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All things have (5) points of ownership.
Ownership is affected by interacting with things, or having things one owns interact with other things, and in the case of Regions- can be accumulated or lost by interactions between the constituent parts.
Ownership is divided into 7 stages, and can be applied to most things.
-3 Chaotic dispute - a third party has successfully gained claim to a point of ownership during
an Invasive dispute viva force, *no one* is counted as having legitimate ownership, *everyone*
receives a 50% discount to acting upon things in this state, this lasts until 3 turns have
passed, (1) player has regained a Majority Ownership, or a majority of players involved
accept a declaration that this has ended.
-2 Invasive dispute - through force, a god has claimed (1) or more points of ownership from
another god, automatically causing dispute- during this all gods receive a 25% discount to
act upon this object
-1 Ordered dispute - through Casus Belli, a dispute has been orchestrated between (2) or
more legitimate holders of ownership, actions between said gods, targeting each other’s
ownership cost 50% less, or else receive no discount- uninvolved players pay 10% more.
0 Unowned / communal ownership - the default state of anything uninfluenced by the gods, or
Influenced by too many, no one is discounted, no one pays extra
+1 joint ownership - no one holds more than (2) of the (5) points of ownership for this, all
players with ownership get a 10% discount for acting upon things in this state, all other
players must pay 10% more.
+2 Minority ownership - one player holds (3) or more points of ownership, all other players with
ownership are counted as minority ownership, and get a 25% discount for acting upon this
object.
+3 Majority ownership - one player holds (3) or more points of ownership, this player receives a
50% discount for acting upon this object. All players without ownership pay 25% more.

For this game, I don't have terribly set prices. In other words, most things are a "get what you pay for" deal. The average price for most small items (plants, animals, small acts of god(s), curses or weak artifacts) would fall between 1 and 5 Acts. For larger creations (Mortal or monstrous races, artifacts, miracles, ect.) you're going to be looking at 5-10 Acts. I recommend price checking regularly, but in general my philosophy to this kind of thing is to try to reflect your intent as best as possible, with the amount of Acts provided. Regions and Magic systems are unique cases, in that they have pre-set minimum prices (listed below).

Regional pricing may vary
Creation costs
[number/acts]
1/20 Region - the ‘container’ for all other slots, during region creation, filling slots is discounted
by 50%, and additional slots can be purchased at a 50% discount.
1/*  *special* slot - (1) per Region, can’t be increased, represents truly unique regional
features such as vast underground areas, ley lines, and region encompassing barriers,
can *radically* alter how a region functions, be that by *doubling* the effective area, or
applying an effect (semi)universally.
1/10 Biome slot - (1) per Region by default, represents the ‘general’ structure of the area, a
ocean biome is mainly underwater, a forest biome contains vast tracts of trees, a flesh
biome lacks vegetation.
1/5* Feature slot - (1) per Biome by default, represents ‘large’ landmark structures
independent of Biome, such as forests, mountains, cities, and or etc, *cost multiplied by
the number of extra feature slots*
1/3  Location slot - (3) per Feature by default, represents ‘small’ structures of importance,
such as Mines, Camps, Temples, and Castles
Slotting things in
1/20 Special structures
1/5  Biomes
1/10 Features
1/1  Locations

Modifiers & Multipliers
2/1  Mundane, (natural) - Forests, mountains, caves, lakes
1/1  Mundane, (manufactured/active) - Cities, volcanoes, Mt Rushmore
1/1  Magical - Fairy forests, Floating islands, a house with chicken legs
1/2  Unnatural - a *void*, Carociber, radioactive wasteland

[Empty slots of all kinds tend to fill themselves given enough time. Pioneer species eventually colonize a biome, mortals eventually move in and create settlements, and naturally build buildings. The smaller the slot, the more likely it is to naturally fill up or change as time goes on. Leaving slots empty may allow you free benefits, but also leaves the slot exposed to nefarious actors and cruel twists of fate.]

Magic Systems
1/30 Source - a declared power-source for a truly world wide magic system
1/10 Mechanism - the actual Mechanics of the Magic system
1/5* Example - A singular Spell from the magic system. (*3 granted free with each Mechanism)

Exploring Dark Regions

While much of the world is shapeless and unformed, some regions predate your reign. These are called dark regions, named so because the gods can neither see within or act directly upon them until they have been explored. Exploring a dark region grants a small sum of Acts, or minor event. However, this is rarely a simple task. Monsters, mortals and minor gods may have prior claim over a region, and any treasures within. Without your divine powers, you'll have to rely on your mortals and minions to explore these pagan wilds.

After a dark region is explored, it becomes conquerable. This is a special state where any god can put forth a valid claim on the region, and attempt to take it under their own control. Gods who explored the region have particularly strong claims.

Mortals and Cultures

Regions can be populated by a wide variety of plant and animal species, but of all the creatures in a region, often it is mortals who are of the most interest to the divines. Mortals can be almost any sapient and self-aware species that is not sustained by divine or excessively magical means. However, the true hallmark of a mortal comes in their soul, which is small and bright. It is these tiny beacons that make mortals especially easy for the gods to focus on, as well as allows them to efficiently produce Acts for their deity through worship. Monstrous races similarly have powerful souls, making them more difficult, but workable subjects.

Attunement
Attuned is a catch-all term for mortals that are particularly connected to the heavens. While some mortals have naturally high attunement (often unknown to the individual until a deity reaches out in search of a servant or champion), individuals of power also naturally attune to the gods. This is the result of the same processes in the human soul that lead to the production of Acts. As leaders and individuals of note are often the target of many more thoughts and emotions than regular citizens, they receive micro-doses of Acts, which ultimately better aligns their souls into attunement with the heavens.

This makes these mortals much easier for the divines to observe from afar, as well as allowing for more direct communication. Attuned mortals could therefore be thought of as a special subset of mortals who are naturally sensitive the divine. This does not necessarily make them obedient, in many cases the opposite. As their proximity to the divine has categorically demonstrated their importance to the universe, this rarely shrinks the ego. Regardless, mortals are fickle beings and often need to be bartered with or otherwise persuaded to devote their existence to an unknowable higher power. In many cases, attunement can become hereditary.

As a note on the un-attuned, from the realms of the gods, they appear much as the realms of the divine appear to them, as very dim stars in the distance. While focusing on a single one of these may be possible, it is rarely relevant and difficult to maintain. The winds of fate rarely allow a mortal of note slip past without some amount of attunement.

Culture
A culture is a shared identity between large groups of individuals. Cultures in this context include the particular customs, beliefs, lifestyle and similar common features of a group of mortals overseen by one or more player. Cultures in this way reflect the general information of how a group tends to act, whether that is in their particular way of life, or architecture, or common social customs. Moreover, technological advances are shared via culture, their implementation and use slowly disseminating from one member of the culture to others until it is a common aspect of life for that culture.


Cultures are far from static modifiers and represent the state of a group of people in both how they have developed as a people, but also how they are actively progressing, or regressing, and changing as a result of the evolving nature of the world. Typically cultures will have a cultural head or small group of individuals who are considered the leaders of a culture.

Cultures will develop naturally from any collection of mortals, given enough time. In addition, cultures may divulge and speciate due to many factors, such as: political climate, outside influence, cultural hybridization, geographical foundries / distance, shifting environmental factors, and general strife. As a result, understanding the culture of an individual as well as the trajectory of that culture, is very useful information in deciding on courses of action.

