[OOC] Patronage of the Gods

[Atroposer]

BREAKING NEWS:

A news woman sits behind a large desk, reading from a TelePrompTer just behind the camera that she appears to be looking in to.

"It appears that for unknown reasons, Mount Olympus has become enshrouded in thick clouds. Any body who walks into them becomes disoriented and begins to asphyxiate immediately. There is no evidence at this point in time, but many have come to suspect that this is linked to global warming, since Greece has had record high emission levels over the past decade, with minimal recovery effort. It is also reported that a small amount of people have began to leave sacrifices on Mount Ellinor, an ancient site for rituals. Authorities are currently trying to find those behind the animal sacrifices but are having no luck. It is advised that you do not go near Mount Olympus, for your own safety, and so that the path is clear for authorities and researchers. That is all we have on that story, and next, the counties most likely to follow in Britain's political footsteps."

NEWS:

Smaller stories run across a banner, but a man in a suit is staring down at his papers, professionalism broke by clear disbelief of the situation.

"All over, from small towns to larger cities, it is reported that 'witches' have began to attempt to contact the mythological gods of Greece, due to recent events surrounding Mount Olympus." He said, then turned his head to the woman to his left, who answered with the rest of the story.

"They have taken on the tag line 'The old gods may rise.' And have been spotted tagging buildings and trains with this slogan as well as many other occult symbols."

Pictures on the screen display pentagrams, pentacles, and other manner of sigils drawn on buildings in graffiti. It varies between rural American landscapes with dilapidated churches, tagged in giant sigils of Zeus, to women's shelters with smaller sigils to Hera carved into them, to banks with Hades's own sigil hidden cleverly in the logo. Lastly is a much stranger symbol. The channel cuts out.

Minutes turn into an hour before the station is running again.

"We apologize for the technical difficulty." The woman says, a bit more nervous, given the context. "It is advised not to engage with those claiming to be witches on social media or in person."

Talking with Tia

A light skinned black woman walks on from stage left, waving to the studio audience and blowing a kiss, in her trademark chipper attitude. Her hair is curly, long and reached her lower back. She kept it in its natural state of a slight kinky curl. Her olive green eyes flickered to the talk show host, Tia Sanchez.

"Let's give a warm welcome to the Mistress of the Stage and Sweetheart of the Silver Screen!" Tia calls, sitting behind a desk, but gesturing widely with her arm. "Miss Tes Lyn!" The crowd behind the camera cheers on queue.

"Thank you! Thank you!" Tes laughs, sitting down in a plush chair and crossing her long legs.

"So, I'm sure you know, twitter is just blow-ing-up! With talk about your recent choice in religious sects!" Tia chirps, gesturing to a TV above them that read off some of the said tweets.

"Straight to the point, huh? C'mon, Tia, love, dinner first." Tes chuckles, as did the audience as they were silently instructed. "Yes, previously, if anyone asked I was an atheist, though after recent events, I have found my place." She says seriously, rolling up the sleeve of her dress shirt. Her forearm bears new tattoos, sigils of Dionysis. "He may be absent from the world, but I belong to him. Clotho is the one who told me."

There is an uneasy silence.

"Clotho... like the Fate?" Tia echoed, uncomfortable with the open admission. Tes cocked her head and looked at Tia.

"Yes, the Fate." Tes unrolls her sleeve, buttoning it once again at the cuff. Even the button displays a the outline of a chalice with odd symbols in it.

Summary

Dormant for nearly two thousand years, Hera awakens to find the world very, though not unexpectedly different. She wakes her husband, Zeus and together they reclaim their home of Mount Olympus. They hold no domain, only the land of the mountain and their powers. Zeus strikes down anyone who manages to get through the thick mist with deadly lightning bolts. Zeus decides it is once again time to reclaim their power over man, and awakens his brothers Hades and Poseidon.

What is a god without a follower? With only few pagans who truly worship left in this new, unfamiliar world, they reveal themselves through natural phenomenon and the like, slowly gaining foothold once again. Witches from all over begin to worship either for power, influence, or merely something to devote themselves to.

