What about those who want to/can't resist being absorbed into a Celestial God?
Also, before we move on I say we could make up a Terrestrial God and/or a Celestial one to have a registered example of how they should work.
@God of Awesome: I also have ideas for Ley Nodes and lines, and these ideas also relate to Spirits, I think.
... There was also something else about Gods and how the world works that I wanted to ask/say, but I forgot what it was... I like to write/say this kind of stuff because sometimes I remember them soon after I say that I forgot them.
Problem with a downtime like that is that every time their Terrestial Gods die the Celestial Gods will lose their only means to do things since the cannot directly interfere with matter, which is the point of Terrestial Gods. And Celestial Gods cannot exactly stop Terrestial Gods from doing something dangerous as that is also the point of Terrestial Gods.
edited 18th Jun '13 2:11:15 PM by IraTheSquire
I am not sure if we should copy Exalted so much either.
How about when someone becomes Terrestial God, it is their soul that gets changed and when they die, the soul returns to the Celestial God and very quickly it latches onto another dead body (has to be another dead body as the release of magical energy when a Terrestial God dies, which is a massive explosion, will annihilate their body)?
edited 19th Jun '13 5:30:11 AM by IraTheSquire
Well, figurin' since Terresties won't be the main focus, unless you play a Terresty campaign, I don't think at least going 'T-Godhood is a Spark that ignites your soul. Your C-God's only got so many ill-defined number of Sparks. You kick the bucket, they get back the Spark.' Is too much like Exalted.
So we have two ideas for Terrestial deaths at the moment:
1) when they die, their souls will exit their bodies in an explosive manner and destroy their bodies in the process, forcing their Celestial Gods to place their souls in another dead body to resurrect their servants
2) when they die, their soul returns to normal and the spark that made them gods return to the Celestial Gods, who can then ascend another mortal to Terrestial Godhood.
Comments on either from others? Vyc? Vic?
edited 19th Jun '13 5:10:57 PM by IraTheSquire
Ok. The ideas:
1) when they die, their souls will exit their bodies which then fades away (or the souls exits in an explosive manner and destroy their bodies in the process, your call), forcing their Celestial Gods to resurrect their servants via any means necessary (like place their souls in another dead body).
2) when they die, their soul returns to normal and the spark that made them gods return to the Celestial Gods, who can then ascend another mortal to Terrestial Godhood.
edited 19th Jun '13 5:22:44 PM by IraTheSquire
3) They die and their souls linger around their C-God until a) they get their asses resurrected or b) someone banishes their soul deeper into their C-God who precedes to naturally reabsorb the Spark. So b results in the T-God being Deader than Dead, their souls moving on to their proper afterlife, usually right where they were banished.
I'm not sure what to say about Terrestrial Gods because they kind of look like my idea for Heroes, and I was awaiting until we are discussing Ley Nodes and lines to talk about my ideas for Legendary Stuff (Spirits, Heroic Beings and others).
And I forgot to say earlier my idea for Terrestrial Gods' deaths I had today: when they die, part of their energy returns to the Celestial God, and part rains at the material plane, feeding the natural flux of magic, might affect Ley Nodes and related beings. Also, if it was a god who killed other, the murderer can/will absorb some of the magic from the dead. Even if just in the shape of raw power.
I kind of like b, but not so much a.
The afterlife in 1st Ed worked like so:
*Ya die.
*Your soul enters the Aether, the Astral Plane, the Plane of Thought and Emotion.
*Like attracts to like, so your soul goes to a place of the Aether that is like yourself where other people like you are. If you are a bad person, you go to a bad place, and so on.
*Your soul slowly lets go of the baggage of life, forgetting. Slowly, the soul is drawn back to the Material the lack of memories, emotions and thoughts means the Aether loses its grip.
*Ya get born.
From here
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So if you use a soul to pull too much magical energy through to power an extremely powerful spell, you can destroy the soul. This makes extremely powerful magic very dangerous to the caster if they are using only their own souls and gives incentive for evil mages/demons to take other people souls (so that souls are actually useful for something).
I have a bunch of idea (cultures and events) that can utilize this.
edited 19th Jun '13 11:08:22 PM by IraTheSquire

I was talking about when Terrestial Gods die, they should not remain as ghosts/spirits/or similar bodiless being with their powers intact for that just mean that when they die they turn into bodiless gods, which is starting to step on the shtick of the Celestial Gods (making them unable to interact with physical matter will make that even worse). I am suggesting that when Terrestial Gods die their bodies dissolve and gets reformed somewhere else where they get resurrected.
Edit: let's clear up on the gods before we move on. And maybe end up with a final version to be ready to be written up.
edited 17th Jun '13 9:57:48 PM by IraTheSquire