Cults
Cults are very similar to cultures, in that they're a set of people who all have similar beliefs and practices. Cults regularly spring up and disband as the balance of power in the world changes, occasionally because of the direct actions of a cult. Cults do not follow the normal practices and methods of organized religions, often using occultism, mysticism, and heretical rights to express their devotion. Cults tend to center around a purpose or a particular deity (especially if that deity's worship is banned in the area). Cults can be powerful tools in the subversion of an enemy power, or can bring about the creation of monsters and artifacts if they become powerful enough. Independent actors for the most part, it will be much more common for your cults to petition you, than for you to have any directions to give them.

Directing Mortals
Each turn the owner of a culture may direct the development of their culture in some way. This might be to encourage them to research a particular technology, or to develop practices of work or worship. Directives given in this way can be slow, depending on the size of the culture, but allow players to mold and guide the cultures under their rule in a wide variety of ways.

Similarly, mortal leaders of features may be given directions on how to develop, maintain, or expand their domain.

Religions
In addition to cultures, mortals often have a religion and pledge their faith (and often more) to a god or a pantheon. Religions in this game are generative and dynamic, representing the shifting faiths, opinions, and beliefs of the NPC masses of the world. You might find that your have various religions with you as their head, which all believe very different things about the world as well as your character. Managing these expectations, working within them, and slowly altering them to fit your needs is part of the fun of this world.

Religion Type
Religion type is an overarching category that indicates the nature of the religion. At the start of the game, most faiths will either be tribal or wild faiths, but as the game progresses, domestic, warlike, and other types of faith will certainly arise. The type of faith describes who the worshipers of the faith are and general expectations of those followers.

Religion Aggression
The aggression of a religion indicates how hostile it is to other faiths, with very hostile religions launching crusades and holy wars often, whereas peaceful and accepting faiths will be pleased by long periods of peace and prosperity.

Religion Traits
Most religions will have a series of traits that explain beliefs, practices, and other information regarding that faith. These modifiers further elaborate on the nature of the faith, beyond just the religion type, and often reflect the specific needs and religious practices specific to that faith.

Objects of Power
In addition to the creation of mortals and other lesser life, the power of the gods can be used to create beings and objects of power. The application of power in this way is so widely varied and free-form that this will serve more as guide than an exhaustive list of potential options.

Artifacts
An artifact is any small object of divine make that has been imbued with an innate power of some kind. Artifacts can provide all manner of boons and maluses to the holder of the object as described during their creation. While incredibly flexible applications of influence for a player, they lack wide-ranging effect. Artifacts typically affect a small area, an individual, or a particular target of some kind. As such, they're best thought of as tools that can be used to push agendas through other agents, rather than intrinsically. Artifacts originally belong to their creator, but theft, adaptation, and or corruption may open the door for additional claims.

Relics
Relics are a special class of artifact that are not created by the gods, but instead manifest naturally in the world. These are special objects that appear often as a side effect of larger events. These are objects of influence without direct claims from the players, with the rightful ownership claim either being non-existent or belonging to an NPC.

Holy Sites
Holy sites are special buildings or features that have a religious significance to one or more gods. These cannot be created directly but will regularly appear in areas with large amounts of divine activity or with religious significance to mortal followers. Holy sites are very useful buildings, often providing some kind of advantage to their owner, or a boon to the feature or region they can be found within. However, their relevance to their owner also makes them a particularly attractive target to bad actors, and losing a holy site can have wide-reaching consequences for the followers of the owner.

Casus Belli
What counts as a Casus Belli? Effectively anything, gods are known for perceiving accidental slights as deadly attacks- and obliviously ignoring botched assassination attempts with equal ease, common Casus Belli include the theft or misplacement of artifacts, the murder of important Mortals through natural causes, and "Because I said so"

Magic Systems
Magic systems are composed of three parts, the “Source”, the “Mechanism” and three or more “Examples”
The “Source” is where the magic gets its “power” from, this can be anything from lifeforce, to ten types of free floating mana, to fossil fuels, of note is that it may be replaced with a suitable regional “special”, or to a lesser extent- regional feature, though it must be noted in such cases such magic will be tied to said region, and weakened (or non-existent) elsewhere. Each source costs a total of 30 Acts.
The “Mechanism” is what directs the magic, and is where the actual inner workings of the magic are described. One Mechanism can be tied to several “Sources” and similarly several “Mechanisms” can be tied to one source. Each Mechanism costs (10) Acts, and comes with (3) free “Examples”.
Each “Example serves to help the GM understand the level of power involved in a Magic system, the mechanics behind its functioning, and provide several “guaranteed” spells Mortals who research the system will encounter that will help them shape their usage of it, the first (3) examples for any system are free, each additional one costs (5) Acts, this includes Additional ones added after the system is created.

Research
Researching new technologies in the main method of advancing mortal civilization. It is wise to research often as it is the main method at the player's disposal for steering mortal civilizations.

Researching new technology is very simple. Anything you could want a mortal civilization to do, to build, to understand, or to think can be researched. In that way, ideas like 'democracy' and 'mathematics' are equally viable research topics as more concrete technology such as 'plate armor' or 'chariots'. Methodologies such as "horseback riding" or "iron smelting" are also topics that can be researched.

Here is a template for pursuing a research topic:
Name:
Act investment:
Description, what the technology is: (A general description of what the technology looks like. If it is a physical object, a description of what that looks like. If it is an idea or methodology of some kind, then just a blurb on what the idea is.)
Description of what the technology does: (A general description of the intended goal of a technology and how that goal is achieved. In other words, what does it do and how does it do that).
Underlying technology: (If you are progressing from one relevant technology to another, such as upgrading a building, or advancing a trade.)
                       (Basically, if you can draw on one of your other technologies to help figure out this perspective one, list it here)

Basic information

Age - 21
Sex - Female
Crimes - Arms trafficking, Violating the Geneva convention, Unlicensed Rocketry, Jaywalking

STATS

Intelligence //////////
Charisma /////|||||
Combat /|||||||||

SKILLS

Mechanics, Master
Hacking, Adept
Infiltration, Adept
Medical, Adept
Scavenging, Novice

BOONS

Genius - Alexia thinks ‘differently’ from other people, giving her a unique insight into machines.
Tinkerer - Devices manufactured by Alexia function 50% better than they otherwise should.
Augmented - various cybernetic implants allow her to act and re-act 50% faster.

Unique Ability - (wo)man machine interface - Allows Alexia to interface with almost any device, instantly.

FLAWS

Scarred - Alexia’s appearance is off putting for “normal” people, to say the least.
Unbloodied - Alexia has always been one one ‘making’ the gun, never pulling the trigger herself.

Basic information

Age - 610
Sex - Male
Crimes - Murder, Biological Terrorism, Grand Theft, Tax Fraud

STATS

Intelligence /|||||||||
Charisma //////////
Combat /////|||||

SKILLS

Swordsmanship, Master
Bloodmagic, Adept
Military Strategy, Adept
Tracking, Adept
Stealth, Novice
Crossbowmanship, Novice

BOONS

Transformation - The ability to change his form, to a degree, growing claws, fangs, or wings as needed
Bodily re-enforcement - significantly above human average in strength, endurance, and dexterity.
Regeneration, Greater - Able to reconstitute his body even when reduced to ash and dust.

Unique Ability - Blood Lord - Able to turn other humans into ‘lesser’ vampires under his command.

FLAWS

Weakness: UV light - highly reduces his physical capabilities to human ‘baseline’.
Technically unsavvy - Vincent spent roughly 500 years “sealed away”, and finds modern technology to be a strange sorcery.
Bloodlust - Vincent has an unnatural urge to kill, consume, and slaughter at the smell of blood.