Leader of the "Salem Movement" in America is Tes Lyn, movie star and broadway actress. She posts regularly on social media and has her own website, where witches can learn about the gods, read translated epics, and learn about the new movement. Media has taken to her in two ways: one half is strongly opposed and chides her on using her influence to 'corrupt' her fans. The other half notes that she largely just takes donations and supports charities through the movement. She invites you, too, to join the movement by applying on the website, to be matched with whom you should worship based off of your personality and occupation.

Witch CS

Name: (First and Last, Middle or Middle Initial optional)
Age:
Birthplace:
Current Location:
Occupation:
Personality:
Appearance: (picture, photo, or drawing plus a short description)
Hobbies/Interests:
Family:
Home Life:
Short/Long Bio:
Form of Witchcraft:
Form of Sacrifice:
Abilities/Rituals: (Abilities should be very small, weak and believable. If you can't think of rituals, google is your friend! Keeping in mind, rituals aren't always successful.)
Preferred Deity:

Deity CS

Deity:
Personality:
Preference of Follower Type:
Purpose of Awakening: (Most typically just want to live again, but some have specific wishes, i.e.: Zeus wants to be worshipped and being about more Demigods. Hades wants to bring back Persephone and regain his domain over the spirits of those humans who die. Poseidon could want to cleanse the ocean. All purposes are subject to change, given whoever plays them.)
Location: (Greece, Mount Olympus, The Underworld, or specific countries)
Appearance: (Can be a picture or description)
Choice of Humanoid Appearance, or Physical Form: (Same deal)

Types of Magic

Blood Magic: This is a more intense form of Witchcraft, typically viewed as taboo or evil. It utilized blood sacrifice to power rituals, invocations and spells. The user sacrificing their own blood has more power than an animal sacrifice, but animal sacrifice is safer, as one usually has to fill the offering bowl. Human sacrifice is frowned upon by the gods. Blood serves no sort of monetary or magic gain for the gods, but shows devotion and willingness to commit.

Old Magic: Very similar to blood magic, in that sacrifices of blood are the form of energy used, but these are certain rituals and spells that have been passed down through word of mouth, therefore it's very rare. There likely only a dozen left who know of these older ways.

Technological Magic: This is a newer, under developed form of ritual that is much less effective as it involves no sacrifice, but the few gods interested by it may just support it by showing up and granting power.

Sigil Magic: Entirely based on symbols and writing, but it can be enhanced by sacrifices. This is a bit weaker than blood magic, but stronger than Tech Magic. This is also the most often used by accident, when people draw things that happen to match a sigil. It doesn't do much, but sometimes things can go horribly wrong.

New Magic: This is any sort of ritual or spell that has been invented in the past thousand years. It has a 50/50 chance of working and is the least dangerous form. It can be enchanted by sacrifices.

Types of Sacrifice

-*Blood of a Witch: Blood of the user.
-Blood of an animal: Any animal, but lamb and ox are the most popular types.
-Blood of a human: Dead man's blood is a permitttable sacrifice, but the sacrifice of a living human is forbidden by the Hellenic gods.
-Monetary Sacrifice: This is most effective with Hades.
-Material Sacrifice: Any valuable item, but jewelry or crafted decor, made by the casting witch is also accepted. Jewlery works better for gods such as Hera, Hermes, and Apollo.
-Food Sacrifice: Mainly effective around harvest season; this works best for Demeter and Hestia. Though the unused portion of a hunted animal can be used to invoke Artemis, and good wine or alcohol can be effective in summoning Pan or Dionysus.
-*Sentimental Sacrifice: This is effective with all gods equally.

*mark the most powerful sacrifices

Rules and Whatnot:
-Not every character is going to be kind and sociable, but you should be in OOC.
-Correct grammar and spelling is required, but I understand typos occur. (Usually by me)
-Maximum 3 Characters per player.
-Gods and goddesses are of the highest power alive. Should we introduce titans, that will go to them, but no OP witches.
-Respond in a timely manner (if three days have gone by and you're MIA both IC and OOC, that's not good. If something is up, let everyone know OOC, or PM me.)
-Cursing is (more than) welcome, but try to keep the mature themes cleverly coded.

