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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ArcanistDragonborn" data-source="post: 9291650" data-attributes="member: 7041974">IMMORTALITY: The Many Ways to AscendFor most mortals, the gods are supposedly all-knowing, all-powerful entities that take it upon themselves to guide and shape mortals to expand their own influences, but for mortals with great destiny and knowledge of the worlds beyond, transcending the limits of the mortal form is far simpler than it may appear...The simplest way to achieve godhood/immortality is simply to reach the pinnacle of the human form, or level 20, and then either do a deed so great that a wisp of quintessence moves into you, and grants you the powers of a hero-deity, or be blessed by a god, and turned into one of it's followers or exarchs. It is also possible, if not extremely difficult, to slay a minor deity or demigod as a mortal, and steal their quintessence and take it as your own.There are several other more esoteric ways to gain Immortality, but most of those ways are either extremely difficult to use, are extremely situational on how the immortality works, or incredibly depraved. For example, a non-classed mortal who embodies one of the virtues or vices of the mortal SOUL to a point where they are a paragon of that aspect will gain a form of Immortality allowing them to rewind to a point in time before their death.Immortals that have achieved full godhood (Minor Deity or above) can grant mortals divine power to Exalt them into semi-divine warriors with supernatural skill, rather than granting them quintessence in the traditional sense. Exalts, or The Exalted come in many different forms, from the default, CR 12 Terrestrial Exalts, to the greatest Demiurges being able to create their own personal court of Sidereal Exalts. Each Deity can only have 777 Exalts at once, no matter their Divine Rank. Furthermore, a Sidereal that has achieved total dominance of the internal universe of a Demiurge has the ability to sever its connection to the Demiurge, and undergo an Ascension Tribulation, where it is forced to go through a series of trials tailored to it's personality and history, either disintegrating into dust if it fails, or becoming a new, fully-formed Demiurge if it succeeds. Similar Tribulations are also involved when a Immortal breaks through to a new bracket of power, like an Overgod ascending to Sidereal status. Each of these Tribulations is a reflection of the trials any being must face to earn the right to challenge the Supernal, or to ascend to its throne. Of course, with the lack of any coherent powers and empires in the Pleroma, and the Ram-Headed Throne sitting empty, no-one has obtained the courage to break through the Kuvatchim for as long as any but the oldest and wisest sages can remember. There are other ways to ascend to Supernal-esque levels of power without taking the trials of the Lipika, where entities such as the Nightmare Spider take advantages of paradoxes of reality to obtain powers of fate, change, and manipulation of the abandoned libraries of the Akasha, or taking on the Red Crown of the Pariah, and ascending to become the lord of the Omega.Undertale and the concept of SOULS are owned by Toby Fox, and the Ram-Headed Throne is Beefermatic's concept.</blockquote>

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