The Immortals Handbook

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Fieari mate!

Hey Cool, so when I said Wisdom way back when, I -was- right, although I couldn't connect it with a mythological name... just like you said.

Indeed

I like the name Aeon better then Time Lord, myself... Time Lord sounds much weaker than what they are, in my humble opinion. But whatever. I can call them Aeons easily enough.

I actually had 'Time Lord' long before I connected them to Aeons. Although the names fit really well and ostensibly refered to beings of the same rank anyway.

The only problem I could forsee, with my players, is that they might start thinking Final Fantasy... FFX Aeons are no where NEAR mythological Aeons in power.

It would be interesting to convert the FF Aeons over. I have to be honest I still don't think they have topped FFVII.

And neat! I already have a "Pantheon" of sorts written up for my campaigns Time Lords, though I didn't know it... and ordered them and all kinds of things.

Probable Top 10 ranked in my campaign:

#1: Supreme Being (The Composer)

#2: Aeon: Wisdom (Probably High Lord)
#3: (Tied)Aeon: Order
#3: (Tied)Aeon: Love
#4: Aeon: Freedom
#5: Aeon: Life
#6: Aeon: Sin

#7: First One: Death
#8: First One: Darkness
#9: First One: Entropy
#10: First One: Dischord

Glad to see such things are already inspiring people.

I have been pondering whether Ao would be a Sidereal or an Eternal (Aeon, probable Demiurge)

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey U_K

Hiya mate!

Ah, ok, that way
The Satan is his opposite, then?

Yes.

What do Michael and the other high end angels do?

Michael is one of the Seraphim, they will be detailed in the Bestiary.

Oh, right, like them being a part of the Pleroma, and such?

Yeah, the Pleroma is the combined thing, much like the Akashic (still not sure how to use this word).. thing, right? :3

All energy sources boil down to the one thing eventually. So it doesn't matter what you call it.

Yeah, it would be same as saying Demiurge, right? Not specific enough.

Yep.

Ok, so each universe would have a Demiurge Aeon who created it?

Each universe would be a Demiurge who created it.

Yeah, in my quick search last night, I found reference to 30 or 28 Aeons, but only two that were actually named (Sophia and Soter.. and the Demiurge and Lower Wisdom, I guess too, but I don't think they count those last two in the list).

As you can see from Knight Otu's link there is not simply a single list.

Where do you get all this stuff?! :3

Most of it is out there somewhere, I think all I have done is make some (hopefully keen) observations and bring a bit of order to the chaos. Not to mention marry that with some excellent immortal rules.

Edit: With that Wikipedia link Knight Otu posted, are some of those high end Aeons on those lists High Lords (Bythos and Sige, etc)?

They might be, although that list actually has none of the major Time Lords or High Lords most people will be familiar with* on it.

*When they hear the names.

 

[historian]

This is all incredibly cool.

Aeons and Demiurges are technically the same thing except that the latter have divorced some of their power to create a multiverse.

Maybe IG Thanos is just an overpowered first one rather than an Aeon.

They might be, although that list actually has none of the major Time Lords or High Lords most people will be familiar with* on it.

 

[Kavon]

Hiya mate!

Hey U_K

Michael is one of the Seraphim, they will be detailed in the Bestiary.

Oh right, of course

All energy sources boil down to the one thing eventually. So it doesn't matter what you call it.

Yeah. So the Akashic (thingythingthingy) and the Pleroma share the same.. funtion in their respective mythology.

Each universe would be a Demiurge who created it.

Ohh, ok. They *are* the universe itself. I see, I see

As you can see from Knight Otu's link there is not simply a single list.

Yeah, there's lots of different variations on Gnosticism.

Most of it is out there somewhere, I think all I have done is make some (hopefully keen) observations and bring a bit of order to the chaos. Not to mention marry that with some excellent immortal rules.

Can't wait to see the result :3

They might be, although that list actually has none of the major Time Lords or High Lords most people will be familiar with* on it.

*When they hear the names.

Hmm... Which direction would I be thinking when I'm looking for more known ones? Babylonian (Tiamat and Apsu and such)? Or would that be something different still?

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey U_K

Hiya mate!

Hmm... Which direction would I be thinking when I'm looking for more known ones?

Not sure that I could give you a clue that wouldn't totally give it to you...although there is one name embedded in gnosticism that I am very surprised no one has mentioned yet.

Babylonian (Tiamat and Apsu and such)? Or would that be something different still?

Mythological Tiamat is probably Greater Power (more like Takhisis rather than the standard Tiamat we are familiar with, also Takhisis alignment is much more accurate so the Lesser God version of Tiamat is almost certainly an aspect of the more powerful version). Apsu is an Elder One.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi historian mate!

This is all incredibly cool.

Maybe IG Thanos is just an overpowered first one rather than an Aeon.

Well IG Thanos defeated two First Ones, five Old Ones and an Elder One (off the top of my head without looking over the issues). So the Infinity Gauntlet must have given him Aeon level power (not to mention six specific Transcendental Powers*).

*

 

[Knight Otu]

Looks like Mongoose's Book of Immortals is officially out.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hiya mate!

Looks like Mongoose's Book of Immortals is officially out.

I'm actually looking forward to this book, just to see how someone elses take on the subject.

They also seem to be clearly divorcing Immortals and Gods so it will be interesting to see how that is laid out.

Its not apparent at this juncture if there are immortal monsters detailed in the book (I certainly hope so), it mentions that they 'have their predators', hopefully we will see them.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

I'm actually looking forward to this book, just to see how someone elses take on the subject.

Huh. I thought this WAS your book. Who's publishing yours, and what's the friggin hold-up?


Wulf

 

[jmucchiello]

Huh. I thought this WAS your book. Who's publishing yours, and what's the friggin hold-up?

Yeah!!?