Go for it !

...That's not going to be confusing, what with Xan?


(Hint: I think it will be confusing.)

But Xan is my daughter so it makes sense ;) (LOL)

I will come up with a new name.

Im confused most days anyway ^_^

I'm still musing on, well, a lot for our Sky deity. I know I want them to specifically lean less toward being a 'Sun deity' and more a proper Sky deity, lightning bolts, tempests, flying creatures, gentle breezes (if you're good) etc. Maybe Sky Deity will be a triple-faced deity, where they're all technically the same but only one aspect can ever be 'present' (at least in, uh, god-space) at one time. What do y'all think?

Xan scratches her head looking up at Lyric, "Triple faced ?" Shrugs palms up.
"Well two heads are better then one so three faces."

If you want to focus on three specific sub-aspects, that's fine by me

If you want to play it so that only one sub-persona can post at a time, that's also fine by me
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All righty! We have three characters-- the deity of DEATH is now named:   AnBas


Answer:

--When other deities see you (or when non-deities draw a picture of you), what do you look like? (You can have more than one answer, but probably shouldn't have more than three, at least for now.)



And: I hear we're starting in a formless void at the dawn of time? Anyone wanna object, or comment...?

I am fine with it !

Posted a pic in Description

(Okay, each of you has 2 TOKENS now.

Will I give you 2 MORE tomorrow? We'll see... (Maybe just 1 more...? IF you've used 1 by the time I come and officially look tomorrow...?))

In an empty, timeless void, there is potential... and power. The power may or may not prove to be a bit hard to control... but it exists, nonetheless.

AnBas, Lyric, and Xan exist in the timeless void...

(Remember: do NOT say "I do this." Say "I ATTEMPT to do so-and-so," and then tell me what you rolled, and I'll narrate what actually happens.

Unless of course you do something that doesn't require a roll, in which case go right ahead.)

Was that the first game-setting post, GM? Should it be in a new thread? :grin:

I have updated my description with two pics that represent AnBas.

Idea for the starting point (from earlier):
From the void, the chaos cooled and order followed and the Font of Life formed and to balance that, Death was created. For all things that begin must also have an end to maintain the balance of chaos and order, lest all be erased.  From the formless energy of the Font of Life and explosion of creation expanded and too did the shadow of death.  Slowly over time, the seemingly boundless power of Life and its opposite Death, developed into a cycle of birth, Youth, Maturation and Death.  over and over this cycle repeated and slowly, concepts and being began to emerge....

[Insert the origin of the Gods....]
The Gods were born and the Pantheon begins...

Death always existed with life, over the cycles of balance as new concepts and beings were born, so to did Death evolve and the over time, took the name AnBas, God of Death.  For a long time he was alone, in the shadows, maintaining the Balance.  Even when beings began to form, many were afraid of him and their end.  Some rare few saw him and his true self.

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It is just a hook, plot point, etc.  I'm sure that the GM, Jade or Lyric would much be able to take these bones and craft something wonderful

Life flowed from the font, a river of beings and creatures some walking, some crawling, some flying, and some swimming. All perfect, all uniform as Order sat by the side of the font. Chaos on the other hand would trick it's opposite into looking into some mayhem it had caused. On one of these times Chaos approached the Font on it's own to see what it's opposite found so interesting. Gazing into the ever flowing life some passing through Chaos and changing them. Mixing the natures of some, spawning all new and different things and giving each a form of individualism. The touch changes a great deal and the father of all animals arrived to grapple with Chaos not knowing what she was doing to it's many creations.
The struggle knocked the two into the font and as life and divine natures mixed Chaos became pregnant and spawned a new goddess. Xan the Goddess of youth.

This so shocked the two beings that they stopped their struggle. It was the discovery that life could come not just from the font but by beings mingling. The God of Animals sought to bring this discovery to the many creatures he embodied. Chaos moved off in confusion and fear as well as hope and happiness. As the act of Gods and Goddesses differs from the acts of mortal beings Xan sprung a protean mass from Chaos. A feeling of kinship was there but the creature not being of pure Chaos nor pure animals it was something new and different.

It was then that Order returned and seeing things demanded of it's opposite to know what she had done. Chaos proudly claimed like the Font she had created life. In anger over what had happened to the perfect orderly creatures that flowed from the Font it touched the mass declaring as it had touched the Font and changed it's creations so he would bring order to hers. The mass changed slower and eventually a little girl developed and took to it's new life with zeal and the exuberance of what she embodied youth.

Uh, no... it's a timeless void. If you want a Font of Life, either

1. Someone's gotta try to CREATE it,

2. or else we're not starting in a timeless void.


Sounds to me like maybe we REALLY want to start:

--On an earthlike planet that has plants and animals but no sentient life (so far)

??

Sounds good to me

Thought we were in that myth space where things didn't quite make sense to mortal scientific laws. Since scientific laws haven't been created.

Well, I thought we would combine our intros into the creation of current version of the Universe, which would be 1 big post of how the universe went from nothing to what we have today.  Unless you are saying that the Gods pre-date the universe, but then how did we come to be? Ah the eternal existential question.

Let's not answer that ^_^

Mm, no... I wasn't thinking that at all.




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So.... I am thinking of changing the opening setting to:


--An empty void which contains a sun and an earthlike planet that has plants and animals but no sentient life (so far)


Anyone wanna stop me...?

That is fine by me !

Last chance to stop me... anyone...? Anyone...?

Okay, since Xan is running with the new setting, I'm officially doing it. There is now a sun and a planet sustaining many kinds of plant and animal life (I have changed my first in-game post to reflect this.

THIS MEANS that it's also time for me to ask a question that being in a timeless void made difficult to ask:

--Where do you live? (If there is an official "home of the gods," you can have a home there, and/or you can instead/also have another home-- on the moon, in the sun, on an island, on the ocean floor, on a mountaintop, in a deep cave, in a castle in the sky, in another world that can only be gotten to by divine power/magic/dying, or practically anything else). What is your home like?

And this one, which is easier for the same reason:

--Are you the child of another deity, or were you born from something else (sea foam? a volcano? a hurricane?), or have you always existed?

Xan lives in the Clouds of Imagination something that came about from her mother Chaos. I would like that to be in the home of the Pantheon. Wherever that may be.

She was born in this creation the comingling of Chaos and Animals.

AnBas' home is in a mountain valley with a small lake and waterfall.  It is a beautiful and well maintained.  His castle is built into the side of the mountain overlooking the lake.  The Valley is surrounded by a barrier of thick fog.  Most need to fly to reach his valley.  Though there is a hidden path that leads to a hidden tunnel that travels through the mountain into the valley.

AnBas has existed so long as life has existed.

Yeah, everything is working for me better at this point. One or two other players can come and step in and start playing CHAOS or ANIMALS if they want... and even if no one does, that doesn't mean that Xan can't believe that that's who her parents are. She might even be right anyway.