Question: How fucked up has your PC characters' world become? With Ragnarok in full swing and Marcus killing Ouranos, it sounds like the world is one step away from complete annihilation.
The World has certainly had better days. At the moment, large swaths of a couple continents are missing, either moved by gods or destroyed by cataclysmic events (North America's been hit the hardest, but Australia, Asia and Africa aren't in great shape, either). The population of mortals is drastically down, most of them succumbing to Fimbulwinter even if they don't get killed by the fallout from the war, and things like the Internet and reliable fossil fuels are things of the past. The weather's terrible. Everyone's morale is at an all-time low.
It's not all bad news, though. The landscape may be changing drastically, but sometimes it's for the better when the PCs take strides to try to help. Sowiljr's turned Iceland into a haven of culture and civilization, Zwazo Fou Fou is helping in a massive Loa project to revitalize Africa, Folkwardr regularly contributes to the Inuit tribes of the north to make sure they have the food and shelter to survive the harsh winter, and Eztli's little Aztec stronghold is holding out quite defiantly in spite of all odds against it, helped along by her tendency to show up occasionally to do things like build houses, feed the hungry and heal the sick. Even Terminus and Vala, normally not very active humanitarians, have been contributing by doing things like helping preserve museums and ancient ruins.
It's no secret that things are never going to be the same; a divine war and the cataclysmic events that are occurring around it can't help but change the world drastically, but the PCs and a few gods they've recruited to their cause are trying to help poor humanity, and the World at large, at least survive to tell the tale when it's all over.
How are the people themselves acting? Are they under the spell of Titanic Virtues? are the people the gods are protecting the same or does the gods power keep them holding godly virtues?
ReplyDeleteAs is normal for mortals, they don't have any Virtues, dark or otherwise, unless someone has specifically come by and messed around with them (which not many gods or Titans bother to do, considering what rough shape most of them are in). They're just normal mortals; some are good people, some bad, but they make their decisions without the insane pressure of Virtues that Scions and other supernatural creatures have to handle.
DeleteMost mortals are stoically hiding out, attempting to dig in and survive until the crisis in the World is over; they by and large have no idea what's happening and many think this is probably the permanent state of affairs, but humanity has always been tenacious and they're trying to stick it out anyway. Those that live in cult centers dedicated to gods - particularly the new PC gods, who are a lot more active than any of their parents when it comes to helping mortals - sometimes get a better deal, such as Sowiljr's people getting to live in relative comfort or Vala's people carefully storing her oracular visions. Then again, sometimes they don't - Zwazo Fou Fou managed to eradicate an impressive number of people in his territory simply because he was very bad at taking care of them (or remembering they were there, most of the time).
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DeleteAnne, because shes playing in that game. May not know a couple things. Some humans did infact have titan virtues during the wolfsage. She probably remembered a few humans acting crazy and just thought they were humans acting crazy(or under fatebound rolls).
About 50% of the population had titan virtues, and those who got fatebound into positive fatebonds had theirs removed. Those with negative fatebinds had theirs increased.
For one game however Fimblwintr is over(and almost for the other game also) and so the titan virtues are receding from the general populace.
Well, man. Look at me not knowing stuff.
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