As time passed, Charity grew more confident in her power, though it dwindled for a few days at first. Then, when she convinced a village she was a goddess worthy of fear and worship, and brought rain to their crops, she felt power trickle back into herself. Little by little, as word of her incredible power, unmissable stature and cunning nature spread, her cult emerged, feeding her fear and praise.
It was glorious. Who cared about the fate of a single kingdom when she could cross it with ease, weapons failing against her scales and armour scorched by lightning. There were a few hiccups- one Duke elected to capture and imprison her worshippers, and in return she freed them and created small buds of herself, which fused and turned the peasants into beautiful little mimicries of herself. She tried messing with cursing artefacts and doing it by hand, but simply laying buds where she slithered proved easiest, the parasites forming new Ruinagas, her people.
That said, the Ruinaga's did have some quirks, including...
E. Various elemental powers, not purely lightning
U. A tendency to unfuse, returning to human form
F. Exclusively female forms, regardless of their origin.
M. Strange mutations, no two were the same
R. A lot of rebellious streaks.
A. Unstable allergies like Charity herself.
G. Surprising growth spurts
And over years Charity became known as Titaness of Storms, Change and...
1. Wealth
2. Destruction
3. Civilization
4. Water
5. Fertility
6. Chaos
Albeit the Titaness did suffer chaotic allergies to...
SUGGESTIONS.
So I feel next page might be the last. While there is lots of potential for Charity or her Brood for transformations, those feel more like separate sequences than a continuation of this. This has been lots of fun to see and be surprised by, so if you have ideas for where this could go, let me know but I feel we're reaching a good... status quo.
Last page people chose the production of Parasites (barely, it was soooo close), sustenance by Worship, and Allergies and her own Size as weakness.
Voting will close late on 20th I guess. Thanks again!
It was glorious. Who cared about the fate of a single kingdom when she could cross it with ease, weapons failing against her scales and armour scorched by lightning. There were a few hiccups- one Duke elected to capture and imprison her worshippers, and in return she freed them and created small buds of herself, which fused and turned the peasants into beautiful little mimicries of herself. She tried messing with cursing artefacts and doing it by hand, but simply laying buds where she slithered proved easiest, the parasites forming new Ruinagas, her people.
That said, the Ruinaga's did have some quirks, including...
E. Various elemental powers, not purely lightning
U. A tendency to unfuse, returning to human form
F. Exclusively female forms, regardless of their origin.
M. Strange mutations, no two were the same
R. A lot of rebellious streaks.
A. Unstable allergies like Charity herself.
G. Surprising growth spurts
And over years Charity became known as Titaness of Storms, Change and...
1. Wealth
2. Destruction
3. Civilization
4. Water
5. Fertility
6. Chaos
Albeit the Titaness did suffer chaotic allergies to...
SUGGESTIONS.
So I feel next page might be the last. While there is lots of potential for Charity or her Brood for transformations, those feel more like separate sequences than a continuation of this. This has been lots of fun to see and be surprised by, so if you have ideas for where this could go, let me know but I feel we're reaching a good... status quo.
Last page people chose the production of Parasites (barely, it was soooo close), sustenance by Worship, and Allergies and her own Size as weakness.
Voting will close late on 20th I guess. Thanks again!
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I mention this just because I wanted to comment a bit on the theme of "chaos" ....
The theme of "chaos" is very "rejected". Chaos can be a "change", either for the better or for the worse, but after the "disaster" the "creation" always begins again.
As in the Greek myth, first of all there was "chaos" from the birth nyx (night), erebus ('darkness', 'blackness' or 'shadow'), Eros (it could be said that he was the god of fertility. ..) gaia (the titan of "earth / nature").
In other representations of other myths you can find chaos as "everything" and "nothing". There is a lot of play to the idea of "chaos"
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I wanted to comment a bit about the genailogic tree, especially on the side of nyx (incarnation of the night) and erebus (incarnation of darkness). There are some quite peculiar individuals, such as Eris (the goddess of discord), Hypnos (personification of sleep) and Thanatos (personification of death without violence), Nemesis (goddess of justice)
Well, nyx is also the mother of the moiras (of which Zeus himself is afraid of them): cloto the spinner (birth), lachesis the one that measures (life) and atropos the inevitable (death)
In Roman myth also called: Nona, Décima and Morta
The theme of "chaos" is very "rejected". Chaos can be a "change", either for the better or for the worse, but after the "disaster" the "creation" always begins again.
