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Thabara

*raises hand* Question~! What does happen when Aoide 'die'? =o

Aoide are of the class of Immortals that are Ageless. By this, they do not grow old and time will never kill them. They can, however, be killed in battle, by magic, etc.

Upon death, an Aoide's essence is put before Justice/Judgement. Before that seat it would be determined if they had served their station as a muse and servant well. (note, that I say their station, not whether they are good or evil )
Those who were judged to have served well receive the choice to be given over to paradise to rest for all eternity, or to be given over to rebirth and re-enter the cycle of the world in some form. (The form bestowed, be it again an aoide, a mortal creature, another of the ageless, etc. varied. In all cases, such a being would be of exceptional abilities)

Those who were judged to have served poorly were given over to Nemesis, daughter of Destruction, who would see to it that they suffered accordingly and/or where banished from ever existing with her father's aid.

A note of curiosity, however, the Fading affected many of the Aoide as it did their masters. Their power waned , the majority of them just faded into nothingness, bare voices and memories on the wind until they were silenced and forgotten forever. A fate as gruesome as the end of Nemesis.
The strongest of them often fell into a deathless sleep, for while they were diminished, these prince's and favourite's had strength enough to seal themselves away and wait. This was in part action and suggestion by Creation, though only the Aoide and the last of the gods to fall are aware of such efforts. Some literally were given to sleep, others sealed like statues, and so on. Aoide won through shop events are of this sort, once old powers now diminished, but gladly awakened to search out places among the Gods service. Have fun with discovering/writing just what method was found between them and Creation to seal them away until the voices of the gods woke them.

This information will also be made available in the Aoide Information Section  

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Unfortunately, given the loss of my RAID drive, this question was goingto be addressed in a quest. Not having the word document with it, I'll try to list them all here, and hopefully it won't contradict the old one if anyone has it (i think it may have been in either Illumin or Panacea's quest information)

The Primordials and the First Children

Primordials
These gods were some of the first beings beneath the chaining to form of Harmodius, and are those that make up the turning of al that Is. THe greatest efforts were put forth into making them by Harmodius and/or Gaia.

• Creation/Destruction (originations of life and death)
  
• Gaia (Aspect of terra and plant / aspect of life)
  
• Time
  
• Death
  
• Universe (aspect of all the space of what Is, and the Sky above all Terra)
  
• Fate
  

First Children
These gods were among the first created, the backbones of that which is. Many which followed were decended in one way or another from them. As such, their power and personalities were well respected in by-gone days, if more raw and primal.

• Light
  
• Darkness
  
• Fire
  
• Water
  
• Wind
  
• Earth
  
• Sound
  
• Underworld
  
• Plant
  
• Animal
  

 

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Hunt is more likely decended from the lines of Death and Animal, and while Beryl could be considered cousin or aunt or some sort of relation in the strictest yet vaguest sense (all of them decending from two sources singlely or in union with each other), the lack of direct relation likely kept them from considering each other any more then distant family. Similar to the ties between medieval and renaissance nobility (austrian and spanish hapsburgs, anyone?)

People are free to explore this aspect. Old mythologies, be they japanese or greek, are ripe with stories of relationships modern cultures see as incestuous. Just keep in mind, that they *are* gods, and their mindsets are old like to those stories. It wasn't incest back then any more then the modern definition of homosexuality could hope to apply to Spartan pederasty.

If you want to work out with me the exact origins and lines of heredity of your god, feel free to contact me. I've mostly not detailed how each and every god came to be because I didn't want to limit people into only my view of the world. However, working together with a player, should they desire to examine such past influences on their characters, woudl allow for a satisfactory history for both our designs.



As for "verb" gods, I suppose yes, everyone else followed after. There is the delineation between the modern gods and the old gods still, but that remains fairly obvious. Gods like the God of Partial Credit didn't exist until schooling did.  

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Sosiqui

Ivy, the thingie Ea found in the quest scene Perri and I are writing now had this to say about the Primordials:

"Five are the primordials. Gaia, Light, Darkness, Universe and Time."

Don't know if it's just wrong because the book author is wrong, or if it's old information. ^^ I would like to know which is actually true, though, so I know if Illumin is slightly cooler than he thinks he is (doubtful, Illumin thinks he's more awesome than anyone anyway) or not. ^^

That's actually something that's going to be gone over in the next step of that quest, but yes, the information is deliberately wrong, for my part. The author was incorrect, which will beome a matter of some sort of significance.