Ruka’s plurk reminded me of a setting I pitched a while back, originally as an RP setting

The setting was that Ragnarok happened and all the gods fought each other and died and destroyed the world

Or at least the wiped out civilization

The actual planet is still there, albeit as a barren wasteland

But there’s ONE SPOT that still has a flicker of life left

A pair of fertility/life/nature gods strangled each other and their bodies formed like a sheltered valley where the residual divine juice still makes life possible

Someone set up a beacon there calling any mortal survivors and refugees across the world

Who are starting to gather there and figure out what to do now as the world slowly finishes decaying without any gods to keep things working

That’s the premise

The pitch is that with the gods all dead, their divine power is still in existence but it’s just kind of sloshing around the cosmos, unclaimed

Because you can’t permanently destroy divine power

And it starts to crystallize around the survivors, who all start turning into new gods

The world is dead but there is now a chance to build a new one

The actual plot revolves around the idea that Ragnarok was engineered by these nearly powerless spirits that had been hanging around since the creation of the universe

They had missed their chance at getting any god juice themselves and had been stewing in jealousy for 13 billion years

It worked and they’re getting some juice. But now a bunch of rando mortals are ALSO getting some of it and after an eternity of getting nothing these things are NOT in the mood to share

Leading to a war over the creation of the new universe

Between some mortals gaining divine power and some ancient spirits who can’t STAND that

This is dope af.