Ok, so I have been playing around with this idea for a while. Basically there are three gods/goddess' that exist before all others in this particular setting, one of chaos; one of calamity; and one of prosperity. The gods of calamity an prosperity join forces to fight the god of chaos and after a very long battle they were able to imprison the god in a magical prison by forcing the god into a sleep. Together they created all that exists in the setting. Then the new gods came forth and saw the god of calamity as a problem for the new world so they sought a way to get rid of the god. They found a way but, it required it's opposite. The god of prosperity offered itself for the process. What happens here is that the gods of calamity and prosperity are then split into "calamity shards" and "prosperity shards" and some are then fused to produce "Anima shards" and they are scattered around the world.
The setting itself revolves around the adventurers having to fight a group of superpowered cultists that I call "Voidwalkers" who are trying to collect the shards to resurrect their god. All the while the god of Chaos stirs in his prison for the first time in millennia. Will they choose to kill the cultists? Will the god of calamity be resurrected? Or will the world be destroyed by the god of chaos as it wakes?
The problem is simple, if a god of calamity/god of prosperity exists and was resurrected from being shattered into shards of itself, what would it do; how would it act; and how does it affect the world around it? The first step would be to define exactly what a "God of Calamity" and "God of Prosperity" is. Any ideas?
Ideas like these don't mean anything except to people. What I mean is, they're the kind of nouns that are really subjective. What's calamitous for me might not matter at all to someone else.
Furthermore, I would imagine that calamity really thrives in the presence of prosperity, and vice versa. They're sort of measures of how things are going for living folks. If times are good, then there's a lot further to fall.
I'm not sure why they'd team up to kill chaos, though.
Why have you chosen these words if you don't already feel you know what they're meant to represent?
Chaos represents the state that the world was in during the beginning so when the god of Chaos wakes that means the end of one world and the beginning of another.
I started with wanting a god of Calamity whose very existence represents entropy.
I then thought it was best to keep some sort of balance in the game so I made a counterpart to it, the god of prosperity, and the god of Chaos was thrown in to keep with the rule of three.
Basically, these gods aren't actually able to die as they are integral to world itself and any attempt to kill them would result in them completely reforming as they were before they "died".
Which is why the god of Chaos was put to sleep and a magic prison built around it.
Prosperity and Calamity in this context is based around what every being in the world would consider them to be which is why I put them so high on the hierarchy of the gods of this world.
So in part I know what the definition of the words calamity and prosperity mean however, what I do not have knowledge of at this time due to my lack of experience on the matter is how to translate the meanings of the words and incorporate them into their overall characters.
Ok, so I have been playing around with this idea for a while. Basically there are three gods/goddess' that exist before all others in this particular setting, one of chaos; one of calamity; and one of prosperity. The gods of calamity an prosperity join forces to fight the god of chaos and after a very long battle they were able to imprison the god in a magical prison by forcing the god into a sleep. Together they created all that exists in the setting. Then the new gods came forth and saw the god of calamity as a problem for the new world so they sought a way to get rid of the god. They found a way but, it required it's opposite. The god of prosperity offered itself for the process. What happens here is that the gods of calamity and prosperity are then split into "calamity shards" and "prosperity shards" and some are then fused to produce "Anima shards" and they are scattered around the world.
The setting itself revolves around the adventurers having to fight a group of superpowered cultists that I call "Voidwalkers" who are trying to collect the shards to resurrect their god. All the while the god of Chaos stirs in his prison for the first time in millennia. Will they choose to kill the cultists? Will the god of calamity be resurrected? Or will the world be destroyed by the god of chaos as it wakes?
The problem is simple, if a god of calamity/god of prosperity exists and was resurrected from being shattered into shards of itself, what would it do; how would it act; and how does it affect the world around it? The first step would be to define exactly what a "God of Calamity" and "God of Prosperity" is. Any ideas?
Ideas like these don't mean anything except to people. What I mean is, they're the kind of nouns that are really subjective. What's calamitous for me might not matter at all to someone else.
Furthermore, I would imagine that calamity really thrives in the presence of prosperity, and vice versa. They're sort of measures of how things are going for living folks. If times are good, then there's a lot further to fall.
I'm not sure why they'd team up to kill chaos, though.
Why have you chosen these words if you don't already feel you know what they're meant to represent?
Chaos represents the state that the world was in during the beginning so when the god of Chaos wakes that means the end of one world and the beginning of another.
I started with wanting a god of Calamity whose very existence represents entropy.
I then thought it was best to keep some sort of balance in the game so I made a counterpart to it, the god of prosperity, and the god of Chaos was thrown in to keep with the rule of three.
Basically, these gods aren't actually able to die as they are integral to world itself and any attempt to kill them would result in them completely reforming as they were before they "died".
Which is why the god of Chaos was put to sleep and a magic prison built around it.
Prosperity and Calamity in this context is based around what every being in the world would consider them to be which is why I put them so high on the hierarchy of the gods of this world.
So in part I know what the definition of the words calamity and prosperity mean however, what I do not have knowledge of at this time due to my lack of experience on the matter is how to translate the meanings of the words and incorporate them into their overall characters.