Acerbus_NA

I've been writing draft after draft since I made this thread. The *SPOILER* part about what prometheus says about people becoming a well themself and creating their own dimensions was the key.

Basically. What I'm going to do is scrap the idea my character draws their power from the Netherworld. He draws it from the Well in his own dimension... The reason it manifests as dark powers is a bit of creative thinking, idea stealing, and mushing two things together.

In Champions. There is a being called the Quemetiel. The Crowd of Gods. It is a supernatural black hole at the very end of the Qilphothic realm. It is a mass of dead Gods that sucks everything down its gullet to oblivion.

This being doesn't exist in City of Heroes. I'm not even sure the Qilphothic Realm exists in CoX. What to do... The Well was the way to get around it.

I decided that there had a been a dimension/universe created by a being that became a Well. But over the eons, this Well... Went batcrap crazy. It started sucking in its creation. Even destroying other "Gods" that had been born. Mostly Incarnates in that universe and super beings.
It became a supernatural black hole, slowly drawing everything into itself. Uncreating everything. Except for one solitary planet.
This planet was home to powerful sorcerers. They had figured a way(haven't hashed that out yet) to keep their world right on the edge of the event horizon. But over thousands of years, the world has become featureless, no color, no sound.. Even the sorcerers, whom were winged avian like creatures, (See Ravens of Dispersion) had to shed their physical bodies and become spiritual entities.
My character has escaped into the Primal Earth dimension. Intent on becoming an Incarnate itself, and then, becoming a Well itself so it can go home and destroy the other Well and save its people.

What are the Ravens of Dispersion you ask? In Champions, the Ravens are a race of entities where their tiny little world is right on the cusp of Quemetiel. They do horrible things to keep their world from sliding down its gullet. The ravens in Champions appear as skeletal humanoid avians with bird heads and decaying feathers on their bony wings. That's where I get the idea for MY ravens of dispersion.

Now. I see some flaws and things that need to be ironed out.. But I'm rather proud of taking lore from one game and mutating it so that it fits right into the lore of another game. Which I think a lot of comic book writers actually do anyhow!

Opinions? I like it, so be gentle. I've a fragile ego.

I bet I could make an AE arc on all of this... Hrm.

Well. To derail my own thread.. But what Prometheus says about the well and dimensions and stuff.... Could that mean DJ Zero is a Well?

An inverse universe.. I like that idea! I'm writing that down in my concepts and ideas book.


On another note, but the same vein. I read that Mot and all the Banished Pantheon were banished to the Spiritual Plane. (Check the in-game timeline at paragon wiki). Could the Spiritual Plane be... What? The realms of all the afterlives? Though it wouldn't make sense to put soul devouring gods on the same plane as the afterlives. So..

Gah! I think my brain just turned in on itself.

Kinda frustrates me that they never really did make up a blueprint for the CoX multiverse. It makes it difficult(atleast for me) when there is no core rules on dimensions and stuff.

So most people treat the Netherworld as some sort of void plane that is filled with creatures that can shatter your sanity and is the "gas tank" for negative energy?

In essence, going back to the Champions setting, the Netherworld is the Qliphothic Realm? Basically the old worlds that are dying, where gods go to die, where the antithesis of life exists.

So. The Netherworld. What is it exactly in the City of Heroes Multiverse?

In Champions, the Netherworld contains all the Hells ever thought up. Its counterpart is Elysium, which contains all the Heavens ever thought up.

In D&D the Netherworld is like the Negative Energy Plane or maybe even a spiritual plane of some sort.

So. What the heck is it in City of Heroes?

I've got a question! Forgive me if it has been asked, but this thing is 73 pages long. That'd take me forever to look through..

This is what I'm trying to do.

rbutton+1 "powexec_altslot 1"
This will activate the second toolbar's first slot. It works. But if I press just 1 by itself, it tries to activate the second toolbar's first slot instead of the first toolbar's first slot.
Example:
I have Transfusion for rbutton+1 in top toolbar (second toolbar)
I have Ice Blast for 1 in the bottom toolbar (first toolbar)
If I press rbutton+1 it uses Transfusion. But if I press just 1, instead of using Ice blast it tries to use Transfusion again.

What gives?

So. I'm trying to find general knowledge of the beings of CoH/CoV. I've read over both of the websites, I look at the info on most monsters in game.. I just feel like there is alot of stuff that I don't know..

Is there any website or source that gives a good accounting of creature lore or just lore in general?