#dieties

[theoitheoitheoi]

To the Gods you are not sinful, guilty or unclean. You are you, unique in every facet of your existence.

The Gods hold grace for you. Existence is not immoral.

[pratchettquotes]

Gods are not very introspective. It has never been a survival trait. The ability to cajole, threaten, and terrify has always worked well enough. When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency toward quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point-of-view is seldom necessary.

Which had led, across the multiverse, to men and women of tremendous brilliance and empathy devoting their entire lives to the service of deities who couldn't beat them at a quiet game of dominoes.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

Making eldritch deities, and then killing them, seeing how it would fuck up the world. Is fun.

Seeing parts of the world come undone.

^>^

[aphroditessangel]

♡ . ˚. Mood board for Aphrodite . ˚. ♡

[jacquelinebartholomew]

Original Poem — "Kiss me, Muses"

. ܁₊ ⊹ . ܁ ⟡ ܁ . ⊹ ₊ ܁ . ܁₊ ⊹ . ܁ ⟡ ܁ . ⊹ ₊ ܁ . ܁₊ ⊹ . ܁ ⟡ ܁ . ⊹ ₊ ܁.. ܁₊ ⊹ . ܁ ⟡ ܁ . ⊹ ₊ ܁.

. ܁₊ ⊹ . ܁ ⟡ ܁ . ⊹ ₊ ܁ . ܁₊ ⊹ . ܁ ⟡ ܁ . ⊹ ₊ ܁ . ܁₊ ⊹ . ܁ ⟡ ܁ . ⊹ ₊ ܁.. ܁₊ ⊹ . ܁ ⟡ ܁ . ⊹ ₊ ܁.

[mercuryw1tch]

Who will be the others deities that we are going to see during the fic?

This is the pantheon so far: Wing – Father of the gods, protector of humanity; ruler of the sky and the weather Drift – God of the forest and the hunt Rodimus – God of fire Velocity – Goddess of medicine, birth, and healing Skyfire – God of knowledge and exploration Wheeljack – God of iron and the forge, patron of blacksmiths Tarn – God of bloody war and punisher of traitors I still have some roles left unassigned, like the god of the afterlife and funerals, but I'll think about them as the story progresses

[unabashedfandreamland]

The Martyrification of Scott and Xornoth

Thinking about how both versions of the Champions of Aeor and Exor are siblings, perhaps even implied to be twins. Thinking about how those two are the only ones we know of, how many other cycles has this story gone through, how many other siblings have torn each other apart over the gods' hatred of each other?

Thinking about how uncorrupted Xornoth was a genuinely dutiful and caring sibling who wanted to be a good ruler and never went further than mildly teasing Scott. And remembering that in the musical, it was implied that he was corrupted at the age range of a high schooler (which could mean around 14-15 years old at the youngest).

And, thinking about how, in the Clash of the Great Stags, it's implied that Conal began to be corrupted as a child. I don't think Aeor is truly a kind god. I think he might have been, once, but time and his conflict with his brother has definitely changed that. I mean, he continually takes memories from his Champions, those memories being of their family, he is one half of a cycle of constant conflict that rips apart genuinely caring sibling pairs, and he doesn't ever seem to try and warn Scott about what's coming or prepare him for it. (Aside from showing him the book, but that seems like too little too late in context.) And I don't think that Xornoth became a demon willingly. I think there's some part of him that genuinely regrets what happened to him and what he's become. Some part of him that mourns the child he was and the king he could have become if not for the intervention of the gods. ...Maybe all this is why Scott doesn't play the Watchers' games "properly" in the Life Series. His time as Alinar and the King of Rivendell and whatever else Alinar's soul has become has desensitized him to divine or divine adjacent beings wishing for his suffering. This is his constant. This is what he's used to. He knows the rules of the game and he knows how to play around them.