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You have 100 points to distribute throughout your character sheet:

Leader Name:
Main Race:
Additional Race(s):
Technology:
Culture/Government Type:
Units:
Cavern Size:

You only receive the racial bonus from your main race. Each race has slightly different general stats and cultural inclinations.

Civilized Races:
Civilized races tend to be more civilized than other categories of races. If two prime races trade with each other for an entire year, they will receive bonus resources. 
Humans: 50% faster building construction.
Dwarves: 50% faster mining.
Gnomes: 50% decreased research time.
Elves: 50% increased food yield.
Orcs: 50% increased damage to monsters.

Lesser Races:
These races were less numerous in the old world, but now are major contenders in the underworld. If two lesser races declair war against a common enemy, they gain 10% damage to that enemy.
Half Elves: 25% decreased construction time and 25% increased food yield.
Trolls: 50% increased damage, 50% increased food consumption.
Ogres: 100% increased damage, 75% increased research time.
Goblins: Two goblins can use one building simultaneously.

Wild Races
Wild races are races from the surfaceworld that did not belong to a particular civilization. They gain an additional 25$ damage to monsters.
Minotaurs: 125% increased damage, 3x research time
Frogmen: 2x unit creation, 2x building time
Wolfmen: 25% increased damage to monsters, 25% faster research time
Catmen: 50% better cavern scouting
Other Animalman: If you want a specific animal person, I'll think of something.
Other race of any sort: I'm very open to player created races. I will work out a racial bonus for them.

 
Researching technology will allow you to construct new units and buildings or may give you bonuses. Researching one thing may lead to future research areas. Each one costs 10.
Mining
Farming
Road building
Masonry
Carpentry
Fishing
Hunting
Trapping
Mana
Faith
Writing
Mathematics

You can start with additional buildings and units for the cost next to each unit. Each player starts with one free peasant.
 
Peasant: 5
Scout:10
Warrior: 10
Merchant:15
Diplomat: 15
Soldier:20
Mage:25

Each player begins in a cavern connected to the underground tunnel system. Each cavern is large enough to house 10 buildings. You may increase the size of your starting cavern by 1 per 5 points.

The game is organized in turns. Each turn every unit gets one action and consumes one food. They consume one food even if they take no action. The game alternates turns between player and NPC turns. Its really late right now, so I know I'm missing things. If something doesn't make sense or you have questions, politely let me know.

God Name:
Spere(s): (This is mostly for flavor)
Appearance:
Personality (optional):
Goals (optional):

Name:
Description:
Culture: (Remember, this is the dawn of time)

Demi-gods: These powerful beings may be the patron god of a race, they may embody an ideal like justice or mischief, or they may just be a lesser god who isn't capable of interacting with the world like you. Whichever category these fit in, its safe to say that they have some real power.

Demons: These infernal creatures are dangerous creatures from the realms of hell. They have a wide range of powers and goals. Some may want direct entry into the world, others may desire other favors and deals.

Eldritch abomination: These incomprehensible beings are powerful, but distant. They exist far from the material plane and their power there and in the realm of the gods is weakened by the vast distance. That being said, they have some truly powerful and interesting things to offer you.

Titan: These powerful beings have existed as long as the gods, but are very crude in their existence and creation abilities. They often appear as a loosely constructed being made out of one element or another and their ability to interact with the material world is lacking. Plus, they hate the gods. If a titan is coming to the gods, they must really want something.

Angel: A moderately powerful divine being. May be interested in the material world, may embody an ideal. Ultimately they're a decent addition to any god's garrison.

Lesser demon: A denizen of Hell, often seen trying to make deals.

Undead Spirit: These spirits from beyond the grave typically include liches and other powerful undead creatures who are seeking to regain life in a new land or destroy life there.

Abomination: These mindless monstrosities are dangerous and uncontrollable. They are incredibly varied, interesting, and difficult to kill. They really shake things up.

Serpent: A being of cunning a guile. They will try to find a way to slip into your realm and corrupt it somehow.

Monster: These are typically beings seeking entrance into the physical world. Minotuars, giants, sea monsters. That sort of thing.

