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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voranzovin" data-source="post: 8277946" data-attributes="member: 7020495"> <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Gods do not have a single alignment. Mortals do, because mortals are limited. A god has every alignment. If mortals consider a God to be "good," that's just a function of how they interact with that God. They could find the God to be very much the reverse in different circumstances. (I came up with this while adapting Tomb of Annihilation to my world. In my version, the Nine Trickster Gods are all aspects of Ubtau, something they've actually forgotten themselves. Acererak also didn't realize it, which is why he didn't expect them to be truly immortal, and come back from death to help the PCs.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">There is no defined cosmology. Gods may actually understand how the cosmos works, but if they do, they're not telling.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">PCs races include only humans, Elves, Gnomes, and Orcs. Elves, Gnomes, and Orcs are all fey-adjacent creatures. Whether they are the decedents of humans who interbred with fey, or the descendants of humans who were cursed by fey, or the descendants of fey who decided to give up their power and become mortal, is unknown.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Gnomes and Orcs have vaguely human-like psychologies, and human-like life spans, with Orcs topping out at around sixty and Gnomes at around a hundred and twenty. Gnomes have the reputation among humans of being unreasonably cheerful, and orcs of being ruled by towering passions that can easily turn violent, but they're fairly understandable to humans. Elves...aren't. They're somewhat humanlike for the first hundred years or so, but by the time an elf reaches two hundred they have become what humans see as a wholly inscrutable, alien being who lives primarily in their own head. Elves can live to be a thousand, and they just keep getting more elvish the whole time. Most PC elves would be in the first hundred years of life, although I'd be interested to work with a player who wants to play out what an elf would be like later on.</li> </ol></blockquote>

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