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Like the title suggests, I wanna brainstorm some awesome ways to describe how a mortal becomes a god.
1) The mortal sneaks into the Boneyard and erases their name from the book of life.
2) Deicide, which curses the murderer with becoming the new god.
3) Devouring the flesh and blood of a god in its entirety.
4) All gods are dreamers that sleep in the plane of dreams to untether themselves from the physical world and become omnipotent. You can find "your bed " in the Dreamlands, fight your way in, then rest for all eternity to become a god.
5) Siphon divine energy away from slumbering deity/deities unawares.
6) Extremely well-worded, lucky, and well-timed wish.
7) Discover or create an entire new field that needs divine representation. You're the only expert so who better for the job?
There shouldn't be any easy way.
8) Find the contract of creation and write your divinity into it.
9) Become so legendary at stealth that the god of death can't find you.
10) Trick Asmodeus into agreeing to a deal that makes you immortal.
11) Swallow the souls of 12 different legendary (CR25+ perhaps?) monsters.
12) Become a paragon of pure good.
13) Reach level 20 in every core character class.
14) From Greek mythology. Eat the ambrosia of the gods. This shouldn't be a simple case of breaking into the garden of heaven, ambrosia would just be a metaphor for the god's source of power, part of the difficulty would be in working out what ambrosia really is.
15) Marry a god or goddess. You won't become a god, but your children might be.
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16) bind death
17) consume all the souls of an entire plane
18) Travel to a newborn universe. It seems to be a trend for young universes to recruit lucky early-arriving planes-hoppers for deities.
19) Alternatively, make your own! Creating a brand-new universe tends to make you the first (or one of the first) deities around.
20) Travel to every plane, taking a memento from each - something important, interesting, innately powerful, and/or hard to acquire. Once that's complete, use all those mementos in creating a constructed duplicate or simulacrum of yourself - the ones closer to your own ethos being closer to the construct's heart and mind, while those most unlike you are further away. (So for example, a would-be new LG deity would put stuff from Heaven, Nirvana, and Axis closer to the center and head, while things from the fiendish and chaotic planes would be in the extremities.) Lastly, perform a ritual to transfer your soul into the construct. If done correctly, you'll wake up infused with planar power, making you a powerful high-ranking Outsider demigod, if not a full deity.
21) Similar to #7, become the first "something". This is usually easier in primordial settings. Become the first murderer and turn into a god of murder, or the first to run away from death and become the goddess of undeath.
22) In a setting that has them, impress the overgod(s) so much that they appoint you the representative of whatever talent you possess. Bonus points if you doing so gets the current holder of that position kicked out/demoted.
23) Obtain immortality by magical or alchemical means, then spend your newly-extended life building a country, religion, or cult out of loyal supplicants convinced of your divinity. If you gather enough devoted worshipers, surely you can convince reality to acquiesce to their fervent belief/faith and allow you to ascend. And if not, you have all these worshipers who want to give you their souls when they die; surely you can do something with those to finish the job.
24) Learn everything, including why you can't learn everything, which allows you to learn everything, and attain the divine knowing.
25) Defeat a deity by forcing them to dance to death.
26) Learning the song or words of creation.
27) exploit the true name of a deity or exploit your own as fuel to Godhood.
28) a)Release titans from Tarterus, b) ?????? C) profit
29) "No one know how the mortal *name* became a deity, because all the Gods signed a non-disclosure pact"
30) Reincarnate as a Phoenix as a step on the way to Godhood.
31) Establish a mental link with the planet/plane (avoiding, of course, getting your brain utterly meltificated by the overwhelmingness of the thing you're trying to bond with), and empower that link over the years to the point where you can control nearly anything on the planet/plane with but a thought. When your body dies, your soul and mind merge fully with it, making you essentially that planet/plane. After - or even before - that, it's just a matter of cultivating worshipers.
32) Create a spell or artifact to drain the divinity from a god into yourself, replacing them. I'd imagine whomever bucked the system like this would make a lot of enemies though.
21) Similar to #7, become the first "something". This is usually easier in primordial settings. Become the first murderer and turn into a god of murder, or the first to run away from death and become the goddess of undeath.
with what's probably left over, i don't want to be a god anymore.
31) Establish a mental link with the planet/plane (avoiding, of course, getting your brain utterly meltificated by the overwhelmingness of the thing you're trying to bond with), and empower that link over the years to the point where you can control nearly anything on the planet/plane with but a thought. When your body dies, your soul and mind merge fully with it, making you essentially that planet/plane. After - or even before - that, it's just a matter of cultivating worshipers.
Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood?
33) challenge a god to a fair match of something(chess?) and win.
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34) Merge with every other member of your species into a conjoined hive-entity, a la the Axiomite Godmind, or Marvel's Stranger or Eternal Uni-Mind.
35) Seize control of a plane of existence, or the center of power of a deity or former deity, such as the central section of Axis that was once Aroden's domain, or the Peacock Angel's domain in Heaven.
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36) Be born at the precise moment that a world ending catastrophe occurs, drawing into yourself all the spirits of those who are dying. Use this energy to become the seed of the next world, and allow your consciousness to roam the new world as an innocent but amazingly powerful child.
37) Be so stupidly awesome that the gods have to let you into their club.
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38: Bang Calistria and survive!
39.) Promise your soul to Asmodeus, and when he comes to collect it, beat him up and conquer hell.
40.) Eat the souls of the Wild Hunt. The entire Wild Hunt.
An internet hi-five to anyone who gets either reference.
39: so this is one i have read before and quite like. Get absorbed by an enormous entity that has absorbed countless others. Then once inside, start absorbing those around you, one at a time until you are finally strong enough to absorbe the entity in its entirety. Thats not enough tho. You then have to do battle with the god of destruction, creating 3 new races for every one he destroys. Lastly, during your eons long battle with your rival, get tricked from coming out of hyperspace/nullspace/the underplane and into a black hole. Get torn apart, simultaniously existing in 3 seperate realities and be born anew from the resulting collapse of space.
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You take a mortal man,
And put him in control
Watch him become a GOD,
Watch peoples heads a'roll
A'roll
A'roll...
Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes,
Swaying to the Symphony...
Of Destruction
42. Kidnap the god of death and force them to change your entry in their books from "mortal" to "god", along with date of death to "never".
31) Establish a mental link with the planet/plane (avoiding, of course, getting your brain utterly meltificated by the overwhelmingness of the thing you're trying to bond with), and empower that link over the years to the point where you can control nearly anything on the planet/plane with but a thought. When your body dies, your soul and mind merge fully with it, making you essentially that planet/plane. After - or even before - that, it's just a matter of cultivating worshipers.Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood?
I sadly have not gotten to see/read Brotherhood yet. I was thinking more Final Fantasy VII, though the attempt obviously failed in that case due to outside interference.
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43) Fiddle contest
39.) Promise your soul to Asmodeus, and when he comes to collect it, beat him up and conquer hell.
40.) Eat the souls of the Wild Hunt. The entire Wild Hunt.
An internet hi-five to anyone who gets either reference.
Dresden/Celtic mythology?
45) DM says something similar to, "You're a god. Now what?"
43) Fiddle contest
I would add it should probably be done in the land of Georgia, on a hickory stump.
46) Post humously, your behaviors and actions drew the attention of a deity in life and as a reward for your service, you are appointed as a herald or agent of said deity, as a demigod.