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(Pictures throughout for possible inspiration.)
Hello, everyone. So, you likely don’t recognize me, seeing as how I’m new here, but @babbysama and I came up with an idea that we think many of you would enjoy, so here we are to share it with you. Influences include The Elder Scrolls, Runescape, Warcraft, and Norse mythology, among other things, and we hope that even more original ideas will be added over time.
The basic concept of this RP is that, at first, it’s a deity RP starting from the very “beginning” of “creation,” and eventually moves on to a nation RP, and finally to an individual character RP. This is a collaborative world-building project that is also a roleplay.
The first wave of players, the first phase of the game, consists of the birth of the gods, the claiming of the godly sphere, the formation of the godly realms, and creation of those realms that would eventually belong to mortals.
Later, the second wave of players will control nations on one or two specific mortal realms that we decide to have the RP focus on, developing their civilizations as would befit their place within the cosmos and the writers’ whims.
And lastly, of course, we would move on to the RP being centered around characters, as so many are.
While this will be mostly free-form, we’re not completely without framework, so I’ll take you all through some important points about the structure of the universe.
Norse mythology pictures the universe as a tree, Yggdrasil, with worlds sprouting off of various branches. Instead of a tree, the Numinous Realms are a great river (which I will take suggestions of a name for). Instead of branches, the river has tributaries, all ending in great lakes, which are the realms of the gods. The islands in the stream are worlds on which mortals may (eventually) flourish. And the mountain (also to-be-named), from which the river flows, is the source of divine energy, and birthplace of the gods. The sheer concentration of energy at its peak occasionally coalesces into a being of great but not limitless power.
The gods occupy spheres of life; spheres that, eventually, will go on to govern mortal life. Law, entropy, sex, the list goes on. And the gods, the literal embodiments of their spheres, are capable of shaping their realm to their whims, and, to a limited extent, the island worlds.
One thing gods are simply not capable of, however, is the creation of intelligent life. While they may form life in their own realms or in the island worlds, sentient mortal life will spring up independent of any divine influence; gods can and will eventually guide and influence mortals, but will have no connection to them.
New gods will spring up; their formation by the mountain may or may not divert power from tributaries or even the entire river. Some spheres may fall under already-existing spheres, and create even smaller sub-branches. And mortals, when they eventually exist, may ascend to godhood… if they fulfill the right requirements.
And gods may die. Like I said, they are not omnipotent; they can be overcome with great effort, either by other deities or even by mortals. And when a god dies, their sphere lies dormant. And as that god was the literal embodiment of that sphere, the dormancy of the concept would be reflected within the mortal realm.
As a rather simplistic example, the death of the god of law would lead to pure anarchy in the mortal realms. But fret not, for while the mountain cannot create a new god to claim that dormant sphere, mortals may (slightly) more easily ascend to godhood by claiming that sphere.
Of course, mortals, and even gods, cannot truly perceive this structure of the universe, not beyond a conceptual level. The mountain, they perceive as a great sun. The lakes that are the godly realms, as stars. The island realms, as planets. And the river itself, as the vast corridors of space. And when an island lies within a tributary, it is influenced by the sphere(s) of that tributary.
All is not perfect and dandy, however; the gods will inevitably come into conflict, especially over the realms in which mortals reside, and doubly so should one reside on the border of two (or more) tributaries. The God Wars will shape creation even more than creation itself.
That’s about it, I think, that you need to know for now. The idea is to create an organic world-building experience, and with the eventuality of the God Wars as a goal, we at least have a bit of a counter to this devolving into pure-worldbuilding.
@babbysama and I will act as co-GMs, as well as gods, with me claiming the sphere of law and him the sphere of sex. I’d just like to see whether anyone would even be interested in participating in this RP at ANY phase. (And don’t think you can’t participate in multiple phases.)
(Pictures throughout for possible inspiration.)
Hello, everyone. So, you likely don’t recognize me, seeing as how I’m new here, but @babbysama and I came up with an idea that we think many of you would enjoy, so here we are to share it with you. Influences include The Elder Scrolls, Runescape, Warcraft, and Norse mythology, among other things, and we hope that even more original ideas will be added over time.
The basic concept of this RP is that, at first, it’s a deity RP starting from the very “beginning” of “creation,” and eventually moves on to a nation RP, and finally to an individual character RP. This is a collaborative world-building project that is also a roleplay.
The first wave of players, the first phase of the game, consists of the birth of the gods, the claiming of the godly sphere, the formation of the godly realms, and creation of those realms that would eventually belong to mortals.
Later, the second wave of players will control nations on one or two specific mortal realms that we decide to have the RP focus on, developing their civilizations as would befit their place within the cosmos and the writers’ whims.
And lastly, of course, we would move on to the RP being centered around characters, as so many are.
While this will be mostly free-form, we’re not completely without framework, so I’ll take you all through some important points about the structure of the universe.
Norse mythology pictures the universe as a tree, Yggdrasil, with worlds sprouting off of various branches. Instead of a tree, the Numinous Realms are a great river (which I will take suggestions of a name for). Instead of branches, the river has tributaries, all ending in great lakes, which are the realms of the gods. The islands in the stream are worlds on which mortals may (eventually) flourish. And the mountain (also to-be-named), from which the river flows, is the source of divine energy, and birthplace of the gods. The sheer concentration of energy at its peak occasionally coalesces into a being of great but not limitless power.
The gods occupy spheres of life; spheres that, eventually, will go on to govern mortal life. Law, entropy, sex, the list goes on. And the gods, the literal embodiments of their spheres, are capable of shaping their realm to their whims, and, to a limited extent, the island worlds.
One thing gods are simply not capable of, however, is the creation of intelligent life. While they may form life in their own realms or in the island worlds, sentient mortal life will spring up independent of any divine influence; gods can and will eventually guide and influence mortals, but will have no connection to them.
New gods will spring up; their formation by the mountain may or may not divert power from tributaries or even the entire river. Some spheres may fall under already-existing spheres, and create even smaller sub-branches. And mortals, when they eventually exist, may ascend to godhood… if they fulfill the right requirements.
And gods may die. Like I said, they are not omnipotent; they can be overcome with great effort, either by other deities or even by mortals. And when a god dies, their sphere lies dormant. And as that god was the literal embodiment of that sphere, the dormancy of the concept would be reflected within the mortal realm.
As a rather simplistic example, the death of the god of law would lead to pure anarchy in the mortal realms. But fret not, for while the mountain cannot create a new god to claim that dormant sphere, mortals may (slightly) more easily ascend to godhood by claiming that sphere.
Of course, mortals, and even gods, cannot truly perceive this structure of the universe, not beyond a conceptual level. The mountain, they perceive as a great sun. The lakes that are the godly realms, as stars. The island realms, as planets. And the river itself, as the vast corridors of space. And when an island lies within a tributary, it is influenced by the sphere(s) of that tributary.
All is not perfect and dandy, however; the gods will inevitably come into conflict, especially over the realms in which mortals reside, and doubly so should one reside on the border of two (or more) tributaries. The God Wars will shape creation even more than creation itself.
That’s about it, I think, that you need to know for now. The idea is to create an organic world-building experience, and with the eventuality of the God Wars as a goal, we at least have a bit of a counter to this devolving into pure-worldbuilding.
@babbysama and I will act as co-GMs, as well as gods, with me claiming the sphere of law and him the sphere of sex. I’d just like to see whether anyone would even be interested in participating in this RP at ANY phase. (And don’t think you can’t participate in multiple phases.)
