Paradise Realm

[Zeraph]

Originally posted by XpYtZ
Paradise realm...?
Why?

because people are searching for a sense of balance in PS.

Property values would go through the roof in Paradise Realm... but I think more then one \"death-god\" is cool, sort of a battle for souls or something. just think, 3 gods fighting over were to put someone in the death-realm. the more people there, the more powerfully they can become, then they start breaching the normal realm, oh what fun scenarios for quests or stories...

Btw, what is the current death-god\'s name?
Is it Death? I\'ll just start calling it \"DG\"

[Tulfutzian]

Originally posted by Zeraph






 I think more then one \"death-god\" is cool, sort of a battle for souls or something. just think, 3 gods fighting over were to put someone in the death-realm. the more people there, the more powerfully they can become, then they start breaching the normal realm, oh what fun scenarios for quests or stories...

Btw, what is the current death-god\'s name?
Is it Death? I\'ll just start calling it \"DG\"

  I wasn\'t thinking about a Death God, ruler of the Death Realm.
 As I see things, the god you have chosen to serve should have the power to send you in his after life realm. In order to be ressurected you would have to agree to do something for Him/Her/It. There could be different quests, like \"in your next reincarnation you have to convert at least two dwarves to my Way\" or difficult ones like slaying a certain beast in your god\'s name.
 And if you fail to do it or you die before acomplishing the task, you could have penalties on your next \"rebirth\", like loss of exp, items, money, etc. Accordingly, those who live \"well\" (and each god may have his own view about what a \"good life\" would be) could gain gifts from the gods.

 There could be players who preffer a life without constrictions, who would rather be totally free then under the will of a god. They would have no afterlife quests to do, they would live in their own ways but also they would not beneficiate from the \"godly gifts\".

 And there\'s something else, not neccesarily connected to the \"death realm\" issue. How much power will a god have? I was imagining a system where the power of a god would be sustained and amplified by the number (and level of experience) of his believers. That would lead to interesting religious wars, I guess. Also, it will amplify the role playing part (wich suffers so much in mmorpg\'s) because basically every player could create a god to believe in, a religious dogma and so on, but the new created god would have no power until the player brings more followers. That would encourage players to become more inventive and more implicated.

[dfryer]

Paradise, your name is npcroom.

[Stydracos]

Originally posted by Watcher
Well if you are going to class that as evil then I am going to say the Zeus was evil because he raped tons of mortal women (true true.) So I now argue that he is evil . If you look at anything then it can be presumed evil. For example I could wear all mosher clothes and carry a BB gun and you could think me evil.

Greek gods were immoral, filled with power, lusting and corrupt beings... they are fallable (in fact only one god I know of I really consider \'good\' and he was punished for it).

Zeus seduced the women (I don\'t remember him raping anyone although other gods did; In the tales I\'ve read and can remember the words seduced not rape were mentioned so I\'m not sure) mostly in the form of an animal (to hide from his wife). So it must have been his godly/animal magnetism that over awed those being seduced then again I\'m not sure. So at best he is an serial adulterer at worse a serial rapist... not the what I\'d consider good qualities.

Funnily enough though this all has no relevance in regards to his brother Hades nor any at all to Thanatos nor to the death realm. Moving on to the remark about your style of clothing : Its not the clothes you wear nor the BB gun you carry its what you do with them and the intent behind the actions (actions/intent not looks).

Now the idea I was trying to get across was the death god and the death realm seem separate. The Death God (DG) appears to deal in death, but once your dead and refuse him payment he has no business with you. Now forgetting he is a god and all that comes with that (ie we assume he is powerful for a start).

An example abstract idea, he is the ferry man and you are already in the land of the dead. He will carry you across the river Styx back to the land of the living for the price of one magic weapon. If you can\'t pay or refuse you can find your own way across. Simple Enough?

\"The Death God, being evil and greedy, asks a magical item to bring him back to the world of the living. If he refuses or has nothing to give, he is thrown to the Death Realm.\" <- I\'m only going off this after all.

*edit* cleaned some typos, spaced it out a bit for easier reading and added the last paragraph */edit*