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RandoTheCat
Acolyte
USA
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 Posted - 30 Oct 2022 : 15:29:54
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Poll Question:
What If Karsus didn't choose to become to the god of magic? What if he did some thinking first? What god would be the better option to kill all the Phaerimm?
Sorry I couldn't get all the gods out of the Netherese Pantheon. If you have a better god that Karsus could be, please tell me!
(Edited to include gods that existed, and to remove gods that didn't yet!)
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Edited by - RandoTheCat on 02 Nov 2022 00:07:56
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 30 Oct 2022 : 18:40:33
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| Karsus deciding to become a god so he could fight the phaerimm is a retcon I ignore. |
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hashimashadoo
Master of Realmslore
United Kingdom
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Posted - 31 Oct 2022 : 13:47:06
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Most of those gods weren't around when Karsus cast his Avatar spell.
Also, considering the kind of things that Phaerimm got a kick out of (watching conscious, but paralyzed people being eaten alive from the inside out by phaerimm babies for example), the concept of a phaerimm party is a horrifying one. |
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Delnyn
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 31 Oct 2022 : 14:57:59
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| By default, the only choice is Gruumsh since he is the only deity you listed that was around during Netheril. |
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RandoTheCat
Acolyte
USA
19 Posts |
Posted - 01 Nov 2022 : 21:21:26
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| Thanks for the info! I kinda forgor, let me edit this poll! |
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Edited by - RandoTheCat on 01 Nov 2022 21:31:19 |
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BrennonGoldeye
Learned Scribe
105 Posts |
Posted - 02 Nov 2022 : 15:51:15
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Originally posted by Delnyn
By default, the only choice is Gruumsh since he is the only deity you listed that was around during Netheril.
I'm sorry, why are you claiming the Netherese Pantheon didn't exist during Netheril?
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BrennonGoldeye
Learned Scribe
105 Posts |
Posted - 02 Nov 2022 : 15:59:36
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Originally posted by hashimashadoo
Most of those gods weren't around when Karsus cast his Avatar spell.
Also, considering the kind of things that Phaerimm got a kick out of (watching conscious, but paralyzed people being eaten alive from the inside out by phaerimm babies for example), the concept of a phaerimm party is a horrifying one.
I'm sorry, why are you claiming the Netherese Pantheon didn't exist during Netheril?
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 02 Nov 2022 : 16:10:47
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| Hmmmm, what god should he have stolen the power of? I'll throw out another question... why does it have to be Netherese? For instance, if he chooses a god that's not Netherese and then "adds" himself to the Netherese pantheon, he might gain Netherese worshippers even while he loses worshippers from the other pantheon. The Netherese pantheon might even help protect him in this instance as well from vengeful members of the OTHER pantheon. For instance, and not saying this is necessarily a good idea, Thoth of the Mulhorandi pantheon is a god of knowledge, science, engineering, etc... as well as magic. So, if he were willing to be a servitor deity to Mystryl, he could have in theory have occupied this other deity.... in a way that would be similar to Azuth, Savras, etc... that came later. Granted, he would be prime bound... but I'd bet the process would be even easier as a result.... less powerful but easier. Of course, this idea would have pissed off the Mulhorandi pantheon in theory, but I'm also not convinced that there may not have been some incursions going on between these pantheons already (for instance, Amon-Re and At'ar being Amaunator... Jannath/Bhalla of the Rashemi/Hathor and eventually Chauntea as a cow goddess/primordial that might have been known as Audhum-Bhalla or Audumbla <which may be why Hathor is kind of mistreated by the other Mulhorandi deities>... Shar as a female variant of a possible Untheric deity Anshar ... Nergal and Jergal ... eventually Ishtar becoming Eldath to possibly escape Gilgeam). |
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RandoTheCat
Acolyte
USA
19 Posts |
Posted - 02 Nov 2022 : 19:06:19
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I edited to include the gods in the pantheon, before it was just random gods. Also to my other friend, because I didn't want to do more research to browse the other gods at the time.
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Edited by - RandoTheCat on 02 Nov 2022 19:07:58 |
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Seethyr
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 02 Nov 2022 : 21:23:43
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| Karsus’ interests obviously lie strongly in the magic portfolio and Mystryl’s primary competition in the category (at least as revealed a million times over in 3e) is Shar. I know she has other, more important goals for herself but from the eyes and motivation of Karsus, she’s who I’d think he would pick. Let him take the shadow weave and make it into something Shar never intended. |
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Delnyn
Master of Realmslore
USA
1037 Posts |
Posted - 02 Nov 2022 : 23:01:39
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Originally posted by RandoTheCat
I edited to include the gods in the pantheon, before it was just random gods. Also to my other friend, because I didn't want to do more research to browse the other gods at the time.
This poll is a definite improvement over the 20th level slaves.
As far as choice of god is concerned, the tricky question is what would Karsus do after he dealt with the phaerimm? Assuming he succeeded. One god would work for the short term goal. Three others would work for longer term goals. |
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Delnyn
Master of Realmslore
USA
1037 Posts |
Posted - 02 Nov 2022 : 23:18:26
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Originally posted by BrennonGoldeye
quote:
Originally posted by Delnyn
By default, the only choice is Gruumsh since he is the only deity you listed that was around during Netheril.
I'm sorry, why are you claiming the Netherese Pantheon didn't exist during Netheril?
No worries. The poster originally offered deities that existed in the 1300s DR. After feedback, the poster revised the choices to reflect the Netherese pantheon. You may have wondered why was I mentioning Gruumsh at all. He was on the original list. I presume you saw my comment before the poster edited the choices.
EDIT: change "before the poster..." to "after the poster..." |
Edited by - Delnyn on 02 Nov 2022 23:34:00 |
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RandoTheCat
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 03 Nov 2022 : 19:49:24
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Great question! If we take in the information about Karsus, we know that he is fairly young and naive to all the other enclave leaders. It'd depend on how naive he really is, so either he'd get bored after a few years or he might get in trouble with Ao for caring more about his empire than his actual portfolio if he is as naive as a netherese enclave leader can be, if he retains his personality traits after the spells casting.
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BrennonGoldeye
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 03 Nov 2022 : 19:55:20
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Originally posted by Delnyn
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Originally posted by BrennonGoldeye
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Originally posted by Delnyn
By default, the only choice is Gruumsh since he is the only deity you listed that was around during Netheril.
I'm sorry, why are you claiming the Netherese Pantheon didn't exist during Netheril?
No worries. The poster originally offered deities that existed in the 1300s DR. After feedback, the poster revised the choices to reflect the Netherese pantheon. You may have wondered why was I mentioning Gruumsh at all. He was on the original list. I presume you saw my comment before the poster edited the choices.
EDIT: change "before the poster..." to "after the poster..."
Ahhh...tyvm Delnyn! I thought there was some horrific retcon I didn't know about, lol. |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 03 Nov 2022 : 22:28:16
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| As Jergal he could have snuffed them all out. |
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Wooly Rupert
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What god should Karsus of been?
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