Your character must be approved first, yes, even deities. The CS for the gods are mostly so that I can gauge who you will play them. I am not too strict on adaptations, but I don't want anything ridiculously far off the mark (i.e.: Hades being a comically idiotic man, or Hera being kind and motherly... @Disney.)

[Polaris North]

Apologies for the double post but this is what I have so far.

Demitrius

Name: Alexander Demitrius Regas
Age: 19
Birthplace: Greece
Current Location: Greece
Occupation: Farmer, Rancher

Personality: Alexander is quite the cheerful and friendly person. He doesn't have a problem with interacting with others. He is extremely curious, near obsessed, with anything that has to do with animals, plants and mythologies. For now, he started with simply Greek mythology, but eventually, he shows interests in Roman and Norse mythologies. He is a hard-worker, as one can see with how he juggles work and studies. But it should be noted that he is a homestudy person. To be honest, he is a fun loving person and he's quite adventurous. On his free time when he's not researching or tending to the crops or animals, he goes out to the city or a town or just the general area.

Appearance: Alexander stands at a height of 5'9. He has a lean type of body. As can be seen in the picture, he has black hair and blue eyes. He has a rather wide collection of clothing - ranging from jacket and jeans to flannel and pants.

Hobbies/Interests: Farming, Animals, Researching more about the old Hellenic gods and goddesses, Biology
Family:
Mother - Jamie Regas [Alive]
Father - Xander Regas [Alive]
Little Sister - Agnes Regas [Alive]
Home Life: The everyday life of Alexander is tending to the animals at dawn with his sister, checking on the crops before lunchtime, studying for some time at afternoon, and then some other miscellaneous things that his parents would come up with. His family owns a field for crops, a barn for animals and then another field for livestocks. They have expanded from just being farmers of crops.

Short/Long Bio: The Regas family has been alive for centuries and they have been farmers ever since. The Regas family has always been loyal servants of Demeter. They were known to have the richest land and the fattest cows. The Regas family were part of the people who lamented with Demeter when she lost Persephone and rejoiced when she bounced back from sadness. They have strong ties with her and kept this tradition alive up to the present, even when the Hellenic gods and goddesses weren't being worshiped anymore.

Going back to Alexander, he was so amazed by the stories of the gods and goddesses that he sought after books and old people to tell him stories. It was good that his bloodline was so closely 'related' to one of the goddesses. When he was a kid, he wasn't very good in following orders. He would often lock himself up in his room to study something. When his sister was born, he became a lot more responsible with his duties to the farm. His life was very uneventful besides the fact that he had learned a lot of rituals that had something to do with Demeter but he has learned some other rituals for other gods and goddesses.

Form of Witchcraft: Sigil Magic and Old Magic
Form of Sacrifice: Food Sacrifice but sometimes uses Sentimental sacrifice
Abilities: He has a connection to animals. He has the ability to understand what they are feeling and what they need, allowing him to form bonds with animals quickly.
Rituals:
Torches of Hecate: He has learned this one for when he somehow gets lost. Just as Hecate had guided Demeter, she can also be invoked to guide one back home. It can be invoked through Sigil Magic and can work without a sacrifice. However, the sigil can be messed up for a less helpful one.
Hecate's Mist: By messing up one of the sigils, one can get lost for an indefinite amount of time. The invoker cannot get back home no matter what he tries. This can last for one to twelve hours. By sacrificing a certain amount of blood and remaking the sigil, the spell can be broken. Though Alexander is unaware of this, this sigil can be used as a trap to essentially put a person in an empty plane by already putting a blood sacrifice on it beforehand.
Demeter's Protection: A form of Old Magic that keeps the land fertile. This ritual is performed during the harvest season. They sacrifice their fattest lamb and their best crops to Demeter to pray for another fruitful season.
Merchant's Talk: Invoking the name of Hermes to help with negotiations. This works best when they sacrifice blood to Hermes before the negotiations will happen. It is believed that this, with Demeter's blessing to the land, is what kept the family going.
Preferred Deity: Probably Demeter

[Americore]

@atroposer I plan to keep Poseidon's anger issues for sure haha. However, was curious if it wouldn't be too far off the mark if I made him a bit more lax when dealing with those that summon him off the bat? That will change drastically though if he hears something that insults him.

