Ranting Fool
2014-07-01, 04:54 PM
*SPOILERS* Void, De'Calis, castiel no peeking please.
Hey playground, in the campaign I'm running the players have just found out a big old plot secret (The very act of knowing requires a high Will Save or go insane)
The PC's haven't got the whole story and this is from what they know/think happened, Since most of the knowledge has been lost or it makes people go mad they've been piecing bits together as they go on.
Back in the dawn of the world there were 9 Gods, one of each alignment who draw all power from belief and the only intelligent life on the world was Dragons.
Each God had a brood of Dragons who bound to their God's tenets and things were rather balanced and stagnant.
Humanoid life came via great rifts and those crazy mortals started believing in all sorts of things and the Gods power levels became uneven. The PC's don't know why the God's decided to do what they did, conventional wisdom knows that 9 Elder unnamed Gods once existed but that they all died in a great War. The God's power shattered and hundereds of little Gods sprang up each one waxing and waning depending on mortal belief.
20,000 years ago - Ish.
The Gods decided to take on Mortal form. Or rather their essence can inhabit an Avatar (Someone who's alignment is strongly the same as theirs) if the Avatar dies the God just jumps to another one.
There are some sort of rules for one of the Gods to win this challenge but the PC's have no idea what they are.
The Avatars are mortals (They believe that the first 8 Emperors were the same LN God jumping to a new body when he died) but powerful hero types. So while they stand out they could easily just be an awesome hero type person and not really a Avatar
The Avatars themselves don't know they are Gods PC's believe it will drive them mad with no save or cure.
Any knowledge of this can drive most people mad, all Extra-planer creatures are unable to tell the truth or act upon this knowledge.
There is a level 3 spell that can tell if someone is an Avatar (Since some shadowy types tried to find out if one of the PC's are one, they are not)
The TN God did NOT become an Avatar, but instead holds the majority of all the other God's essence and power and hands it out to the lesser Gods depending on what mortals believe.
The CN Avatar found out that he was a God, went mad and being a high level Wizard/Cleric/Mystic Thurge decided to leave the plane... which caused a rift in the world where a few million Orcs came through causing the first Rift War 150 years ago (There have been 3 Rifts so far where the Players are) the day this happened the Travel domain stopped working an any long range teleport spell just stopped working including Arcane versions.
My main question is this.
What character traits would you do for a God of each alignment + Class/Themes that would work well for this. Races? What stupidly unachievable goal does each avatar have?
LG
LN: Just but harsh Ruler. Has been Human at least 8 times in a row (A Wizard who knew the truth kept finding the Avatar and got him to name the next Avatar as heir) Melee Warrior/Leader type
LE
NG
True (No need)
NE
CG
CN: No longer on this plane. Can't be "Dead" but unknown if in mortal form on another plane or essence trapped somewhere.
CE
The players want to try and find / restore a Good Avatar to full God-hood and make the world a nice and happy place. Failing that as this has been going on 20,000 years or more they want to find out what happened to the CN Avatar and restore the power of Travel to the world (All divine magic got weaker but Travel domain is completely gone)
Questions, thoughts, suggestions all welcome :smallbiggrin:
Hey playground, in the campaign I'm running the players have just found out a big old plot secret (The very act of knowing requires a high Will Save or go insane)
The PC's haven't got the whole story and this is from what they know/think happened, Since most of the knowledge has been lost or it makes people go mad they've been piecing bits together as they go on.
Back in the dawn of the world there were 9 Gods, one of each alignment who draw all power from belief and the only intelligent life on the world was Dragons.
Each God had a brood of Dragons who bound to their God's tenets and things were rather balanced and stagnant.
Humanoid life came via great rifts and those crazy mortals started believing in all sorts of things and the Gods power levels became uneven. The PC's don't know why the God's decided to do what they did, conventional wisdom knows that 9 Elder unnamed Gods once existed but that they all died in a great War. The God's power shattered and hundereds of little Gods sprang up each one waxing and waning depending on mortal belief.
20,000 years ago - Ish.
The Gods decided to take on Mortal form. Or rather their essence can inhabit an Avatar (Someone who's alignment is strongly the same as theirs) if the Avatar dies the God just jumps to another one.
There are some sort of rules for one of the Gods to win this challenge but the PC's have no idea what they are.
The Avatars are mortals (They believe that the first 8 Emperors were the same LN God jumping to a new body when he died) but powerful hero types. So while they stand out they could easily just be an awesome hero type person and not really a Avatar
The Avatars themselves don't know they are Gods PC's believe it will drive them mad with no save or cure.
Any knowledge of this can drive most people mad, all Extra-planer creatures are unable to tell the truth or act upon this knowledge.
There is a level 3 spell that can tell if someone is an Avatar (Since some shadowy types tried to find out if one of the PC's are one, they are not)
The TN God did NOT become an Avatar, but instead holds the majority of all the other God's essence and power and hands it out to the lesser Gods depending on what mortals believe.
The CN Avatar found out that he was a God, went mad and being a high level Wizard/Cleric/Mystic Thurge decided to leave the plane... which caused a rift in the world where a few million Orcs came through causing the first Rift War 150 years ago (There have been 3 Rifts so far where the Players are) the day this happened the Travel domain stopped working an any long range teleport spell just stopped working including Arcane versions.
My main question is this.
What character traits would you do for a God of each alignment + Class/Themes that would work well for this. Races? What stupidly unachievable goal does each avatar have?
LG
LN: Just but harsh Ruler. Has been Human at least 8 times in a row (A Wizard who knew the truth kept finding the Avatar and got him to name the next Avatar as heir) Melee Warrior/Leader type
LE
NG
True (No need)
NE
CG
CN: No longer on this plane. Can't be "Dead" but unknown if in mortal form on another plane or essence trapped somewhere.
CE
The players want to try and find / restore a Good Avatar to full God-hood and make the world a nice and happy place. Failing that as this has been going on 20,000 years or more they want to find out what happened to the CN Avatar and restore the power of Travel to the world (All divine magic got weaker but Travel domain is completely gone)
Questions, thoughts, suggestions all welcome :smallbiggrin: