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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6681144" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Alright, I have drafted the list of "new" icons. Note the quotes. Some of them are not really new, but re-interpreted to one extent or another. As stated, the Great Gold Wyrm is the one with the fewest changes, though the High Warlock is not far off from the Diabolist either (not exactly what I intended, but oh well).<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Storm Captain (sailors, spring, storms/rain, winds, command, exploring); other names: The Orc Sailor, Davy Jones, Thunderboots </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Leviathan (sea creatures, earthquakes, nightmares, insanity, infinity); other names: The Deep Horror, Kraken, Ten-Arms </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Horned God (forests, prophecy, wine, song, mirth, lust, summer); other names: Cernunnos, Seelie King/Queen, The Satyr </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Changeling (trickery, dreams, poison, obsession, art, asceticism, winter); other names: Unseelie Queen/King, Nemesis, the Abhartach </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Great Gold Wyrm (sacrifice, solitude, martyrdom, pride, enduring, faith); other names: The Bulwark, Hidden-Fire, Arjuna </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Council (pragmatism, greed, luxury, pride, scheming, enterprise); other names: the Hydra, Five-In-One, the Zirnitra </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Master Mouse (poverty, revolution, giving, revenge, anarchy, cunning, harvest); other names: Mu'addib, Street-Rat, The Chastiser </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Many-Scars (hunting, fighting, readiness, survival, predator, lycanthropy); other names: The Gladiator, Stalker, Father Wolf, Woeden </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Courtesan (merchants, diplomacy, order, intrigue, manipulation, wealth); other names: Queen/King of Coins, Honeytongue, Netspinner </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Librarian (history, alchemy, education, enchanting, medicine); other names: Chronicler, Rune-warden, the Chymist </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Faceted Eye (divination, mind, dreams, light, vision, secrecy, mirrors); other names: the Blind Cabal, Hagstone, All-Tales </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The High Warlock (contracts, subjugation, omission, portals, sacrilege); other names: Demonbinder, Old Scratch, the Foresworn </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Pale Lady/Lord (death and undeath, disease, decay, night, underground); other names: Deathshead, the White Raven, the Vampire Queen/King </li> </ul>In each case, I plan to do a full write-up like the "standard" Icons, including how they relate to each other and their strengths (and weaknesses). Each of them is meant to be weaker than a typical deity of mythology, but still powerful and influential. Some of them are relatively impersonal forces given some semblance of form (the Leviathan, the Faceted Eye), while others are in some sense 'mantles' which can be passed from one person to another (the Storm Captain, the Courtesan) and some could go either way (Many-Scars, the Changeling, the Horned God). I've tried to avoid particular genders for most of them--though I do have sort of "implicit" genders in mind for some (e.g. the Horned God and Many-Scars are typically male, while the Changeling and Pale Lady are typically female).Obviously some are pretty closely inspired by something from the original set. Less obviously, a few are very similar to some from one DM's <a href="https://rpggeek.com/thread/1232912/icons-titans-shadow" target="_blank">"Icons in the Titan's Shadow"</a> post, where he details the Icons created for the setting his group made using Microscope. In every case, though, I'm trying to make them at least somewhat unique, even the Great Gold Wyrm who is nearly the same (that the Titan's Shadow Icons include an unchanged default one makes me feel a lot better about the whole thing). Ideally, I'll even be able to get "icons" (that is, small pictures) for each of them from the same source that he did!</blockquote>

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