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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fieari" data-source="post: 2712768" data-attributes="member: 16221">Fancy that.  I was just reading the mention of "Old Night" and that reminded me of the Incarnations series as well, which I loved as a kid.  I recently re-read them and... yeah.  They do kinda start going downhill, but ah well.  Neat concepts anyway.  I was reminded of it because in "For Love of Evil" they mention Nox, another incarnation who is the most powerful of them all.  The "day" incarnations were split into the 7 listed above, but the "night" incarnations all exist within one person, who has all the power there, and mystery besides.Which started making me think that while maybe the Incarnations series doesn't hold up so well as a bunch of novels once you've grown up (despite the sex, or maybe because of it, they make great reads when you're about 13 years old)... it might make for some awesome roleplaying.  Basically what amounts to godhood as an office that's inheritable.  Become Death by killing Death.  This is only possible when the current Death becomes careless.Time picks up the Hourglass left behind when his predecessor is born, then lives his life backwards in time (without deaging in the process, Time is immune to paradox) until the moment of his birth (or conception, they said they weren't clear which one mattered) at which point the hourglass drops on the ground until someone else picks it up.Fate gets to choose their successors when they get tired of the job (fate is split into three aspects).  The person selected is thus fated to become Fate.War "dies" when at any given moment, there is no war anywhere in the world, or perhaps at least no active battles.  As soon as the next conflict pops up, the most violent man on earth gets to become War (by choice, he has to pick up the sword that approaches him).Nature has to nurture a replacement for years until the new nature is ready to take up the mantle of the office willingly.(d)Evil loses the office by doing something good.  The most evil man in the world becomes the new (d)Evil.Go(o)d apparently loses office by being... umm... voted out by an act of the united states congress.  Don't ask.  I don't get it myself.  I hated the last book.  The new Go(o)d is also voted in.I think it'd make for a neat campaign.</blockquote>

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