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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ppaladin123" data-source="post: 4569667" data-attributes="member: 60923">Have you ever played Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain? The villain of that game, "the unspoken," defeated the Circle of Nine (defenders of the realm) by killing Ariel, one of the 9, and keeper of balance. Without the "god" of balance to maintain order, everything quickly fell apart. Her lover, the "god" of science, magic, knowledge, etc. went mad from grief. In his demented state, all wizards and magic users, including the other gods, were infected with his insanity and turned on each other. The defender of nature started twisting/mutating the creatures of the world; the defender of the time stream began to rewrite history into an unstable pattern, etc. The world fell into chaos and the 9 turned on each other. In this fragmented, insane state, the "hero" of the game is easily able to slay the remaining, weakened gods and set himself up as ruler of the world.I guess my point is that the pantheon may collapse into chaos/infighting upon the death or incapacitation of merely one of its members. The removal of the lynch pin god(dess) may allow the exarchs to usurp power. The gods may kill each other for you...or end up too weak to defend themselves from the exarchs. Players may not have to go on an astral killing spree to enact change.So...kill the god of magic or mind. Kill or kidnap the lover of an unstable god. Find and steal (or destroy) their divine power source. Frame one god for the death of another. Sow chaos and discord and watch the house of cards crumble.</blockquote>

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