Name of species:
Description:
Number of species:
Size of species:
Traits:

 Larger species have lower populations to begin due to a lack of food inside the comet. The base population for each species is 100 divided by length (in inches) multiplied by width. Equation: 100/(LxW).  So a species that is 5 inches long by 5 inches wide would have a starting population of 4 (100/25=4).

Furthermore, if your species has a special trait (being poisonous, covered in spines, ect ect. it will reduce the starting population by a number determined by me. This is done so that cool species can be played, but aren't overpowered right from the start. Just price check your trait with me and I'll let you know.

Your dragoneer ranch is all ready for you! The unnamed rocktooth is in the stables and all the facilities are operational. You have 1000c left to spend.

Your dragoneer ranch is all ready for you! The ocean breeze brings the lingering scent of salty air over your facility, even with the biting cold. Your stable modifications look great and the unnamed pondslinker is already taking advantage of his watery abode. You have in your inventory 500c and a reinforced net.

Your dragoneer ranch is all ready for you. The world has spent too long without the rule of the great dragons. You know that they're out there, bidding their time in the vast wilderness of this wild world. Neither man nor dragon will stop you from returning the world to the age of ascendancy. Your sickle wing is in its stables. It seems to be rather comfortable there, and has enough room. In your inventory you have three nets, a gemini stone (which us used on a dragon egg, not a live dragon by the way), and 200c.

The Fort Bakery dragon ranch is waiting for you. A plowtail has been transferred from out in the fields in order to start your dragon bakery tycoon. It is comfortably resting in the stables. In your inventory you have 1500c and a reinforced net.

 This nearby island shares the same temperate climate as Nova Crotia. However, due to poor rocky soil, uneven grounds, and large cliffs, it was never settled by humans. However, the recent invention of airships is allowing dragoneers to visit this island and discover the dragons who inhabit it.

Duration: Trips can be arranged to last one to four months for this expedition. The longer the duration, the deeper into the wilderness you progress.
Cost: Each month costs 100c.

This island is slightly further south than Nova Crotia and has milder warmer seasons. The eastern edge of the island has a large shipping port, but the western edge is surrounded by jagged rocks and powerful currents which make approach by sea impossible. The inner recesses of the island have never been explored, but large dragons have occasionally been spotted in the air above the island. Despite this, very few have attempted to navigate the dense forest that covers most of the island.

Duration: 1-3 months.
Cost: 150 a month.

Name: (Will be using forum name)
Ranch Name:
Character description: (Optional. Just if you want to be a character and not just you. If you want to be you, then just describe yourself)
Backstory: (How you came to be or decided to be a dragon rancher.)

God/Avatar name: Cyrus
Physical Description: A tall humanoid of undiscernible species, he dresses in a turquoise robe and a golden crown. His beard is marvelously bushy and yet seems to be well-maintained. Often rides on a chariot with a batman (as in the job title) named Cambrose holding the horses' reings.
Personality/Desires Description: Cyrus is a jovial being who loves life, especially the sapient kind. Be it the ways of courtly love or peasantry starvation, Cyrus has developed a fixation on creating grand stories and legends out of the most mundane substances. Personally, Cyrus desires to create the greatest story of all eternity, one to stand the test of time...


God/Avatar name: Nix
Physical Description: A large metallic orb surrounded by a floating circle of fireballs.  In each fireball one can see shapes moving as if creating a story, although what is seen is always dependent on the viewer.
Personality/Desires Description: A creature of intense curiosity, Nix seeks to use its considerable divine potency to affect reality not out of any desire for control or power, but to simply see what is and what could be.  In a universe of deities, mortals, questions and meaninglessness, Nix seeks to understand the pattern behind existence, and in doing so prefers to simply set things in motion, or if interference is required, to cause as much chaos as possible in order to create as many possibilities. 


