change to the landscape; raising an entire (mostly empty) continent from the sea, or willing into existence a sizable (moon-sized) piece of land.
2 Vigor: Create a small ecosystem, which can fill a region such as a river, valley, mountain or small island.
4 Vigor: Create a large ecosystem, which can fill a large geographic region such as a whole mountain range, an archipelago, or desert.
1-3 Vigor: Create an extraordinary but unintelligent species. More powerful species need more Vigor.
2 Vigor: Create a single beast of phenomenal power (e.g. the Kraken, the Thunder Bird, Jormungandr).
4 Vigor: Create a sapient species. Something like humans, but they don't have to be exactly the same.
6 Vigor: Create an extraordinary sapient species. Exceptionally powerful traits may require extra Vigor.

1 Vigor: Form a society. Congregate a group of peoples into one a band that may or may not withstand the tribulations of the gods.
1 Vigor: Teach people an idea or technology. This idea or technology should be reasonably attainable from the people’s present culture and technology.
1 Vigor: Blessing or cursing. These should come in different flavours for different gods, but in general, incurring the curse of any god should be a frightening thing indeed. The curse or blessing is like a whip or a carrot respectively; though it is the will of your god made manifest, it is not so powerful as to spell certain doom or utter paradise for those affected. A blessing or curse can be broken by another for the same cost it was to put onto them.
1 Vigor: Create a Champion. These are exceptionally powerful individuals among your creations whose powers and skills are renowned and well beyond the capabilities of normal members of their species. Those who gain such an honor may also receive agelessness, immunity to diseases, and superhuman resilience--effectively a degree of immortality, but not true invincibility. These blessings can be made conditional, and the extent of powers gifted onto the hero can be decided upon by the god (within reason). See the additional rules under ‘Champions’.
3 Vigor: Resurrect a mortal or a hero.

1-5 Vigor: Create an artifact. It does one or more cool things which you decide on creation. Vigor dictates a rough amount of power. If multiple gods work together to create an artifact, each can contribute up to 5 Vigor, so the most powerful artifacts will be ones that were made through the combined efforts of several gods. Artifacts can be lost, stolen, destroyed, traded, etc.
1-3 Vigor: Create a monument. This is like an artifact but is generally a large physical structure that cannot be handed around, like a temple, a tower, or a formation of menhirs. As with artifacts, multiple gods can contribute to a monument. Monuments are more powerful than an artifact of the same Vigor value, however this advantage is offset by their disadvantages in being largely immobile and possibly harder to defend.


Aspects are the elements of the cosmos over which a god has great control over, such as a god of Lava, Forges, or Love. They are a keyword that exemplifies what your god is a true master over. The aspects also allow a god to do things within that category without expending Vigor, or at least enhance the product of a god that chooses to use Vigor. These Aspects cannot be shared with other gods. These are awarded by the Monarch of All, much like titles are, as a result of a god's growth and contribution to the world. However, the biggest difference in how an Aspect is earned is that a god must spend at least 3 Vigor specifically in relation to the desired Aspect.

For example a good of Lava wishes to branch into Fire, as such he spends two vigor making a flaming sword and 1 Vigor to teach a gaggle of cavemen how to use fire. As such, he becomes eligible to gain the Aspect, though he must interact with the Monarch of All no matter what.


A cycle is a turn of time, a time where the Monarch of All replenishes His power, and by proxy the power of the other gods, by going upon a sacred venture into the center of the world from the Divine Palace. Once a cycle is turned, the gods gain renewed vigor, each god gaining power dependent upon their status.


Great heroes of legend, whether they be warriors, scholars, or leaders, are those chosen by patron gods and gifted extraordinary power. These champions can be devastating forces on the field of battle, or they may even be wizened sages with little affinity for fighting. All champions are exceptionally resilient individuals but all champions can be felled one way or another, whether they have a singular weakness and such. Champions are able to, like gods, grant boons, create lesser artifacts, teach their people a technology or idea, or perform tremendous tasks using their own Spirit.

Spirit is a currency of sorts that is not meant to limit the pacing of a champion’s story or impose costs upon actions that normal mortals can do, but rather to act as a bonus that lets the champion occasionally get rewards or perform things that should otherwise require divine intervention. You can think of spirit as being akin to accumulated favor with the gods, or perhaps even bits of divine power itself.

As of now (late November) we’re overhauling the flat 2 spirit per post that was standard up through page 7. This new policy doesn’t apply retroactively; it’s unfortunate that your old posts will have likely earned you less spirit than they now would have, but auditing the old posts and going back to retroactively do some accounting would be too tedious.
1 spirit, at a minimum, is awarded to a champion for every post in which they appear as more than just a passing mention in one line.
1 spirit is additionally awarded to a champion if they are the main character and central focus of the post. This only applied to one champion per post; however,
1 spirit is additionally awarded to all relevant champions if the post is a collab.
1 spirit is additionally earned if the post is of medium length (think about 10+ non-dialogue paragraphs). This is just so that it’s not so much more ‘optimal’ to break posts into lots of smaller chunks to farm spirit.
1 spirit is additionally earned if the post is particularly long (25+ non-dialogue paragraphs), and the champion features throughout it all.
4 spirit can be awarded as a lump sum if a champion embarks upon and completes a significant mission, quest, or personal goal of some sort that they either set for themselves or were given by another champion or mortal.
10 spirit can be awarded as a lump sum if a champion completes a divine quest. These can be handed out by any god or demigod for free, or potentially even by the Monarch of All, but they should be somewhat arduous and span over several posts in order to justify this princely reward!


Of course, given that heroes are far weaker than gods, they are not able to achieve the same great abilities or use spirit to perform feats as grand as a god might. What a god could make or do pertaining to their aspect at no cost, a champion must spend a significant amount of Spirit to even come close to replicating. Champions just generally cannot hope to outdo the gods without Herculean efforts. Some examples of how to spend Spirit are as follows:

Tor the Scholar desires to found a community behind him, choosing to found a tribe he spends 10 of his Spirit to found the group and imposes upon them his philosophy that plagiarism is sinful, and other such unifying thought.

Tor the Scholar then wishes to make a magical glowing tablet that does not naturally decay and which codifies the history and laws of the tribe; he spends 4 of his Spirit to make this minor artifact that will exist in the tribe until it is either destroyed or forgotten about.

Tor the Scholar then seeks to solidify his power by creating a magical crown that confers not only style and charisma, but also imbues its wearer with the ability to taste plagiarism if one licks a parchment or tablet in question. For this more potent artifact, 10 spirit is appropriate.

In general, about 10 Spirit is equivalent to 1 Vigor. Because heroes are uniquely suited to organically teaching things like technologies or new ideas, whereas gods are more capable of enchanting or crafting artifacts with divine power, that relationship isn’t exactly 1:1. For instance, it only takes 8 Spirit for a champion to teach something that might cost 1 Vigor for a god. Ask if you want to do something and are unsure of an appropriate spirit cost for it, but to help convey at least a sense of scale, here is a non-exhaustive list of Spirit expenditures:

2 Spirit: Push their limits to perform a single great feat well beyond what they're normally capable of, and far beyond what normal mortals could do. (e.g. wrestle with a much larger beast or creature, cast some gigantic spell, journey for many days without stopping for rest)
4-12 Spirit: Craft a powerful artifact. These artifacts are not meant to be as potent or extreme as those made by gods, and can be broken if mishandled; in general they are weaker than an artifact made by a god for 1 Vigor. (These Artifacts can range from Throgg the Death Knight attaching his soul to his sword to making a crown that scares away goblins). Spending additional spirit can allow you to upgrade the artifact, and you can do this incrementally over time.
8 Spirit: Invent and teach people a new basic technology, spell or idea. (e.g. stone houses, mercantilism, commune with birds)
10 Spirit: Somehow enhance a community to become exceptional. You need not spend Spirit to merely raise an army or found a city -- normal mortals can do such things -- but doing this will make them much grander. Think raising a mighty warband, founding a kingdom that shall endure for a long time, creating some subversive cult that might rapidly grow and undermine (and perhaps even destroy) a nation, or anything else. This can freely include some new technology or idea that binds them together, from the bullet point above.
12 Spirit: Anoint another Champion.
15 Spirit: Consecrate an area with some blessing or otherwise imbue it with power; for instance, making a farmland especially fertile, or a fortress’ walls almost impregnable.
25 Spirit: Found a holy order, which can include giving them unique powers: think along the lines of a new magic system, or martial art, or knowledge of how to craft some sort of exotic weaponry.
~100 Spirit: Attempt to attain demigod status. At this point, a champion will have shown sufficient valor to begin drawing the attention of the divine, and perhaps even the Monarch of All!


