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Question: So according to the White Wolf wiki: "A god may come before the Scion's mortal parent in any number of ways: as themselves, in the guise of a mortal, by possessing a mortal's body, or as another form." What's your rule about it here?

Um... it's the same as that one? We have no special rules about how gods get their freak on with mortals. They can do the wild thing however the spirit moves them.

In case there's some confusion here, that paragraph from the wiki is saying that gods don't have to look like themselves when coming among mortals for purposes of the banginating, but it's not granting them special magical powers outside of their usual ones. You don't suddenly gain shapeshifting or possession powers you didn't already have just because you need to go down to the World and start pumping out Scions; if you have those powers, sure, pretend to be a mortal, turn into an animal, show up in their swimming pool in liquid form or anything else you want, but if you don't, you're going as yourself. The paragraph's just trying to say that you can sleep with a mortal without them having any idea who or what you are if you so choose.

Incidentally, the "possessing a mortal's body" clause probably refers to Cheval, the old Loa PSP that we no longer use. Individual Storytellers will probably want to rule differently when it comes to whether or not that works; Cheval allows you to see through a mortal's eyes and direct their actions, but some Storytellers may rule that it's still a mortal's body and doesn't have any divine ichor to pass on to another mortal.

And, as always, remember that the wiki is public property and can be edited by anyone. Anything it says has been added by someone with their own interpretation or agenda, so never feel like you have to obey it.