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In the campaign setting, it says that Aroden "disappeared". The Paizo staff have stated that, at least in their campaign, Aroden is really, really, dead. My thought was, since Aroden is basically the messiah, and has the power of prophecy, that he foresaw that if he continued to exist, it would start a chain of events that would destroy the world, possibly foreshadowed in the AP's, probably having to do with the horrors of the Dark Tapestry.

I believe that, in order for Aroden to save the world, he committed suicide, to avert the apocalypse and allow people to save the world. You know, proper Christ-figure self sacrifice.

So, in order for the apocalypse to restart, a group of evil (and good!) cultist set out to resurrect the living god in order to destroy the world like it was supposed to. The heroes (or villain) must race against time and just about everyone in the setting to stop the ritual from bringing the Savior/Destroyer back to life.

Does this sound like a good campaign idea?


He actually prophesied that he would live to bring in a golden age, but if you are just ignoring that and doing your own thing then yeah it works. Well it works for me anyway, but it really depends on your group.


wraithstrike wrote:
He actually prophesied that he would live to bring in a golden age, but if you are just ignoring that and doing your own thing then yeah it works. Well it works for me anyway, but it really depends on your group.

You know how prophecies are, he may have been referring to the reign of the King in Yellow.

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I like this idea because it does something that most adventures don't. It has the possibility of pitting characters against both evil and good opponents. Alignment is taken out of the equation as both the evil cult and the church of Iomedae could end up being in opposition to the characters.


Pyrrhic Victory wrote:
I like this idea because it does something that most adventures don't. It has the possibility of pitting characters against both evil and good opponents. Alignment is taken out of the equation as both the evil cult and the church of Iomedae could end up being in opposition to the characters.

That is what I was thinking also to an extent. I am sure there are people that want Aroden to come back to life. I believe that Iomedae would be against it though if it meant the end of the world. There could be a lot of plot twist in this one. I would do my own version if I had free time to write anything.


wraithstrike wrote:
Pyrrhic Victory wrote:
I like this idea because it does something that most adventures don't. It has the possibility of pitting characters against both evil and good opponents. Alignment is taken out of the equation as both the evil cult and the church of Iomedae could end up being in opposition to the characters.
That is what I was thinking also to an extent. I am sure there are people that want Aroden to come back to life. I believe that Iomedae would be against it though if it meant the end of the world. There could be a lot of plot twist in this one. I would do my own version if I had free time to write anything.

Well, the idea is that only Pharasma knows. The characters are probably recruited by one of her heralds, since they do mess in the affairs of mortals, to intervene on her behalf.

I kinda saw a living god walking the world as a beacon of light, which was allowing the evil creatures in the Dark Tapestry to hone in on Golarion like moths to a flame. When Aroden died, they lost track of Golarion, but if he comes back, they'll take over and reinstate the King in Yellow as the ruler of the world.

And heck, what if the countdown timers in Osirion were counting down the days til eldritch abominations locate Golarion?


You know how prophecies are, he may have been referring to the reign of the King in Yellow.

Nice!

I just read Insylum the other day.
:)


Rocketmail1 wrote:


I believe that, in order for Aroden to save the world, he committed suicide, to avert the apocalypse and allow people to save the world. You know, proper Christ-figure self sacrifice.

Not to get all Real World on you, but Christ did not, of course, commit suicide, so the comparison is not that apt. Some folks might take offense. That's why I try to keep real world religion and politics out of my PF/D&D.


Brian Bachman wrote:
Rocketmail1 wrote:


I believe that, in order for Aroden to save the world, he committed suicide, to avert the apocalypse and allow people to save the world. You know, proper Christ-figure self sacrifice.

Not to get all Real World on you, but Christ did not, of course, commit suicide, so the comparison is not that apt. Some folks might take offense. That's why I try to keep real world religion and politics out of my PF/D&D.

Well, technically someone else killed him, but he went in knowing he was going to die.

As far as Aroden goes, since only a god can kill other gods, he really didn't have much of a choice.

EDIT:

Consider it Self-Sacrifice. Neither of them really wanted to die, but in order to save the world they HAD to.

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