Sometimes one or two champions isn’t enough, and instead a god might choose to create some large group to perform a similar role. Just as champions can come in a variety of forms and flavors, holy orders can likewise be a marauding horde, a circle of wizards, knight-paladins tasked with healing the sick and keeping the peace, or anything else. A holy order costs 3 vigor for a god to found, but champions can alternatively create them with spirit.

The general rule of thumb is that the more members are present in a holy order, the less potent you should expect them to be individually -- for instance, a sacred band of ten warriors might have each one rival a champion in strength, but a vast army of a hundred thousand crusaders should probably confer only modest powers upon the members. This isn’t to say that if half the holy order is wiped out the remaining half grow twice as powerful as they don’t have to share some source of power with as many people (though it might make sense to say that the survivors were generally those that were more powerful to begin with) or that a circle of five wizards adding a sixth member should expect each individual to grow much weaker. It’s just that very powerful holy orders should generally be small in size, and that much larger ones shouldn’t expect to grant as much power.

However, you can have individuals that are both members of a holy order and champions, and/or individuals that are part of two or more holy orders at the same time.

Much as champions earn and spend Spirit, holy orders earn Prestige. This is once again meant as more of a reward that allows a holy order to create things that would otherwise probably need to be made by a god using vigor, or to do truly exceptional feats, and not as some tax that they must pay in order to fulfill the everyday functions the holy order was created for. Prestige is generally more valuable than Spirit, but harder to earn. 5 Prestige is equivalent to about 1 Vigor.

1 Prestige: Quickly recruit and train up to standard a significant number of new members. You can recruit members for free over time and hand out a uniform or whatnot to almost anyone, but it would normally take time to fully anoint them and get them up to par with the rest of the order’s members.
3 Prestige: Invent and proliferate some new technology, philosophy, or skill among themselves and/or surrounding communities.
3-8 Prestige: Manufacturing or enchanting some unique artifact. Much like artifacts bought with a champion’s spirit, these are meant to not be too extreme and to generally be inferior compared to those directly forged by a god using vigor. Still, an 8 prestige artifact might be roughly equivalent to a 1 vigor one.
5 Prestige: Making significant upgrades to the holy order’s powers, equipment, or tactics; think of this as being equivalent to a 1 vigor blessing or somesuch.
5-10 Prestige: Consecrate some place as sacred, effectively either creating a monument or bestowing a blessing upon the region.
7 Prestige: Anoint a champion from some promising member of the order’s ranks.
10 Prestige: Forming a new holy order. This may splinter off as something wholly separate and rivalrous, or be a friendly sister organization, or be something akin to an upper rank within the holy order (with the two overlapping)
1 Prestige is awarded for every post in which the holy order is not just offhandedly mentioned, but plays a significant role.
1 Prestige is additionally awarded if on top of the above point, it’s also an especially long post and they play a role throughout most of it.
5 Prestige is earned if the holy order completes a divine quest or directive of some sort that was assigned by a god. This should be somewhat challenging and take a while for them to accomplish!


Where there are the first gods forged from the shards of the Monarch of All, there are still a great multitude of shards that have yet to be forged into further gods. Gods can birth demigods either on their own or with another god.

Demigods function much in the same way as normal gods do, however, their power is far more reduced and they lack the ability to have a truly defined form that would kill mortals that gaze upon them. Vigor costs for them are doubled to reflect the greater effort they must produce in order to match anything a god can do. Additionally, demigods are barred from entering the Divine Palace, unable to fully bathe in the glory that is the Monarch of All. Now a demigod can become a god if they are bestowed with a shard of the Monarch of All, often if they prove themselves worthy of such a mantle of responsibility. 

All new players wishing to join must start out as a Demigod.


Gods cannot be harmed by normal weapons or magic, they are simply far too weak to do anything to a god. However, a god can muster enough power to hurt or even ‘kill’ another, even though true death is for a god is a daunting task to pursue in a fair fight. Furthermore, gods do not age, suffer ailments, or suffer from any natural causes.
Gods are able to shapeshift between their true godly form and that of a mortal form, however, the true form of a god is far too much to be withstood by lower life and will often kill or blind those who come into direct eye contact with said form.
The very lands themselves can be bent to the whims of gods, all gods can create or modify the environment and weather in their localized area. This also applied to creatures.
The senses of a god stretch to that of the very horizons themselves, able to see in perfect clarity. They are able to see heat and magnetic pulls and they are able to hear for as far as they can see, selectively tuning out annoyances as they wish or discerning individual speech from a large crowd.
Traveling as a god is innately faster than what mortal eyes can perceive, being able to run, jump, float, swim, or merely fly, faster than most things in the cosmos. It hardly would take them a lot of time to traverse between continents and even between that of the world and the Divine Palace, but such a trek to that great palace is an odyssey in and of itself and often requires passage from the Monarch of All to achieve in a timely manner. Getting to the Divine Palace requires a bridge that is only ever opened by the Monarch of All, this is not to say that other ways in could not be discovered or created, but entering His domain without His knowledge and invitation would surelyanger the Monarch.


Character sheet

NAME
ALIAS (IF ANY)

Aspect
The aspect of your god and what that encompasses.

Persona
The personality of a god.

True Form
A description of one’s god.

Musical theme
Some spice to shake things up.


The Monarch of All

Aspect
Creation

While creation is an art that all gods can achieve, few have true mastery over such an act of creation past their respective Aspects. In essence, the great Monarch of All can create anything that is desired at that time, yet, it does not compare to the proper Aspects. As such the Monarch of All can make a powerful sword fit to only wielded by Kings, but a proper God of the Forge will always have a finer blade for that Aspect is no longer a true part of the Monarch of All. He cannot match a god of fire in making flames nor a god of water for making great waves to sweep over others. Such matters are what allows the gods to be experts in their own fields, but He knows that if it were left to that then reality would be a boring and simple place. He is Master of All yet He holds no expertise over them.

Such is the nature of such a broad control, to merely be good at all that it encompasses while not truly being the master of any specific aspect that many of the other gods. That is not to say that He cannot make things of master artifice, certainly compared to the products of gods working outside their aspect. It is He who stands as the pinnacle of creation, a true artist that can take anything and make it beautiful. As the God of Creation, the Monarch is the Patron to Artists, Architects, Inventors, Storytellers, and all that those encompass. He can give mortals great boons of inspiration, even allow them knowledge of creation past their own mortal means. It is this nature that creation falls under, the antithesis of destruction, and so to those who seek to undo creation, He can take away the ability to create plans to undo culture and art and anything that makes a people. Without creation there is no muse, no ponderous action for mortal kind to commit, merely acting as automatons for the powers that be.

Creation is life, the very propagation of a species or idea all start with the act of creation to even continue in the great journey of life would require creation at some base level. While the Monarch does not jourostic the individual action of mortal species, He does watch over it making sure that the act of creation and change goes in accordance to how His mind wishes reality to be. For without Him, there would be nothing in the realm but the great Monarch of All, yet, what is a ruler without subjects and a realm to govern? Hence He took the great mantle and made it true, creating reality, the Gods, and Galbar as a whole. Creation was the beginning and creation will continue to spread just as the Monarch of All has dictated, so that all others may exist.

Persona

The Monarch of All is the one true supreme, where there was nothing there was Him and where there was the beginning it was brought about him. He is the Emperor of Reality, the Void, and the Gods, to that He is power over them all for He is the God of Gods, opulent, proud, and resplendent. From His throne in the Divine Palace, it is He who dictates what the gods shall achieve and what they shall do, He can bring upon them great rewards or terrible punishments. It is the Monarch of All who gives the gods their power and it is Him to which they owe their thanks for existence. There would be nothing without Him and it is the Monarch of All who seeks to let all those know that He is their ruler.

Yet, He is a disdainful being who prefers to not meddle in the creativity and the doings of other gods past dictating what is and shall be. He is higher than the mortals and to interfere in their squabbles would be beneath a being as mighty as He, it would be an insult to his own rank and position otherwise. The Monarch of All will allow fate to take its course over such matters, though, should a mortal fail to deliver the proper reverence to Him, the Monarch of All, He shall make his fury known and deliver it with swift justice. The great one will not suffer being ignored by any life, no matter how insignificant or important, for the proper respects must be paid before they are paid to any other.

