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Our story comes from the Book of Absaul-rote.

It is said Absaul-rote created the multiverse the same way scribes make a book, each page being the story of a world. In the early times of such a world, the Writer would keep an eye, and if needed, correct or aid the flow of that world, until he deems it stable enough to move on.

Many pages where written this way.

But it wasn’t always so, it is wispered that the Writer didn’t always work like this. For you see, the first page of the book is misssing. Torn out.

In ancient times the Writer was known as the Wanderer. He created the first page, but left it untouched, letting the story write itself.

Then something unforseen happened. It is unclear what exactly happened, except for those who were there.
Some say a great cataclysm happened, others say the Wanderer got angered by what he saw there, and in a desperate attempt, he tried to rip the page out of existance, correcting his mistake.

The page however, wasn’t torn out completely, and the story continued.

And it is at the beginning of this very page that our story begins.....

Rules of the game:

Lords of Creation: The Shard Worlds is played in a distant parallel world to Creation. It was created before Creation by the god Absaul-rote.
Unlike Creation, where the overdeity monitored the shaping of the world and the first-born deitys, this world was left unfinished and empty.
It would start to evolve by itself, without divine guidance, until the first gods would evolve into existance on there own.


Creating your deity:
As this nameless new world evolved, the first deity’s came into existance. Like all things, they start out as simple, unevolved. In the beginning your form will be amorph but as you grow, you will be able to not only shape the world, but also yourself.

Unlike Creation, gods will start out small, without any notable features. Each new god is born out of an aspect. Unlike the gods of Creation, these gods will walk the lands like mortals would.

As the world moves on, certain aspects (domains) will come available for you to make a deity from. The first ones will come available shortly.

When you create your deity, you will need to pick a name for the future and a symbol. Since none of the classes have been invented yet, you may not have any class levels.
Your first domain (primary domain) will come with the job.

list of domains can be found here:Domains


Some things to think about when you create your deity are the following.

DvR:
This is your divine rank. It more or less states how powerfull your deity is and it shows how great your influense is in the world.


Power:
Power represents the bonus your deity gets to his DvR to determine your gods effective DvR. This is important to determine who’s the strongest of 2 deitys who are in conflict.
After creating your deity, the only way to upgrade your power is through the use of artifacts.
So for example, a god with DvR 3 and power = 2, will have a effective DvR of 5

Creation points:
These points are to make your deity more unique.
You can invest these to gain extra power or an extra domain. Or you could save them to use later in the game.
1 extra power cost 1 creation point

1 extra domain costs 2 creation points
1 extra AP costs 2 creation points (you can't raise your AP/week above 5)

Later on, you can gain more by doing great deeds.
From then on, you can also use them to buy extra DvR, this will cost 3 creation points.

Note: keep in mind though that, when you are about to go to a new deity rank
you can't buy the new DvR unless you have the max class level in your
previous rank;
(for example: a lesser deity can't buy or gain his 11th DvR if he hasn't got 34 class/monster levels)


Solo or Team play:
This is a new concept that will be introduced into the game. You now have to choose at the beginning of creating a deity if you want to play solo or in a team. There are several benefits and drawbacks to each style.

If you want to have the option of joining in a pantheon, you start out less powerful than other deities. When deities are in a pantheon, they can work together on things, sharing AP costs.
To say it simple, a team will have a common AP pool.


The "solo deities" can’t join in a pantheon, and prefer to work alone. This doesn’t restrict them to make an alliance with another deity or group.

A solo deity starts with DvR 6
start as a lesser deity
29 class/monster levels
1 domain
1 power
4 creation points

A team deity starts with DvR 3
start as a demi god
25 class/monster levels
1 domain
1 power
3 creation points

Gods can have the following ranks:
Supreme: > Div Rank: 21+ > Max Class lvl: 50 > Domains: 3/9 > Base Action Pts: 6
Greater: > Div Rank: 16-20 >Max Class lvl: 48 > Domains: 2/7 > Base Action Pts: 5
Intermediate: > Div Rank: 11-15 > Max Class lvl: 41 > Domains: 2/5> Base Action Pts:4
Lesser: > Div Rank: 6-10 > Max Class lvl: 34 > Domains: 1/4 > Base Action Pts: 3
Demi: > Div Rank: 1-5 > Max Class lvl: 29 > Domains: 1/3 > Base Action Pts: 2
Heroic deity > Div Rank: 0 > Max Class lvl: 25 > Domains 0 > Base Action Pts: 1


Raising DvR:
Gaining DvR will go differently then in Creation. You can no longer do this by spending AP.
One restricting factor is that you now first need the maximum class level from your current rank, before you can get to the next rank.


ACTIONS
Every turn you gain a certain number of action points which relates to your rank as a
god.The points can be saved until next turn to perform actions that cost more than you are allocated.

Unlike creation, there will be no great AP hoarding. The maximum AP you could save it twice your total. For teams this is twice your team total.

