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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Schmoe" data-source="post: 1430496" data-attributes="member: 913">Here's a thought: Perhaps the emotes are Iuz.  Say that Iuz did whatever he needed to do to finally gain divinity.  But gods must be the pure embodiment of their domain, and Iuz, being only a demigod, still had some small vestige of emotion and thought that was impure, perhaps even a shred of happiness that he kept locked tightly away.  So when he tried to gain godhood, the force was too much for his shell to take, and he was sundered.  Those parts of Iuz that were impure or even (shudder) good became the emotes.  Now it remains to Iuz's followers to track down the emotes and ritually destroy them as an act of faith in their master's divinity.  Each emote that is destroyed purifies the remaining Iuz-essence and puts him one step closer to regaining sentience.  Think of it as the ultimate test of a god, that your followers will recreate you even when you cease to be.You could place some vast, deep, black chamber near the bottom of the dungeon where the Iuz-essence rests.  The essence might be nothing more than a pool of swirling blackness and blood.  The essence should be impervious to damage, as it is more a vision of divine potential than an actual thing, but proximity would be deadly.  At a range of 200', living creatures gain 1 negative level per round.  At 100' or closer this increases to 1d4 negative levels.  At 50' or closer have creatures make a suitably difficult Will save each round (DC 30+) or have their souls and bodies completely subsumed into the Iuz-essence.The Iuz faithful have a raised altar high above the essence where their rituals are performed.  The emotes, having been bound to living human vessels, are ritually sacrificed and dumped into the essence.  The humans obviously die, but the emotes are still bound, and their they sit, in the heart of the swirling death, waiting for the last of the emotes to be sacrificed.  At that time, Iuz will be reborn as a full-fledged god.Although the Iuz-essence should be pretty much invulnerable, the emotes could prove to be its weakness, as well as its path to supremacy.  Perhaps if all of the emotes are gathered at a shrine of good, the proper rituals could be performed to forever bind Iuz to powerless non-sentience.  Of course, doing so requires all of the emotes, and some of those are surely already waiting within the Iuz-essence to be reunited with thier siblings, and there will always be Iuzian faithful willing to guard the undying essence of their god-to-be.</blockquote>

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