He views Himself as an artist, a writer, a creator of all things, and He enjoys doing such tasks as interacting with the creations that either he or other gods have brought about. While He will not interfere with the creation of things or outright change something that has been created, He will interact with it by either idly watching or, in the case of mortals, speak with them and occasionally see what it is like to live amongst such basic creatures. He is a being of hubris, yet also one of care, never once allowing Himself to to strike so hard as to damage something that is blatantly not His or something that should not be interfered with by His hand.

There is nothing without the Monarch of All.

True Form
To give name to the Monarch’s true form is to give name to the very act of creation itself, the very duty that the Monarch holds above Himself and the Gods themselves. His size is gargantuan, standing over mountains who claim the tallest peaks and gazing upon the horizon eternal. His form, while humanoid, is an ever creative one that is constantly melding and morphing into a different texture that almost always radiates an iridescent white. Then to stare into His face is to glimpse upon a blank canvas waiting to be painted upon, with the exception of two glowing orbs that bear every color and all colors that are unperceivable. 

Yet, His chest bears a great crystalline wound, with great gems going inwards, all shining brilliant and magnificent colors of all variety. All of it leads to a space that doesn’t end, a great void of white that is not truly filled but still shines outwards. It is these shards that line the walls of the wound from which came the Gods, all of them aspects of reality itself and all a part of the Monarch of All.

If a mortal were to perceive this form, they would experience great epiphanies and inspirations, they would comprehend all that is and all that could be. It would be to look upon everything that makes up their reality, and that is something mortals cannot comprehend. These thoughts burn at them in that moment, and their minds become lost trying to comprehend it before ultimately succumbing to madness. This madness is only temporary, however, as within minutes they will die, their brain (or whatever may drive them) having stopped functioning trying to comprehend it all.

Musical theme
Upwards to the Moon


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Excellent! I'll get started on my Earth God ASAP then!

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Working on a Destruction goddess at the moment.

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I want in. I'll start work on a god of something after getting some sleep. I know I've joined and left Divinus games before, but I've never been able to get in on the ground floor to help shape the world from the start before either.

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Tempted to join. Might do a god of souls or a god of the forge. 

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Just to try and call it so someone else doesn't steal the idea... I'm thinking of making a deity of magic.

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Tuku Llantu
ALIAS
The Second Greatest Hunter
The Mask-of-Shadow
The Sun Owl

Aspect
The Hunt

What is the hunt? One might confuse it with the hunter, but there is no hunt without the prey. The act of chasing, tracking, blending with the environment to elude or surprise. The obsession with the target, the focus of the mind so that all else seem to vanish. A fisherman is not a fish hunter, but a whaler is a whale hunter, a person must leave their comfort, put their necks in the line, to truly hunt.

Tuku is the gamekeeper, they are the deity of hunters, but also the warden of the mightiest of prey and exotic, challenging locale. They are somewhat related to hunting weaponry, skills such as tracking and outdoorsmanship, trophy taking, and keen senses. Within society, the hunted man with a bounty on his head and the bounty hunter are in the periphery of the deity's realm, and with enough obsession and/or risk-taking, a person who hunts for a treasure, an ancient tome, or even love may find themselves dealing with this deity.

Persona
A wildman through and through, they are a somewhat chaotic but reserved deity. Many of their emotions are hidden by the emotionless expression of the wooden mask.

They are not a formal deity, they do not demand rituals and worship and do not see mortals as inherently inferior, but that should not be confused with fairness or trustworthiness. If they were fair, they would still be the god of the fly hunting frog, and the frog hunting heron, but they are not fair, they pick favorites and hold grudges, to them hunting is not some great test or filter that shows the worthy, the randomness of luck and the many advantages one can acquire not by merit clearly taint the results.

Trust to them can only be gained by closeness, they recognize the feeling of mutual trust in a squad of soldiers but not their loyalty to a king. As such they will not give their word or sign contracts, if the other gods want a trustworthy ally in them, they must be worth the trust.

They are not a deity of great objectives, they even have no problem admitting that time is a hunter superior to them as they are truly inescapable and ever-lurking. They move on a drive of curiosity to experience new things, as well as an urge to collect that which is rare or to hunt challenging prey. Behind of a mask of an aloof deity however there is someone who thinks in their non-commitment they are superior to others, and who finds the prospect of being a trickster, throwing wild cards at deities who rely too much on order, is justified, or at least pleasurable.

True Form
A lithe figure wearing a wooden mask and colorful clothing filled with patterns that seem to move on their own. What many assume to be their skin doesn't actually seem to be that at all, with a texture best described as softwood, with the markings being akin to carving instead of tattoos. Their gender is also unclear, if you were to peek under their loincloth you would just find a featureless smooth crotch. It is assumed that taking the mask off would reveal their real looks, but the deity insists it's a simple form, not interesting.

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Ao-Yurin

The Wellspring
The Roiling One
The Fickle Deity

Aspect
Water

Essential to life, yet oftentimes equally lethal to that same life. Without Ao-Yurin, the world would be a dry and barren desert, bereft of a single speck of moisture. Ao-Yurin's favour can be curried for great boons, fertile fields, gentle showers and smooth sailing, but Ao-Yurin's fury can salt the Earth, tear ships asunder and wash away everything you hold dear.

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Ao-Yurin has two personalities, matching the two kinds of water most commonly found on planets with intelligent life. Ao-Yurin's first personality is tied to freshwater. Nourishing, kind and gentle, freshwater provides life and slakes thirst, and most petitions towards the deity are made towards this kinder side. Ao-Yurin's other side is tied to saltwater. Although saltwater is home to many species, it is also known for being unpotable and vicious, killing off plants and polluting bodies. Ao-Yurin's saltwater side is vicious and capricious, as likely to drown you as let you pass. This side of Ao-Yurin is rarely petitioned except by the most desperate, but this same desperation can also save one at the most unlikely of times, for there's little more than a capricious deity enjoys than seeing mortals humbled before them.

True Form
A frothing, roiling, ever-in-motion form of water and foam, constantly turning and twisting with each move Ao-Yurin takes. Sometimes identifiable shapes are created, a face or a humanoid body, but to take this as what Ao-Yurin looks like is a fool's errand for the next moment these features will shift or disappear, Ao-Yurin's form swirling like the waves that Ao-Yurin controls do.

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Ruina
She who Tests.
The Lady of Pain.

Aspect

Destruction.

Ruina is the goddess of destruction, but unlike what would expect she isn't a force of chaos that seeks to bring ruin to everything and everyone. Instead she seeks to ensure that the creations of other gods and goddesses do not fall into soft and sorry states. What good is a garden that produces nothing? Of what use is an army that fights no battles? It is here that Ruina's purpose lies. Ruina serves as a sort of "filter" for the creations of other gods. If they couldn't stand up to her, how could they stand up to someone that was much more cruel than she?

Though others will likely curse her name, Ruina believes her existence to be a boon to their designs. After all, the minor inconvenience that she inflicts will be nothing compared to the wrath of the Monarch of All should they be found wanting.

Persona
Ruina is surprisingly quite polite in most instances despite her status as the goddess of destruction. She's additionally quite courteous to those who are polite in return, and only grows cold and distant when people initiate hostilities towards her. When it comes to her role as a goddess of destruction she doesn't really take an excess of joy from destroying things. To her, it's just a job. An important job since it is something key to ensuring that the Monarch of All is happy, but a job regardless. So even if she's going to destroy things she'll be quite polite about it. However when she's in the process of subjugating something to one of her tests then she will certainly go "all in" and will withhold nothing, as is required of someone who tests things. But when she's not doing her job and stress testing the creations of others she likes to relax and explore. When she isn't preparing for a test or carrying one out one can frequently find her resting off the stresses and injuries sustained in one of her tests, or otherwise just venturing around and exploring, seeking out the next in an infinite list of things that need judging or complementing. This makes her appearance somewhat of an enigma to the more mortal races. Will she complement what they've done or turn and leave in silence, tolling the coming of a hail of death and pain?

Base form
Ruina's base form is surprisingly similar to her true form. What most people notice first is that she stands at a hugely impressive eight feet tall as standard, though she is capable of changing it on a whim. Her "minimum" seems to be about six feet tall, and her "maximum" seems to be about twelve feet tall. Aside from that her physical form is quite robust in appearance. Her overall body shape is well muscled and quite atheltic, and this is complemented by an ample and well defined hourglass figure. To say that Ruina adheres to some of the usual definitions of beauty is quite accurate.

