Godlike Characters
According to lore, the ancient Greek 'gods' were actually some of the earlier Incarnates.
Personally, I think there are way more more-interesting characters that can be made that don't rely on 'being a god' as their schitck. It's something of a one trick pony, t'be honest, and a bit of a boring one at that. |
I personally don't like to play the "phenomenal cosmic power" types....but I do like playing the mythological types
many of my characters have mythological connection:
Medusae - inheritor of the power of the Libyan goddess who eventually became demonized by the Greeks
Sang-Yoon Koga - daughter of Susano-O
And if I understand the summary here and what I've seen of the well....the Well of Furies represents the grand potential of humanity, or at least citizens of Earth and that some people are able to achieve that potential ahead of others.
This reads rather like the theory that the lack of "and it was good" after the creation of man in the Bible implies that we are an as yet unfinished work
Other bits of lore would imply that the Earth Well is connected to the other Wells, possibly via some cosmic Well that serves as the potential of this universe as a whole.
It would also explain why the Well is neither good nor bad, because if you look at the point where Earth is, based on the segment of it we're able to see, we have individuals of both great and tremendous good will as well as those of malicious will. Since the Well is really only interested in developing the greatest possible power, possibly acting as some sort of sentient collective subconscious of humanity, it is still choosing which path might be the best to go.
However, from that regard, the Well exists only because we do and eradication of the Well of Furies would come along with our own eradication...or it might result because of our eradication.
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"Notice at the end, there: Arcanaville did the math and KICKED IT INTO EXISTENCE." - Ironik on the power of Arcanaville's math
Ok now this isn't a rant about characters who claim to be godlike and solve the worlds ills in one swoop of their mighty hand but more characters who happen to be Gods.
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If you were to ask them for a true response to the questions of "Do you think I'm a god?" or "Why don't you bow down in mortal fear of my divinity?" They'd likely answer, "No. I don't think you're divine. I think you're very powerful, wielding technology or energy I don't understand. If you say, 'jump,' I'll ask, 'How high?' simply because I don't wanna die but, no, to be honest, I don't think you're a god."
Robots of course just prefer to shut off their optics...which is sensible.
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"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
As someone who inadvertently wrote the conflict between many major Gods as a plot in a setting he's working on, I'll go ahead and throw my way into the ring.
My one God character that I have, who is THE God of Time (it makes sense and doesn't step on anybody's toes but I don't want to go into that here) is not technically himself in CoX. Since having a God of that level, second only to the Big Man himself, step into Paragon like that would kind of screw everything over, he's limited to manifesting only a portion of that power in this world. Granted, that "portion" is still a near-fully incarnated (I'm lazy), fully built, Grav/Time controller who can bend reality like a spoon, but in addition to not having access to all of his godly faculties, there are also certain rules laid down by the Big Man that he's not willing to break unless existence itself is threatened. By using these two restrictions, I basically have a God character who is a God in fact and name, but not in power, because of bureaucratic red tape.
TL;DR: There are Rules and he can't use all his powers.
(Yes, inadvertently. My setting kind of got away from me for a bit.)
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I played an SS/Invuln tank called Mar-Duuk, who was the Babylonian, or was it Sumerian, god of the city, as a protector of cities, he came to help out Paragon when it was in danger.
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