Basic information

Age - 0.0003 Galactic cycles
Sex - N/A
Crimes - Murder, Torture, Grand Theft, Illegal immigration

STATS

Intelligence /////|||||
Charisma /|||||||||
Combat //////////

SKILLS

Master Psionicist
Adept Gunman
Adept Stealth
Adept Pulagist
Novice Psychologist

BOONS

Psionics - Jublex is a Psion, able to act upon others through the use of it's mind
Social Chameleon - Jublex is able to influence others to ‘ignore’ it while in a sufficiently large crowd.
Alien Strength - Jublex’s species evolved on a world with roughly 3 time’s earth's gravity, it is equivalently strong

Unique Ability - Shattered mind hive - Jublex’s mind is shattered into thousands of shards, each able to be psionically implanted into the minds of others to silently control them at a moment’s notice

FLAWS

Inhuman - Jublex is clearly not human, and has a distinct appearance.
Psychopath - Jublex has no sense of ‘morality’ whatsoever, though it occasionally regrets killing people too early.

Actributes

Actributes are godly resources mostly spent for personal actions, attempting to flip their results, or managing actribute stresses/clouding. Spending actributes doesn't cost acts, so one or the other will probably be renamed. Actributes regenerate on their own over time and cannot be transferred or exchanged between different deities.

• Light is a deity's willpower and can be spent to endure various kinds of damage and avoid negative consequences from resisting one's passions or regained by giving into them. Light can be exercised by resisting Passions and can be abused by Eye effects or Noise entities.
  • Uses:
    • Resisting or going against Passions
  • Attacked by:
    • Despair
    • Losing someone/something close
• Might is a deity's strength and can be spent to attack/counter/soak damage in combat. Not spending Might reduces a deity's combat effectiveness considerably. Might is exercised in combat and can be abused by Eye tantrums.
  • Uses:
    • Brawling
    • Absorbing damage (in lieu of taking damage)
  • Attacked by:
    • Injury or threats of injury
    • Failing to protect charges
  • Possible clouding effects:
    • Heightened aversion to violence regardless of the aggressor
    • Paranoia
• Night is a deity's sneakiness and is spent to avoid detection or reduce Suspicion gain. Night is exercised through subterfuge (e.g. scheming and plotting with fellow deities) and can be abused by Eye attacks or interactions with Noise entities.
  • Uses:
    • Deception
    • Dodging/fleeing
    • Stealth. (Not using the Suspicious version of this action reduces its effectiveness; it's essentially a choice between player suspicion or Eye Suspicion.)
  • Attacked by:
    • Hubris
    • Excessive suspicion or Suspicion, scrutiny
  • Possible clouding effects:
    • Compulsion to become more fearsome than fearful
    • Inclination toward ham-fisted/ill-conceived methods
• Sight is a deity's perceptiveness and is spent to investigate things closely, search for things, or gain insights. Sight is exercised by searching for and spotting things and can be abused by Eye attacks or interactions with Noise entities.
  • Uses:
    • Searching
    • Pondering
  • Attacked by:
    • Incaution
    • Metaphorical or literal blindfolding
  • Possible clouding effects:
    • Delusions regarding how things work. (Potentially highly dangerous in gods!)
    • Denial regarding the object of a Passion

All actributes can also be spent in a number of Suspicion-generating ways:

• Light:
  • Intercede (low): Take the place of someone/something in trouble and assume the consequences thereof on top of the minor increase in Suspicion inherent to this action. Negative consequences may be reduced for well-stunted in-character intercessions.
  • Hang in There! (medium): Instead of losing a point of Might in combat, spend a point of Light.
• Might:
  • Smite (low): Smite an unimportant mortal.
  • Evil Eye (low): Slightly increase local Suspicion in a region.
  • Eyepoke (medium): Increase local Suspicion in a region.
  • Eyescream (high): Significantly increase local Suspicion in a region.
• Night:
  • Twist Fate (low): Shift odds slightly (typically ±1) for an action (including one's own action).
  • eyeCloud (medium): Ensure a secret action is secret. Secret actions performed without this will show up in public (even if the actor in question may not be immediately identifiable). Not needed for secret communications between gods.
• Sight:
  • eyePhone (high): Get a truthful yes/no/filenotfound answer from the Eye for something it was capable of witnessing.
  • See-Re (medium): Get a flawed description of a past event. The more recent, the closer to the truth.

Clouding

Actributes can become temporarily clouded as a result of snapping. While an actribute is clouded, it cannot be spent on any actions, and the unfortunate deity must assume some manner of dysfunction related to the actribute.

Hardening

Actributes can become hardened in response to various stresses and traumas. A god faced with a stressor with a level equal or lower than their hardening for the relevant attribute automatically succeeds avoiding its consequences.
 While some amount of hardening can be good for dealing with the horror that is everyone else's actions, too much hardening also deadens the Passions. At 10 total hardening across all actributes or higher, gods cannot invoke their Passions to secure advantage or a roll flip.

Actributes given a +2 or a +1 at character creation receive that level of hardening.

Treating hardening

Hardening can be reduced/dissipated through interactions with other gods or mortals. Participating in activities that affirm an actribute can strip away acccumulated hardening, but this gets more difficult and expensive as total hardening increases. The following are examples of suitable actions for treating hardening:

• Light: Participating in rebuilding efforts for disaster survivors, spending time (1 generic act) with one's Creature, conversing with sympathetic gods, providing therapy to stressed gods
• Might: Tending to mortals and helping with their work, mediating/successfully preventing violence
• Night: Eavesdropping Active listening, scheming and plotting planning heists in friendly company
• Sight: Consulting other gods, questing in a party, gathering experimental results

Actions taken on the material plane, particularly in populated areas, are not exempt from the usual Suspicion costs.

Passions

For some unknown reason, gods are not completely incomprehensible entities. In point of fact, they seem to have similar drives and motivations as common mortals. While acting in accordance with their Passions, gods can opt to get advantage on rolls or, once a turn, attempt to flip a roll.

• Obsession: Whether it reflects something a god enjoys or despises, an Obsession reflects some core anchor or want through which they see the world. A god can spend Light to flip their rolls when they relate to their Obsession in normal situations or resist their Obsessions in stressful conditions. Should they succeed, they gain a point of hardening as usual, but should they give in or not have enough Light, they will be forced to enact their Obsession three times over, spending hard sphere acts if necessary, or else become incapacitated.
• Rage: When a god has enough Light to spare, they get advantage for actions involving the removal of rage-inducing things. A god who has finally had absoutely enough of something has a final chance to spend Light to swallow their rage and harden a relevant actribute on a success. Otherwise, they will enter a berserk state during which they cannot do anything (including dodge) but attack or counterattack for at least a turn, blindly lashing out at the object of their rage or anything tangential to it, rapidly losing Night, slowly regenerating Might, and getting advantage until either the target has been dealt with, Night runs out (resulting in incapacitation), or someone or something incapacitates the rampaging god. Should a god enter a rage state with a spare aligned sphere act, they will additionally swap in their War Form incarna.
• Fear: In relaxed, non-pressing conditions, actions taken to avoid one's fears get advantage. When confronted with the object of their fear, however, a god may opt to spend a point of Light face their fears and harden a relevant actribute on a success, flee and rapidly lose Might while slowly gaining additional Night replenishment and advantage (for fleeing), or simply look on in horror, clouding the associated actribute for some time and forgoing other actions for a turn. Fear is not necessary to check for gods when there is only a possibility of a feared scenario coming up unless their respective players would like to have them react this way.
• Noble: As a bystander, a god gains advantage for rolls involving acting in accordance with this Passion. When a god comes across an opportunity to be their best self for something closer, on the other hand, they must choose to either attempt to suppress their Noble Passion, gaining a point of hardening on a success, or otherwise step in (or fail to suppress this Passion). At this point, they will begin expending Night and slowly gaining Sight and must act or intervene appropriately to the exclusion of all else until the Passion is satisfied, Night is depleted, or they are otherwise incapacitated. While overcome by their convictions, gods are immune to their Fear, Rage, and Obsession.

