

Moderator: Xar
Xar can clear this up if he chooses, but I do not believe this rule is necessarily an inter-Game rule. I do not believe that, if a deity from P1 somehow comes back to "life" in P2, that deity has a greater claim to a domain s/he held in P1 than the deity in P2 who holds it.O-gon-cho wrote:Brother, the rule Maeror is talking about does exist. Whether Argothoth had pursued this course, and been denied, I do not know.Bhakti wrote:Careful, Maeror, lest Argothoth use the rules you say exist, and strip you of Death. Would it be as easy as that? I think not. And so I think Nephirthos took Destruction and Chaos back through other means. Through the tremendous Power that I believe he wields, whatever its source.
RESURRECTION
Just as deities can die, deities can also return from the netherworld. Upon death, deities do not enter the afterlife ruled by the King of the Dead, like mortals do, but they exist in a state of eternal slumber. Any deity who died due to lack of worshipers can return to waking life if his or her cult rises again; this can be an event inspired by other deities, or due to pure chance. If enough worshipers gather for the deity to return to Divine Rank 1, the deity returns from the dead and rejoins the pantheon. If the deity's spheres of influence had been claimed by someone else, the deity immediately recovers them, stripping them from the usurper. The deity will likely have to rebuild his clergy, religion and holy sites from scratch, although he could always try to restore the old ones.
Deities killed by other deities (see Deicide, above) cannot return from the dead.
Ah...Bhakti wrote:Xar can clear this up if he chooses, but I do not believe this rule is necessarily an inter-Game rule. I do not believe that, if a deity from P1 somehow comes back to "life" in P2, that deity has a greater claim to a domain s/he held in P1 than the deity in P2 who holds it.
It depends on how much the P2 deity is acting according to that domain; if he/she is completely ignoring it, then the returned deity can easily claim it. If he/she is using it and acting accordingly, then the returned deity cannot.Bhakti wrote:Xar can clear this up if he chooses, but I do not believe this rule is necessarily an inter-Game rule. I do not believe that, if a deity from P1 somehow comes back to "life" in P2, that deity has a greater claim to a domain s/he held in P1 than the deity in P2 who holds it.
Let me guess...Xar wrote:It depends on how much the P2 deity is acting according to that domain; if he/she is completely ignoring it, then the returned deity can easily claim it. If he/she is using it and acting accordingly, then the returned deity cannot.Bhakti wrote:Xar can clear this up if he chooses, but I do not believe this rule is necessarily an inter-Game rule. I do not believe that, if a deity from P1 somehow comes back to "life" in P2, that deity has a greater claim to a domain s/he held in P1 than the deity in P2 who holds it.
Smart, very smartO-gon-cho wrote:Let me guess...Xar wrote:It depends on how much the P2 deity is acting according to that domain; if he/she is completely ignoring it, then the returned deity can easily claim it. If he/she is using it and acting accordingly, then the returned deity cannot.Bhakti wrote:Xar can clear this up if he chooses, but I do not believe this rule is necessarily an inter-Game rule. I do not believe that, if a deity from P1 somehow comes back to "life" in P2, that deity has a greater claim to a domain s/he held in P1 than the deity in P2 who holds it.
Only the AllFather can make that determination?
the AllFather wrote:Smart, very smartO-gon-cho wrote:Let me guess...Xar wrote: It depends on how much the P2 deity is acting according to that domain; if he/she is completely ignoring it, then the returned deity can easily claim it. If he/she is using it and acting accordingly, then the returned deity cannot.
Only the AllFather can make that determination?
Well...yeah.the AllFather wrote:But of course, it's relatively easy to empirically determine that, either... if the player is not acting according to his domains (say a god of battle who constantly pursues peace, a god of malice who wishes to make sure everybody is happy and doesn't harm anyone, a god of order who attempts to create chaos among the other deities, and so on) chances are he's vulnerable to domain stealing.
A wise man named Severian wrote:We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. When soldiers take their oath they are given a coin, an asimi stamped with the profile of the Autarch. Their acceptance of that coin is their acceptance of the special duties and burdens of military life--they are soldiers from that moment, though they may know nothing of the management of arms. I did not know that then, but it is a profound mistake to believe that we must know of such things to be influenced by them, and in fact to believe so is to believe in the most debased and superstitious kind of magic. The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all.