Post by Bannanachair on Jul 25, 2017 10:38:01 GMT -4
15/6/2016
I'm writing this on a whim and with no idea at all as to whether or not anyone would actually sign up for this. That said, here it goes.
Table of Contents
1) History
2) Terminology
3) Rules
4) CS
5) Admins & Credits
1) History (1
Seventy Two thousand years ago, the First Gods used the last of their primordial energies to create the universe. However, the attempt was sabotaged when the Dark God Neurax attacked his bretheren. His attempt was ultimately unsuccessful, but he managed to preform irreparable damage in his attempts to convert the world back into it's pre-creation state of nonexistence and void.
The side effects caused by Neurax were plentiful, and, as his brothers failed to kill him, he continued to cause damage. Among the things which he has done are giving some of the primordial energies to mortals (thus allowing magic to exist), warping the way in which time works allowing some gifted individuals to see the future and birthing prophets and manipulating and bastardizing the minds of some of the first mortals to garner them to his cause. But by far his most significant contribution was one done in that very instant of creation, altering the very nature of what gods are, for every eighteen thousand years all the gods shall die and be replaced.
This history has been forgotten to time by all but the gods, but the cycle has never broken - After the First Gods (whose names are so old they have faded even from myth) perished, the Second Gods arose, and then the Third Gods. Each generation came to be known simply as "The Gods" by the masses within centuries of their rise, but among themselves and the greatest of all scholars some of the truth is known and they go by the number provided.
An odd occurrence happens when the Gods die. People panic at first, but within a few years some semblance of order is restored. The entire geopolitical landscape of the world is greatly altered, warfare becomes increasingly common and the egos of mortals rise. Why, after all, should gods be considered superior to mortals when most mortals are older than all of the gods still alive, and when gods can bleed and die - even of old age - just as mortals can? In fact, within the first few decades, but slowing exponentially down by about the second century each time, many mortals delve into the study of magic and slay some of the new generation of gods themselves, often seeking to take their place.
The Fourth Gods, before their death, have sought out and warned those who would rise to be their successors (for Gods are always chosen from amongst mortals) of the hardships to come, as the Third Gods did before them. You are one of the Fifth Gods. You are a New God.
2) Terminology (2
Some terminology shall be used in this RP which has specific meanings in the context of this RP that it does not otherwise have. Likewise, I shall be coining some new terms for this RP, or at least unofficially plagiarizing terms from other RPs and fantasy worlds without my own knowledge of doing so.
First Gods: The First Gods, as is rather obvious by their name, are the first gods, and they were the ones who created the universe and the world, and most of the races. It was hypothesized sixty thousand and some years ago by the immortal scholar Minlias that there may have theoretically been beings before the First Gods who destroyed a previous universe and died for the First Gods to take their place and start a universe anew, but this is completely unproven and Minlias lived a thousand years in exile for his thoughts.
Mortal: A member of many various races who are not dead, not immortal and not a god.
God: A God is an individual who has attained the highest levels of power, being nearly omnipotent, nearly omnipresent and, due to the age which they manage to live up to, nearly omniscient (after a while). They are also ordinarily disembodied, but may create a vessel for themselves if they so desire to communicate with mortals and immortals.
Immortal: Formerly a mortal, they are essentially nothing special. They are often powerful wizards, undead and so forth who use magics to preserve their own lives well beyond what most mortals live to. There are two curious things about immortals - the first is that they can outlive Gods with ease if they decide to do so and the second is that, as they grow older, they gradually grow distanced from the world and become mere spectators to events rather than active participants (generally). There are a scant handful of immortals who lived alongside the First Gods (back before anyone knew that Gods could die), and as you progress through the timeline of history you'll notice that the number of immortals from that era steadily grows. This is because immortals, as they grow older, are often killed by mortals, gods, rival immortals or simply lose the will to live anymore.
Pantheon: A collection of gods, often headed by an individual god who is the head of the pantheon with the others as advisors. They often share a palace or city within the Godrealm, or if they don't, they are at least located within proximity of one another. Often it is the case amongst mortals that they decide upon gods to worship not willy-nilly but by sticking with an individual pantheon, maybe two, per political unit.
