Shentu Wo: 658 Power, 467 Followers
Sima Wa: 191 Power, 794 Followers
Lin Sun: 263 Power, 143 Followers
Con Lai: 90 Power, 286 Followers
Black Pantheon Politics:
Lin Sun: Mao Yachi mention wanting dracula’s help in repopulation. They need all descendants to share the mao yachi bloodline that only Lykopis has, but she can only be pregnant with one child at a time. Let alone how to make more from those children. The man that that was recovered from Saldis’ lair has had his memories taken by Naberius to figure out who they are. Apparently they are a creation of Saldis, an attempt by her to fuse two dead black mages together to create a black mage with more then one ability. Relatively successful. He also has many memories of Saldis herself while she was alive and discussions with her. She has a daughter, fathered by Tai Ket, she left behind in Divya Samraja where she would have a less hectic life. Born away from Si Da the daughter was not born a black mage, so she was able to live among the people there. The memories of Saldis also reveal a lot about the life of the bone queen, she had been mass producing undead golems, which the Aetas found in her lair. Had she lived her plan was to use her undead army to colonize the southern wild lands with a land of the dead and declare herself an empress. She was involved in many experiments to defy and manipulate death as well, ranging from the transfer of consciousness to elixirs of youth to keep her from aging. Locust has arrived at the Aetas temple and started hanging out. Thandar has noticed despite the Aetas leaving the temple to go get work done the food budget hasn’t changed any.
Lucifer explains that despite being the master of demons he can’t actually control Abalam or get him to open the door. No one can get that door open but Abalam and if Abalam should die the library would disappear forever. The only person who might be able to get it open it would be his mother Anahita, who wants to kill them all. Her ability involves a form of truesight, so she might be able to see where the door is even if Abalam hasn’t shown it. The risk of that is that as stated, Anahita hates them all and currently Divus has no idea where the door is to have her look in the first place.
The challenges of wisdom have yielded some recruits to the Aetas at higher standing then normal but no true heroes of the realm.
Shento: Ryner has acquired two new recruits with the help of the Aetas, its slow going but its progress considering how small it is at the moment and the conditions Eret put on his recruiting. The potion progress is still the same as last time, the problem is that blood loses its magic rapidly. Just as black magic requires the recently dead or dying’s blood, the idea of turning blood into potions has the same limiter. Other then the time vault, there is currently no way to preserve that magic from decay.
The battle with the sea monsters has gotten silly. Combined with the new powers of Su Pinpua, there has yet to be a monster that can hurt them. Johann was sitting on the beach bored while Su Pinpua read a book and lazily kept the vampires extra healed if necessary. Further compounding to the problem of their boredom, Sarnai proves to be an effective witch. So much so that she just turned the sea spirits right around. Without Ryujin’s direct focus on them, she turned out to be capable of convincing them to just go home. Lessening the severity and frequency of the attacks entirely. However, the source of this is a call from Ryujin himself. Even if Sarnai can turn some of the sea spirits around for now, the attacks won’t stop until Ryujin stops trying to find a way to destroy the island nation.
In questioning Aphrodite specifically what she can do. She reveals that she has no way to help in conflict, what she does is help people find each other, keep the people happy and her following generally offers assistance to lovers in difficulty. Helping them get past family hatreds, poverty, and distance to be with each other. Though, she is more popular then anyone else in your pantheon. She might even be more popular then Amaterasu, and if the PR figurehead were to be replaced by another PR figurehead who is constantly in league with Song Yi…well she’s just saying. In conflict she has little to offer other then her name, but her name is very powerful among mortals.
Con Lai:”Get to know”
Milenkosi: Is really content in life. He just likes to sleep a lot as you might expect of a large cat.
Gremory: Money. He likes money. He doesn’t even need to buy things, but as an incarnation of a greed demon he can’t help himself.
Alice: Motivated by power, and not the socio-political kind. She left the Divus Imperium because the spirits never blessed her with powers she desired, causing her to turn to black magic. As if a cruel joke, her powers turned out to be summoning the power of others.
