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This is the second installment of the
series of articles that are to be published daily.
They focus on different parts of the
NWN2 persistent world Cerea Island 2.
The subjects will rotate between the
following: the world(cosmology and similar), gods, history, places,
custom systems, big events of the past, characters, old adventures,
new adventures and organizations.
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Gods
Deities are an integral part of the
history and there are countless such beings of various power levels,
scope and influence, all over the globe.
A discussion on the nature of gods is
crucial as they are not a ‘race’, yet they are physical beings
with distinct opinions about each other. Immortal in the truest
sense, gods do not age or grow old and they cannot be directly
killed, though their avatars may be slain, causing considerable loss
to a God.
Gods get their Godly Powers from
followers and channel it to their priests and similar to use.
The only way to ‘kill’ a god is if
their power focus is destroyed - feat nearly impossible for even
another god.
Godly Powers
There is no lack of power on Myaasia,
in fact the amount power available is too high, it is available
everywhere and in huge amounts. The lacking thing is focus. As every
person wanting to do magic must be able to control and focus the
power. Most are able to control only small amounts of power. Thus
power is not limited by availability but instead by the control.
The way a God gets that controlled
power, is that the followers praying are actually focusing their
thoughts upon their God and thus directing controlled power to the
God. The God then receives this focused power and redistributes this
to the followers as divine magic, causing them to not have to do all
the focusing themselves, though the power to create divine magic
tends to be split among the part from the cleric and the part from
the God.
The way the God receives and
distributes this power is the focus mentioned before. So a God needs
the focus and the followers to be able to help their followers
receive divine magic and to survive, as a small part of the power
received is used by the God to “be God”
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