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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4570731" data-attributes="member: 62992">Jack99; your problem is that you need an engaging creation story that rationalises the nature of godhood. In other words, you need to define what a God actually is through story and how the world came to be the way it did. Otherwise, Gods are just another monster and have no true majesty. Here is an example but it is just one example. I hope it helps. At the beginning of your world, the Nine True Gods first created the Cardinal plane; a region of the world that would overlap with, but be unreachable from, the normal world. They then created a portal to the Celestial Plane that would allow a divine River of Infinity to enter the Cardinal Plane and give them the power to shape the world. This River of Infinity runs through the Cardinal Plane and bathes the Nine Shrines of the Divine Aspects. At each shrine is a font that has one of the symbols of the Nine True Gods set into it. The River of Infinity literally channels sublime power into the world and lends it to the Gods through the shrines. The shrine is the place where each God stood at the Dawn of Time and called into being, the World that Is, shaping it to their will. Without the River, the True Gods have much less power because they have sunk so much of themselves into creating the shrines. In your world, the authentic symbols of the Nine True Gods have been replaced by the Nine Wards of the Usurpers; Nine Gods that have no right to be called divine. These creatures are using the borrowed might of the True Gods, channelled through the shrines via the River of Infinity and stolen using their corrupted wards, to purloin majesty and dominion over this world. They have sealed the True Gods out of the Cardinal Plane and the Nine True Gods are now a shadow of their former selves without the power gifted to them by the Shrines. They are also forbidden to directly harm mortals in the mortal realm and hence must work through mortals; the PCs. These Usurpers cannot leave the Cardinal Plane now, because then the True Gods might take up their powers again, so they have summoned the Aspect of Yeenoghu to be their servant and slay the PCs, who are destined to defeat them and restore the Nine True Gods (if they live). The Usurpers  So I would have your PCs find out more and more about your creation myth, fight the Aspect of the demon and learn of its hatred for them and then eventually hear of a way onto the Cardinal plane, perhaps discover artefacts needed to destroy the Usurpers etc. The PCs must then interrupt the flow of Celestial Power by closing the portal to the Celestial Plane and shutting off the flow of the River of Infinity (plunging your world into chaos) to deny the Usurpers their access to divine power. They must then slay the Usurpers, who are now no more than very powerful monsters (this might need an artefact) and then discover a way to restore the River/portal. This must all be done within a short space of time or else the world will be destroyed by being cut-off from the Divine power. Once this is done, it will restore the True Gods to their rightful place in the world and will also banish the PCs from the Cardinal Plane.</blockquote>

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