do you think critchun can't eat chocolate

AshTheAvaricious wrote:

what if the wolf mask's thing was that it could devour the divine.

hi thinking about this. so i know that the jackal ate some of a god's soul, but dust was able to completely devour several. but also it was left marred, the ruination of its face would've definitely killed something more mortal. but also the wolf mask is in far better condition that the jackal mask, really only being slightly cracked and leaking dust's vile ichor from the teeth.

btw this is probably the closest thing to a voiceclaim i'll ever give dust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2qsLCf3YtU

wait i was gonna say something unrelated to that but like what did you expect? morgan freeman?

that's why i said it was the closest thing. because i don't know anything with a voice like dust should have, and i, at least currently, don't have the skill or knowledge to create somethin

also specifically the parts where it sounds like how i'd make dust sound is when it's deep. like the "nobody left, but me." or the "reap and sow. reap and sow."

do you think dust keeps the wolf mask polished. it'd be very funny if somebody managed to dent the mask and dust's only reaction was "Do you know how much buffer I'm going to need to get that out??"

btw dust's jaw would be broken in this au. along with all the atrocities cursed deep into its being, but what use is its own voice when all it can do is scream?

i'm kinda curious about what all of the divine would be like in their prime, either later or in the past.

because gods aren't just immortals two steps ahead of the rest of life. they're divine, they should be able to dramatically alter like half the world with a bit of time and work.

ash is faded, the weakest he's ever been; clinging to scraps of his first power. but that same first power was enough to start the countdown on an entire world, survive most of a similiarly powerful pantheon's continuous assaults against them, and become a scourge across stars. ash was divine, and he still is, but he is so weak now.

critchun is in a similiar position, they used to be much grander; and while it's uncertain exactly how much weaker she is, he can't perform the same feats it used to do on a whim. he can't carve valleys with the stroke of her claws, or defy fate and death; they can't even continue its old hunts. but she is still powerful compared to mortals, because they are divine; regardless of how far he fell.

dust cannot peak, its power is only limited to its will and souls it's consumed. the strongest dust could become and remain active is dependant solely on how much of that power was acquired by devouring the divine

orphos voice i can do anything, anything!

in real life the gods are personifications of natural things, such as thunder and lightning, or snow, or death. along with some things like madness(original dionysus), various harvest gods, and war gods(see:half of the norse pantheon). they behave like their thing, the whole hades and persephone myth is a metaphor for the fact that death will sometimes just take your children, and you usually can't do anything about it. also it explains the seasons(spring and summer are when persephone is with demeter, who tells the plants to thrive and whatever, and autumn and winter being when persephone goes back down to visit her husband).

obviously GGaD gods won't work the same, because they are characters more than they are natural forces and for some reason like half the pantheon used to be mortal people who were absolutely more characters than natural forces.

That would be funny

I guess what limits my idea of power in GGaD is that once again, there is mentioning of deites having world ending powers yet Forengard is a single world (with weird mystical mostly unexplained sect divisions). Which has me think oftentimes "how has Forengard not been instantly incinerated yet?"

essentially the reason why forengard is still existing is because the gods either go "nah my stuff is there" or get stopped from breaking it by the other gods

like there are gods, granted that immortality and power by the course of the divine flowers. could it be that they're actually closer to fungi, and the flowers are merely the reproductive organ of a grand root system stretching through all of forengard? are the gods ascended through this method effected at all by the flower beyond the gifts? could it be that the flowers use the gods to spread their pollen until the divine begin to crumble? could it simply be that the gods are a natural part of the world, and their existence alone helps maintain an ecosystem of some kind, the one where the flowers thrive best?

the fact that they're flowers specifically also raises some questions to the societies of forengard. has anybody ever tried to create a garden of them? how are they regarded by the ones aware of them? do fiction writers in-universe use them as a plot device in their works? would the modern and future sects tend towards greener infrastructure, simply because robbing, potentially the constructors themselves, somebody of divinity is wholly immoral by societal standards? has anybody tried to study them?

AshTheAvaricious wrote:

the fact that they're flowers specifically also raises some questions to the societies of forengard. has anybody ever tried to create a garden of them? how are they regarded by the ones aware of them? do fiction writers in-universe use them as a plot device in their works? would the modern and future sects tend towards greener infrastructure, simply because robbing, potentially the constructors themselves, somebody of divinity is wholly immoral by societal standards? has anybody tried to study them?

I'm kinda responding to your thread of posts on flowers as a whole, and wow you are raising some really good questions.

I thought that when it comes to these flowers, trying to create a garden or something of the sort of them is basically impossible. I've seen that they kinda just appear for almost no reason (or for a reason not explained) and they're extremely sensitive or reactive.