As in the Greek myth, first of all there was "chaos" from the birth nyx (night), erebus ('darkness', 'blackness' or 'shadow'), Eros (it could be said that he was the god of fertility. ..) gaia (the titan of "earth / nature").
In other representations of other myths you can find chaos as "everything" and "nothing". There is a lot of play to the idea of "chaos"
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I wanted to comment a bit about the genailogic tree, especially on the side of nyx (incarnation of the night) and erebus (incarnation of darkness). There are some quite peculiar individuals, such as Eris (the goddess of discord), Hypnos (personification of sleep) and Thanatos (personification of death without violence), Nemesis (goddess of justice)
Well, nyx is also the mother of the moiras (of which Zeus himself is afraid of them): cloto the spinner (birth), lachesis the one that measures (life) and atropos the inevitable (death)
In Roman myth also called: Nona, Décima and Morta
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To the allergies: At first I thought, well, she doesn't have to eat, so she won't have allergies to food. But she feeds on worship and adoration, so why couldn't she have allergic reactions to wrong or funny ways of worship:
There might be super fanatic worshippers who pray with ardent zeal, creating too much worship than charity can handle. She might react as if she has eaten too spicy food, with a feeling of burning in her core, but also more cartoony reactions, like letting off steam and smoke, radiating off heat, setting things on fire. The extra zealous worship might make her physically grow, too, like a heated up baloon. Also, it would give her some sort of fever reactions, making her an haughty airhead with inflated ego.
Then there might be sanctimonious persons, who even if changed into Ruinagas pay only lip service to Charity, performing all sorts of adorational rituals, saying their prayers alright, but without putting their hearts into it. Such adoration might give Charity enough energy to perform her daily work, but it might make her sluggish and slow, in body and mind, she might become slimey and feel cold to the touch.
Of course, Charity would try to guide her followers into worshipping her the right way, selecting only the best flavored worshippers for her inner circle. But she would have a hard time shaking off her most fanatic worshippers or sniffing out her hypocritical ones.
To the allergies: At first I thought, well, she doesn't have to eat, so she won't have allergies to food. But she feeds on worship and adoration, so why couldn't she have allergic reactions to wrong or funny ways of worship:
There might be super fanatic worshippers who pray with ardent zeal, creating too much worship than charity can handle. She might react as if she has eaten too spicy food, with a feeling of burning in her core, but also more cartoony reactions, like letting off steam and smoke, radiating off heat, setting things on fire. The extra zealous worship might make her physically grow, too, like a heated up baloon. Also, it would give her some sort of fever reactions, making her an haughty airhead with inflated ego.
Then there might be sanctimonious persons, who even if changed into Ruinagas pay only lip service to Charity, performing all sorts of adorational rituals, saying their prayers alright, but without putting their hearts into it. Such adoration might give Charity enough energy to perform her daily work, but it might make her sluggish and slow, in body and mind, she might become slimey and feel cold to the touch.
Of course, Charity would try to guide her followers into worshipping her the right way, selecting only the best flavored worshippers for her inner circle. But she would have a hard time shaking off her most fanatic worshippers or sniffing out her hypocritical ones.
Great idea, too.
Perhaps you could somehow incorporate the most frequent joke about food as well. For instance, she might sort of be collecting rituals of worship from exotic cultures, somethings like dance performances, religious plays or burnt offerings of exotic spices, and to Charity it's like recipes for exotic food. But one very sought after, mysterious ritual of reclusive monks from a distant country Charity has gone to great lenghts to win as followers turns out to just taste like chicken.
Perhaps you could somehow incorporate the most frequent joke about food as well. For instance, she might sort of be collecting rituals of worship from exotic cultures, somethings like dance performances, religious plays or burnt offerings of exotic spices, and to Charity it's like recipes for exotic food. But one very sought after, mysterious ritual of reclusive monks from a distant country Charity has gone to great lenghts to win as followers turns out to just taste like chicken.
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