Variable point cost
gain class level (1 per class level)

1 point cost
teach populous, nourish populous, nourish land, mold land

2 point cost
create populous, create land, guide populous, create portal

3 point cost
Attack another god, Begat god (requires another god or mortal of opposite sex), Gain Extra domain slot, Create concept (like positivity- but it would be good if it related to a domain. More than one concept can be related to any single domain)
Create sentient race (non sentient races still cost 2ap)

4 point cost
Create god

5 point cost
Create Plane (maybe as home or resource center)

Future rules will include...

For any questions so far, ask them in the OOC channel:
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World map:
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Zoomed map (western side):
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List of the Gods:
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Deific starting locations

In the center of the island in the middle of the sea in the bigger continent there is a ziggaurat. This Ziggaraut houses the four elemental deities. It was created by the Creator before time began to stopper the Elemental Deities under the ground. Unfortunately, there was... a leak.

At the mouth of that same sea three deities are born at once. An animal god, a plant god, and a weather god. The animal god was born to the east, the plant god to the west, and the weather god above.

As dust settled over the naked world in the wake of the Creator’s departure, the blue seas began to turn green.

From the elemental chaos of the world, the earth had spewed forth seed, and the water had received it with open legs and a fertile womb. The greenness was thin, at first; a mere smattering of particles in the shallow saltwater. But it was there. And it was alive. All living things multiply, and so the greenness spreads.

Here is an important place in the formation of the world. Do you see that cove, just on the inside of the channel that connects the ocean with the inland sea? That is where the greenness accumulates. Due to some combination of factors-voidlight, nutrients, currents, and geothermal energy-the green and brown algae of the sea grows more thickly here. In many places, now, there are mats of algal bloom that cover the surface of the water or cling in great, slimy sheets to the bottom. But nowhere besides this cove is there such growth and variety.

As cool water brings the soul of the planet across the shore, the plants grow further. Some of them reach out beyond the rest of the growths, developing stems that wave in the current to outdo their rivals for sunlight. Some of these stalks grow out of the water, floating in coils on the surface. Through some trick of nature, other, tiny plants colonize the floating stems, pulling nutrients from the air and water from the floating stems. A kaleidoscope of greens, blues, yellows, and browns fill the cove. Some take in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide. Others do the opposite, breathing in the heavier gas and using voidlight to turn it into usable form, giving off oxygen. Thus, the cove did not choke.

The plants grow thicker, until one can no longer tell where one species ends and another begins. The entire cove is just a giant, growing mass. Soon, the ball of plant matter has swollen out of the water, filling the entire bay, displacing all the water, crushing into the seabed and up onto the shore. The giant, shapeless ball of life is pulling its life force from the ground and from the water, constantly spraying pieces of itself into the environment. Needing an outlet for its energy, the plant is making lesser plants.

Then, without warning, the ball of solid algae pulsates…and out shoots a pseudopod of congealed plants. The pseudopod grasps blindly at the sand and rocks, its millions of tiny roots and acids rasping at the stones of the shore.

Then, with a colossal effort, the entire mass rolls onto the beach, letting water come rushing back to fill the cove.

Spreading itself out, the plant mass breaths in, and feels every cell of plankton on the earth pull in their vital gases. It breathes out, and feels them all exhale. They are all a part of it; this nuclear creature is the core of everything green.

A god had awoken.

The Nucleus drew water from the parts of itself that were still submerged, but it needed more if it was to grow further. Instinctively, it oozed back toward the water, filling itself with water and salt and plankton. It soaked up trillions of tiny plants and animals from the new cove water. The plants, it integrated into itself. The animals, it caught with microscopic tendrils and digested with acids.

It needed more space, more nutrients, more room to grow. As it lay on the shore, half in and half out of the water, it yearned to go further, to spread onto the dry place as well as the wet, to cover the whole earth with greenery as it had already done to the seas.

Desperate, it called out for the earth to let it pass.

The earth listened.

The inland side of the cove depressed, forming a channel that flowed with brown and greenish seawater. The Nucleus floated and writhed through the channel, expanding it as it went. Soon, miles and miles of barren land had been turned into a brine swamp, and mats of sedentary plants choked all of it.

The Nucleus moved to the center of the swamp, a deep, watery pit the size of a great lake, and entrenched itself into the bottom. It grew vicariously through the prosperity of the swamp, and it grew physically larger as well.

(Shape Land: 1 AP)

The water tension on the surface of the lake rippled. The Nucleus knew of ripples, but never this spontaneously. It recoiled, pulling itself into the soil like an anemone.

Alien thoughts suddenly bombarded it. It realized, at that moment, that this was coming from a source seperate from itself. Something was alive beyond the borders of the green and living.

It struggled to make sense of the new thoughts, shaping its cells into a form that could process them, make sense of them, convert them into the same language that the Nucleus used to think to itself.

"We...are...green...alive."

Bubbles showered up from the dark depths of the lake.

"I...them...am."

Pulsating harder, disturbing the mud and silt at the bottom of the swamp, it forced itself to make more sense, developing a more advanced internal biology in response to the newcomer.

"I am the thing that grows in the water. I know not what you ask. Who are you?"