[Atroposer]

@atroposer I plan to keep Poseidon's anger issues for sure haha. However, was curious if it wouldn't be too far off the mark if I made him a bit more lax when dealing with those that summon him off the bat? That will change drastically though if he hears something that insults him.

@Americore

Seems good! As long as you write him consistently, I have no problem. Go ahead and fill out a CS for him.

[TheUnknowable]

Simon Hutchins

Name: Simon Hutchins

Age: 32

Birthplace: Georgia, USA

Current Location: On a plane to Athens, Greece

Occupation: Game Designer

Personality: Inquisitive and curious, if a bit self absorbed. He'll do stuff to help others, but he's going to try and get some benefit out of it if he does.

Hobbies/Interests: Science, especially physics

Family: none

Home Life: Single

Short/Long Bio: While working on an RPG based on the idea of modern street gangs using magic instead of
guns, he discovered that the one of the rituals he had included was causing the candles he kept lit for ambiance to blaze up whenever it was run. He researched the idea further and found that not only could he make it blaze up more, but could even ignite flammable materials if he transferred electronic funds into the ritual's subroutine. A bit of further research, and he found that his energy, electricity, and even items could be connected to it and sacrificed to enhance the effect.
Realizing how important this could be, he decided that he should make a mobile version of the game. Basing it on the idea behind Pokemon GO, he created a worldwide map that procedurally divided every city into districts, and let people use rituals to capture these districts. Of course, the common version merely simulated the spells, not really doing them, unless he used the promo code screen to put in a code to unlock the ability to really use spells. This game was called "Mage Wars" and soon became one of the most popular mobile games.
Any time he discovers a real spell he puts it into the game as a legendary spell. Unfortunately, he only has four useful rituals so far. He can of course add more if he finds them, so now he's out looking for more rituals, either by looking for other witches, or by research.

Form of Witchcraft: Technological

Form of Sacrifice: Usually money (from other's microtransactions of the inactive version), sometimes electricity, though can use anything.

Abilities: He's always been pretty good at predicting random events, well above what probability would say. Since he started using spells, that has been even more pronounced.

Rituals:
Flames of Tartarus: The fist ritual he found could enhance fire. Sometimes when he ran it nearby candles would get brighter. As best he can tell, it calls on Hades.
Summoning: Brings a creature from the underworld. Without sacrifice it does nothing, but for enough money you can summon some pretty decent allies. Usually, he just sacrifices $20 for an imp, which can use a chameleon like ability to hide and spy on people, though they are very weak. Such a summoning only lasts a few hours.
Blessing of Styx: Protects the user from damage.
Apollo's Blessing: Though he is unsure of the source, he found a way to boost the health of a targeted person. With enough sacrifice, it can heal as well. ((THanks to "Sacrifice of the Damned" he has seen a witch use it multiple times somewhere in Greece, but the sigil he saw is incomplete and any ritual around it is fuzzy at best.))
Sacrifice of the damned: Allows one to see the afterlife, or other people in the mortal world who are also witches. Pomegranates must be consumed as part of the ritual. In the game that just lets you track other magic users for a period of time by destroying a "pomegranate" item. IRL it means you have to consume it in some form to remote view the other magic user or the afterlife. He prefers drinking Pom-apple juice.

Preferred Deity: Most spells are Hades.

Also, if we do bring in Titans, I'd like to play Prometheus. I have an idea of him just living with humans for several thousand years and being reluctant to join in the god's drama. He would be married to a human witch, though, and have a few demi-god kids that don't really know how to take advantage of that, outside of rituals.

[Atroposer]

@TheUnknowable sounds good! If you'd like to bring that in sooner, fee free, so long as his titanhood is on the down low, at least to the gods and witches.

[TheUnknowable]

@AtroposerWell his wife and kids would know, but he wouldn't advertise it to others, as he doesn't want to be dragged into that world. Also, Zeus will probably still not like him, so he doesn't want to risk upsetting him.

I guess I'll have him pretend to be a witch by a different name, and the characters wouldn't know who he is. The gods might be able to recognize him if they meet him, though, even in human form.

