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Geb seeks the kidnapped elven healer and sends him a vision, the elf's body being surrounded by an aura of light as the lizard appears in his mind to offer reparations. He makes a simple offer: if the elf will agree to stay and heal the Belters, he will use his powers for the benefit of his tribe for a time. As a gesture of good will, the divine reptile shows the healer further visions as he creates a small fleet of windcraft similar to those the Ashlecs use by the healer's home settlement.

Geb creates some windcraft for Greenleaf's elves.

Uhh, you can't get migrants, invaders or traders (or anything on the map at all) if its an island. If you are surrounded by water on all sides, don't bother playing, unless you plan on playing with only seven dwarfs and their offspring.

I tried to do this once, using an island to make a hermit game, but immigrants kept turning up anyway. Does anybody know if it's related to large map tile-regions? The island I was on was completely surrounded by ocean but the map tile it was in had land connected to the mainland in it.

Waking from his long sleep, the great lizard looks back over the events of the Aeon with a mixture of awe at the achievements of the mortals and of disappointment at his own most loyal followers. The Naga on board The Blue had spent the long age doing nothing. They had no need of divine protection, had done no act worthy of reward. There was no place for a god here. Sadly, and without saying a word, the divine lizard faded away, taking his neglected gift of an engine with him.

Reappearing in a quiet region of the belt, Geb set about creating a new home, a temple from which he could be worshipped by those who truly lived the principles of civilisation and law. Working in steel and copper, the divine lizard began turning one asteroid into a temple, a shining beacon of pillars and polished metal among the dull rocks. As it was finished, it let forth a great flash of light, clearly signalling to all the new presence there.

Geb creates a new home among the asteroids.

Banned for misreading units and not using SI standard ones.

Feeling the subtle loss of power that presages the end of an Aeon, Geb realises that soon all of his power will be drained and he will be forced into long sleep. Concerned, he calls for the naga aboard The Blue to congregate.

"My trusted worshippers, soon I must sleep and not wake for a great time. I shall use the last of my power in this time to grant you a gift."

And with that, a bubble formed before the lizard god's snout, a complex bubble folding in on itself, then folding further in unknowable patterns, the centre turning to foam as it works and glowing with red heat yet not boiling. Suddenly the bubble breaks apart, leaving in its place a mysterious device.

"This creation is a magical engine. It is formed from copper, wood, glass, and at its core, steel smelted with the addition of blood. It will allow any elemental magician to fly, or even to push huge loads through the sky. Study it, learn its principles. Learn from the dwarves and the elves, discover the methods by which more like it may be made. All that you will need can be found on the new world or among the asteroids, The Blue can take you there."

With nothing left to do, the divine lizard released his hold on control of The Blue, and prepared for long hibernation.

Geb gives the naga a prototype magical rocket engine.

Looking out over the suddenly simple void, Geb recalls the early days of the empty cosmos and his first Act of creation. The universe doesn't need new stars now, nor extra oceans. But what does it need?

The great lizard lays back against one of the pillars of The Blue, considering options. Suddenly he realises. He has encouraged civilisation, he has spoken law, he has Acted incompetently at times, but rarely has he furthered the cause of steel. This domain has been neglected for too long.

Inspired, Geb stares into the blackness around the sun and forces it to change, until it becomes the blackness of soot. Now, where before there was empty void there floats a cluster of untold millions of asteroids, full of sand, gravel, flux stones, and coal-like compacted soot.

The loss of the world and its magma shall not halt industry.

Geb creates a cluster of asteroids orbiting the sun.

So much for that then. I don't think rubberduck is going to want to continue much further with this, unless a new god gets to cycle in and does something really spectacular. Lifeboat time, I suppose.

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Geb hits the divine Big Red Button concealed on one wall of the Islands of Discomfort. The power of the cavern changes and expands, now a direct extension of the lizard god's will. Genre inappropriate sirens sound throughout the holy waters, their meaning lost on the naga, but pleasing their god, as the power takes effect.

With a titanic rumbling and shaking that goes entirely unnoticed among the apocalyptic chaos, the Islands of Discomfort tear free of the rock around them, no longer a cavern, becoming a vast hovering cage of metal pillars surrounded by a still greater bubble of water.

Shining beams of divine radiance to mimic searchlights,  The Islands fly fast through the atmosphere of the doomed world, seeking survivors and plucking as many as it can into itself with tentacles of water, but soon forced to flee to avoid becoming part of the planet's meal.

As it leaves the dying world never to return, Geb renames his home The Blue, and pilots the escaping sea out towards the furthest stars.

Geb turns The Islands of Discomfort into The Blue, an escape ship.