Ruina's face, however, stands apart from this. Extending from her lip across her right cheek is a set of scars from some unknown incident. They don't seem to bother her much, but in moments of deep contemplation she seems to touch at them. Aside from that, Ruina's eyes are a strange seafoam-ish green and possess a pair of slit pupils like a snake. Around each iris is a pink limbal ring that adds to the oddity that is her eyes.

Ruina's hair is as white as snow, and it's kept woven into a tight ponytail to keep it manageable. The ponytail reaches just beneath her shoulderblades in length. Strangely her hair and eyebrows do not match in color, though this could be due to anything. Aside from the scarring, Ruina's face is quite refined and almost regal looking.

Finally, one of the most striking features about Ruina is that she appears to wear an organic suit of sorts, though in truth this suit is as much of an extension of herself as anything else. Made up of what appears to be some sort of organic tissue the suit moves and reacts as if it is a living being. Though Ruina assures everyone that it is living no longer. In keeping with this organic theme the suit it maintains the appearance of having bony plates, what could be either teeth or claws, and powerful muscles beneath it all. This suit clings tightly to her form, and Ruina can modify how it looks at will. This includes shaping it into weapons if needed, though everything will need to be attached in some way.

In its general default state the suit covers most of her body, leaving her head and a generous amount of keyhole cleavage exposed. The suit also covers her hands and feet, much like a full diving suit. As a default the suit leaves her hands and feet with a set of sharp claws and talons, allowing her to climb nearly anything as she wishes. In addition to this the suit provides her with a powerful tail that both augments her balance and provides her with many creative ways of attacking someone or something. The suit is also capable of hardening itself to shield from blows, though this is largely a cosmetic thing due to Ruina's divine protection.

Overall, the suit is a useful tool for Ruina in spite of the fact that she doesn't really require it. Something quite intriguing is that Ruina seems to be willing to manipulate and change her regular form beyond the limits that have been previously detailed, though she doesn't really talk about it too much.

Ruina's voice in this form is also quite gentle and kind, a startling surprise for one who holds the appearance of someone that is ready for combat at all times.

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Ruina's true form cranks things up to 11. Allowing the suit to expand across her head, Ruina's beautiful if flawed face is replaced by a horrifying visage of lipless teeth and stiff bony plates. In place of her eyes she has a single oval-shaped amber plate that serves the same purpose. The suit's keyhole cleavage expands itself a bit to allow the material to reinforce the exterior outline of Ruina's form, sacrificing a small amount of stabbing protection to allow for better protection against broad swings. This is once again pointless as the suit is merely an extension of Ruina and doesn't provide any additional defense, but the reaction is one that Ruina seems to have happen instinctively.

Moving on, the suit's arms, legs, and tail bulk up with some additional plates. Beyond this, Ruina's form seems to bulk up as well, becoming less of an athletic form and more of a bodybuilder type form, though she is still recognizably feminine. One could even say that those traits are enhanced too in order to avoid having them be lost beneath the more terrifying visage. Ruina's claws thicken and enhance themselves, becoming capable of rending nearly anything with ease. Interestingly, Ruina's feet seem to harden into what could be best described as something similar to hooves. In spite of the loss of her talons Ruina retains her ability to climb whatever she wishes and instead just walks on whatever surface she seeks to ascend instead of even pretending to follow the rules of gravity and friction.

Finally, Ruina's height is additionally enhanced. Where she could reach a maximum of twelve feet tall in her regular form, twelve feet tall seems to be her standard height in this form. In addition to that she could boost her height to a staggering fifteen feet tall if she wanted to. In addition to the changes in her physical appearance, Ruina's voice drops its gentle and kind tone and instead adopts a raspy and grating one. Along with this she's quite capable of producing some ear-bleeding inducing shrieks and will use them to announce the coming of one of her dreaded tests.

Origin

Unlike most other gods, who came into being without much issue, Ruina's birth was a complicated affair. What is one today was originally two. Ruina had a twin, but that twin was twisted and malformed, and clung to Ruina with greed and spite in its heart. Clawing at Ruina's shaping form, it attempted to steal some of her divinity for itself, scarring her in the process. With the small spark that it gathered it began to shape itself into a goddess of monsters, eager to use its wrath at its malformed birth to bring ruin to the world. But Ruina awoke while only partially formed. Using her granted divinity over destruction, Ruina obliterated the consciousness of her misbehaving twin. Wrapping herself in the now empty shell of what could've been her sister, Ruina felt the self-imposed designs of the twin push themselves onto her and was wracked with pain as her form reshaped itself in order to reclaim the lost spark of divinity.

This is where Ruina's suit comes from and why she keeps it tightly bound to her. She could potentially remove it at this point as the stolen spark of divinity has long since been fully re-integrated into her being, but the suit would likely be almost impossible to destroy. Not to mention that leaving the husk of an almost-goddess somewhere feels risky. Thus, she keeps it on. Not only to keep herself safe, but also to ensure that it doesn't fall into hands that would want to use it for some nefarious purpose.

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We've discussed the first two character applications and have our feedback ready. Unfortunately Frettzo went to sleep before Ruina's sheet got put up, so that one will have to wait until tomorrow.

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You have committed a great error by anachronistically making an allusion to Google! I started frothing at the mouth when I read, "the lady who can't stop thinking about the one song she heard twenty years ago but never can quite google the right words to find it." Frettzo and Lauder had to hold me back, and even the combined strength of a Florida man and a kung-fu master was barely enough to stop me.

As it stands right now, your Aspect section has some thematic musings on the broad ideas of what hunting can include. We'd still like to see some more meat in that section though. Is the main application of this Aspect going to be that she helps or hinders hunters to find their quarry, or is it more that she is the source of motivation or impetus for them to go out hunting on their own and she leaves the outcome to their skill and luck? I'm not forcing you to choose between one or those two; it could be that she does both, or neither and something else. 

The purpose of those questions is just to help give you an idea of what we'd like to know more about when we ask you to give more concrete examples for the Aspect. It's a broad Aspect and I'm sure that you will be able to find many things to do however you work the Hunt, so it's overall a good and workable Aspect even though we want you to elaborate more upon it.
Nothing much to say about form, all that is fine. To segue into the personality section, Lauder pointed out that the personality is currently very simple; the generic rogue ranger sort that just pulls pranks and hoards stuff. Such a straightforward archetype is fine and definitely workable if that's what you want, but you could certainly add some nuance or do some other things to make it more interesting.

It's accepted, just nuke the allusion to Google and then add a few lines expanding upon your Aspect section before posting the final draft in the characters tab please.

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A short and straight to the point sheet. Like we said to Capybara above, we'd like to see more substance in your section on Aspect -- water is a very broad category and you could do a lot of things and go in many directions with it, so it becomes especially important to spell out what sorts of things Ao-Yurin will do with it. You mention that without Ao-Yurin there would be no moisture, so are we to take it that he created all of the water? Does he also send and control the rain for most of the planet? It's obviously strongly implied that he does and that he can also create storms, but spelling these things out explicitly would be ideal. For instance, is poisoning water something that he would ever do? Does snow or hail fall under his purview?

The duality of water is always a cool archetype to explore, but likewise I'd like to see this expanded too -- is it just a different mood, or full blown multiple personality disorder? Does he have separate powers when he is in the saltwater form? Is that the one that would send hurricanes and such? Those were the things I was left still wondering.

For true form, is there any difference between the saltwater and freshwater versions? Is there any lower or upper bound on how big this watery form gets?

One of my main criteria for deciding whether a sheet is good or not is if I think you'll be able to do many interesting things with the character or if it'll be too hard to interact -- in this case I see potential. Early on you will naturally get the opportunity to have an important role in shaping the map by creating the oceans, lakes, rivers etc, and later on you can do things like send storms around and stuff. But sending rain and hurricanes would get boring after a while, so what other things do you think you might do or branch into? Sailing perhaps? You needn't spell out any of these plans in the sheet, I just would like you to think about them.
As a side note, I don't think I said anything to you about this on the Discord but I know others did: having a character that doesn't use pronouns at all will likely get very tiresome in the IC, especially if it means you're repetitively writing or reading a name like Ao-Yurin that is longer and a mouthful. I speak from experience because we've had precedent in the older iterations where certain gods were referred to as 'its' or were otherwise genderless, and you end up with pretty cumbersome sentences that don't flow well. When the writing doesn't flow as well or the posts aren't as readable, they naturally get less engagement from everyone else, so you're only hurting yourself if you do this. As GMs we have to pick our battles and we aren't going to demand you change this, but I suggest you at least consider this cautioning since several of us thought it important enough to say.