[Atroposer]

@TheUnknowable Go on and draw up a CS!

[TheUnknowable]

Prometheus

Deity: Prometheus
Personality: Afraid to show himself to the other gods. Plays the role of a humble farmer that tries to negotiate his way through problems.
Preference of Follower Type: His family. No one else knows he's awake, and he wants to keep it that way. That said, people that are willing to stand up for what they feel is right generally earn his respect, so if he had to have a follower, that would be the kind
Purpose of Awakening: He never slept. After Heracles freed him, he took human form and went to live among them. He's lived as a human since then.
Location: Greece
Appearance:
Choice of Humanoid Appearance, or Physical Form: He never switches, just makes it age at the same rate as his wife so that she doesn't feel bad about him being immortal. Currently in the form of a

farmer/witch

Name: Alastair Ambrosia

Age: 45

Birthplace: Greece

Current Location: Greece

Occupation: Farmer

Personality: tries to negotiate his way through problems

Hobbies/Interests: biology, nature, medicine

Family: Achilles Ambrosia- son
Aegeus Ambrosia- son
Rain Ambrosia-wife

Home Life: He spends most of his time with his sons and wife.

Short/Long Bio: He met Rain, the granddaughter of an old local farmer, about a decade after his last wife died and took the form of a twenty year old in order to ask her out. They dated for a few months before he revealed his true identity to her. After he taught her the three sigils he had used the most over the last few thousand years, she agreed to marry him, and he moved in with her to help her grandfather on the farm. When he died a few years later, peacefully in his sleep thanks to Apollo's Blessing, his wife inherited the farm and they raised their children there, teaching them the sigils as well once they were old enough.
He has done something similar for the last 4000 years, marrying a local woman and settling down until she dies of old age. This has made his skills a bit rusty, so he might have trouble wielding his actual power.

Form of Witchcraft: Sigil

Form of Sacrifice: Fire seems to be enough

Abilities: He heals faster than normal and has a strong immune system.

Rituals: Apollo's Blessing: Boosts the health of a targeted person. With enough sacrifice, it can heal as well.
Fire from Olympus: The sigil burns hot, igniting the item if it's flammable.
Foresight: A variant of the symbol for Prometheus, this sigil acts as a warning, letting you know if you are about to do or are doing something stupid or dangerous. It has to be drawn on you or something you're wearing.

Preferred Deity: Prometheus

[Tenma Tendo]

This is what I have so far. Hope everything is okay with what I have now and let me know if something is wrong! ^^

The Performer at Heart

Name: Eun-Ha Lee; often goes by Eun, Lee, or Pollux.
Age: 18
Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea
Current Location: Greece
Occupation: Street Performer, relying on dancing and playing music.
Personality: Eun's manner of dealing with people is self-assured and charming, and she is said to be the "Princess" type. She uses her wiles to entertain while simultaneously focusing on what's important. She often realizes things the others are too naive to understand, keeping the information to herself for her own amusement or to watch things play out in order to determine how best to help the others. Eun is calm, logical, and has superior intelligence. She also can come across as rather detached and serious, and sometimes threatening when need be, but this is most because she has a hard time interacting with other unless it's charming and refined; she's never had a chance to let loose. Being blind and deaf on her left side does make her rather nervous and self conscious around new people, especially when performing. She is very polite to people who are in power or related to it, and claims she only helps people who can benefit her somehow, but this is shown as a lie later on.
Appearance: Eun-Ha is a petite girl that stands at five feet and four inches. She has long flowing blonde hair that stops around her waist, one steel gray eye (left), one deep blue eye (right), and rosy white, almost flawless, skin. She's blind and deaf on her left side, but she doesn't wear anything to show so. Eun-Ha often wears short and flowing clothes, varying in whites, grays, pinks, and blues (see Kaori Miyazono for more on that). She's almost always seen barefoot, as she believes it brings her closer to the Earth.
Hobbies/Interests: Dancing, Singing, Performing, Talking in General, Running, Relaying Information, Acting as a Messenger, Gymnastics, Epic Stories.
Family:

