Subject: of gods and monsters
From: joshua 'hook' corning (hook@u.washington.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 07 1999 - 05:22:32 EEST
Proposal for gods, ancients and man Ok this document is my proposal for how it works, gods, world and all. - first there is the creation myth with Namhas Aluna and Sinister. please read this text at https://majik3d-legacy.org/boc.html - next Namhas sees the world is stagnant and new creatures and plants etc. do not reproduce there is no new blood to shake things up. The world begins to loose its balance. So Namhas creates the god of nature and so the animals and plants begin to reproduce. soon the world becomes unbalanced again it becomes over populated. Namhas again sees the world as unbalanced so he creates nature's brother Yorkaturr. And with him comes death and the world balances again. animals and plants begin to change (evolution) and adapt to this new element of survival. - long time passes world appears balanced and changing. ie balance of law and chaos. - new more intelligent animals (Mammals and birds) begin to come into being these creatures start to leave behind a residue of consciousness after their deaths. Spirits begin to haunt the world and the heavens some fade to nothing while others join and create greater spirits. These spirits become more and more powerful and begin to threaten the balance. Some greater spirits choose to become flesh again and rejoin the world this weakened them but made them independent from having to recruit new spirits to keep up their strength. Still other greater spirits stayed in the heavens and played with creatures of the world and tempting their life force to them upon their deaths. The new Gods began to tire of the world and began to threaten Namhas and the other gods draining the older gods' strength with constant battle. So Namhas with the last of his powers created the many species of man. He protected them in the heavens and let them roam the world and return as they saw fit. In their quests on the earth they gathered the spirits to replenish the powers of Namhas and the other older gods so that they may battle the new gods. But it was to late the new gods struck down the palace containing the races of man and they fell to earth. They where no longer protected from Namhas and were susceptible to the laws that govern the world; they could reproduce and they could die. Soon the heavens began to fill with the souls of dead people. The new gods began to collect these souls unknowingly. The spirits of man had a greater strength then the prior spirits the gods began to change. Their motives and thoughts became more complex and defined. Also the gods learned that living men could send power to gods through worship. The gods began to lessen their interest in the heavens and focused again on the world in search of strength and to further their aims. Some peoples remembered the old gods and gave their prayers and souls to them. The world became balanced again and Namhas smiled upon the earth. :) 1 Ok this is why I like this system. First it explains why the gods need people to worship them. 2 Second it gives a good explanation for ancient races they are the ones that choose to become flesh. It also leaves the possibility of a god becoming flesh or a powerful person to come back as a dragon or something of course he/she would probably need the help of a god. 3 It uses that whole flying room thing. 4 It also sets up a natural order of gods. 5 It limits the power of the greater gods although they are greater there is no reason why a lesser god could become more powerful. 6. It is simple and elegant :) Much of this can be changed in fact it would be cool to send out different versions of this myth so as to confuse players. Like people of Torell who worship the god of the Oceans would say that he took down the palace of races but worshipers of Namhas would say that Namhas struck it down himself. Also you could add sub myths to it like Namhas began to mold goblins from bats into intelligent beings but could not do it fast enough before he had to create people. Or maybe Yorkaturr began to manipulate them into intelligent beings in the hopes of gleaning power from their dead souls but the advent of races destroyed this or whatever. This is a very rough draft and can be improved. Anyway tell me what you think. Joshua 'Hook' Corning hook@majik3d.org
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