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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 5026211" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Quite right. Even for High Lords, that's an extremely dangerous thing to attempt.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>An avatar always costs 10% of the "parent" immortal's total quintessence, and as with most expenditures of quintessence, only 10% of that amount is actually passed on (the rest being lost in the transfer); hence, the avatar has a grand total of 1% of the god's total quintessence - this is of an amount that would always result in the avatar being two divine strata lower. For example, an elder one with 1,000,000,000 quintessence (the minimum for an elder one) would have an avatar with only 10,000,000 quintessence, which is the minimum for an intermediate deity - two ranks lower than an elder one.</p><p></p><p>Hence, look at 1% of your High Lord's quintessence and figure out the highest divinity template that meets the prerequisite quintessence for - that's your avatar. Ergo, only a ridiculously powerful High Lord would have an avatar of Time Lord or higher status.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'd say it's the Akashic Records themselves wanting Alzy to ascend, but we needn't niggle over the details. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Really, if you insist on utilizing that most broken of combos, you'll find that you can do pretty much anything...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>...except this. Making an avatar costs an immortal 10% of their total quintessence (9% of which is lost just creating it), which is a huge loss no matter how you slice it.</p><p></p><p>Now, while <em>Ascension</em> doesn't expressly say that a god can have only one avatar, that's the spirit of the rules; the Legion cosmic ability lets a god split itself into six avatars (and before you ask, no, avatars cannot themselves take Legion and create avatars).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not really, since he can't make an avatar-army. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hopefully, if anyone starts channeling Pun-Pun, the Supreme Being will step in to immediately smite the offender.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>See above.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks. I was quite pleased that it placed in the top three for the Epic Monster Contest that was held. I'm not sure if U_K originally planned on fleshing out the Omega Template or not, but I do recall him saying later on that he wasn't going to; that was what made me try my hand at it.</p><p></p><p>Note that, despite it's place in the contest, U_K essentially threw it out, though he did say <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/4287161-post9.html" target="_blank">here</a> that he had an interesting idea for it; what that idea was was never revealed, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 5026211, member: 8461"] :cool: Quite right. Even for High Lords, that's an extremely dangerous thing to attempt. An avatar always costs 10% of the "parent" immortal's total quintessence, and as with most expenditures of quintessence, only 10% of that amount is actually passed on (the rest being lost in the transfer); hence, the avatar has a grand total of 1% of the god's total quintessence - this is of an amount that would always result in the avatar being two divine strata lower. For example, an elder one with 1,000,000,000 quintessence (the minimum for an elder one) would have an avatar with only 10,000,000 quintessence, which is the minimum for an intermediate deity - two ranks lower than an elder one. Hence, look at 1% of your High Lord's quintessence and figure out the highest divinity template that meets the prerequisite quintessence for - that's your avatar. Ergo, only a ridiculously powerful High Lord would have an avatar of Time Lord or higher status. I'd say it's the Akashic Records themselves wanting Alzy to ascend, but we needn't niggle over the details. ;) Really, if you insist on utilizing that most broken of combos, you'll find that you can do pretty much anything... ...except this. Making an avatar costs an immortal 10% of their total quintessence (9% of which is lost just creating it), which is a huge loss no matter how you slice it. Now, while [i]Ascension[/i] doesn't expressly say that a god can have only one avatar, that's the spirit of the rules; the Legion cosmic ability lets a god split itself into six avatars (and before you ask, no, avatars cannot themselves take Legion and create avatars). Not really, since he can't make an avatar-army. :p Hopefully, if anyone starts channeling Pun-Pun, the Supreme Being will step in to immediately smite the offender. See above. Thanks. I was quite pleased that it placed in the top three for the Epic Monster Contest that was held. I'm not sure if U_K originally planned on fleshing out the Omega Template or not, but I do recall him saying later on that he wasn't going to; that was what made me try my hand at it. Note that, despite it's place in the contest, U_K essentially threw it out, though he did say [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/4287161-post9.html]here[/url] that he had an interesting idea for it; what that idea was was never revealed, though. [/QUOTE]
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