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I tend to be better at knowing what I do not want over knowing what I want. I don't want anything in particular for this thread other than to answer people's questions, but I do know that I would find that checking various hypothetical acolyte powers until the end of time would really really suck.

Rae is unsurprised and would give the guy a few blessings if he ever met him. <3

Aestrix wrote:I tend to be better at knowing what I do not want over knowing what I want. I don't want anything in particular for this thread other than to answer people's questions, but I do know that I would find that checking various hypothetical acolyte powers until the end of time would really really suck.

I promise to avoid making you consider the universe's heat death as a sweet release from your torment.

The deities in Incandescence are different from MWF and later appereances? Multiple manifestations are common? What can be made a manifestation and what they need do it? Could a deity have a dinosaur manifestation from knowing they exist?

Aestrix wrote:Rae is unsurprised and would give the guy a few blessings if he ever met him. <3

Best god <3

Thank you!

I have a terrible habit of quietly tweaking my settings as I play with them. Usually no one notices because I'm reasonably good at not talking about things until they become directly necessary, and then making the attempt to stay consistent with what I made. Staying consistent with what I have in Incandescence is sort of difficult, because rereading Incandescence is both hard (due to aaaaa rereading my own writing) and sad. So I have kind of mostly stopped trying. Also Kappa asked me a question about Kiro and went, "Is. He stuck with just the one body?" and I thought about it and realized that being stuck with just one body was really quite an arbitrary requirement, when one is a god and makes bodies out of landscape. So I stopped that.

Multiple manifestations are - not uncommon? Because they're just so practical. But they are expensive, so it's not strange for a god to have only one.

I keep the actual rules of how making a manifestation works vague so that I can feed my terrible terrible habit of tweaking my settings as I play with them. A god picks what landscape material the manifestation is made out of, and they will revert to that if the manifestation dies, but the actual process is [Aestrix has not needed to figure this out yet].

You can make a dinosaur manifestation if you know what it is/how it works and you're willing to front the cost for it, and a dinosaur in particular would probably be much more expensive than a human manifestation. My inner twelve year old is giggling maniacally.

Rae thanks you. He tries.

How does multiple manifestations interact with gods not liking to leave their domains? Are the different manifestations mostly independent?

... I am not sure what you mean?

It is multiple bodies to one mind. Not multiple copies of the same mind.

Yeah, I assumed that most gods or medium sized ones at least wouldnt waste the godly resources on multiple manifestations. Tisvet and Kiro being exceptions because of their power sets /and/ his accidental empire.

I am sorry that incandescence makes you sad, if it helps it only brings me joy :/

Aestrix wrote:... I am not sure what you mean?

It is multiple bodies to one mind. Not multiple copies of the same mind.

Incandescence has Rae leaving his domain which causes him to stop listening to prayers

Are you going to veto magical-creatures manifestations?

If the one mind controls the multiple bodies, why do gods not like to leave their domains? If there are other bodies then there isn't a meaningful sense in which they ever would. Did you get rid of that rule completely?

The god is their domain. If it were just a matter of continuing to have at least one perspective inside the domain at all times, there would never be any trouble about it at all.

But I think it's reasonable for a god not to want to walk their manifestations around outside their domain because it's so much harder to protect them out there, and they represent a fairly significant investment of resources.

Bluelantern wrote:Yeah, I assumed that most gods or medium sized ones at least wouldnt waste the godly resources on multiple manifestations. Tisvet and Kiro being exceptions because of their power sets /and/ his accidental empire.

I am sorry that incandescence makes you sad, if it helps it only brings me joy :/

It doesn't, really, though I'm glad to have made you happy. Thank you, though.

Bluelantern wrote: Incandescence has Rae leaving his domain which causes him to stop listening to prayers

Are you going to veto magical-creatures manifestations?

I do not recall this ever being a thing. Not to say you're wrong, but I literally do not remember ever writing that in my life.

I am going to veto them having the magical powers associated with being magical creatures, if it comes with any. You could make a phoenix, but not the rebirth.

Also, yes, what Kappa said. Their domains are not pretty landscape features/where they can use their godly magic, it is literally the god itself. They can defend themselves more easily if all of them is present to do so, as opposed to being outside of where they can react and therefore vulnerable.

Is there any difference between the way a god is their domain and the way a MUniverse nymph is their field?

The original rule you had in mind was that gods cannot leave their domains (though I can’t find where you said that). You succeeded in not writing down more than you needed, and relaxed this rule before it made it into canon so that Rae could visit with Cricket. The relevant paragraph is:

It's not often, that a god leaves their domain. But it has been known, rarely, to happen. When a god is under sufficient stress, or curious enough to suffer the deafening silence and lack of comfort of being in their own place of power. Raezenoth is not under any sort of stress. But he has run out of things to do, and Idania is busy. With her boyfriend. Again. He would damn him, if he did not make her so happy. To put it simply, he is bored.

Regardless of how this relates to the current model, it got me wondering: what offensive powers do gods have? There have been references to the abilities to smite and damn people, but it’s not clear exactly what is meant by those. Can they just directly kill mortals? Can they grant the opposites of their blessings, so that Rae could give people, for example, unfriendly winds?