Incapacitation

Gods challenging their Passions or losing fights will end up incapacitated for a few turns. While incapacitated, gods will be unable to do anything more strenuous than a generic act each turn. Ordering affiliated Prophets and Priesthoods to recall their gods will help speed up recovery, as will having a high maximum Light.

Acts

Acts are godly power packets mostly spent on altering the world. They come in several varieties, all tradeable with other gods:

• Generic acts are always transient and are comparable to half of a sphere act.
• Soft sphere acts vanish after a turn and are aligned to at least one sphere.
• Hard sphere acts persist until they are spent. In ambiguously written actions, soft sphere acts will be deducted before hard sphere acts.

Generally speaking, spending acts increases personal Suspicion slightly.

Acts can be interconverted at significant losses as a free action:

• 3 generic acts -> 1 soft (aligned) sphere act
• 1 soft/hard sphere act -> 2 generic acts
• 2 identical soft sphere acts + 1 soft sphere act of any kind -> 1 hard sphere act

Obtaining acts

All gods receive a passive income of two aligned soft sphere acts per turn corresponding to their two spheres. To get more actions, gods can request sacrifices or ritual performances from their mortal worshipers if/when they get them. Any offerings must be thematically aligned to one or more of a god's spheres to end up as a sphere act; poorly aligned sacrifices or rites will instead end up as generic acts. It is advisable to install a loyal priesthood to ensure a constant stream of quality worship. It is also highly advisable to limit sacrifices or performances so as not to waste mortal resources.

Since sacrifices and rites can be dedicated to any number of gods, and sufficiently different sacrifices get counted separately for oversacrifice stress, there is no mechanical advantage to monolatry, and mortals will contribute acts to as many gods as they can scrounge up sacrifices or performances for.

Using acts to modify and/or destroy creations

Nonsentient, cooperative, or appropriately affiliated creations can be upgraded by supplying the difference in cost or downgraded for 1 generic act. Sentient and uncooperative creations or those affiliated with uncooperative gods, however, get a chance to resist which is handled through an attack roll with the following stacking modifiers:

• Thematic match between strengths/weaknesses, intended modification, AND sphere alignment: +2
• Uncooperative: -3
• Affiliated but not primary or backed by consensus: -1
• Not affiliated: -2
• Different tier: 0 to +8 (See 3d6 section)

(Unnamed mortals can instead be smitten by Might spending which bypasses the need for rolls.)

Costs

Nearby star/sun/eclipsey moon: 1 aligned sphere act
Constellation/distant star: 1 generic act
Distant uninhabitable planet/comet/other system body: 1 generic act
Astrological feature: 1 (appropriately) aligned sphere act
Create/modify home plane: 0 acts
Destroy astronomical feature: 1 aligned sphere act

Gods: 0 acts
Incarna/servant: 0 acts
Mortal, direct: 1 generic act
Mortal, via Incarna/servant: 0 acts
The Eye: 0 acts

Baubles/trinkets: 1 sphere act
Lesser magic items: 2 sphere act
Greater magic items: 4 sphere acts
Artifacts: 8 sphere acts

Costs to add major features:

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+1 Actribute boost: 3x of relevant actribute(s)
1 soft action preservation/storage: 4 sphere acts

Create/terraform location: 1 free per turn, else 3 per 1 generic act
Create/terraform province: 1 generic act
Create/terraform 5+ contiguous provinces: 4 generic acts, each additional generic act spent provides two additional provinces, must be done in one turn
Create notable plants and animals: 1 generic act
Create/terraform region: 2 sphere acts, includes two free provinces
Create/terraform 3+ contiguous regions: (number of regions) + 2 sphere acts, must be done in one turn
Create/terraform continent:  6 sphere acts, includes  four free regions
Create/terraform 4+ continents, (number of continents)*4 + 2 sphere acts, must be done in one turn

Create Incarna: 1 generic act
Change Incarna: 1 generic act
Recall Incarna: 0 acts

Maintenance

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Archangel: 1 generic act/turn
War Form: 1 aligned sphere act/turn

Prototype species: 3 sphere acts + 1 sphere act per existing species
Populate province: 3 generic acts or 2 sphere acts
Promote to civilization: 4 sphere acts + 1 sphere act per existing civilization

Create/modify home plane: 0 acts

Modify common plane: (Consensus)

Minor rite: 1 generic act
Minor rite via Incarnae/servants: 0 acts
Major rite: 1 aligned act

Create Angels: 1 sphere act
Create Outsiders: 1 sphere act
Create Critters (requires 2+ cooperative Creatures): 1 generic act

The world will go through several ages with different focuses. It is currently the Astronomical Age.

• Aligned acts can create (uninhabitable) astronomical features with subtle effects.
• Consensus can reshape the world, which is currently a disk centered on the Eye.
• Aligned acts can change if/how certain objects can generate astrological effects.
• The Eye is fast asleep.

Celestial combat

The last (or is it first?) answer of gods, celestial combat pits various grand entities like gods, angels, and Noise shards against each other. So long as it remains confined to godly planes, celestial combat doesn't generate too much Suspicion. Nevertheless, it's advisable to avoid it when possible because it's probably going to be close to rocket tag. As such, it would be better to try de-escalating and not just because poorly adapted PbP combat mechanics often don't work too well. Failing that, if you really can't get out of a fight, each round, an entity can take one of the following actions:

• Attack: Inflict a wound on success, miss on a minor failure, receive a to-hit penalty or give the other belligerent a to-hit bonus next round or self-inflict a wound on a major failure.
• Draw weapon: Not rolled. Make a weapon ready for use next round. As of now, there is no time penalty for drawing weapons from storage in one's home plane.
• Dodge: Not rolled. Forgoes other actions in favor of applying a to-hit penalty to most attacks.
• Flee: A very difficult thing to do when both combatants can teleport at will, but perhaps pulling in a sympathetic distraction could turn the tide.

Physical combat

Fighting in the material plane is generally the domain of mortals and Creatures, but the occasional angel, god, or Noise entity can join in the fun too. Of course, beings not native to the mortal world are likely to incur massive Suspicion on top of the massive collateral damage they're likely to inflict. Physical combat isn't terribly different from celestial combat aside from the little detail that most combatants are unlikely to be able to teleport. The following actions are generally available each round:

• Attack: Inflict a wound on success, miss on a minor failure, receive a to-hit penalty or give the other belligerent a to-hit bonus next round or self-inflict a wound on a major failure.
• Draw weapon: Not rolled. Make a weapon ready for use next round. As of now, there is no time penalty for drawing weapons from storage in one's home plane.
• Dodge: Not rolled. Forgoes other actions in favor of applying a to-hit penalty to most attacks.
• Flee: Somewhat easier to do than in celestial combat provided teleportation isn't involved.

As well, certain classes of combatants have access to certain actions, e.g. Prophets and banishment, which is distinct from a mundane attack.

