The Moon and Beyond

Today, we answer questions about cosmology, setting and crazy goddamn alien lifeforms. Hooray!

Question: Can Avatars create Legendary creatures? Such as the Shaper creating a living golem, or the Glory creating light entities?

Question: You statted up Tiamat and Apsu for your Anunna supplement, but what about their son Kingu? Would he be an Avatar of a greater Titan, or just a disenfranchised god?

Question: The books and PDFs have a lot of details about different ways that a living Scion can get INTO the Underworlds. I imagine if they had clearly-marked exist, the dead would just use them all the time - but how is a living Scion whose time has not yet come supposed to get back OUT? Do they have to ask the local death god for a way our? Can they just retrace their steps and spent a point of Legend to emerge into the World?

Question: How would you do a Chaos Titanrealm? Not asking for which Titans you'd pick, just asking what you think it would look like. (And batshit crazy isn't a real answer.)

Question: How would you kind folks at GBN do a Chaos Titanrealm? Hundun always seemed to be a cop-out, to be frank. I've already seen your awesome Inca Destruction realm, and wonder if that would basically be it.

Question: So, aliens! Where do aliens fit into Scion? Have you ever included them in your games? By "alien", I mean both the common perception of aliens (greys, reptilians, etc.) and mortal races not originating on earth or in an Overworld. Second, what are "Lyrans" and what connection do they have to the Anunna?

I don't think a vlog has been this saturated with pop culture since... ever.

Chaos, Monkeys and More

Question: Is your Chaos Titan still Hundun? Because I have come up with this Titanspawn that would be on the path toward becoming a full-on Titan Avatar of Chaos, sort of like a dark reflection of Sun Wukong (who is awesome), and I really like how you two have done the whole Titan thing, so I'd be curious to know how this sort of character would work as something unique that's happening in Scion.

We haven't done an official rewrite for the Titan of Chaos yet, so at the moment our Chaos Titan is a loose agglomeration of concepts; we have no Chinese Scions at the moment and thus their Titanrealm hasn't been one of the more major antagonists in play. We'll definitely have one when we're done with our Titanrealm rewrites, but that's a while in the future, so we don't know exactly when it'll happen. As far as Hundun's portrayal in the book goes, we didn't like much of its writeup and probably won't keep a great deal of it - Hundun himself is a good choice for a Titan Avatar, but while we totally understand the challenge of trying to represent a concept like Chaos in understandable bits and bites for play, we don't think the book did a very good job with it.

We've been using some of the elements of Pakiy, the Titanrealm of Destruction we wrote up for the Inca pantheon supplement, in lieu of Hundun, and so far that's been working out pretty well for us. It needs a full rewrite, but will have to wait until whatever round of Titan work it crops up in.

As for your Sun Wukong nemesis, however, that sounds like a fun idea! Titanspawn becoming Titan Avatars is absolutely possible, and since one of Chaos' schticks is mimicking and twisting things that already exist, having it based on Sun Wukong (himself a chaotic mess of a god) should work just fine. Sun Wukong started as a Titanspawn creature and became a god; a dark mirror of him that went the other road should be a fun phenomenon indeed. Incidentally, that's also a fun thing to explore for Scions of the Monkey King - their father was originally Titanspawn and even now is strongly aligned with chaos and destruction, so it's not inconceivable that some of his Scions might find the road to the Titans suits them more than staying with the straight-laced gods.

I say go on with your bad self. Your Titan Avatar idea sounds, in theory, like it's got a great base; just make sure you understand what aspects of Chaos this guy represents and what his motivations are, and you've got an antagonist your players can love and fear all day long.