A Place to Call Home

Question: What are the realms of your PC gods? How many of them share their parents' houses, and how many have homes of their own? And how many children has Kettila killed that she currently cares for in her father's realm, and how many are pissed at her for it?

As a matter of fact, all of our God-level PCs have their own realms; not one of them so far has elected to not take the Sanctum Birthright, and I believe Will will also be getting a place of his own upon his imminent ascension.

Sanctums vary in size and fanciness depending on their owner and who wanted to sink the most points into them; Sowiljr's place is easily the size of several earths and overflowing with riches and servants, while on the other end of the spectrum Vala just has a very small, homey cottage with a wooded yard. Eztli and Yoloxochitl both have mid-sized realms off Acopa, filled with their nahualli animal and mostly inaccessible to others, while Terminus has a small, kind of dumpy place near Hermes' on Olympus and Aiona, being unpopular with most of the Dodekatheon, lives in an underground cave halfway down the slope away from them. Jioni has a nice-sized slice of the African veldt to call her own where she occasionally hosts parties, complete with servants who look suspiciously like a composite of her husband and a certain deceased Norseman, and Zwazo Fou Fou owns a long, desolate stretch of land where humans who have reached the depths of despair occasionally find themselves as they search for relief.

Few of the PCs actually spend very much time in their Sanctums, as they're usually off running errands and getting into trouble; I think Aiona, who uses it as a forge and workshop, and Terminus, who prefers to return there every so often to check on his wife and give himself the chance to use Avatar, are the most frequent visitors to their homes. Vala has been known to hide in hers for months at a time during dangerous missions, directing the rest of her band via magic spells and clairvoyance, while Folkwardr has never visited his since his apotheosis due to his duties in the World. The interior of Eztli's pyramid is designed to be an enormous nursery, though as of yet the only child there much is Chicahua, and Yoloxochitl's place is entirely populated by axolotl salamanders.

I don't think any of our PCs could resist having a place to call their own; after all, who wants to live with mom and dad forever? A few do have designated spots in the Overworld proper as well - Odin has dedicated a large hall with alfar servants to Vala, though she doesn't visit it much, and Sowiljr and Terminus also have outside "houses" in their Overworlds proper - but generally, the coolness factor of owning your own world was too awesome to pass up and most of them seldom visit their parents.

We've also had fun with Sanctums having sort of a personality of their own, though that's just a quirk our game uses; those with high dot ratings are more obedient, those with low more fractious. Sowiljr's realm treats his every thought as command and is eager to please, while Vala has been known to get into fights with hers when it decides it knows what she wants better than she does.

As for Yoloxochitl, she actually has no children to take care of at all; it's Eztli that the Aztlanti have asked to help take charge of the many souls of the underaged dead. It's not odd when you think about it - Eztli's a mother and dedicates a good portion of her time to taking care of children, while Yoloxochitl is a child herself and thus not very good at taking care of other children. She also doesn't have any Death to speak of, which makes her pretty much incapable of taking care of dead anything; I don't believe she's ever even seen any of her victims on her infrequent visits to Tlalocan, let alone done anything for them. Out of sight, out of mind; they've been passed on to her father and that's the way things are.