Benched Superstars

Question: This may have already been asked, but will any or your inactive characters reach godhood? Characters like Saki, Aiko, Deirdre and Koga are only one or two legend away from apotheosis and some of the more twisted of them like Koga and Seamus would make interesting gods.

Yes, as a matter of fact! PCs seldom permanently go away in our games, inactive or not, unless other PCs go to great lengths to make sure they do. They usually become NPCs or MacGuffins for the active PCs, and their players are often happy to come make a cameo appearance in whatever game they happen to turn up.

Of the ones you name, Hachiro and Saki are almost certain to appear as gods at some point, and Colin, whose character page needs an overhaul, already has. Dierdre, Seamus, Darcy, Hime-Kame, Alison and Ray are also all still definitely in play in one way or another, though each is doing too many secret things for me to out them when our players are reading this. (We know you're there.)

I'm actually pretty tickled by all the interest in some of these characters; our players make great personalities, and it's fun to see others enjoying them, too. Someday we'll have to take a poll to see who's the most internet popular and award that player a bottle of whiskey or something. And then all drink it together.

The First Greco-Japanese War

Question: Are you going to put up fiction for Sophia Archimedes (I.E. Aiona)? I would like to read about the start of the feud between her and Hachiro Koga. Will Hachiro become a god as well? His character sheet has him at eight legend already and I think at this point he has to ascend keep up with Aiona and Terminus and get revenge on them. Also what does Izanami think of Aiona and her actions? Finally was Hachiro's sister ever awakened, and did Sophia and Goze really murder her in cold blood?

Right now, Aiona's player is sneezing uncontrollably somewhere, wondering what the heck is going on.

I see you have a touch of the prophecy yourself - there will indeed be fiction for Sophia in the (hopefully) near future, including a story that sheds more light on the conflict between her, Izanami, and Hachiro Taro Koga. The players have been kind enough to already make all these awesome stories, so things are just being held up by my slow, slow pace at writing them down (sorry!).

I don't want to spoil the forthcoming story, but I can say a few things: Hachiro is most definitely going to become a god, Izanami is not Aiona's biggest fan, and while Aiona may seem less dangerous than Eztli, in practice we are never quite sure who the most frightening femme fatale of that game really is.