God/Avatar name: Writhing Refracted Spark In The Dark Of The Unwhole Heart
Physical Description: A translucent light blue humanoid with a shifting crimson core. Her torso resembles rough carapace, while her limbs look like fused tentacles. Her head is clearly alien.
Personality/Desires Description: Heart (she readily goes by abbreviations of her full and proper name) desires wealth and finery befitting her station. Precious gemstones, magical power, numerous servants... but above all, potent wills. The most precious of jewels, the very pinnacle of the universe; the implacable hunger that drives creatures to their goals at any and every cost. Will is everything; a creature with no will is a tool or decoration, and not a good one at that. A creature of pure will can move mountains and shatter empires. It is this she seeks and this she fosters, encouraging those who cannot rest without that which they cannot have.


God/Avatar Name: Morius/Shiyon
Physical description: A tall figure enveloped in a black cloak, the god, or avatar whilst channeling the power of the god, has no discernable features and appears as empty black space beneath the hood.
The avatar when roaming normally appears as a standard member of his race, and has an affable demeanor.
Personality: Morius sees itself as the harbinger of lost souls, and bringer of death. Just as the titular grim reaper, it fulfills its duties implacably and relentlessly. However, as death is a foregone conclusion, it is content to normally sit back and enjoys the struggles of the average mortal to survive, seeing this struggle as a part of its worship.
However, it has a predilection towards 'survivors against the odds' and those who would attempt immortality, seeing itself as the gatekeeper between the mortal races and the thwarting of natural order.
Shiyon, however, is rather happy-go-lucky. The overwhelming personality of the god has manifested itself as a sort of tireless laziness, and he constantly wanders from place to place. He has no real interests beyond survival, other than whatever goals Morius pulls him towards, and is quite content borrowing slivers of the god's power to fulfill his own aims, or even make his life a little easier.


God/Avatar name: Petnieka of the Terra Incognito
Physical Description: Petnieka's appearance is not a constant one; one can never truly know for sure what she's going to look like the next time they see her, until they do. She takes on the appearance of a human woman, in explorer's gear and of constantly shifting appearance (one time you see her pale and redhaired, the next time dusky and dark), an exotic animal, perhaps of a species not yet discovered or only glimpsed, or something in between -- she is known to often take the form of a human with some animal features. It all largely depends on her whims. The one thing that always identifies her, at least in human form, is the golden and impossibly elegantly carved spyglass she keeps at her hip.
Personality/Desires Description: Petnieka desires more than anything to watch and aid mortals in their discovery of new things: exploration is her purpose, plain and simple, and she has every intention of using her divinity to further this task. She is a cheerful and eager deity, quite happy to get along with both other gods and mortals and to do her work. That said, she also gets quite a bit of pleasure out of being coy and mysterious, and it takes a LOT of doing to get her to come out and say anything directly... which can be annoying as she is very much not above leaving little secrets and annoyances for the other gods to discover and investigate: why should gods be free from the joy of exploration?


God/Avatar name: Itheos the Lord of Order
Physical Description: When Itheos appears it generally does so as an impossible large member of the race of the viewer. It is clad in incredibly thick steel armor heavily decorated with the symbols of kingdoms and cities that worship him, if the viewer is a worshiper of Itheos then the viewers own symbol or flag is the most predominant among them. Where the gods body does show though its armor it's features take on the gender of the legally highest ranking person in the society of the viewer (IE, if the viewer was in a kingdom Itheos would be male, if in a queendom Itheos would be female) irrespective of actual political power and it's flesh is made of polished metal. Itheos right hand clutches and lifts an oversized steel judges gavel, and his left hand holds an undecorated scepter. Gigantic wings of steel jut from it's back. (I'll leave if magical flight falls within being the proxy of a god, if so then Itheos can fly and if not then it can't, because obviously its wings, although large, are not nearly enough to carry it's weight.)

Personality/Desires Description: Itheos is the lord of order and the god of civilization. It desires for mortals to build up cities, kingdoms, and empires, bonus points if they are in Itheos name. It desires it's followers to creature structured and ordered and productive societies that follow the rule of law before all else. Although Itheos gives its blessings to both benevolent paladin style kingdoms and brutal repressive dictatorships, it does somewhat favor the former all else being equal, even if just because they tend to be more stable and orderly on a personal level (a person being tortured to death is after all, not a productive and structured member of society). Itheos ultiamte desire is to bring the mortal races into a single large society, a globally spanning empire of law and order to tame the disordered world and bring fourth a new era of order and stability.