Godrealm: Somewhere else accessible only to Gods and those they permit to enter. Gods often use the Godrealm to build private cities and palaces for themselves and for a convenient place to convene among themselves. None truly know what the Godrealm is, but many immortals, especially Prince Neher, the Vampire Lord Baros and a being known only as The Librarian or the Keeper of Knowledge, subscribe to the belief that it was a prototype for the universe due to the strange way that it is halfway between existence and nonexistence.
High Council: A political construct created to act as a sort of God-UN, where the heads of all the Pantheons, any interested immortals and, occasionally, politically important mortals, debate politics, theology and ethics in an attempt to avert warfare between deities. Immortal historians say that every generation of Gods has their own High Council, but that all (other than the First Gods) took about a millennia on average to stop their warmongering and go for peace and passive observation of the world. Powerful mortals, such as notable heroes and extraordinarily influential kings and emperors, may be called to be "guest members" of the High Council when it convenes, but due to their short lifespan and the ever-changing political landscape of mortals, they are never permanent members.
3) Rules (3
1) No Godmodding. I know it's ironic, but just because you're a god doesn't mean you can do everything. You can do most things, sure, but you can't, for instance, instantly annihilate another god.
2) If you want to timeskip, just tell me and I'm happy to oblige. The first few pages (about up until things begin to immediately cool down from the upheaval caused by all the gods dying and new gods emerging) should not be timeskipped, but after that, due to immortality, I'm comfortable skipping several centuries at a time.
3) Common sense applies. If there are rules I forgot but that make sense to be here obey them, and if I decide out of the blue that something's against the rules go with it.
4) This isn't a "linked ISRP" or whatever; each person gets their own universe to play with.
5) Remove things in parentheses in the CS.
4) CS (4
Name:
Age: (as of becoming a God)
Race: (prior to being a God)
Appearance: (prior to being a god)
History: (up to becoming a god)
Other:
5) Admins & Credits (5
Timpookie/Eikoopmit/Timepockie/Tesero - Writing all of this in just over an hour.
I'm writing this on a whim and with no idea at all as to whether or not anyone would actually sign up for this. That said, here it goes.
Table of Contents
1) History
2) Terminology
3) Rules
4) CS
5) Admins & Credits
1) History (1
Seventy Two thousand years ago, the First Gods used the last of their primordial energies to create the universe. However, the attempt was sabotaged when the Dark God Neurax attacked his bretheren. His attempt was ultimately unsuccessful, but he managed to preform irreparable damage in his attempts to convert the world back into it's pre-creation state of nonexistence and void.
The side effects caused by Neurax were plentiful, and, as his brothers failed to kill him, he continued to cause damage. Among the things which he has done are giving some of the primordial energies to mortals (thus allowing magic to exist), warping the way in which time works allowing some gifted individuals to see the future and birthing prophets and manipulating and bastardizing the minds of some of the first mortals to garner them to his cause. But by far his most significant contribution was one done in that very instant of creation, altering the very nature of what gods are, for every eighteen thousand years all the gods shall die and be replaced.
This history has been forgotten to time by all but the gods, but the cycle has never broken - After the First Gods (whose names are so old they have faded even from myth) perished, the Second Gods arose, and then the Third Gods. Each generation came to be known simply as "The Gods" by the masses within centuries of their rise, but among themselves and the greatest of all scholars some of the truth is known and they go by the number provided.
An odd occurrence happens when the Gods die. People panic at first, but within a few years some semblance of order is restored. The entire geopolitical landscape of the world is greatly altered, warfare becomes increasingly common and the egos of mortals rise. Why, after all, should gods be considered superior to mortals when most mortals are older than all of the gods still alive, and when gods can bleed and die - even of old age - just as mortals can? In fact, within the first few decades, but slowing exponentially down by about the second century each time, many mortals delve into the study of magic and slay some of the new generation of gods themselves, often seeking to take their place.
The Fourth Gods, before their death, have sought out and warned those who would rise to be their successors (for Gods are always chosen from amongst mortals) of the hardships to come, as the Third Gods did before them. You are one of the Fifth Gods. You are a New God.