We accept the character sheet, but before putting it into the character section please expand the Aspect section (and perhaps personality too, to explain more about what the different forms mean) as requested.

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Yoliyachicoztl

Serpent of Flame     
The Warming Heart    
The Burning Goddess  
The Inferno Incarnate

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Heat. The transfers of energy between systems or objects from high to low energy. A description that lacks a spirit or character to the interaction. An invaluable tool or fact, that is something many can agree on, yet they too lack understanding in the essence that Yoliyachicoztl knows so well. 

Heat is energy and transfers, yes, but it’s the warmth for life, the boiling water, the sweltering rays, and the molten stone. It’s the cooking pot’s savior and the dry forest’s doom. Heat has no bearing on your drive, what is good or evil, it is energy that doesn’t seek to spread, it simply does. Yoliyachicoztl keeps no reservations or easy personifications, she knows it to be elemental, unfeeling, uncaring, incorruptible. There is no thought, nor desire. Heat that burns the hand and flesh, and saves another from the biting cold, lets the plants grow as they were meant to, and drives them to flame.

In a practical sense of what Yoliyachicoztl does is quite simple in form, but its applications are many. In short, control over heat, its generation, and transfer. But importantly not its destruction or removal. In practice, this can be as simple as hearing an object, to the potential protecting an object or person from being too cold or hot by drawing or dumping heat into the surrounding. Heating a forest till it bursts into flames, or diverting the energy of a lava flow away from a village. A stone that ever provides heat, lava, and magma flows heated to perfection and the insight and power to protect and allow life to flourish under the hottest situations. Heat is energy, and as such has wide and far-ranging applications from the simplest of things that may lead to great changes.

A boon of heat may provide the foundations for a deep lightless ecosystem, or an ever hot stone the beginning of cooking, fire, and metallurgy. Life that can live and thrive in the hottest of environs protected and benefitting from the heat where others would crumple and burn. Heat and Earth are a Volcano’s parents, and deep underearth heat allows the solid deep stone and metal flow, passages for those who love the warmth more than any surface temperature may allow in normal times. Heat properly applied has applications a thousand or a million fold.

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Sweet, caring, kind, thoughtful, bland, indifferent, and calm. These words are not often used to describe Yoliyachicoztl. Given the opportunity to describe herself, she acknowledges that she is impassioned and spirited. However, truly knowing deeply the goddess, it’s not so much that she has such a strong drive and goal that needs to dominate over all others. Rather, she holds something close to her that must be protected, reached for, a golden paradise that she can feel but not know.

Others drive her mad in how they cannot see, they cannot feel how she can get closer to that goal, that perfect world she knows she can reach. She doesn’t know how, or what it is, just the feeling that it’s there, that she can each and almost touch it. To bring forth heat and more, to get just a bit closer. Perfection drives her closer and closer but she doesn’t know how to reach it. There is no grand plan, there is only action, forward-reaching driving above and beyond what came before, what failed to get there.

To others, to those who can’t see inside her mind, know what she can feel in the deepest core of self, it doesn’t always look pretty, productive, or always sane. Some call her ill-tempered or ungovernable or uncontrollable. Perhaps that may even be fair at times, but she knows she is right, that she just has to reach that perfect golden time and they will see what she could feel all along.

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Although for many reasons a deity may take many forms, a true form in some else. For Yoliyachicoztl a serpent of heat, such ponderous energy dragging along materials she moves through, the earth and molten stone gives her the appearance of a lava serpent, the water boils and steams, the air turns to plasma and fiery burning. Regardless, the form itself merely impacts these things, not of them inherent. She moves constantly in this form, more so than she does in almost every other instance, giving the impression of this serpentine movement and evasion. More so this form is often quite a large serpent of heat as so described. Often this form may be seemingly cataclysmic in relatively low-energy places such as the surface of [redacted].

Generally, when out and around she takes a smaller form or one less disruptive such as some mortal guise or another less eye-catching view. Her true form is usually impactful, a large wave of intense and unyielding heat can cause many things to melt and burn just passing through.

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Palus
 The Vibrant Stranger 
 The Generous Gift-Giver 
 Overseer of Mires 

Aspect
Toxin  

Organic substances that stifle life. Toxins disrupt the complex natural processes of life-forms, and by nature are dangerous. However, they are not uniformly harmful. Certain species may have different reactions to the same toxin, while other species may be immune. Different dosages can have separate degrees of effects. Different applications, such as consumption or inhalation, may also influence its behavior. 

A toxin can not have an inherently beneficial effect, however clever applications of toxins can be useful. A paralytic agent may be useful to numb pain. A coagulant can stop bleeding. A pesticide can kill crop-eating locusts or plague-spreading rodents. 

Persona
Outwardly, he portrays the characteristics he considers proper for a god; calm, detached, unbiased, industrious and appropriately reverent. 

He is deeply fascinated by the wonders of life, but is frustrated by its fragility. He is a cautious god. He is careful to hide his vulnerability from others. He is a deeply emotional entity, capable of sincere compassion and childish pettiness. His stoicism is born from his desire to protect the world from himself. 

True Form
He has an immaculate humanoid visage, dressed in fine silk dyed in vibrant colors. Glancing upon him does not cause ill-effect, but mortals will find their eyes glazing over and find it hard to point out any real detail about him other than this clothes. If a person dare stare directly into his eyes, they would see his snake-like pupils while their metabolic processes began to slow until they fade from this world.

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Voi
Shepherd of Souls
Lord of Souls
Watcher

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Soul
 What is a soul? A question that has evaded scholars and priests for a millennium. But, a soul is simply one's essence, intangible immortal energy that all living and sometimes nonliving things have and can not live without. Energy that is created from nothing and is given a body to inhabit once it has the spark of life. Which even nature has a soul. Or souls as you will and even souls manifest in areas that are either sacred or something important happened there.  

Once the body has died, it will move on to the afterlife where it will stay there for all eternity. Unless they are reincarnated which is presented in some souls found in nature and to those souls who are worthy of a second chance in life to make amends for their sins in their past life. As long as the natural order of life and death remains in balance. 

Few have power over souls like Voi does and make sure that souls go where they need to go. Though if he wanted to, he can influence where a soul goes along with having power over a soul, either it be in a live body or dead. Able to manipulate them with great effect though this is something that Voi only does if needed. Along with being able to create a soul and thus create life but, only when he has a purpose in mind for it. Or even bring the dead back to life but, there has to be a good reason for it.  

When it comes to ghosts, those souls who refused to move on. Voi has power over them as well. Though most of the time, he will try and peacefully help the soul move on, and if that does not work. He will force the transition.       

Persona
The middle man of life and death, Voi can be seen as a watchman. Silent but ever-present, steadfast in his duties. Despite his passive nature of watching and maintaining the flows of souls between life and death. He still has an interest in the mortal realm. Watching events from afar or in mortal form. Sometimes interfering in events if he deems it something important. 

As deep down, Voi is a kind and thoughtful god. One normally on the sidelines but, will jump into the frontline if he feels he needs to. For Voi has morals, and greatly values life, despite his role. He is not the one to ignore tragedies or massacres and not one to let one suffer unless you really piss him off. Voi sees the living as something as precious and not something to be tossed away carelessly. Something to be watched over and sometimes guided from evil when needed.             

Acting as a friendly and warm to those he likes or calls friends. To those that he feels negative about and you will find a cold and distant Voi. Disrupt the flow of souls or do something such as someone mortal or not committing necromancy and you will find an angry Voi. He will intervene.               

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A hooded figure where you cannot see his face, only darkness and only able to see two bright blue lights where his eyes should be. His robes being black and blueish white, with the lower half being black and, his sleeve, hood, and part of the upper part being blueish white. The robes themselves are plain though seem ancient to the eye. His hands when shown are covered with gray gloves and if he takes the gloves off then you will find that his hands are made up of semi-transparent blue energy. Which whether or not Voi's body is made up of blue energy is something that he will not disclose. 

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I'll do a pass for spelling errors and the like tomorrow.  For now have this, the product of.... Inspiration...  *shivers*

SALA

The Loving Tyrant

ASPECT: SALT

What comes to mind at the mention of salt and its goddess? A kindly woman bringing seasoning for food?  Perhaps a healer or guardian cleansing a place in fact or spirit? Or maybe a callous crone bringing rust and decay to the armaments of warriors and the tools of masons?  Whatever is imagined, it is incomplete.  Sala is all these things, and more.  She is the embodiment of all salts, those greedy crystals that hunger for water and can be found almost anywhere one might think to look.  She is a being of vast variety, for all mortals associate her with the barest fraction of her dominion. 

