Creative Exercise: The Sovereign Dominion of Eyros

[Doug McCrae]

Good call, and if we want more Roman flavour, we can call the short sword in Eyros "Gladius" to go with "Dragonclaw" for the Double-Bladed Sword

Maybe we should call the double-bladed sword the dragonclaudius.

 

[domino]

Boooo!

 

[Sarellion]

Edited: Not a contribution

This are my thoughts about the origins of the universe, why magic works, where the divine magic comes from and Taufenachts motivations and position. As these are major points I don´t mind if people want to discuss it.

The celestial council and the elders of the other planes have a certain theory how the universe came to be. Nobody knows as the ones who are supposed to know have removed themselves from the company of their fellows. The elemental lords merged with the plane, the legendary ruler of Celestia dissappeared and Taufenacht doesn´t reveal secrets.

There was a creator deity who created the prime and all planes.
However this deity is a timeless, eternal being so it CANNOT ENTER OR INFLUENCE the timestream of the prime and the surrounding planes.
Some creatures were set to watch over the other planes, the elemental lords, Taufenacht and his counterpart on the celestial side Mythria. Something that only this beings know for certain is that mortal souls carry within them a (really) small spark of the creator being. So mortals souls can bestow powers on other beings by worshipping them. This works like some kind of power transfer.
Magic works because of the same spark.
Arcane magic is the ability to tap into the power inherent in reality and to change this reality in minor ways. It is not possible for a single being or even millions to redraw reality and the laws of nature in a permanent way.
Divine magic is the ability to harness the power bestowed upon beings or concepts that are worshipped.
Psionics is the ability to harness the powers of the divine spark within.

Mythria: The shining celestial queen of the angelic realms. Her power equals that of Taufenacht and she is the paragon of cestial virtues, but alas not one celestial has seen her for milenia. It is believed in the ranks of the celestial choir that she has left space and time to be one with the creator again. Demons in the abyss say that Mythria was killed by her underlings stating that not all is shiny and good in Celestia. A council of celestials govern in her stead. Nobody on the prime have heard of her but the metal mithril was named in her honor.

Elemental lords: The elemental lords are the nominal rulers of the planes of spring, summer, autumn and winter. However no one has seen this beings for a long time. They all merged with their element and have not appeared for a long time. They think that the conflict betwen good and evil is childish and prefer not to interfere. They refuse to be worshipped and so never made their existence known to mortals. Even most of their own subjects remember them only as some kind of rumor

Taufenacht: It is believed that his goal is it to bend all mortals to his worship so that he can gain the power of the creator himself and remake the universe as he likes.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Umm...please no deities, even the creator deity. That contradicts where we say there are no deities. The rest is good.

 

[Sarellion]

I thought this would reconciliate the celestial realms and everything else as plan of a deity that is not active or even existant at the moment. You could even say that the creator is nonexistant and exists only in the form of souls.

I edited this way that taufenacht believes this, the truth, ah well lets see.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I thought this would reconciliate the celestial realms and everything else as plan of a deity that is not active or even existant at the moment. You could even say that the creator is nonexistant and exists only in the form of souls.

I edited this way that taufenacht believes this, the truth, ah well lets see.

It could just be the physical laws of the multiverse, like our world. No creator deity (OK, OK, some would disagree), lots of equilibrium-inducing physical laws.

 

[Sarellion]

Well, we don´t have a multiverse so far we know. But the whole idea of the different planes, laws that must be obeyed and so on appeared to me as a plan of an organized mind. I mean if we have angels and demons and don´t want a deity it seems to be the best way just to introduce a deity thats not able or willing to act at all. We have the power of worship and magic, so we have to tie it in somewhere.

BTW, your statement of just physical laws in our universe is a statement lots of people would disagree with, so we shouldn´t elaborate this point any further.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Well, we don´t have a multiverse so far we know. But the whole idea of the different planes, laws that must be obeyed and so on appeared to me as a plan of an organized mind. I mean if we have angels and demons and don´t want a deity it seems to be the best way just to introduce a deity thats not able or willing to act at all. We have the power of worship and magic, so we have to tie it in somewhere.

BTW, your statement of just physical laws in our universe is a statement lots of people would disagree with, so we shouldn´t elaborate this point any further.

Well there's nothing specifically stopping this in the previous posts; I just think it doesn't fit the flavour of Eyros.

 

[Sarellion]

The flavour of Eyros changed a lot when people contributed. Thanatios still exists, there are planes, dragons made by demons, Taufenacht and his role on the prime, the role of the masks, there is a lot that was changed by one contribution.

My opinion is that there are too many divine forces to explain them with an atheists worldview. Eyros is not atgheistic but worships beings that gain power from this. Fine. I explained why this is possible and why the supreme being doesn´t set everything right. All beings are divine or are able to gain divine qualities. Thats one of the many flavours of Eyros in my opinion.

 

[Rystil Arden]

You can easily have divine forces without gods. How about animism? So far we don't have gods, and I think it has worked for us. There are celestial and infernal forces, but that doesn't mean there has to be an aloof Creator. In fact, I think that with our Shai'tanesque version of Taufenacht, we should steer clear of this specifically to avoid too much of the transformation into a WoTish cosmology. And I think you've misunderstood me on the flavour of Eyros. It is true that the facts have changed much with one post (Thanatos, planes, etc), we have never really changed the flavour of the setting. That would be like if we had a post that started to add Oriental Chinese material, changing our Romanesque flavour, or a post that tried to make Eyros a society with large amounts of magic-users everywhere. Neither of those facts are specifically prevented, but both would change the existing flavour, whereas Thanatos and the planes did not (we already had necromancer gnomes and celestials/demons by the time of those posts).

This is just my opinion, and since no one has backed me up, perhaps I am alone in it. Just giving my two cents.