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• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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)

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• (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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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