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[cob commentary][ascent ocs] gods. what's the Ascent setting's take on gods
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I've established two things at a power level similar to gods
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Apotheosis Artists, and dragons
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the apotheosis artists ascend to something called the Divine Realm
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is it just populated by other apotheoses? or are their gods, who have always lived there and are even more powerful than them
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dragons are equivalent to apotheosis rank but come from the spirit realm
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they're godlike but not really, like, a pantheon
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so do we have, just, deities
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who are worshipped
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are there deities who were secretly once mortals who ascended and toe the line on how much they're allowed to meddle in the mortal realm
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Villain
EchoDoctor ArtWildentanzen what are your thoughts
Villain
What if there's no major culture of religious worship of creator deities on Astar, but therer is on Meder?
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Someone asks Oanna about gods and she's like "Oh yeah Royse mentioned those once didn't she?"
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I'm into it
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the closest thing to religion in the Verdant Lands is more reverence for spirit beings
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big ones like dragons but also little ones
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fairies etc
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kinda shinto vibes
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as opposed to something vaguely monotheistic on Meder
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which Oanna doesn't know much about because Royse isn't really religious
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past ascended artists are also revered, but less like a god and more like a revered ancestor
Villain
You don’t Have Faith in the ascended because they’re not gods they’re guys
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Really powerful guys but fundamentally still human
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It does occur to me
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That “revering spirit beings” and “we hunt spirit boars for their beast cores and fangs and shit” are a LITTLE at odds
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this is true
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I'm not sure how to pivot it
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I don't think that Artists should have a strictly utilitarian relationship with the spirit realm, is mainly the thought
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Could be a whole Cycle Of Life Hunter And Hunted kind of thing
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not spirit beings, but the whole of the spirit realm regarded as a nebulously alive thing