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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6537966" data-attributes="member: 70"><p>This is...not dissimilar to how I organize deities. Frankly, it was a bit weird reading the D&D descriptions.</p><p></p><p>IMC, there are a number of deific ranks or groupings:</p><p></p><p><strong>The Elder Host</strong>: The primal deities of creation. Clearly greater gods.</p><p><strong>The Host of the Dalerain:</strong> The offspring of the Elder Host and mortals who have attained a deific status. There are a number of them, of varying power (by age and portfolio), so a gradation would be useful, but "lesser deity" is fine for now. The Dalerain and the Elder Host are the only ones capable of granting spells.</p><p><strong>The Host of the Envidier:</strong> The multitude of heroes (and villains) not powerful enough to be actual gods. Includes Dalerain that have lost power, mortals that have gained power, and all other sorts. Demi-powers, Exarchs, and the like fit in here quite well. In the real world, saints, Hercules, and etc. would be Envidier. An Envidier who mingles with mortals might engender a sorcerous bloodline. They can also empower warlocks.</p><p><strong>The Typhos:</strong> The Typhos are the result of congress between two deities. They are almost always narcissistic monstrosities. They're on par with the Envidier, but utterly lack any divine spark. An Envidier might, in time, become a Dalerain, but a Typhos never does. This...pisses them off. They have TWO divine parents, after all. Titans and the tarrasque are Typhos, as are a number of unique fiends. They can empower warlocks or cultists.</p><p></p><p>Vestiges are probably Typhos in disguise. Dalerain who lose power become Envidier, Envidier who die are dead. There are two dead Elder Host, but they don't get worshipped so much as commemorated, and both died before mortal races were created anyhow.</p><p></p><p>Edit: I don't do Great Old Ones. Beyond the World is Nothing. There is nothing in the Nothing. That's the point of it. (That, incidentally, is how/why the two Elder Host are dead; Erdis was slain by his/her/it's brethren to prevent it from destroying the World (Erdis was a bit nihilistic) and Yau took most of Erdis's remains into the Nothing to properly dispose of them. Erdis's bones were used to make giants, it's blood to make dragons, its flesh to make humans, and its inner organs to make gnomes. Evil gods stole the head and made dopplegangers, oculuth, sapints, and...something else. Formorians, maybe. A fraction of Erdis' heart was used to sharpen a particular sword, so something of that might survive, but otherwise Yau took all the leftovers and discarded bits and carried them off.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 6537966, member: 70"] This is...not dissimilar to how I organize deities. Frankly, it was a bit weird reading the D&D descriptions. IMC, there are a number of deific ranks or groupings: [B]The Elder Host[/B]: The primal deities of creation. Clearly greater gods. [B]The Host of the Dalerain:[/B] The offspring of the Elder Host and mortals who have attained a deific status. There are a number of them, of varying power (by age and portfolio), so a gradation would be useful, but "lesser deity" is fine for now. The Dalerain and the Elder Host are the only ones capable of granting spells. [B]The Host of the Envidier:[/B] The multitude of heroes (and villains) not powerful enough to be actual gods. Includes Dalerain that have lost power, mortals that have gained power, and all other sorts. Demi-powers, Exarchs, and the like fit in here quite well. In the real world, saints, Hercules, and etc. would be Envidier. An Envidier who mingles with mortals might engender a sorcerous bloodline. They can also empower warlocks. [B]The Typhos:[/B] The Typhos are the result of congress between two deities. They are almost always narcissistic monstrosities. They're on par with the Envidier, but utterly lack any divine spark. An Envidier might, in time, become a Dalerain, but a Typhos never does. This...pisses them off. They have TWO divine parents, after all. Titans and the tarrasque are Typhos, as are a number of unique fiends. They can empower warlocks or cultists. Vestiges are probably Typhos in disguise. Dalerain who lose power become Envidier, Envidier who die are dead. There are two dead Elder Host, but they don't get worshipped so much as commemorated, and both died before mortal races were created anyhow. Edit: I don't do Great Old Ones. Beyond the World is Nothing. There is nothing in the Nothing. That's the point of it. (That, incidentally, is how/why the two Elder Host are dead; Erdis was slain by his/her/it's brethren to prevent it from destroying the World (Erdis was a bit nihilistic) and Yau took most of Erdis's remains into the Nothing to properly dispose of them. Erdis's bones were used to make giants, it's blood to make dragons, its flesh to make humans, and its inner organs to make gnomes. Evil gods stole the head and made dopplegangers, oculuth, sapints, and...something else. Formorians, maybe. A fraction of Erdis' heart was used to sharpen a particular sword, so something of that might survive, but otherwise Yau took all the leftovers and discarded bits and carried them off.) [/QUOTE]
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