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- Looking for partners
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- Multiple posts per week
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- On fairly regularly, every day. I'll notice a PM almost immediately. Replies come randomly.
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- Adept
- Advanced
- Preferred Character Gender
- Primarily Prefer Male
- No Preferences
- Genres
- High fantasy is my personal favorite, followed closely by modern fantasy and post-apocalyptic, but I can happily play in any genre if the plot is good enough.
IC
The Story of the Gods
Once upon a time, the World of Gods was only a single plane, which will come to be known as the Prime Plane. This space was a single, massive tract of land, like a piece of paper. The first god was a powerful mortal, who protected a group of people. These people began to worship him as their protector, forming a church. As the people worshiped this hero, he was able to generate power through their faith. When he gained enough power he shed his mortal form, he used that power to rip off a piece of the Prime Plane, moving it into a new space. This became the first god's Godly Realm. It was like the prime plane, except smaller, and imbued with the first god's power. This allowed the first god to transform and use his power as abilities.
Once upon a time, the World of Gods was only a single plane, which will come to be known as the Prime Plane. This space was a single, massive tract of land, like a piece of paper. The first god was a powerful mortal, who protected a group of people. These people began to worship him as their protector, forming a church. As the people worshiped this hero, he was able to generate power through their faith. When he gained enough power he shed his mortal form, he used that power to rip off a piece of the Prime Plane, moving it into a new space. This became the first god's Godly Realm. It was like the prime plane, except smaller, and imbued with the first god's power. This allowed the first god to transform and use his power as abilities.
The first god grew more powerful as his religion grew, and he was able to use this increase in power to take more pieces from the Prime Plane, expanding his Godly Realm and his abilities. Meanwhile, other mortals followed in the footsteps of the first god. They gathered together mortals to worship them, built up power through faith, and then used that power to escape their mortality and take away a piece of the Prime Plane, transforming it into their own Godly Realm.
However, as more mortals transformed into gods, the Prime Plane began to get smaller, and the competition for land grew more intense. Gods started competing over small pieces of land, and they would have to use a greater portion of their power to defeat the power of the other gods and claim the land. This conflict over land led to some of the gods neglecting their followers, causing their religion to weaken as their followers converted to other religions. When this happened, the gods would lose some of their power, because there were no longer as many faithful worshiping them. As gods lost power, they would no longer have the level of power required to hold on to the land in their Realm. This caused pieces of the Godly Realms to return to the Prime Plane, weakening the god.
One of the Gods noticed the relationship between the number of faithful and the level of power a God possessed. He realized that he could force gods to relinquish their land by killing their followers, and then quickly claim the land for himself. This worked for a short time, until the other gods banded together, to completely kill all of the greedy god's followers. When the last member of his religion died, his Godly Realm fully returned to the Prime Plane, and the God was forgotten, and therefore killed.
However, the example set by the dead god didn't not vanish, and many other gods began to follow his example. This led to a war between the gods on the Prime Plane, which led to the death of countless gods, and also decimated the world's population. Many gods even moved some of their most loyal followers to their Godly Realm, in an attempt to protect them from the slaughter and death. However, even that did not save the weaker gods, as the stronger gods would invade their Realm directly, and kill the last of their followers. This caused the war to be fought on two fronts, as the gods turned their attention to breaching each other's Realms, while they imbued their power into loyal followers on the Prime Plane to continue the battle there.
As the number of gods continued to fall, a large number of the weaker gods banded together, forming an alliance and temporarily combining their Realms. This allowed them to share the power from the faith of their followers, distributing it as each member of the group needed it. This allowed the individual gods to temporarily strengthen themselves, and made their combined Realm much stronger. Through this combination, they became the most powerful group. They used their power to end the war, and set up rules to keep the gods from directly using their power outside of their Godly Realms. Any god that did not agree to follow their rules was suppressed by the might of the alliance, and subsequently killed. This brought the War of the Gods to an end.
However, many of the stronger gods were not content to enter into an equal relationship with the weaker gods. One of these gods found a very weak god, about to completely lose his faith, and offered him a deal. The weaker god could join in an alliance with the stronger god, and bring his Godly Realm into the stronger god's Realm. The stronger god would then protect the last of the weaker god's followers, and help him reestablish a religious presence on the Prime Plane. However, the weaker god would not have access to the stronger god's power, and would, instead, have to pay tribute by giving a portion of all the power he acquired to the stronger god. Desperate to survive, the weaker god agreed, and became subservient to the stronger god. This established the first hierarchical relationship among the gods, and many of the stronger gods followed in this god's footsteps, taking in subordinate gods of their own.
By this age, the Prime Plane has recovered from the devastation of the godly battle. New gods have risen, while some of the older gods have fallen through the changing flow of faith. While the gods still compete for land and followers, they maintain an internal balance, as the weaker gods create their own alliances, or enter under the protection of a stronger god as a subservient god. All of the competition on the Prime Plane is now accomplished by proxy, as gods imbue their power into devout followers to act as the gods' champions and avatars.
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