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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordVyreth" data-source="post: 1525960" data-attributes="member: 9626">Well, to be fair, a big part of the problem is that I started this campaign over two years ago, so I'm still playing catch up.  Hence the slightly rushed pace.  And that last adventure had to be a storytelling system, because I basically created an extended-time simulation sequence for that game to get them through six months of advancement in one night.  On the other hand, such a large back log to get through means lots of regular updates, plus I can work foreshadowing into earlier plots since I know well in advance what will happen.Anyway, here's the third of the goddess excerpts for tonight.  Tomorrow, with any luck, expect another real update.  This, like the last one, was another favorite of mine.  Ordhari, the goddess of knowledge, was easy to write for.  Just imagine a Vulcan without the emotionless bit but with a lot more arrogance.The Middle Sisters(Excerpt from the Book of Ordhari, abridged version.  Full version only recommended for advanced readers/mathematicians/theologians/physicists/oh look, you’re not bright enough to read it!)Lamentably, the ideological conflict progressed for an estimated 3.76 millennia without any indication of respite.  Ironically, only the massive depopulation that was a consequence of this constant hostility was successfully in renewing peaceful interactions between the philosophically opposed societies.  It was this environment that Nelkiss witnessed after making the transition from a theoretical being to an overt entity.  She made the illogical but compassionate decision to exert her divine prerogative by creating an alternate existence for those who have exceeded their biological consciousness.  Or, to put it in terms more commonly used by mortals, she created an afterlife to give shelter to the recently deceased.  She herself served as judge to the arriving intelligent entities, and transferred their remaining conscious energies to various environments of her own creation, based on their behavior while still biological compounds.Disappointingly, the next divine entities of the anime nature, or goddesses, were determined to repeat past mistakes.  None, the goddess immediately following Nelkiss in sequential order, dedicated her own ambitions to making humanity and its immediate biological relatives progressive species.  They were to use both advanced intellectual functions and crude physical prowess to establish an order in the chaos of their overwhelming natural surroundings, and establish dominance over nature.  However, Tregfillia, the following goddess, followed in the anarchic footsteps of my immature sibling Lore, and became an advocate for the exact opposite position.  She insisted on the importance of the bond of the intellectual beings with nature, and insisted on the maintenance of a symbiotic relationship between the two.  Fortunately, near-total warfare was not the end result of this opposition, but a rivalry was developed between these two beings and the acolytes of the positions that they support and encourage.</blockquote>

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