Pantheon: The Third Age - Rules and Comments Thread

[I'm Murrin]

"Last time", it was added in a seperate post after the stats.

[Xar]

Xar, I just noticed something--you didn't put a post in the game thread for chronicles/event updates. Will that stuff be going elsewhere this time round?

The Game thread becomes lengthy to submit after a few pages are added to it - that is, it used to take minutes for the forum to change it towards the end of P2. So I thought I'd place the turn-by-turn events separately. I have yet to decide whether to add them to the background thread or not, but they won't be in the game thread.

[Arcadia]

Since I came in late in P2, I'm not sure when we submit our first turns.

Is there a date for that?

[O-gon-cho]

*nod*

I have the same question. I'm sure we'll find out eventually, considering we have new players as well.

[Xar]

First, Revelations. Then, turns

[O-gon-cho]

IIRC, I received results back from my revelation. That was my submittal for the Turn I joined. The same is true at the beginning of the Game?

[Arcadia]

Hey Xar. How is the treasury thing going to work out?

[I'm Murrin]

Almost finished my reveal now. It is nothing at all like expected it to be when I began. It has become an in-depth exploration of the mindset of the Fallen Ones (or perhaps just one Fallen One), and some of the reason that drives them to Bel's faith, while also fleshing out something of the society and behaviour of this enclave in particular.
This is far more fully fleshed-out than anything I've done before for Pantheon.

On the subject of reveals, I noticed that while some have stated exact locations, there are a few reveals with no specific geographical information in them--I'm curious to learn what part of Eiran these gods have revealed themselves in.

[Arcadia]

After asking Xar about it, I got the impression that I could not 'take' a specific place in the reveal. Therefore, I just left it for my first turn where I wanted my followers to settle.

[I'm Murrin]

Hmm. Xar has changed place names on the map to fit with what people wanted in their reveals, so I didn't think he had a problem with it.
Though I remember in P2 I PMed Xar and asked him where Admar's army was after the map came up, rather than deciding myself where to be.

[Dorian]

I have chosen a place where the cult of the void will turn up, and Xar knows it, I chose not to add it t the reveal as Im really trying to go for the new train of thought rising from the shadows, rather than the all powerful revelation. Mines very much a people based cult, seeing as its more a point of view than anything, thus is why there is no god in my reveal

[I'm Murrin]

I kind of got that with yours, Dorian. By nature, there's very little that's specific about your god.


Prophets will go onto the map when it's updated for turn one, I assume, so I'm not pressing for information; just curious.

[I'm Murrin]

Done. Not at all what I planned initially, but I think I like it.

Notes:
- ul-zakaru (no caps) is Bel's prophet, a Fallen One (just to state the obvious, since I only used the name once and never mentioned the name of the race in the reveal itself). The name actually means something closer to "unspoken".
- The Eyrie is not the only home of the Fallen Ones, there being other enclaves on other continents, probably even groups who do not view the world the way ul-zakaru does. This is just one single location I invented for the purposes of revelation. The Eyrie itself is on the eastern tip of the mountains in Noptae (roughly north of Noruk), but is not a single discrete settlement but a number of structures built into the tallest peaks along a portion of that mountain range.
- The unusual names that ul-zakaru uses for the cities and continent are a few hundred years out of date and, in at least one case, the exact rendering of the name was not known to him--he might do a lot of watching, but he very rarely actually goes outside of the mountains to learn what's going on.
- I'm not entirely sure what the piece is. I thought early on it could be a speech he is making or a story being told by him, but it doesn't seem to fit that. The opening paragraph doesn't fit well, because I began it thinking I was going to write a third-person piece introducing the character by pointing out the fact that the cold doesn't affect him.

[Dorian]

Nice

Again, id like to point out, that the void is the ultimate peace

You should seriously consider it! You seem wise enough to fathom the ideas presenting in our learnings

[I'm Murrin]

Heh. As always, I'll keep it in mind.

[Dorian]

Awesome. you will see that we need no god of peace to tell us not to be warlike

[I'm Murrin]

That depends. You now have a god of war telling you the opposite, after all.
The revelation didn't seem like the right place to go into that future feud, however.
(Bel is unusual after my other Pantheon--and Empires, and Borderlands--characters. Bel actually has a philosophy.)

[Dorian]

No i meant my scholar like followers. Intellect tends to make you a pacifist of sorts

[I'm Murrin]

If only all men could be scholars. Much like ul-zakaru, I see not the individual, but the whole.

[Zephyr]

Paolo, you're hysterical!