paizo.com Recent Posts in What are the planes like in the time of Starfinderpaizo.com Recent Posts in What are the planes like in the time of Starfinder2018-10-13T22:55:35Z2018-10-13T22:55:35ZRe: Forums: Starfinder General Discussion: What are the planes like in the time of StarfinderMimskihttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42boe&page=2?What-are-the-planes-like-in-the-time-of#552019-03-23T10:34:30Z2019-03-23T10:34:30Z<p>I think what's important here is that, from what I can tell, being a "minor god" had nothing to do with how powerful the god is, and is just a setting information of "most worshipped gods in the Pact Worlds". Asmodeus for example seems to have moved his attention away from the Pact Worlds to some other places, e.g. that one Hell-controlled planet.</p>I think what's important here is that, from what I can tell, being a "minor god" had nothing to do with how powerful the god is, and is just a setting information of "most worshipped gods in the Pact Worlds". Asmodeus for example seems to have moved his attention away from the Pact Worlds to some other places, e.g. that one Hell-controlled planet.Mimski2019-03-23T10:34:30ZRe: Forums: Starfinder General Discussion: What are the planes like in the time of StarfinderOpsylumhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42boe&page=2?What-are-the-planes-like-in-the-time-of#542019-03-22T23:39:37Z2019-03-22T23:31:07Z<p>I figure - since Triune is the god of computers and technology - they’d generally be interested in being integrated into everything. Make everyone reliant on them. Like real technological progress. The implications of how much we rely on modern technology and what it could potentially do in the wrong hands is scary sometimes, but it’s just so convenient, and so much more efficient. Abadar especially seems like he’d get along with Triune, as the Drift beacons offer the best way to spread civilisation and law across the galaxy, and even dispatched a special new line of Inevitables to protect Triune’s beacons (at the AI god’s request). They seem kind of made for each other, both rushing towards integration and progress (no matter the cost). Triune would probably have an embassy in the Abyss if they thought it would help their very mysterious aims.</p>
<p>The gods are obviously still doing their thing on the material planes, although I don’t see why that means their cosmic plans should suddenly grind to a halt. That would be...really strange. The material plane itself was originally created so that the gods could divvy up all that juicy positive energy that was going around. The outer gods, on the other hand, seem chiefly concerned with the material plane. Which kind of makes me wonder how (or whether) Nyarlathotep interacts with the other gods, now that he’s a major player in the Pact Worlds.</p>
<p>I’d assumed the other gods would have their own realms - just wondered if their newfound influence inspired them to take up bigger roles on the cosmic chessboard. Asmodeus and Lamashtu getting demoted to minor god status really got me curious.</p>I figure - since Triune is the god of computers and technology - they’d generally be interested in being integrated into everything. Make everyone reliant on them. Like real technological progress. The implications of how much we rely on modern technology and what it could potentially do in the wrong hands is scary sometimes, but it’s just so convenient, and so much more efficient. Abadar especially seems like he’d get along with Triune, as the Drift beacons offer the best way to spread...Opsylum2019-03-22T23:31:07ZRe: Forums: Starfinder General Discussion: What are the planes like in the time of StarfinderFormerFiendhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42boe&page=2?What-are-the-planes-like-in-the-time-of#532019-03-22T12:34:35Z2019-03-22T12:34:35Z<p>Most of these gods aren't new, they're just new to us. Presumably they've had planar realms all along, just what with the planes all being functionally infinite, there's room.</p>Most of these gods aren't new, they're just new to us. Presumably they've had planar realms all along, just what with the planes all being functionally infinite, there's room.FormerFiend2019-03-22T12:34:35ZRe: Forums: Starfinder General Discussion: What are the planes like in the time of StarfinderGarretmanderhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42boe&page=2?What-are-the-planes-like-in-the-time-of#522019-03-22T03:17:57Z2019-03-22T03:17:57Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Opsylum wrote:</div><blockquote>Or perhaps Triune...</blockquote><p>Triune's got a floating axis knockoff in the drift - also the only god with a domain in the drift. Good thing they're neutral.
<p>The others are interesting ideas, but make me wonder if they aren't puttering about the material plane like outer gods do?</p>Opsylum wrote:Or perhaps Triune...
Triune's got a floating axis knockoff in the drift - also the only god with a domain in the drift. Good thing they're neutral. The others are interesting ideas, but make me wonder if they aren't puttering about the material plane like outer gods do?Garretmander2019-03-22T03:17:57ZRe: Forums: Starfinder General Discussion: What are the planes like in the time of StarfinderOpsylumhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42boe&page=2?What-are-the-planes-like-in-the-time-of#512019-03-23T15:32:12Z2019-03-21T19:19:57Z<p>Does anyone think that the politics of the gods has changed much in the planes since the Gap? Have some of the new gods moved into their sympathetic planes to establish new personal realms within the old ones we know?</p>
<p>Like, perhaps during this time, Damoritosh led his legions of fallen Veskarium soldiers in a surprise invasion to conquer the ultimate prize: Hell itself, and established a beachhead there, allowing the upstart god to rise in cosmic influence, while Asmodeus himself has become partially distracted recovering his own turf. Or perhaps Triune has established a new "Godmind network" within Axis, through which an encrypted First Vault contains repositories of perfect programs, and the everyday functions of the Perfect City are now optimized with machine intelligence. In exchange, axiomites type away in their forges to craft perfect code for Triune, and routinely update the drift beacons and their guardians, the Anhamuts - making Drift travel safer and more accessible for all (lawbringing colonists and technophiles alike). Meanwhile, the gates of Heaven have flooded with the insectoid ambassadors of Hylax, while squadrons of Weydan's devout starship pilots revel in unending dogfights across the night skies of Elysium. Oras, on the other hand, has taken to transplanting different species into habitable regions across the planes, guiding them across generations as they adapt to that plane's unique properties and evolve into bizarre new forms of life (often a hindrance to that plane's original occupants). And underneath all this, hordes of demons flock to the seductive call of the Devourer, who has manifested over the Abyss's bottomless layers as an ominous event horizon, and disrupted their fragile hierarchy once again to offer them the chance to feast upon the entire cosmos on a dinner plate.</p>
<p>The politics of the gods has obviously changed during the Gap - dramatically in several cases. I wonder how the emergence of the new gods has affected previous relationships and alliances, and how many new conflicts have risen up among the gods' many competing ambitions since the days of old Golarion.</p>Does anyone think that the politics of the gods has changed much in the planes since the Gap? Have some of the new gods moved into their sympathetic planes to establish new personal realms within the old ones we know?
Like, perhaps during this time, Damoritosh led his legions of fallen Veskarium soldiers in a surprise invasion to conquer the ultimate prize: Hell itself, and established a beachhead there, allowing the upstart god to rise in cosmic influence, while Asmodeus himself has become...Opsylum2019-03-21T19:19:57Z