• Yuji Lee (Mother; deceased)
• Jimin Lee (Father; deceased)
• Chan "Castor" Lee (Twin Brother)

Home Life: Eun-Ha's day usually starts with her waking up before the sun rises. She quickly gets breakfast ready before calling her brother down in which they always eat together; a promise they made ever since they became a two person family. Breakfast was always fun and full of laughs despite it being on the two of them, but one they finish, they head out their separate ways. Chan goes to school while Eun-Ha goes out and does her street performing so that they would have enough money to keep the house. The times that she didn't get enough money within the day, Eun-Ha would resort to stealing, but only when she was desperate. She would stay outside from sunrise to sunset, doing a multitude of performing acts, before heading home and restarting her day all over again.
Short/Long Bio: Eun-Ha and Chan were never really the types to be into Greek mythology, or any mythology as a matter of fact. It was only when they and their parents moved to Greece that the twins began to enjoy what was around them. Whenever they had the time, the two would pretend they were the gods and goddesses in the epic stories their parents would give them, and act out the scenes to the utmost perfection with them. They even went as far as to nickname each other after Pollux and Castor, the twins that make up the constellation Gemini. They also had their favorite god(desses), with Eun-ha favoring the clever and beautiful like Hermes, Aphrodite, Apollo and Athena. She even went as far as to learn different rituals that correlated to her favorites, her brother doing the same. However, after the death of both of their parents, Chan focused more on getting an education, while Eun-Ha focused more on acquiring money at the time. Despite the responsibilities that suddenly crept up on them, the two use whatever free time they can to reenact the old days when they were sill a family of four.
The day Eun-Ha learned about rituals and magic was a strange one indeed. In the middle of performing, Eun-Ha came across a young child who had scrapped his knee. In order to help calm him down, she gives him a piece of bread (the sacrifice) and plays a song on her violin (the New Magic) that ends up healing the child. It was this that made Eun-Ha look more into the magical and ritual side of things.
Form of Witchcraft: Sigil Magic for the most part. Blood Magic and New Magic occasionally.
Form of Sacrifice: Mostly Material and Sentimental Sacrifices. Rarely the Blood of a Witch Sacrifices.
Abilities/Rituals: Eun-Ha has the strange ability of charisma. Now wait, I know your thinking that anyone can have charisma, but Eun-Ha's a special case. She's able to gain the trust of others easier and persuade as well with her charms. It isn't something as active as what others have, but this passive ability might come a long way in negotiations.

• Merchant's Talk: Helps with negotiations. Works best when sacrificing blood before the negotiation begins. This coupled with Eun-Ha's charisma is a force to be reckoned with.
• Messenger's Call: Allows the user to communicate with those who follow under Hermes. Spreads around a two mile radius and requires a Sentimental Sacrifice to be done. Falls under Sigil Magic. Smaller sacrifices are needed when trying to get in touch with the same person. If messed up, the user gets a small headache.
• Mend: By calling for the powers of Apollo, the user is able to heal minor wounds by playing a specific melody. In Eun-Ha's case, she uses a violin. A sacrifice equal to the amount of blood lost is required as well as this being New Magic. Used to heal minuscule wounds. Apollo's Blessing enhances Mend.

• Boundary: This ritual allows the user to communicate with others via telepathy. A form of sigil magic that requires a Sentimental Sacrifice. It's usually used to communicate to multiple people at once or if in immediate danger and verbal contact is needed.
• Divine Boundary: The same as Boundary, but much stronger and extends to Deities; it is also how the user contacts Hermes. Requires a Material Sacrifice, but in this case, the user's conscious leaves the physical body and is put directly beside the god in question, almost like a wisp. Usually used to act as a messenger of sorts to said god(dess) or Witch. Usually lasts for around ten minutes.
• Severed Connection: If Divine Boundary is messed up, Severed Connection occurs. The user's spirit will be separated from their body, but they won't make it to who they were trying to contact, no matter how hard they try. Instead, they will be lost. The ten minute time span doesn't exist anymore, and the spirit must find their way back to their body. If separated for too long, it could have lasting effects. Torches of Hecate has proven helpful when this happens, however.
• Blessed Light: By calling for the powers of Apollo, the user is able to heal the wounded by playing an extensive melody. A sacrifice equal to the amount of blood lost is required as well as this being New Magic. Used to heal major wounds. Apollo's Blessing enhances Blessed Light. Both this, Blessed Sparks, and Mend, can't heal non physical injuries.
• Blessed Sparks: If Blessed Light is messed up, Blessed Sparks occurs.
  While the user is still able to heal the wounds inflicted, the pain that came from the wound is now put on the user; the user takes all the pain from the wounds and shoulders it all. No physical wound will show, but the pain will be clearly evident. Apollo's Blessing increases the pain that's transferred over.