Theological combat

The pen is mightier than the sword; it's cheaper or even profitable to turn one's enemies into allies. Unfortunately, this is mostly out of reach for the distant gods, so this form of combat is largely the domain of their most devoted followers. Even here, the enemy isn't always some rival god's followers. After all, the Noise can act on mortal scales too.

Unfortunately, despite their endless forms, beings from the lowliest mushroom to the most thunderous god can only wear up to four pieces of divine equipment each, one for each actribute. They are currently available in four tiers:

• Baubles/trinkets: Subtle/minor effects, e.g. glowing, slow self-filling, mood boosts
• Lesser magic items: Noticeable effects, e.g. self-aiming, sentience, charisma, strength, speed, up to one major feature
• Greater magic items: Major effects, e.g. summoning winds, starting large fires, spreading/curing plagues, granting flight, short-range teleportation, up to two major features
• Artifacts: Immense effects, e.g. altering weather, causing local earthquakes, waking up volcanoes, reshaping land, shielding entire provinces, up to three major features. (Since there are only two + slots, at least two of them would have to be the same type of feature.)

The primary actribute of a piece of equipment determines which actribute governs its effectiveness and should generally have some relation to its function (e.g. weapons->Might, armor->Might or Light, cloaks->Night, telescopes->Sight).

Major features:

Each instance of soft act storage/preservation allows the wearer to prevent a soft act from decaying for a turn.

The Eye is a wrathful entity thinking itself the center of this little pocket of world. It predates the gods, and its direct attention is something to be avoided at all costs. Intervening too overtly in the world or acting in the same region too often are excellent ways to increase the Eye's Suspicion, which is counted at multiple levels:

• Personal Suspicion: The most dangerous kind, having a personal Suspicion above global (or worse, local) all but guarantees the Eye's retribution. Personal Suspicion is tracked for individual entities like gods, incarnae, servants, and named mortals.
• Local Suspicion: The background Suspicion for a specific region in the world. Local Suspicion is tracked for individual regions and godly planes. Hardier entities with high personal Suspicion may find locales with high local Suspicion good places to hide.
• Global Suspicion: The average local Suspicion considering all regions and godly planes. Although a high global Suspicion is likely to provoke a tantrum from the Eye, it does make it easier to hide.

Aside from fading over time, Suspicion can also be relieved by the Eye's outbursts. This may or may not be worth the cost... Making bad puns without getting caught by other gods is one way to reduce Suspicion. Catching bad puns is an even better way.

Gods can work their will in the material plane by investing Incarnae and servants with divine power. They come in several varieties with different strengths and weaknesses, and most Incarnae cost 1 generic act to create/switch to, and each god can only have one operational Incarna at any given time. Servants are essentially mortal and are typically created by Incarnae but are theoretically unlimited in number. Once created, gods can send orders, standing orders, or other commands to their Incarnae and servants as a free action. Over time, Incarnae and Servants can acquire various skills/specialties.

Should Incarnae be defeated, their sparks will return to their patron deities' home planes for recreation or re-creation. Gods are not obligated to redeploy existing Incarnae and can always create new ones instead. Likewise, gods are not obligated to wait until an Incarna is defeated to switch to a new/different one and can always spend a generic act to switch Incarnae. (While the new one is deployed, the previous one is stowed away in the god's home plane; in the case of Creatures, redeploying an old Incarna skips the need for retraining.)

Incarna classes:

• Prophets: Mortals blessed or cursed with a direct connection to their patron deity. Although they are generally rather slow and extremely squishy (and tasty snacks for Creatures), they excel at handling mortal politics and reducing local Suspicion, and they can easily and rapidly train up entire priesthoods and banish heretic angels/archangels. Of course, care should be taken to avoid Prophet deaths, because the spark of the Incarna will be unavailable for redeployment until the previous Prophet's soul has been properly cleaned. Prophets are currently unavailable as there are no mortal civilizations to draw from.
• Creatures: Great beasts created for specific purposes. Their need for basic training, lack of speech, and inability to fend off unfriendly archangels is more than made up for by their physical (and martial) prowess, and even the holiest Prophet is nothing more than a delicious treat for the clever Creature.
• Archangels: Sharp-eyed manifestations of their patron deity's spheres. Banishable by enemy Prophets and expensive with an upkeep of 1 generic act/turn, Archangels are nevertheless hard to actually catch or pin down and can smite impudent Creatures. However, their true strength is in celestial combat against the Noise or possibly other gods.
• Monuments: Statues, totems, idols, trees, or other sessile constructs sacred to a deity. Monuments can neither speak nor move, but they have no particular weaknesses with respect to the other classes of Incarna. In a physical battle, the Monument would be difficult to destroy, even though it cannot strike back.
• War Forms: Direct manifestations of the gods obligated to speak in glowing text or else revert to their sedentary forms. At 1 sphere act/turn, maintaining War Forms is a horrible drain and also incurs quite a bit of Suspicion, and dying in one's War Form inflicts nasty (but thankfully temporary) actribute penalties in addition to the usual incapacitation. On the other hand, there isn't much in the world that can stand up to a god in their War Form.

Additionally, more expendable servant classes are available through a number of mechanisms:

• High Priesthoods: Heads of their gods' cults responsible for various religious duties like overseeing sacrifices. One High Priesthood dedicated to any number of gods can be trained per turn per Prophet. For fluff purposes, the High Priesthood can be made up of anywhere between one and twenty priests. Like Prophets, they can help revive incapacitated gods or outright banish heretic angels, but they are much less effective at doing either. High Priesthoods are currently unavailable as there are no Prophets to create them.
• Critters: Ranging from litters of adorable mini-Creatures to packs of fell, slavering chimeras, Critters help out with whatever it is Creatures have to do. To create Critters, two Creatures located anywhere on the material plane need to be instructed to create Critters by their respective, cooperative deities. As Creatures mingle using spores, there is no compelling need for them to be remotely close. For fluff purposes, this action can generate litters of anywhere between two and a hundred Critters with no mechanical differences.
• Angels: Angels are expensive but relatively versatile servants good for providing eyes on remote parts of the world, taking hits for Archangels, and whacking the odd Creature. As they count as heretic spirits to hostile gods, they can be banished (i.e. destroyed) by their Prophets or High Priests.
• Outsiders: Outsiders are cheap planar denizens that provide no meaningful worship and can only temporarily leave their home planes in limited numbers when summoned. They can be most anything animate, whether unthinking gelatinous cubes or mischievous winged monkeys, but the more powerful they are, the harder they will be to call. Unsummonable planar denizens are free and part of planar customization.

The material plane currently contains only an unremarkable empty disc at the center of which the Eye sprouts.

The inside surface of the celestial sphere is empty and devoid of stars, moons, or other holes, and the outer surface is not too different despite constant exposure to the Noise. Between the celestial sphere's faces are the gods' empty home planes and a common plane of as yet unspecified function.

The Noise is a realm of boundless chaos and possibility outside the celestial sphere, the home of the gods. Perhaps attracted by godly spheres, semisentient shards of the Noise periodically intrude on the world to rampage and generally wreak havoc only to be put down by the Eye after attracting its ire and attention. It is said that daring gods may obtain rare aligned acts from these strange entities...

Creation/destruction
To create mortals, or notable animals follow these steps:

• (If prototypes don't exist for your species of choice: ) Create a prototype. This will produce 0 pops but is necessary to continue.
• Propagate mortals or Animals throughout the world, preferably specifying province but at least specifying region. Mortals start out without affiliations.

Destroying mortals is much easier and can be accomplished through smite actions. Prototypes cannot be destroyed as long as living pops of their species exist.