2) Terminology (2
Some terminology shall be used in this RP which has specific meanings in the context of this RP that it does not otherwise have. Likewise, I shall be coining some new terms for this RP, or at least unofficially plagiarizing terms from other RPs and fantasy worlds without my own knowledge of doing so.
First Gods: The First Gods, as is rather obvious by their name, are the first gods, and they were the ones who created the universe and the world, and most of the races. It was hypothesized sixty thousand and some years ago by the immortal scholar Minlias that there may have theoretically been beings before the First Gods who destroyed a previous universe and died for the First Gods to take their place and start a universe anew, but this is completely unproven and Minlias lived a thousand years in exile for his thoughts.
Mortal: A member of many various races who are not dead, not immortal and not a god.
God: A God is an individual who has attained the highest levels of power, being nearly omnipotent, nearly omnipresent and, due to the age which they manage to live up to, nearly omniscient (after a while). They are also ordinarily disembodied, but may create a vessel for themselves if they so desire to communicate with mortals and immortals.
Immortal: Formerly a mortal, they are essentially nothing special. They are often powerful wizards, undead and so forth who use magics to preserve their own lives well beyond what most mortals live to. There are two curious things about immortals - the first is that they can outlive Gods with ease if they decide to do so and the second is that, as they grow older, they gradually grow distanced from the world and become mere spectators to events rather than active participants (generally). There are a scant handful of immortals who lived alongside the First Gods (back before anyone knew that Gods could die), and as you progress through the timeline of history you'll notice that the number of immortals from that era steadily grows. This is because immortals, as they grow older, are often killed by mortals, gods, rival immortals or simply lose the will to live anymore.
Pantheon: A collection of gods, often headed by an individual god who is the head of the pantheon with the others as advisors. They often share a palace or city within the Godrealm, or if they don't, they are at least located within proximity of one another. Often it is the case amongst mortals that they decide upon gods to worship not willy-nilly but by sticking with an individual pantheon, maybe two, per political unit.
Godrealm: Somewhere else accessible only to Gods and those they permit to enter. Gods often use the Godrealm to build private cities and palaces for themselves and for a convenient place to convene among themselves. None truly know what the Godrealm is, but many immortals, especially Prince Neher, the Vampire Lord Baros and a being known only as The Librarian or the Keeper of Knowledge, subscribe to the belief that it was a prototype for the universe due to the strange way that it is halfway between existence and nonexistence.
High Council: A political construct created to act as a sort of God-UN, where the heads of all the Pantheons, any interested immortals and, occasionally, politically important mortals, debate politics, theology and ethics in an attempt to avert warfare between deities. Immortal historians say that every generation of Gods has their own High Council, but that all (other than the First Gods) took about a millennia on average to stop their warmongering and go for peace and passive observation of the world. Powerful mortals, such as notable heroes and extraordinarily influential kings and emperors, may be called to be "guest members" of the High Council when it convenes, but due to their short lifespan and the ever-changing political landscape of mortals, they are never permanent members.
3) Rules (3
1) No Godmodding. I know it's ironic, but just because you're a god doesn't mean you can do everything. You can do most things, sure, but you can't, for instance, instantly annihilate another god.
2) If you want to timeskip, just tell me and I'm happy to oblige. The first few pages (about up until things begin to immediately cool down from the upheaval caused by all the gods dying and new gods emerging) should not be timeskipped, but after that, due to immortality, I'm comfortable skipping several centuries at a time.
3) Common sense applies. If there are rules I forgot but that make sense to be here obey them, and if I decide out of the blue that something's against the rules go with it.
4) This isn't a "linked ISRP" or whatever; each person gets their own universe to play with.
5) Remove things in parentheses in the CS.
4) CS (4
Name:
Age: (as of becoming a God)
Race: (prior to being a God)
Appearance: (prior to being a god)
History: (up to becoming a god)
Other:
5) Admins & Credits (5
Timpookie/Eikoopmit/Timepockie/Tesero - Writing all of this in just over an hour.