Preferred Deity: Hermes, without a doubt.

[Atroposer]

@Tenma Tendo A Hermes! Yes!

[Tenma Tendo]

@AtroposerLol, yes, I love Hermes too much to not have him as my Deity haha ^^

Also, I think I'm done. Might need a bit more proofreading but everything should be there ^^

[Atroposer]

@Tenma Tendo

I like it! But just a few things I REALLY should have mentioned previously, and will put up in that big ol' post up there, but try to stick to one or two deities with the rituals, unless you're making a really old character, but especially youngsters with busy lives, try to stick to one or two deities of ritual at most.

And I'm not entirely sure about the telepathy thing. I'll have the think about it, because I'm not sure if I want humans to have that much power. Humans are the pawns of the gods, but I'll have to think more about all the spells and rituals and whatnot.

[Polaris North]

Oh yeah,

Did I forget to mention that Alex's house is really big and his family would probably be more than happy to give everyone a room if they needed it?

[Tenma Tendo]

@Atroposer Thanks! She'll only use rituals from Hermes and Apollo if that's alright with you.

And with the telepathy thing, you could tell I was thinking mostly about how Hermes was a messenger and tried to make it something a little similar. Maybe I could change it to teleportation (or would that be too broken?) and think of another ritual for a bit of diversity? I don't mind coming up with something new if telepathy thing really doesn't work out, so just let me know! :)

[CollectorOfMyst]

Hi there! I'd like to offer my interest... especially since I love Greek Mythology.

For example, @Tenma Tendo, are you aware of Iris?

I'm thinking Apollo, Athena and/or Hephaestus fir the preferred deities - since the latter would tie in perfectly with my want for a Tech witch, Apollo for Sigil magic, and Athena for New Magic.

(Also... what about Nymphs and Dryads? The children of the gods that aren't quite gods themselves, but nor are they demigods. All that sort of thing? Since the Titans are the ancestors of the gods and the Maenads are the descendants, wouldn't it make sense to include one if you want to include the other?)

_{You can tell how overly excited I am about this premise, can't you...}

[Atroposer]

@Tenma Tendo I thought a lot about it, and since Hermes will maybe be her patron, some very minor, very watered down telepathy makes sense enough, but I was thinking that maybe it could only work for people who also follow Hermes. I was hoping for the rituals to be very weak, and rarely work, but work often enough to prove their own existence.

@Polaris North Great! Good resource-planning.

@CollectorOfMyst Welcome aboard!!! Barring certain spoilers, let's just say all of the children of the gods, minus a very, very

few.

basically the only ones left would be demigods that people want to play. If someone REALLY wants to play Hercules, I won't stop them.

All of the children of the gods, and creatures the gods created (minus humans of course), are all dead.

@TheUnknowable Because of his status as a titan, go ahead and assume his rituals will work 100% of the time, as opposed to 70%, and this part is up to you, but with or without sacrifice, it doesn't matter. Since he's Prometheus after all.

[TheUnknowable]

@AtroposerHe might botch them anyway, just to fit in. Also, he's not going to join, though I might have his son join if they really want someone else to join.

[TheUnknowable]

@AtroposerWhat if @Tenma Tendo's telepathy required they be within a certain range or required a sacrifice for long distance communication?

[Atroposer]

@TheUnknowable Makes sense! Also, I'd prefer if it would always require a sacrifice, so that it's less of an ability, more of a ritual. I was thinking maybe a sentimental sacrifice of the person she's trying to communicate with? Then smaller sacrifices each time she wants to reach them?