Civilizations

Civilizations develop when enough mortals manage to put aside their differences long enough to start trading shinies or building stuff together, but the enterprising god can also intervene to hurry this process along. In general, civilizations tend toward growing as long as their needs are met, and as time passes, discrete states may start forming from them. Six attributes are tracked for them:

• Abstract: Improves development speed in general but can damage rituals or piety
• Order: Improves defense and encourages centralized state formation but can suppress growth
• Military: Improves offense and non-growth spread but can stunt the economy
• Piety: Improves sacrifice/ritual quality and oversacrifice output but can damage development speed
• Growth: Increases population growth/migration but can split civilizations/states
• Economy: Improves diplomacy and endurance under oversacrifice stress but can weaken the military

Cults

Somewhat like civilizations, cults spring up wherever and whenever enough god-loving or god-fearing mortals gather in one place. They will tend to focus on those gods most present in their daily lives for good or for ill. A god of pestilence, for example, would likely attract enough attention (and offerings) from mortals specifically wanting to avoid getting sick. Sometimes, it really is easier to be feared than loved. A god of grain, on the other hand, may well end up getting ignored by mortals uninterested in settling down to tend to fields of grain even with bribe-blessings. There is no inherent limit to the number of gods a cult can serve, but most will narrow themselves to the most relevant/present ones.

If viable cults aren't forming quickly enough, Prophets and Priesthoods can be sent in to help them organize. Manual intervention is also possible but likely to draw Suspicion from the Eye.

Rites and rituals, or: The godly answering machine

A god has better things to do than listen to every single mortal in every single village in every single province in the entire world. To avoid having to micromanage blessings and curses and ensure mortals keep the sacrifices coming, gods or sufficiently devoted cults can invent all manner of rituals with very practical results. A god of fertility, for example, can invent a ritual involving the burial of a valuable iron knife for an improved harvest. Alternatively, the pious members of an ecstatic order may come up with the custom of burning locks of hair for attention from a god of change. In the case of mortal-invented rituals, the receiving god has the option of accepting the ritual and possibly adding further modifications, refusing the ritual and nullifying it, or rejecting the ritual and cursing the participants. Regardless of the option taken, the new ritual itself doesn't incur an act/Suspicion cost.

For god-designed rites, rituals with wide-ranging effects should generally require substantial, thematically appropriate sacrifices. The use of a standing rite instead of manual intervention has the happy benefit of not incurring personal Suspicion every time the blessing/curse needs to be deployed.

Oversacrifice

On a god's orders or for want of the effects of a ritual, mortals may start sacrificing or otherwise performing rituals beyond what the state or even civilization can sustain. Be warned; although the extra act income or piety may be nice, after a few turns, continued oversacrificing will begin degrading the state or civilization's attributes.

Afterlives, Betweenlives, and Beforelives

Gods have freedom to adjust what exactly happens to souls in their afterlives. They can choose to keep them (for which there's effectively unlimited capacity) or send them back or even eat them (which doesn't currently provide any discernable benefit).

Living mortals cannot survive in planes without eventually turning into souls in planes. They can still survive short visits if the owner of the plane permits it or at least doesn't make the plane too immediately deadly.

Heists and Rogue Gods (or is it God Rogues?)

Home planes are something like mortal homes but built by and for teleport-happy immaterial beings. Some things, like inactive Incarna chasses or souls, are effectively impossible to steal. Other things, like valuable loot and artifacts, are prime targets for divine burglars. Here are some ways you can keep your belongings safe:

• Station guards around important artifacts.
• Define your plane in enough detail that the GM has enough material to work with to distract would-be thieves.
• Always become invisible before entering your home plane. (This is only delaying the inevitable without other steps, though.)
• Avoid announcing high-powered artifacts.
• Only stash low-powered artifacts that aren't worth the effort to steal.
• Put your valuables right up against the Eye.

Rest and Recreation

Resting in one's home plane (i.e. not doing anything more strenuous than 1 generic act in a turn while being in one's home plane) speeds up actribute regeneration by a fair bit.

Tragedy of the Common Plane

Modifying the common plane requires consensus, but there are certain features potentially available to it that are unavailable for home planes:

• Secure storage for artifacts, e.g. needing passphrases to access artifacts
• Tunable unsafety for arenas and the like
• Oracles, angel foundries, and other facilities too powerful to be in an individual plane

The system used here is essentially 3d6 roll-under. Modifiers are applied to the target number.

Crits, matched successes/failures, advantage, flipping results

A natural 3 is a critical success and results in the best possible outcome happening (which may include helpful overshoots). A natural 18, on the other hand, is a fumble and can cause just about anything negative, fitting, and plausible short of incapacitation or death. Matched successes/failures produce bonuses/complications and happen when all three dice yield the same number, i.e. 2-2-2/3-3-3/4-4-4/5-5-5. Simple successes/failures cover the rest of the possible rolls, and for both opposed successes and opposed failures, the higher roll is considered more significant.

Flipping a roll turns 1s into 6s, 2s into 5s, 3s into 4s, and vice versa. The need for a separate pre-turn resolution step may result in the removal of this mechanic outside of combat in favor of automatic advantage.

Common targets

Number	Unmodified prob.	Examples
1	0.0%
2	0.0%	Default furniture-God to-hit
3	0.5%	Near-impossible investigations/searches
4	1.9%	Default Mortal-God to-hit
5	4.6%
6	9.3%	Default Servant-God to-hit, very difficult investigations/searches
7	16.2%	Very hard mortal persuasion, Priest-War Form banishment
8	25.9%	Default Incarna-God to-hit
9	37.5%	Challenging investigations/searches, hard mortal persuasion, Prophet-War Form/Priest-Archangel banishment
10	50.0%	Default God-God to-hit
11	62.5%	Average mortal persuasion, Prophet-Archangel/Priest-Angel banishment
12	74.1%	Default God-Incarna to-hit, average investigations/searches
13	83.8%	Easy mortal persuasion, Prophet-Angel banishment
14	90.7%	Default God-Servant to-hit
15	95.4%	Simple investigations/searches
16	98.2%	Default God-Mortal to-hit
17	99.5%
18	100.0%	Default God-Furniture to-hit
19	100.0%
20	100.0%

Common modifiers

The Great Chain of Being:

• 1. Gods, War Forms
• 2. Non-War Form Incarnae
• 3. Servants, Outsiders, named mortals
• 4. Unnamed mortals, notable flora/fauna
• 5. Scenery, generic flora/fauna

Generally speaking, each difference in tier applies a +2/-2 modifier on opposed rolls.

Name:
Class: (See Below)
SubType: (See Below)
Description:
Spheres: (Max 2)
Background: (Unneeded)

Gods: Beings hailing from the Divine or Upper planes, Gods can be both Cruel and benevolent, gods can be divided between Creators, and Changers.  Gods have difficulty traveling between planes as they are deeply bound to the OWLs, and are Poisoned by the toxic atmosphere of the infernal planes.
SubType-Creator: Creator Gods are among the best when it comes to making- and their creations tend to stand stronger for longer then others
SubType-Changer: Changer Gods are experts when it comes to making new things out of old- and tend to have an easier time with stubborn materials.
Devils: Beings hailing from the Infernal or Lower planes, Devils can be both kind and cruel.  Devils can be divided between Pact binders- better known as Pacters, and Destroyers.  Devils have difficulty traveling between planes as they are Tightly held by the OWLs, and can’t breath under the purity of the upper planes.
   SubType-Pacter: Pacter Devils possess gib tongues and easily talk mortals into following their suggestions.
SubType-Destroyer: Destroyer Devils possess great strength in destruction- more easily shattering what others made before them.
Others:
   Legends: Mortals who have gone far beyond the limits of their mortality, While they may not have any specialization they make up for that in having the freedom to enter or leave any of the planes at will.
      Subtype-N/A
   Titans: Primal beings born almost at random into the mortal planes- while unable to leave they excel in both creating and destroying.
      Subtype-N/A

Disasters and Acts of God:
6 acts: Open a temporary gateway between the upper/lower plane and mortal plane
5 acts: Global Cataclysmic Disaster or global blessing.
4 acts: Hemisphere Cataclysm or semi-global act of god.
3 acts: Continental Catastrophe or blessing that affects half the world.
2 acts: Regional turmoil and destruction or blessing that affects a region.
1 act: Localized natural disaster or act of god.