An-Lanh Tien: Motivated by a form of patriotism. He believes firmly in what the black pantheon stands for and has been fighting for Si Da’s liberty from other nations for a long time.
Jin Zhang: The pleasures of existence. He likes to drink, smoke, fight, and fuck. This is his lifestyle and whoever provides it he will work for. Being able to drink smoke fight and fuck while sleeping and being awake just further enhances this lifestyle.
Baridi: Is mostly driven by curiosity, she is still young and has yet to really settle into any higher purpose or motives.
Recruiting goes well, Jin Zhang and Alice have started to form up their teams but so far none of their members are considered heroes of the realm.
Sima Wa: Shade away on recon, reports that almost all of Divya’s navy is sailing along the southern coast. The navy is massive and fields metal ships without sails. His prediction is that they’re moving toward Doi Cho Len. Lo’c Thua recruited as Masutomaindo.
Song Yi requests Locust join her army that heads to the Lengdon mountains. Sthan Thi requests a proper main road be built between the new city of Kagayakashi and Sthan Thi. Abaddon and the praeliators request shelter at Kagayakashi so they might position to better protect Si Da from western invasion while Song Yi and her army march south east.
Rest of stuff was covered in ascension chat directly already.
Aphrodite’s followers have gone to Ofrior as requested, seeking to establish some diplomatic relations. However, they’re still walking right now along with just looking for the Ofrior people that are in hiding.
Song Yi has assembled some of the great heroes of the realm, lead on a march through the wild lands to the Lengdon mountains. She’s concerned about this whole naval movement and Ryujin’s current work and is preparing forces near it as possible in case they’re needed. Herself, Izumi, Hotaru, Shen Rai, Song Fang, Ningi No Mikoto, Mara, Rei Siwang, and Forneus will be going. She’s specifically asked for Locust to come as well, given there is a fleet of metal ships out there, but is otherwise open to more volunteers. Amongst the heroes an army of 500,000 now march through the wild lands to the lengdonian mountains. Three quarters of the entire Jakaal will be going as well. After the announcement, Teijin and his clan joined. Even if they give her a hard time usually, it seems they have shut up for now and marched behind the warlord. In her absence Sthan Thi’s defenses are weak and Kagayakashi is requested to build a proper road between the two cities so that its forces might help in an emergency with so much of the armed forces missing and to shelter the Praeliators as they move north from their normal home as to protect the empire from potential western invaders. Abaddon has also come to take residence at Kagayakashi.
More information about the Altepetl excavations have returned from Asmodaeus and Mastema. They found what remains of Saldis’ lair. Fortunately the Aetas already took everything of use. The tribal nation has continued to collect artifacts and history, but he also discovered they were using what they discovered in ancient ruins to blueprint their own construction efforts, becoming less and less nomadic and becoming gradually more modernized.
Thykenae experiences internal chaos. Inquisitors from Divus arrived and began murdering Aphrodite’s worshippers and tearing down her temples. Calling Thykenae weak for deceiving their people into believing she still was on their side. While it is technically an invasion and many who forgot to commune with the gods are resisting the Divus invasion it is an absolute mess right now.
The Jade Empire has made no moves to stop Song Yi and her army from marching to the mountains. The wild lands are out of their protected reach and they’re still just trying to feel this one out as they’d rather ignore the world changing around them and try to get their lives back on track for now…at least under their current emperor’s plan.
Mechanics patches
–Champion/prophet blessings, curse/blessings etc. costs increase by 100 per identical you already have active in the world and take maintenance of 20 power per update. High prophets do not count towards either but you can only ever have one of those at a time anyways.
–Answering prayers is no longer a direct read and answer session as there are too many. You can simply pick how much power you put into answering prayers you answer per update. Answering prayers yields more follower retention, with a small chance to gain additional followers. It is automatically assumed you answer the more important prayers first and ignore the dumber ones.