Recognized or not, within her dominion Sala is a tyrant who commands her element in its totality.  She alone determines how salt moves through the world, in the sea, the life that rises out of it, and in the markets where that life peddles the good.  Able to manifest vast quantities of her aspect as easily as breathing, Sala is ever managing the intricacies of how living things use salts in their bodies, how those salts flow and disperse through the ocean, deposit on land, and how they move and ossify in the deep earth below.

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It is good to be loved, but much better to be needed.  Sala is, above anything else, possessive and covetous of the attentions and love of the Monarch, her peers, and indeed all the life upon the world.  Immensely concerned by her own perceived weakness and faced with deities who command the very aspects of Heat and Cold, Sala imagines, without much difficulty, a world where she is supplanted.  A world that does not need her.  

To the Goddess of Salt, nothing could be so deeply unacceptable as that.  An eternity spent as an afterthought, alone but for the passing notice of greater beings, would be no better than everlasting torture.  As such Sala contrives to make herself vital, irreplaceable, and desired. From flooding the ocean with salt to ensuring that life itself cannot easily exist without her, Sala seeks to have her name on every tongue and her presence in every mind. 

Still, even Sala would agree that an eternity spent on nothing but grasping at the attentions of others would just as surely be one not worth living.  Once others have come to need her, or even love her, Sala is among the more generous and communicative deities in the Monarchs pantheon and her willingness to come to the aid of mortals is known.  Rather, it is infamous.  There is no doubt that Sala will answer a prayer sent, so long as enough share it, as her vulnerability to flattery is well established.  

Unfortunately, the few prayers shared by enough mortals to attract Sala’s attention tend to be directed against other mortals.  As such Sala is a known destroyer of civilizations and lives.  For all she desires others attentions and affections, Sala has never been afraid to shed blood.  As she might say, those who survive will love her all the more.  Those who are dead, will be dead.  It is easy to forget that salt and its goddess are ever greedy for water, and what is blood but that with a few additions?

Certainly, even in war Sala is no reluctant participant.  She is, when satisfied that her name is being carried on the briny ocean breeze and spoken in the cities of mortals, more than willing to engage in battles as little more than a pass time.  It would be wrong to say that she especially appreciates violence, however.  Sala merely enjoys the extremes that the world has to offer, and wherever things are pushed to their limits she can be found watching or nudging things in whatever way she might find interesting.

Expeditions, savaged and nearly broken, have found themselves arriving at their goal by tracking streams turned salty.  Sailors at the very edge of death have found themselves blessed to drink salt water, though perhaps for longer than they’d have asked for.  Sala is a keen observer of adversity and strife, but any that find themselves under her attention should be wary. 

The Goddess of Salt is generous with her gifts, but they cannot be taken back.  Her generosity is only vast provided it is never spurned.  Those who reject hers, even for practical reasons related to a scarcity of salt water to drink on land, may well find themselves unable to ask for or reject her gifts ever again.  Sala has, occasionally, permitted outright refusals of her gifts, but to accept and have a change of heart?  That is perilous for mortals and divine alike. 

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Sala often appears as a vividly coloured mortal with hair, skin, or feathers being bright pink, blue, yellow, or even a flawless white or pitch black.  Just as salts are immensely diverse in color and appearance so too is the deity of their aspect.  When in mortal form the Goddess leaves evidence of her presence in the form of thin dustings of salts deposited wherever her feet land

TRUE FORM

In her true form Sala is a crystal figure surrounded by a vast cloud of innumerable colors and sorts of salts condensing onto and evaporating from her body.  In this form every movement she makes shatters her body and sheds huge chunks of salt, but in a moment these losses are replaced by fresh crystals donated from the cloud around her.  While Sala takes pride in her true form, the unfortunate proclivity of mortals to burn to death when in a permanent cloud of  gaseous salt has made her assumption of this form a rarity.  Given the way Sala’s true form tends to poison everything around her while simultaneously burning it, few of her peers encourage her to change that habit.

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Voligan

Aspect
Earth

The aspect of Earth is broad and essential to the world. It represents strength, stability, resilience, growth and change. Earth can be as strong and resilient as the mountains, resisting whatever the other elements throw at it. It can foster the growth of nations, feeding the plants that empires are built on with the nutrients in its soil. Earth can change with its enivroment, be it becoming grains of sand in the desert or beach, or turning from a raw mineral into a forged tool. It is strong enough to resist and persevere through challenges, but malleable enough to adapt when needed. 

With the aspect of earth Voligan can create or destroy new land masses. Islands can be pulled from the sea or dragged back into it. Safe harbors from the wrath of the sea can be formed. Before sapient life learns to build their own shelters, Voligan can shape the earth to protect and shelter them from the cruelties of the outside world. After he can manipulate the earth to create natural barriers to protect their settlements from attack and natural disasters. He can nourish the soil that plants are grown upon or he can make them barren of the nutrients needed for the plants to survive. He can fill caves and mines with precious metals or gems, so that whomever has his favour can mine and then forge them. He can weaken or strengthen the metals drawn from the earth, or change them to another earthly element entirely. If angered enough he can cause earthquakes or volcanic eruptions to wipe out whatever has gained his ire. 

Persona

Confident and calm are the two words that describe Voligan the best.  He knows that he has the strength to weather the majority of challenges that come his way, and the awareness to adapt to those few challenges he cannot. He loves to both prove his strength and have it challenged, making himself stronger in the effort.  He is level-headed and purposeful, always making sure that everything he does is with reason and almost never rushing into anything. It is rare to see him get impassioned and energetic. He is stubborn to a fault and honest to the point of bluntness. He sees no reason for lying to anyone, and will always speak the truth. For better or for worse. 

As the god of earth, he believes that his power is nigh unmatched and that it his duty to shape the lands that the Monarch of All has created and prepare those that live on them for the challenges of life. Voligan believes it is his duty to teach, train, and strengthen the creatures that live on the world that the Monarch of All has created. They will need to be resilient and strong to survive, and he will guide them to that. All of them. He is not a filter, sifting through the weak to find the strong. He is a guardian and a teacher, making everything stronger and more independent, rather than destroying the weak or making them dependent upon divine intervention. 

Voligan's goal for preparing the creatures of the world is to teach them to be strong and resilient on their own, but grant them strength from his own blessings when their own strength is not enough despite their best efforts. 

True Form
Voligan's true form is massive. Standing tens of thousands of feet tall, it is nearly incomprehensible to a mortal mind. It is vaguely humanoid, with crude limbs and hands formed from the seemingly endless tons of rock, sand, gravel, boulders, and any other conceivable piece of earth all crammed together to form his body. When he moves, the earth shakes for miles. When he speaks, it is like hearing hundreds of avalanches and rockslides all at once. 

Mortals that are unfortunate enough to see his true form find their bodies battered by vicious vibrations as he speaks and moves, knocking them to the ground, bursting their eardrums and their organs. 

To avoid this, Voligan prefers to use a toned down mortal form that changes based upon the earthen environment he is in. Made of sand for the desert, dirt for a plain, rocks for a mountain or cave, so on so forth.

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Aethel

The Friendly Stranger
King/Queen of the Fey
Keeper of the Tree
Swimmer of the Magical Winds

Aspect
Mana
Of all the forces of existence, magic alone is filled with paradoxes and contradictions. It laughs at the very concept of order and rules, but beneath the whimsical chaos are laws that refuse to bend no matter how much one raged, threatened or bribed... But might make an exception out of compassion if one pleaded and begged with pure intent. Both beautiful and ugly, the stuff of the most serene of dreams and the most unending terror of nightmares, a means to impose ones will upon the world and by which the will of the world can impose its will upon those who inhabit it.

Magic has countless definitions and interpretations. To some it is where the dream meets with the physical for better or worse. To others, it is the truest expression of individualism and how the will of one person can shape or reshape the show that is life. To the clinical, at its core it is the power to look at the world and say 'Yes' or 'No' to the rest of the laws that govern it. It is both the purest expression of the soul and a sign of the darkest, most twisted of corruptions. All of them are true, to a degree.

Regardless of if it is viewed as science or superstition, Magic is a aspect of the world. A force of both unnatural and natural nature. 

However, magic doesn't just spring into existence from anywhere. Like a fire cannot exist without fuel to burn, magic needs mana in order to exist. Mana is... hard to explain. It is an invisible, untouchable essence that ignores physical barriers in order to move around the world like the gentlest of breezes... unless it isn't or doesn't. Mana has many varieties and exists in states of being, be that ethereal, physical or even spiritual. Regardless of form, much like the magic it allows to exist it seems to possess a will of its own.