Creation of Life:
5 acts: Demi-god.
4 acts: Minor powerful being (Angels, demons, abominations, basically any world power creature.)
3 acts: A mortal race.
3 acts: A plethora of basic and mundane species (Ecosystem kickstarter)
2-3 acts: Large creatures with dangerous potential (semi-megabeasts and megabeast levels of power).
1 act: A complex or magical animal
Minor act: A plant or simple/mundane animal.


Landmark Creation:
5 acts: A new landmark that could affect the entire world or is extremely powerful.
4 acts: A very large or powerful landmark.
3 acts: A magical landmark the size of a dungeon (So a labyrinth, a necropolis, or other similarly sized large magical construct).
2 acts: A mundane landmark/construct like a large city, a mountain range, or a sea.
1 acts: A very small magical landmark or a mundane landmark the size of a small city.


New Locations:
10 acts: An entire world
8 acts: A whole Hemisphere
6 acts: A Continent
4 acts: A Region
1 act: One tile, a “location”
*The actual amount of land created is expands based off the size of the current world
**The Land created may be shaped as described- but will always be lifeless on creation


Artifacts:
5 acts: A powerful artifact that has the potential to affect large parts of the world.
3 acts: An artifact that can affect regions. 
1 acts: An artifact that can affect a small area or a few individuals.
* The effect given also effects price.


Magic:
4 acts: A source of magic (lay lines, magic crystals, giant tree, solar power, free floating mana, ect. ect.)
2 acts: A minor spell of your design.
1 act: A minor spell designed by your followers with some of your influence.
Minor act: A random minor spell.
*Magic is going to be balanced by me to prevent OP spells from winning the game. Magic is mortal, and unlike divinity, not perfect.


Resurrection:
Can be done on historical figures only. So heroes, demi-gods, monstrosities, that sort of thing. Cost is 75% of original cost rounded up. Mass resurrections are incredibly difficult even for gods.


Heros:
Various Cost: A mortal which you can influence and communicate with directly.


Servants:
5 acts: Avatar - a “second body” you can use, may be described AS you, won’t rebel.
4 acts: High will - A servant with total freedom about how it goes about its duties, MAY REBEL
3 acts: Moderate will - A servant with the capacity to do its job and respond to issues
2 acts: Low will - A servant Incapable of going anything beyond its job, may request judgement when it suffers from things beyond the scope of its job.
1 act: No will - A servant that can only do its job- it will not cease should conditions radically change.

All players start with 4 Acts, and 2 Sphere Acts within their appropriate Plane of existence


Resources:
Acts- The Standard currency of powerful entities. All players gain one per turn however there are rumored ways to increase ones income.
Sphere Acts- a Special resource Tied to your spheres, can not be traded to other players. Can be produced at a 3-2 ratio.  When used for a [Sphere] actions- they count as 2 acts each, when used for unrelated actions they count as 1.5 Acts each, When used for actions opposing [Sphere] they count as 0.5 Acts each.
Manuel Actions: May be any action upto the value of ONE act freely done, but limits where you can be in the world for the cycle of its use.

Class/SubType Mechanics
Gods- General: May not enter the mortal plane without a Gateway, Suffer wounds from being in Infernal plane
Gods- Creators: Creations gain +1 die in combat, +1 die vs forced changes
Gods- Changers: Attempts at changing creations use twice the dice.
Devils- General: May not enter the mortal plane without a Gateway, Suffer wounds from being in Divine plane
Devils- Pacters: Attempts at influencing mortals, monsters and ect use twice the dice.
Devils- Destroyers: Actions and Artifacts cause +1 die in combat, attacks do Twice the wounds in direct combat.
Others- Legends: May move to any plane without any requirement
Others- Titans: May NOT leave mortal plane, Gains all bonuses of Creators and Destroyers


Combat-
2 1d20 rolls assigned to attack and defence per side involved- modified based off other factors (artifacts, magic, tactics, terrain, ect)
Wounds- Wounds are defined as the measure of how much health something may have, players can have 10 Wounds, Demi-gods 5 Wounds, Powerful beings 3 Wounds, Semi and full megabeasts may have 1 Wound, Everything else dies at less than 1.


Exploration-
There are MANY things hidden around in subspaces just beyond the normal universe- some good and some bad, many are minor planes shadowing off one of the three major planes, Sometimes you can find them by metaphorically knocking on the walls- but just as many will tear open at random for anyone to enter.


What the Hell is an OWL?
An OWL is an Origin World Law, There are three of them.
THE FIRST: Time Shall not be violated- neither shall one change the past- nor force the future
THE SECOND: One shall not defile the source of their power by mixing that which creates with that which destroys.
THE THIRD: The Death of one's Soul shall be thy end- Woe be those who defile this law.

There are Five Schools of magic- Each one with its own methods of Bending and controlling the universe around you- these five schools are Biomancy, Elementalism, Invocation, Summoning, and Thaumaturgy and although there may be some overlap they tend towards having entirely different end results.


   Biomancy
Biomancy is the school of magic most affiliated with Life and Death, It tends towards the use of living or recently live materials and oft twists nature to its own desires.
      Fleshmancer
Fleshmancers are Biomancers whom specialize in controlling Life, Creating capable Beasts of battle and turning opponents into piles of still living goo just as quickly, Where this style is weak is in their inability to function against nonliving opponents the the food requirements of their Creations.
      Druid
Druids are Biomancers whom specialize in controlling nature and bending beasts to their bidding, unlike Fleshmancers who see death as something to be purged where possible Druids View the universe from a circle of life, leading them to have some control over both forces but not as much as either of the others.
      Necromancer
Necromancers are Biomancers whom specialize in controlling Death, Resurrecting the damned and forcing spirits to toil, They also command powers capable of driving others to death through the use of Negative energy, They are weakest without their Hordes, even with how stupid they are.


   Elementalism
Elementalism is the School of magic most affiliated with The Elements, It tends towards otherwise “Crude” spells which directly direct the elements- one issue with elementalism is that it requires that element already be in the area or else its entirely ineffective.
      Geomancer
Geomancers are Elementalists who are most affiliated with Earth, and stylistically tend towards the crudest magic, They do however benefit from being able to shape most materials with their bare hands and produce some of the strongest defences.
      Pyromancer
Pyromancers are Elementalists who are most affiliated with Fire, and tend towards heavility destructive magic, their magic tends towards giving them some of the greatest combat abilities However they have the greatest issue with keeping their element in an area as it tends to be extinguished by water or a lack of air.
      Atheramancer
Atheramancers are Elementalists who are most affiliated with Air, and tend towards having the most refined and movement based magic, their magic assists them with moving things around and provides defence against many Conventional Ranged weapons, but is nigh useless as a weapon or defense against melee attacks.
      Aquamancer
Aquamancers are Elementalists who are most affiliated with Water, and tend towards having the best senses for how to assist their companions, their magic assists them with Healing and provides many Utility effects, but unlike others isn’t as capable in any one particular way.


