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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9520411" data-attributes="member: 7025508">Depending on metaphysics, scope of the campaign, and mythological inspirations, PCs fighting and killing gods might be completely appropriate. If gods are basically just really powerful people that hang out in some celestial palaces, then they in principle seem pretty killable.Now personally I am not a huge fan of such concept of gods, I like them to be more transcendent and more fundamental. The Great Gods of Artra are not just people with powers, they are cosmic forces. Killing Belet Ummur, the Shepherd of of the Dead, would result fundamental changes to the structure of reality, as death itself would cease to be. Even killing gods whose domain is less abstract, would cause unravelling of the reality as we know it. Killing Ator, the Yellow Sun or her consort Rana the Red Sun, would cause these celestial objects being destroyed, which even aside the role of these deities as masters of creation and destruction, would probably lead to extinction of all life on Artra. Killing a god would be less like killing a person, and more like killing, say, the strong nuclear force.</blockquote>