Question: Which Legend 12 Gods have you killed and how did they die? Minus Ragnarok, of course.
A lot of gods died in Ragnarok, and not all of them were Norse, either. And also at least one Norse god who was supposed to die didn't (oops). PCs have a way of blowing any situation sky-high, and it turns out Ragnarok is not immune to this phenomenon.
But anyway, non-Ragnarok casualties. You guys already know of some from the fiction - Quetzalcoatl, Raiden, Athena, Nuada, Tlazolteotl, Erzulie, Ra, a bunch of minor Egyptian gods including Serket, Khepri and Imsety - and we've mentioned a few more on the blog, including Freya's heroic demise in defense of her brother. Hachiman is also technically dead, but still active as a robot guardian of Japan.
The following gods have also gone mysteriously "missing" and have so far resisted all attempts to raise them, leading to most assuming they must have been killed in some kind of stealth strike from the Titans or other gods: Damballa, Ogma, Tsukiyomi and Thoth. The PCs are not sure exactly what happened to them, and so far haven't really bothered to check. (Hint: the Fifth Sun is thirsty.)
But beyond those... you know, I don't think there are any I can tell you without spoiling a bunch of stuff that's about to happen in the fiction. The Woody story I'm currently working on will have a god death in it, as will the next Geoff story, and they're both pretty significant events that drastically affect the PCs involved. I'd rather save them for a cruel, cruel reveal later on.
Once those are out, if you're not into reading the fiction, I'll be happy to just tell you. :)
Dude, half the gods of at least three major pantheons have kicked.
ReplyDeleteOccasionally some of them get back up, but it isn't overly common.
DeleteThey should really stop having all those arguments among themselves.
I still see quite a few job openings.
ReplyDeleteI'm not entirely caught up on the fiction. When did Tlazolteotl, Nuada, and Erzulie bite it?
ReplyDeleteAlso: hungry sun = unhappy pantheons
They went down during the massive clusterfuck that was Lines of Convergence, one of the more recent stories from Aurora's point of view.
DeleteOhhh... yeah, that one was difficult to decipher who was what and where. Some, I could tell. Others... not so much.
DeleteYeah, Tlazolteotl especially was hard to pick out (other than that she's the only female on the "vanilla" roster). Kettila didn't actually know who she was, so I couldn't get too specific.
DeleteI thought Apollo and Thoth during that 4 man pantheon beat-down on the Japanese gods.
ReplyDeleteNope! They were injured, but they both survived that one.
DeleteWhen will these morons get it that the more they slaughter each other, the more the titans win.
ReplyDeleteYeah... alas. Some of them are too stupid or too sure of their own power to understand or believe that, and some who do understand it still lose their tempers on an epic scale (often thanks to Virtues) and act before they can stop themselves.
DeleteWars suck.
Virtues make smart people do STUPID things.
DeleteI've got an Aztec with a few non-Aztec Virtues (Courage replaced with Intellect, Duty replaced with Harmony. So he's the pantheon's nerdy eco-hippy) A lot of times I end up rolling Conviction versus Intellect to see whether he ends up following his heart or his head. And, particularly since Alan's the god of wilderness, Harmony gets lumped in there as well.
That's actually why he ended up as a serious enemy of Baguada, a newly-born Gaulish war god. Bag's worshippers mowed down his forests and killed his jaguars, Alan got pissed and sacrificed them all. When it became clear Baguada couldn't get through his massive soak, and Alan couldn't attack him worth shit, it was a question of whether or not Alan would compromise or not (Baguada certainly wasn't). I rolled virtues... and thus began a viscious war that ended with Alan getting reduced to a talking severed trophy head, and Baguada being so weakened by the experience that he got killed very soon afterwards. Alan got better. Baguada did not.
*leans back with a beer* Wow... that escalated quickly