   Invocation
Invocation is the School of magic which gains its powers from far greater beings then the mage themselves, however these beings tend to be strict with the usage of their magics and require sacrifice of one nature or another from their Servants.
      Cleric
Clerics are Invokers who have bound themselves to the Gods, ancient beings of great magical power and morality, and gain powers often relating to healing, defending, or harming “creatures of the dark”. Their sacrifices tend towards the mundine- Prayers, Wealth, and Time devoted to their master.
      Sorcerer
Sourcers are Invokers who have found themselves bound to the Outsiders, Strange Creatures from beyond the universe with endless energy, and have such gained odd powers of an almost arbitrary nature along with the ability to understand things that drive other mages mad. Their sacrifices are tend to the Bazaar and abstract - Petals from one specific flower, Specially crafted objects, and organs harvested from those they slay may all be requested.
      Warlock
Warlocks or Witches are Invokers who have bound themselves to Devils, Dark Lords of the lower planes who seek to become the new gods, and gather powers many would consider evil- the ability to directly inflict harm, or force others to obey them for instance. Their sacrifices tend towards the painful, Loss of a finger or two, Specific amounts of blood, or even souls may be requested.


   Summoning
Summoning is the School of magic most oft associated with Forcibly bringing- and binding things to your will. Even though Conjuration, Golemation, And Demonology are all held as branches of it they all have Very different approaches and methods to each other.
      Conjuration
Those who practice Conjuration are Known as Conjurers, and Specialize in bribing and bringing things from both the Elemental and Wild Planes of existence, They are oft considered the most “broad” form of Summoners, but are rarely prepared for a hostile creature from another realm.
      Golemancy
Those who practice Golemancy are referred to as Golemancers, and Specialize in summoning Shades and Remnants from the spectral planes, which they then bind into Golems. They are usually known as the “simplest” form of Summoners because their creations are truely unable to rebel against them, however because of this they are very unprepared for dealing with other beings.
      Demonology
The people who follow the dark art of Demonology are known as Demonologists, and they Specialize in dragging Demons out of the pits of hell and into Heavily defended Runic circles.  They are usually thought of as the most “Difficult” form of summoners because no matter what they summon their methods lead to a rather stressed relationship within which a single misstep can end in death.


   Thaumaturgy
Thaumaturgy is the school of “Mundane” magic- the everyday magic that goes into the vast majority of even remotely magical objects, from potions to Flaming Swords, however unlike most other schools this one Can be used by even ordinary mortals without the spark of magic.
      Alchemy
Those who study Alchemy have always been known as Alchemists, and are known for their skill with herbs and powders, which when properly mixed can make many effects found in other schools. However, Few of the effects of Alchemy are permanent.
      Enchanting
Those who study Enchanting are by far known as Enchanters, and are known for their skill at binding the magics of others within gems which can then be used to apply those effects to further objects. However, Making even a single gem is an expensive undertaking -and a single mistake can ruin the entire object.
      Science
Those who study Science are Known as Scientists, and are rarely considered even as hedge mages as almost anything they can do another mage can do better, however whatever strange things they make are oft more reliable then any enchanter can make or cheaper then any alchemist can mix.

-Weapons-
 "Razer" sword: A Long and very sharp- if somewhat delicate curved sword, some officers are known to remove their facial hair with theirs
 "Headsman" Lance: Long wooden lances, Unwieldy off horseback, but nigh always lethal in a successful charge
 "Tontaker" Bow: a Large heavy bow, few people possess the physical strength needed to bend one, let along the dexterity to fire it.
-Armor-
 "Turtle" Plate: expensive Armor made from Iron with some leather sections, Protects against some attacks and comes with an unturning helm, *Only* covers the Head, chest, and Waist.
-Other-
 "Hardtrack" Horses: Rather large and bulky horses capable of running with quite a bit of excess weight for quite a while, However they aren't too much faster than a running man.

This is a ARMS RACE game, which means you take command of a member of a Group of "Designers" whose job it is to quickly design weapons, armor and anything else of use for production in the following year, I will be Further refining the rules of this as time goes on, But so far for every design you produce I will roll (3) D6s- and use the total of that to determine just how well your design functions- There are Four Phases to every full turn the "DESIGN" Phase- where in you make entirely new things OR treat as an additional... "REVISION" Phase, in which you Fix flaws, Add features, and generally make things better, next you have the "PRODUCTION" Phase, where in you allocate resources and determine the priority of various things. Finally you have the Combat phase, where in men go out and die for your cause, and hopefully you don't lose land you control. Ocasionally I will add an "EVENT" Phase before or after another phase which may gain you benefits for cause problems for the other team.

An Explanation of Tags:
[Cheap] Defines an item that every man in the army can have one IF it doesn't require a limited resource, OR something everyone may use
[Expensive] Defines an item which would be restricted to groups of Specialists, or "every officer", It is also applied to structures which a limited number of people may use at a time.
[Slow] Defines something which either takes a significant amount of effort to get to a usable state, or which can only be used once in a while
[Fast] is the Exact opposite
There are also tags that Explicitly apply to magic, [Simple][Easy][Medium][Hard] and [Impossible] Which define what percentage of your wizards can safely use it, with even the least trained being able at [Simple] and only "heros" at [Impossible]

Finally you have Knowledge tags, Which Tell you how much you know about a field, they are [Nigh-nonexistent][Novice][Apprentice][Adept][Expert][Master] and [Legend]
With each level giving more- and more clear information, No, I do not expect this to go on long enough for either side to reach [Legend] even in their base School.

The "island" is divided into two sections, with only three non sea based ways to each other side it
The First Route is The Grasslands - A mostly flat grassy area, it is both mineral poor and lacking in wood- however it is very fertile which has lead to fighting over it often.
The Second Route is The Pass a gap through the rock of the mountains, it is Very mineral rich but has no plants of any discription.
The Third Route is The Beach a Sandy area where some of the best trees grow strangely enough- however outside of those trees very few "useful" resources have been found.
Each Country's Capital is located in an area where fairly average forest grows.

-Weapons-
 "Stalwart" Sword: A Strong- if somewhat short metal sword, often Doubles as a wood axe or shovel among soldiers
 "Knightmare" Spear: Long wooden spears, very unwieldy but devastating against charging Mounted troops
 "Hunter" Bow: a Small and somewhat weak bow used more oft by civilians then soldiers
-Armor-
 "Rough hide" tunic: Armor made from mildly undercured leather, protects against some cuts, and *only* covers the chest, crotch, upper arms, and upper legs areas
-Other-
 "pipsqueak" Horse: Relatively small horses capable of quick maneuvering but not endurance running

-Weapons-
 "Razer" sword: A Long and very sharp- if somewhat delicate curved sword, some officers are known to remove their facial hair with theirs
 "Headsman" Lance: Long wooden lances, Unwieldy off horseback, but nigh always lethal in a successful charge
 "Tontaker" Bow: a Large heavy bow, few people possess the physical strength needed to bend one, let along the dexterity to fire it.
-Armor-
 "Turtle" Plate: expensive Armor made from Iron with some leather sections, Protects against some attacks and comes with an unturning helm, *Only* covers the Head, chest, and Waist.
-Other-
 "Hardtrack" Horses: Rather large and bulky horses capable of running with quite a bit of excess weight for quite a while, However they aren't too much faster than a running man.