The primary duty of Aethel is to be the caretaker of Mana; It is their job to maintain it, propagate it and deal with anything that threatens its existence for without it, magic would quickly fade from the world and anything dependent on it would quickly wither and die.       

Persona
Aethel is one of the nicest entities one could ever encounter, if strange. Always polite to a fault regardless of who they is talking to and what the circumstances are, energetic and dedicated towards making whoever they are talking to feel welcomed and included in whatever is happening. While they can come across as somewhat scatter brained and prone to shifting between different topics and focuses at a whim, they are just as prone to focusing on a singular topic or interest obsessively long past the point that others care. A patron of stories and music, Aethel is a great storyteller themself... but terrible when it comes to actually playing instruments; No matter how long they practice, the noise will always be horrible to listen to and the fact that he's just so energetic about it somehow makes it worse.

Despite how friendly they are, Aethel is at the core a selfish individual. Their desires and flights of fancy will almost always come first despite the fact that they personally consider themselves to think about others often. Some of the flights of fancy and obsessions they can develop are of a... darker nature and are as readily pursued and explored as any other without hesitation. 

Despite having a remarkable vocabulary, Aethel themself tends to be a very literal entity and will honor and obey to the letter any and all obligations and deals that are required or made by them. TO THE LETTER is vital to remember. While some might claim that it is due to a trickster nature the truth is that while Aethel takes pride in their work and making sure it is completed in a timely and satisfactory manner, they rarely stop to consider the wider implications or logical outcomes of the requirements or rules of the task beyond asking themself if they are following them successfully. That being said, they are not afraid to ask for clarification if something is too vague or they simply don't understand/are confused by something.

Always remember, 'Nice' and 'Friendly' are different from 'Good'.

True Form
While Aethel has many forms, their true form is that of an androgynous six legged hooved equine with a cloud like mane and tail that seem to constantly shift coloration, rarely being a singular color at all and, on the few occasions it happens, rarely remaining that way for long. White of coat that seems to blend perfectly with whatever coloration their tail and mane happen to be at the time, Aethel has two horns coming out of their forehead; A smaller crescent shaped one up front and a larger thorn like horn rising up behind it. 

Along their body are an indeterminate number of mollusc like tentacles, the tops covered in the white fur of his coat but the bottom of them are clearly filled with fleshy suction cups. Along their six legs shimmer a series of pleasantly glowing 'fins' that, much like the mane and tail, slowly change colors over time. Both tentacles and magical leg fins are used by Aethel to 'swim' through the shifting tempest of mana of his home like a fish in water.

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ROSALIND

RAGING ROSA | THE DANCE-DEMON | FEVERFOOT | LEAPING LINDA

Aspect
DANCE.Dance Defined. Dance is the movement of the body in a rhythmic way, usually to music and within a given space, for the purpose of expressing an idea or emotion, releasing energy, or simply taking delight in the movement itself. The movements may be purposefully selected or freely improvised and have aesthetic and symbolic value above and beyond any work, travel, or survival purposes the movements may have. Dance is a powerful instinctive impulse, but the art of dance is that impulse channelled by skilful performers into something that becomes intensely expressive and that may delight spectators who feel no wish to dance themselves. 

Categories of Dance. Dance can be broadly split into performatory and participatory dance, although these two categories are not always completely separate. Performatory dance is intended primarily as a spectacle, usually a performance before an audience. It often tells a story, perhaps using mime, costume and scenery, or else it may simply interpret the musical accompaniment, which is often specially composed.
Participatory dance, on the other hand, whether it be a folk dance, a social dance, a group dance such as a line, circle, chain or square dance, or a dance with a partner, is undertaken for its participatory aspect rather than for the sake of creating a spectacle for an audience. Participatory dancers often all employ the same movements and steps but it is also possible for vast crowds to engage in free uncoordinated dance.

Function of Dance. People — and even certain higher animals — often dance as a way of releasing powerful feelings - joy, impatience, anger, grief. These motive forces can be seen not only in the spontaneous skipping, stamping, and jumping movements often performed in moments of intense emotion but also in the more formalised movements of dances such as tribal war dances or festive folk dances, which both generate and release emotion.
Alongside emotional release, dance may have special functions, whether social, ceremonial, competitive, erotic, martial, or sacred and liturgical. Social acts like celebrations, courtship, recreation, and entertainment, and major events in a community may be reflected in dances: amongst other things, dances can be performed to mark births and deaths, weddings and wars, coronations and victories, journeys and festivals, and much else. They may impart cultural morals, including religious traditions and sexual standards; give vent to repressed emotions, such as grief; motivate community members to cooperate, whether fighting wars or grinding grain; and enact spiritual rituals. War dances, often using weapons and fighting movements, can be used as a way of training warriors and preparing them emotionally and spiritually for battle. 
People also dance for the pleasure of experiencing the body and one's environment in new and special ways. Dance movements tend to be organised into a spatial or rhythmic pattern, tracing lines or circles on the ground, following a certain order of steps, or conforming to a pattern of regular accents or stresses. These characteristics may produce a state of mind and body that is very different from that of everyday experience. The dance creates a very different perception of time and space for the dancer: time is marked by the rhythmic ordering of movement and by the duration of the dance, and space is organised around the paths along which the dancer travels or around the shapes made by the body.

Power of Dance. For this reason, dance can create a completely self-contained world for dancers, in which they are capable of physical effort, prowess, and endurance far beyond their normal powers. An ecstatic dancer can whirl ecstatically for long stretches of time without appearing tired or giddy, and certain dancers may even be able to strike daggers against their naked chests without that causing apparent pain or injury. This transcendence of the everyday may also be experienced by the spectators. Drawn into the rhythms and patterns created by the dancer’s movements, they may begin to share in the emotions being expressed through them. Thus the performers and the spectators work themselves into a trance in order to transcend their ordinary selves and 'receive' the powers of the gods.

The Feverfooted Goddess. While everyday dance has these qualities, Rosalind is able to harness the powers of dance in an especially concentrated manner. Those who behold a joyous dance may be inspired to euphoria, those who are subjected to a dance of wrath or grief may experience inexplicable fury or extreme forms of sadness (which may develop into depression if not attended to). In the hands of an unskilled practitioner, Rosalind's powers can prove lethal. As fate would have it, she is a horrific dancer. Mortals and divines are advised to run far far away if she loses control of her feet - or if there's even a hint that she plans to dance, really.

Persona
Excitable. Shy. Fearful. Caring. Hesitant. Self-deprecating. Conciliatory. Curious. Dramatic. Sloppy. Passionate. Honest. Idealistic. Insecure. Sentimental. Maternal. Self-conscious. Disorderly. Forgetful. Clumsy. Well-meaning.

Curious by nature and full of wonder, Rosalind feeds her passion on novel experiences and sights. With every new experience that feeds and inspires the roiling dance-fever in her feet, she ventures ever closer to an explosive dance of leaps and twists and pirouettes, stomps and impassioned shouts, over which she has little control. The effects of such a frenzied flare-up are often terrible on beholders, who may swiftly find that the body, mind, and spirit can only handle so much joy, sorrow, anger, and fear before something gives. For this reason, Rosalind is by nature fearful - fearful of feeding her passions or bettering her dancing, and so is wont to retreat into her shell of clumsy forgetfulness to preclude the possibility of mastering her dancing or truly experiencing anything new. More than anything, she wishes she could rein in her passions and control them so that she will no longer have to exist as a ticking timebomb. Perhaps then she will be able to kick back, breathe a little, and give herself to the dance.

True Form
She is a Phantom of delight when first she gleams upon the sight; a lovely Apparition, sent to be a moment's ornament; her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; but all things else about her drawn from May-time and the cheerful dawn; a dancing Shape, an Image gay, to haunt, to startle, and way-lay. You'll see her upon nearer view, a Spirit, yet a Woman too! Her every motion light and free, and steps of virgin-liberty; a countenance in which do meet sweet records, promises as sweet; a Creature not too bright or good for human nature's daily food; for transient sorrows, simple wiles, praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And then you'll see with eye serene the very pulse of the machine; a Being breathing thoughtful breath, a Traveller between life and death; a perfect Woman, nobly planned, to warn, to comfort, and command; and yet a Spirit still, and bright with something of angelic light.

