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<blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 8115137" data-attributes="member: 72555">I'm using Dawn war base cosmology.In the beginning there where the Elemental Titans.The Divine rose up.&nbsp; And they disagreed.Then there was a war between the Divine and the Titans.&nbsp; In my cosmology, however, they killed each other.&nbsp; Well, mostly (both Titans and Gods are beings for whom death is a gradient, not a sharp line)The Celestial planes are graveyards; the Celestial beings surviving living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.&nbsp; Asmodeus and the hells are an attempt by an archangel and other Celestials to keep their &quot;civilization&quot; intact; mad max, beyond heaven.&nbsp; Demons are the post-apocalyptic elemental spawn of the Titans; the Blood War, an attempt to prevent leftover Titan-spawned Demons from overrunning reality.Mortals don't know this.&nbsp;&nbsp; I mean, some theologians suspect it.&nbsp; The remaining Celestial apparatus continues to answer divinations and prayers; but this is one of the reasons why &quot;Contact other Plane&quot; can render you insane, and why Divine divination spells are so unreliable.In general, Divine power is channeled through Divine Relics, fragments of the Gods and Saints, which imbue mortals with power.&nbsp; As the source of such Relics is cut off, cults steal them from each other and corrupt them for their own purposes; for example, the Pearl of Melora is currently in the hands of the Cult of Zehir, who has stabbed it and from it harvests a poison that burns away all that is not faithful to the Mistress of Snakes.&nbsp; (that is how I get yuan-ti)The campaign is then about the end of the world and what happens next.&nbsp; Because if you are building a castle of stardust, it is really fun to smash it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NotAYakk, post: 8115137, member: 72555"] I'm using Dawn war base cosmology. In the beginning there where the Elemental Titans. The Divine rose up. And they disagreed. Then there was a war between the Divine and the Titans. In my cosmology, however, they killed each other. Well, mostly (both Titans and Gods are beings for whom death is a gradient, not a sharp line) The Celestial planes are graveyards; the Celestial beings surviving living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Asmodeus and the hells are an attempt by an archangel and other Celestials to keep their "civilization" intact; mad max, beyond heaven. Demons are the post-apocalyptic elemental spawn of the Titans; the Blood War, an attempt to prevent leftover Titan-spawned Demons from overrunning reality. Mortals don't know this. I mean, some theologians suspect it. The remaining Celestial apparatus continues to answer divinations and prayers; but this is one of the reasons why "Contact other Plane" can render you insane, and why Divine divination spells are so unreliable. In general, Divine power is channeled through Divine Relics, fragments of the Gods and Saints, which imbue mortals with power. As the source of such Relics is cut off, cults steal them from each other and corrupt them for their own purposes; for example, the Pearl of Melora is currently in the hands of the Cult of Zehir, who has stabbed it and from it harvests a poison that burns away all that is not faithful to the Mistress of Snakes. (that is how I get yuan-ti) The campaign is then about the end of the world and what happens next. Because if you are building a castle of stardust, it is really fun to smash it. [/QUOTE]

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