Kevin's Watch

The Aesthete Prince

Court: <to be announced>

Major Domain: Mutation

Holy symbol: A Satyr

Queeaqueg wrote:Can I be God of Undead and Malice? I want to be God of Undead and Malice. I will think of a name n stuff later.

Whilst divination may be the most imprecise of arts, that particular revelation was not at all difficult to foretell.

Welcome to Life brothers and sisters of the Pantheon. May your actions enrich existence!

Awww...

I like your new Edgetar, Devaguhya.

...she is such a beauty...

*beams proudly*

Well thank you Pantheon 3.0 Sister. Such is the joy of Life!!

...can't believe how much she's grown since the last pictures I've seen...

I know...I know...off topic.

Name: Telmag Ganoras, The Iron Father, The Lord of Metals
Court: Sunset
Major Domain: Metal (Earth)
Holy symbol: Interwoven Metal Bands

Race: Dwarrows
Dogma: Be as strong in mind and body as the metals that are borrowed from the earth, those which both protect and aid you in your life day after day. Be as a broken sword returned to the hearth, bond with your kin and be greater than before.

*Bows*

Indeed it is a great pleasure to be introduced to so many deities. If art can be said to be the soul of truth, then I can serve truth no better than to write about myself: I am the Prince of Aesthetes - the god of Satyrs and artists, the hedonist and the gentleman. With the golden sun on my face, a pen in my hand and a grin on my face, I sit before a canvas. I see beauty is my mind, but marred by the knowledge of pain. I only hope to help the world by using my artistic skills and sensibilities to bring about a better aesthetic.

Telmag Ganoras wrote:

Be as strong in mind and body as the metals that are borrowed from the earth, those which both protect and aid you in your life day after day. Be as a broken sword returned to the hearth, bond with your kin and be greater than before.

Interesting dogma Telmag. You domain metal is borrowed from me.

My dear Aesthete Prince, I'm sure you will find much of my earth to be very beautiful indeed and I welcome artists to partake of the colors of my land.

To the Jailer:

Cool avatar!!!

Calais wrote:Telmag Ganoras wrote:

Be as strong in mind and body as the metals that are borrowed from the earth, those which both protect and aid you in your life day after day. Be as a broken sword returned to the hearth, bond with your kin and be greater than before.

Interesting dogma Telmag. You domain metal is borrowed from me.

Indeed, sister. I hope that you do not mind that my people will be partaking of the bountiful sources that you bestow upon all.

Name: uKulwa, Lord of War
Court: Unaligned
Major Domain: War
Holy symbol: Crossed Assegais, on a field, Leopard skin.
Dogma: All life is a struggle, and all struggle is War.

I count 15 so far...

And only six of them in Courts. In the system Xar has set up, nine unaligned gods just doesn't seem right. Kind of misses the point.

*shrug*

Perhaps that will change as deities see the benefits and disadvantages for belonging to a Court as the Game proceeds.

That it will... plus, it gives those who are in the Courts a bigger advantage (if you want to shoot for the title of Master of the Court, you can do so with less competition).

Seems like forced alliances to me. I may need to attack one or more. But because they just happened to pick the same court when we signed up, it would harm me to some degree, and give the others in that court reason to be mad at me (if they weren't upset by the attacks anyway). Better to be free.

Fist and Faith wrote:Seems like forced alliances to me. I may need to attack one or more. But because they just happened to pick the same court when we signed up, it would harm me to some degree, and give the others in that court reason to be mad at me (if they weren't upset by the attacks anyway). Better to be free.

*moving this to Rule Feedback thread*

Fist and Faith wrote:Seems like forced alliances to me. I may need to attack one or more. But because they just happened to pick the same court when we signed up, it would harm me to some degree, and give the others in that court reason to be mad at me (if they weren't upset by the attacks anyway). Better to be free.

Well, it would only harm you insofar as it could cause the Court to wane; however, if your own strengthening offset the weakening of your in-Court foes, the Court could still grow (think of it as survival of the fittest ). Furthermore, being free gives you two major disadvantages when compared to the Courts: you cannot access the Divine Right (so a Court member likely has more available power than you do, all other things being equal) and you cannot access the Oracle (which can be very helpful if you're about to try something big, and it can even offer suggestions as to how to accomplish your stated goals). Yes, you can attack whoever you want when you're free, but it also means that gods from BOTH Courts could attack you without worrying about the consequences.

All in all, the system of Courts and Houses exists because it should hopefully generate more inter-deity conflict, thereby reducing the necessity for random events. As you probably saw yourselves, the best moments in the Pantheon 2.0 game always involved deities fighting each other...

Well...

If we're going to discuss this here.

Fist and Faith wrote:Seems like forced alliances to me. I may need to attack one or more. But because they just happened to pick the same court when we signed up, it would harm me to some degree, and give the others in that court reason to be mad at me (if they weren't upset by the attacks anyway). Better to be free.

The rules do say each Court is in opposition to each other, but will that restrict the deities who belong to a Court from making their own alliance with a deity in the other Court?

Outside of all out divine war I mean?

*sigh*

All in all, the system of Courts and Houses exists because it should hopefully generate more inter-deity conflict, thereby reducing the necessity for random events. As you probably saw yourselves, the best moments in the Pantheon 2.0 game always involved deities fighting each other...

Yes. The problem is, everyone has seen the same problem and decided they'll deal with it: you by creating this system, and the players by all going out and creating gods who'll be more antagonistic than in the last game. Unfortunately, the gods and the system seem to have ended up clashing a little.