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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obly99" data-source="post: 8677838" data-attributes="member: 7035194">(<a href="https://www.immortalshandbook.com/review10.htm" target="_blank">Immortality</a>)"The chapter on deific ranks is notably lacking in anything describing the process for moving up the ranks. If you gain enough quintessence, do you automatically go up to the next rank, or are there Greater Deities with more than 120 Hit Dice? If it's the former, what happens if there isn't any place in the cosmos for a new Sidereal, who are the personifications of planar layers, entire planes, or even dimensions. If a Greater God goes to 121 Hit Dice, does that mean that a new planar layer is created? Don't look for the answer in the book, because you won't find it. At least, I haven't yet."1. You automatically go up the next rank (after the initial tests and trials to become a deity and gain your portfolios).2. You can have greater deities with more than 120 Hit Dice because you can have Levels gained from XP. But for the most part I suggest staying within the guidelines I mentioned (81-120 HD for Greater Gods for instance) because of game balance.3. You would create a new layer for the plane you became (on becoming a cosmic god). Slaying a cosmic deity would destroy that layer / plane / dimension / universe. The birth of a new new cosmic deity would create a new layer / plane / dimension / universe.4. A greater god cannot go to 121 HD from quintessence without becoming an Elder One. However they could go to Level 121 via levels gained with XP and still be a Greater God. Divinity is based on quintessence - not levels. The Hit Dice ranges given are suggestions primarily based around game balance.Hope that helps.This is the comment of Upper_Krust.In my setting is present the Divine Tribulation. While in the normal situation when you accumulate enough Quintessence to go from one grade to another you do it automatically in my setting it is not always the case.From mortal to immortal (Hero Deity)From immortal to Deity (Lesser Deity)From Deity to Sidereal (Elder One)From Sidereal to Eternal (Demiurge Stage I)From Eternal to True Eternal (Time Lord)In those moments a Celestial Tribulation is unleashed. The immortal in question must outlive and overcome it. If he fails: either he dies or at best he stays at his rank and his Quintessence is reset to his minimum for his rank forcing him to start accumulating it again. If a creature intervenes to aid the immortal who is trying to ascend, the tribulation automatically fails and will try to kill the defiler and the aided immortal. They are part of the order of the universe itself and originated in Aravoth.</blockquote>

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