Aroden -- foreshadowing?

[Set]

Aroden wrote:

I find your idea of a sex-prison for that deity-person called Aroden intriguing. We should open a more private channel of communication to further explore the possibilities of this concept.

Aroden's last dance party is going on inside the Eye of Abendago.

Everyone's invited.

You can check out any time you like, but, well, you know the rest...

[Urath DM]

Charles Scholz wrote:

This is just one of many possible scenarios for the disappearance of Aroden.

Anyone else have any ideas?

1) Razmir is the shattered remnant of Aroden's humanity stripped of his divinity. Pharasma's new servant who looks a lot like Aroden, "Echo of Divinity Lost", is his "other half".

2) Aroden is what is keeping the Worldwound from getting bigger faster. He's slowly losing the battle, and will eventually fall completely.

3) The Worldwound and the Eye of Abendego are two "poles" of a prison that now holds Aroden trapped within.

[John Woodford]

Set wrote:

Aroden wrote:

I find your idea of a sex-prison for that deity-person called Aroden intriguing. We should open a more private channel of communication to further explore the possibilities of this concept.

Aroden's last dance party is going on inside the Eye of Abendago.

Everyone's invited.

You can check out any time you like, but, well, you know the rest...

With music by Elvis and Glenn Miller?

[Steelfiredragon]

as for the starstone running out of power and aroden's death.

the thing with prophesies is that they do tend to happen, but not like all those involved plan to see it.

thus, leaving/faking death and leaving fate in the hands of humanity so that they may achieve greatness on their own works best.

AND for that matter, the date in question of ARoden's return, did humanity fill their part of the prophesy?

my guess is no.

the huriicane prison, prisoner of big A in the 9th lvl....

all seem to be good cage spots

[Matthew Morris]

My pet theory

Spoiler:

Aroden in his role as god of prophesy (why does that never look right?) saw something coming, and rather than let it happen, stopped it. Defying his own portfolion essentially caused him to explode, screwing up prophesy and the world. Maybe he forsaw the world falling into the abyss and 'limited' the damage to the Worldwound?

That or Amy forgot to remake him when she remade the universe ;-)

As to his appearance. I still picture him as a young Patrick Duffy.

[Set]

Death was part of a prophecy only he knew. A 'twice-made god' would stop the end of the world, and he knew that he had to give up his divinity and be reborn to Golarion as a mortal, and then take the Test of the Starstone and *become a god a second time.*

That's why he raised it in the first place. This plan has been a long time coming.

[LazarX]

Dark_Mistress wrote:

I agree I would rather it never be printed in black and white this is what happened. I would much rather have several versions, speculations and claims about what happened. I think White Wolf did that very well with the World of Darkness for the most part. Which I think was part of why it sold so well. They was a interesting read, lots of big events, lots of information but little of it was just one way. Most of it was told from several points of view with no answer on which was right. Leaving it up to the GM to decided. Plus it was fun to speculate about it on forums of course, among fellow fans.

White Wolf was spawned by and made for a very different culture of role playing gamers than the original D&D war gaming population. They were the literary types that got attracted to what was going on at the simulation nerd table, but eventually rebelled from the D&D philosophy for something more story driven. While it has it's share of theorycrafters, and number crunchers, they don't tend to stick around as Storyteller has never been a system where RAW is king, and such rules lawyer gamesmanship doesn't have the solid footing that it enjoys in D20-derived and other number crunching point buy systems like GURPS, HERO, etc.

[FallofCamelot]

My pet theory:

Spoiler:

Aroden is the hermit on the Hermitage. He tried to do something awesome but now it's backfired and he can't remember how to fix it because he's not a god anymore.

[Sir Jolt]

I think the reason gamer's want completism from published worlds is that they don't want to introduce anything major only to have a later published expansion contradict it. Then you're stuck trying to mesh sources that are saying two different things and somehow make it work. You could just ignore the new published expansion but that defeats the purpose of why most people like to use published worlds in the first place.

SJ

[Merlin Porkins]

Matthew Morris wrote:

prophesy (why does that never look right?)

Because it's not. "Prophesy' is the verb. "Prophecy" is the noun.

Matthew Morris wrote:

As to his appearance. I still picture him as a young Patrick Duffy.

The Man from Atlantis? Are we really getting that old?

[Set]

Merlin Porkins wrote:

The Man from Atlantis? Are we really getting that old?

Says the dude named after the host of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. :)

"While I hide in the van, Jim is wrestling the mighty anaconda!"

[LazarX]

Set wrote:

Merlin Porkins wrote:

The Man from Atlantis? Are we really getting that old?

Says the dude named after the host of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. :)

"While I hide in the van, Jim is wrestling the mighty anaconda!"

Actually it's more like "While Marlin sells insurance to the natives....." The latter's appearances on Johnny Carson were a riot. The Tonight Show is where that line I quoted was dropped.

[LazarX]

Matthew Morris wrote:

My pet theory

** spoiler omitted **

That or Amy forgot to remake him when she remade the universe ;-)

As to his appearance. I still picture him as a young Patrick Duffy.

No she didn't forget to remake Aroden... she married him instead after having him do a 2000 year stint as a plastic Roman Legionaire. :)

[Matthew Morris]

Merlin Porkins wrote:

Matthew Morris wrote:

prophesy (why does that never look right?)

Because it's not. "Prophesy' is the verb. "Prophecy" is the noun.

Matthew Morris wrote:

As to his appearance. I still picture him as a young Patrick Duffy.

The Man from Atlantis? Are we really getting that old?

Ah, my spelling sucks... even with spellcheck :-(

And yes, we're getting that old.

[roll8dn]

cappadocius wrote:

No, no. He faked his death to get out of paying his back taxes. Aroden is currently disguised as Rory Bellows, a simple salvage operator.

"Dax dodge, smax dodge. You take one nap in a ditch..."

[/Farnsworth][/off-topic]

I do have to say that I'm glad that Paizo has no intention of filling in all of the mysteries that exist in Golarion. It's one of those things that I dislike about most published settings; generally, I use the setting as a background rather than a full world. It gives me easy, pre-made places, people, and cities that are already written about (saving me time on prep), which I can then take and fill in the blanks for with the PCs and their actions.

It's a lot easier to do that when I don't have to worry about every mystery in the world being answered eventually.