Gameplay
You need Occult Knowledge of at least two to know this information.
The gods were all once men a long, long time ago. Men and women who became
so accomplished at the now lost art of fleshforming that they were able to
create for themselves new, perfect bodies. Bodies that could not be
damaged, would never age or die, truly immortal. As time passed and these
individuals continued to not age and grow stronger their influence became
all the greater. Some humans began to worship on their own, others assumed
the identity of pre-created pagan deities.
As their power and influence grew, different groups came more and more into
conflict and the world was half torn apart by the fighting between these
powerful beings. Finally they met and settled on an accord of peace and
non-interference. Creating for themselves their own pocket dimension in
which to retreat peacefully into, a realm called Asgard, Olympus or any one
of a number of other names. From there they continued to have some limited
interaction with the human world, often venturing into it in disguise or
taking it upon themselves to help certain favored individuals but mostly
remained aloof and apart from it. Masters of fleshforming they have filled
their world with various amazing and dreadful creatures, as well as
semi-human servants and vassals.
Sometimes a god will sleep with a human while visiting the human world, at
times they do this while in the visage of another, such as the human's
lover, at other times they do not. The reasons can be as varied as falling
in love with a human to a simple lark. The chance of a god impregnating or
being impregnated by a human is low, about one tenth of the chance of a
human with a human but can happen. These offspring and their descendants are
called demigods.
demigod
Gods
You need Occult Knowledge of at least two to know this information.
The gods were all once men a long, long time ago. Men and women who became
so accomplished at the now lost art of fleshforming that they were able to
create for themselves new, perfect bodies. Bodies that could not be
damaged, would never age or die, truly immortal. As time passed and these
individuals continued to not age and grow stronger their influence became
all the greater. Some humans began to worship on their own, others assumed
the identity of pre-created pagan deities.
As their power and influence grew, different groups came more and more into
conflict and the world was half torn apart by the fighting between these
powerful beings. Finally they met and settled on an accord of peace and
non-interference. Creating for themselves their own pocket dimension in
which to retreat peacefully into, a realm called Asgard, Olympus or any one
of a number of other names. From there they continued to have some limited
interaction with the human world, often venturing into it in disguise or
taking it upon themselves to help certain favored individuals but mostly
remained aloof and apart from it. Masters of fleshforming they have filled
their world with various amazing and dreadful creatures, as well as
semi-human servants and vassals.
Sometimes a god will sleep with a human while visiting the human world, at
times they do this while in the visage of another, such as the human's
lover, at other times they do not. The reasons can be as varied as falling
in love with a human to a simple lark. The chance of a god impregnating or
being impregnated by a human is low, about one tenth of the chance of a
human with a human but can happen. These offspring and their descendants are
called demigods.
See Also
Loredemigod