Rosalind's true form is not simply a form, but an act. As the living manifestation of dance, her true form is the dance itself, and so in the instance she surrenders herself to her feverish feet, or is overcome by them, behold her true form! This means that her true form has little bearing on her physical appearance, and while the dance is her true 'form' the fact remains that the form of the dance is infinitely varying - an impassioned love dance is not a war dance, nor the incessant tip-tapping of the folk dance the slow and measured ceremonial display. No, Rosalind's true form is the dance itself, and beyond that she is but a woman cursed by fate and burdened with the unenviable task of hosting a maddened dance-fever.

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@Squad 404 for Ruina
All in all, we actually enjoy Ruina, she is clearly well thought out and certainly well described and fairly original for a destruction god to boot! One of the biggest questions we are left with is how can she be polite while destroying things? If a god or mortal politely asked her to not do something destructive against them would she not do her thing? It seems as a bit of a contradiction to politely kick over a kid’s sandcastle, so they could do with a bit of explaining or rewording. 

Additionally, we want to know how she goes about her destructive rampages. Does she send natural disasters to mortals to test them? Does she go into combat and just smite everything in the general vicinity? Or does she corrupt things like taking some people and turning them into the orcs or goblins? We do like how she views her own aspect. We just want to know a bit more on how she’s going to go about things!

Lastly, the origin took me by shock myself personally but the others told me to look at a different angle and I found myself to tolerate it. Obviously it is not a section we asked for but the concept itself is fine, we do want to make the clarification that we’d like to actually see this play out in your first post or two.

All in all, Ruina is accepted on the grounds that you clarify how she does her thing and explain that little paradoxical politeness of hers.

@Commodore for Yoliyachicoztl

Long and complicated as far as the name goes, to pop which we will praise you IMMENSELY for making that marvel of a BBCode. It looks nice and we love it. 

Our primary concern with Yoliyachicoztl is that the Aspect has some of us unconvinced that it might actively do much, it is a specific category such as heat after all. You name a few uses such as burning things, diverting lava, and the likes but we think what would make your aspect immensely better would be if you considered to take on an emotional connotation with it as well, an example being could ‘heat’ be taken to mean anger? It is mostly food for thought, and heat certainly is not invalid  as an aspect we are just afraid there may not be much for it. Additionally, we feel that it’s important to clarify whether Heat allows you to remove heat, as doing so would most likely step on Zee’s toes, as he’s aiming at Cold as his Aspect.

Now, the personality section is certainly something that we enjoy as she seems erratic and obsessive and takes on her burning passion! We like it a whole lot, so good job there!

Accepted once you do a few edits to the aspect so that way it gives us a clearer path and more options with how it is described!

@Leotamer for Palus

So, we do have a problem with how short the sheet is, it is pushing the limits of minimalism with only having a few lines per section.

With how you described Toxin, it is incredibly narrow and some of us are concerned with if you will have enough to do with it. We suggest that maybe it should be broadened to be something such as “Alchemy” as we had noticed that you wanted to include some positives with an otherwise negative, and mostly harmful, Aspect such as Toxins. We get some Parvus vibes from the ye olde Mk. III but insects were an easier portfolio to interact with and more importantly a bit broader. 

Moving onto the personality, it has us somewhat optimistic with a specific line showing great promise to us, “His stoicism is born from his desire to protect the world from himself.” It shows us that Palus has the option of a complex-emotional journey that could be extremely interesting to read, though we have our reservations because it would be hard to pull off. We are afraid that Palus will go into isolation and hiding, something the Monarch would not want any of his subjects to do and would lead to an otherwise boring character than none would wish to interact with.

With how the sheet is currently, we unfortunately cannot accept it. I personally wish to see a bit more, try to escape that minimalism and give him more meat on those bare bones, the aspect needs to be reworked.

As was stated in our Super-Secret-DM-Discord-Channel the writing is fine and the ideas have potential.

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Deimos
ALIAS (IF ANY) The Demon Lord
Deimos

Deimos in the form of an old king. 
Aspect
Domination
Domination is the all consuming power to manipulate, shape and tear out all the good and life out of the Cosmos for his own power and indulgence, to mention his place as the ultimate authority. 

Deimos is the god of pure evil dominance and power brought by a corruptive mind. He named himself at his creation, "Deimos" which means Master. Whether his power over domination is in relation to the demonic, the devilish or just pure trouble making, it is just as wicked. This god will try everything that is dark and wicked. Deimos will be attempting the horrors of genocide to prove his domination over all life. Maybe introduce enslavement to incite the greed in Humanity, or other mortals. He could incite jealousy and pride to cause infighting and wars, mass infanticides, tortures, and is the driving force for mortals to become something worse, and all for his power and selfish gain. 

He isn't just a tyrannical ruler, yes, he is not above establishing fascistic rule, or controlling societies through fear of various means, including wicked magicks of the Occult to assert mastery over the lives of entire cultures, and he will do anything to reach greater heights of power, even Cosmicide! However, like The Devil, a lot of his power comes from what people do to cooperate with him. He likes to reinforce negative emotions of others, and himself to exert magical control. For example, he can enslave others through their tempers, their lusts, their ambitions, greed and addictions. 

Those who want power may receive a visit from Deimos. This unassuming or even benign sounding individual may fulfill their innermost desires, regardless of the form they take, in exchange for a little something else, which could be vague, but always ends up with the duped individual giving something precious, like their freedom, over to this evil deity. 

For example, Faust asked for power, riches, youth and beauty from Lucifer, in exchange for his soul. Deimos would allow those who receive his "blessings" to enjoy something in return for their servitude, but when it's time for them to pay, Deimos would take both their blessings for himself and add it to his collection, permanently, thus Deimos would receive an eternal servant, either literally or by legacy. ((Legacy being, the individual still contributing to Deimos despite not being in his direct service.))

Domination as an aspect, however, cannot just make life perfect for the recipient of the "service" of Deimos, at least, not for the long term, no matter how deceptive he can make the circumstances. The recipient of his empowerment must put work into his or her own agenda to establish a long lasting legacy, and stay on top. Domination could also attract a lot of unwanted attention from the envious. Thus, Deimos could risk losing potential servants due them being too successful. 

Persona
Before Deimos becomes my mostly original version in this role play, he will still be god of Dominance, but he will stand for being a god of rulers, empowering rulers so they can serve the people, protect them from disorder and generally provide a large buffer zone between civilization and anarchy/brutality. I see in the beginning future of Deimos that he starts as a benevolent deity who slowly begins to grow embittered and vengeful due to circumstances that repeatedly hit him throughout the eons. He would be a powerful deity that attempts to protect and prosper his people over the eons, sometimes through direct rule, other times through proxy, only through repeated disaster to strike, disrupting life for him and his subjects through great tragedies. 

The wiping out of his societies, maybe through barbarians/powerful NPCs, and the eradication of everyone and everything he loves, in a never ending personal Hell changes him. No longer would be an Arthurian like archetype that loves and cares for his people, but he grows cold, then hateful, and finally gives up his soul, figuratively speaking. No longer will suffer the loss of his civilizations, his birth right and the loves of his life, his friends and children, but that he would forever be in his rightful place in domination over the universe. He would thus spite the natural order and never suffer again. 

Henceforth, verything is about him. He can have good qualities, but they are literally infinitely lesser than his malevolence against others who have whatever he doesn’t. This being is a believer that the only good in life that should exist is his, and he will not only enjoy inflicting suffering on the unsuspecting and innocent but dance on their graves to get it. 
In addition to the above. Deimos would likely attempt to make a wager with The Monarch himself. Which is stronger, Evil, or Good? Deimos would stop at nothing to prove his way is best, and even, the only way for a "perfect" universe, with him at the top. In addition, he is truly cruel and depraved. What may make this even more frightening is that there may be some things about Deimos that are actually, good. But he always embraces who he is without guilt, without any remorse, and he is cold and uncaring about the tremendous suffering he will be directly causing. When he wants to be at his worst, he shows his victims his "true face" whether that's some kind of metaphor or a more direct threat is unknown to mortals at large, but basically, he is threaten to irrevocably change them into a demonic creature against their will.

Deimos sees himself as the ultimate being, even above The Monarch of Creation. It is because of his nature to dominate and cause suffering for his own selfish gain that he will always be infinitely more evil than any of the good he might (probably accidentally) cause.  

With all that said, he is not stupid. He will not try to assassinate or get rid of The Monarch directly. He is far too clever for that. 

True Form
A great, red dragon with a third eye. This being is a truly terrifying sight to behold. He stands multiple times as tall as a real life T-Rex, and breaths fire, of course. Some legends say that he even has a more terrifying form that transforms the souls of those who see him into pure evil.


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