Question: How would you handle people like Chiron, Perseus and all the other Greek heroes who got turned into constellations?
We've built a power into the game especially for those guys: Constellation Weaver, your go-to power for throwing people into the sky and then giving yourself a high five underneath the awesome new constellation you just created. In most cases, unless you have a specific reason in mind for why not, we'd consider beings like Chiron to have had this boon used on them, and to be functionally out of the game unless someone used the boon a second time and retrieved them from the skies (thus sending all of modern astronomy straight to hell in a handbasket). If you did retrieve them - which would require beating the original user of the boon on the roll, but it can be done! - they'd return exactly the same as they were when they were put up there, so in some cases it's probably best to leave well enough alone. I doubt Chiron would thank you for returning him to eternally undying torment, and it's just morbid to bring down all the people and creatures who were put into the sky after death.
While that's our main method of constellation interaction, it's been obliquely suggested in some of our games that gods might also be able to travel to Tamoanchan, the Titanrealm of the Heavens, in an attempt to find a constellation on its native turf, so to speak. Doing so would be exceptionally dangerous and it's hard to know if a constellation thus rescued would return to "normal" once brought back to earth, but it's an alternative option that some who aren't skilled in the Stars purview might want to explore.
Of course, our PCs haven't tried it yet. What are you guys, chicken?
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