Old Gods/Summary

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Old God Story Summary

The Old Gods are what humans call the divine beings that existed on Beluaterra (New World) long before the arrival of humans. They hold complete control over Beluaterra, but that's it. They created the 'monsters' or Children as we call them. Until the arrival of humans things were fairly peaceful on Beluaterra.

Then we came.

Long story short, monsters and humans are at war with the goal of complete extermination of the other side and control of the continent as the prize.

When the war started the monsters almost won right away. One of the Old Gods, the Dark Mistress, for some reason decided to help humanity survive. After we won the first fight people began to forget about the Old Gods, since they didn't say or do anything anyway.

Peasants didn't forget however, because they soon learned that those who did the proper rites and such weren't eaten when the monsters did a raid. (monsters figured they'd kill the non-believing humans first since they were clearly worse)

In the harsh and isolated lands of the north the nobility re-learned of the Old Gods and realized that they were the key to winning control of Beluaterra from the monsters. So long as the Old Gods favoured the monsters humans could never truly win. Thus the nobility who believe fight to win the love of the Old Gods and steal favour from the monsters.


Summary of Important Points:

1)Humans Vs. Monsters - It's either us or them. Whoever wins gets the prize, Beluaterra. To win we need to gain the favour of the masters of Beluaterra, the Old Gods.

2)The Old Gods didn't create humans. - they created monsters, humans are imported. There are no Gods of humans or human things among the Old Gods. Whichever god/s are responsible for us live somewhere else.

3)The Old Gods don't like humans. - with the exception of the Dark Mistress, the Old Gods either ignore us or hate us. They don't much care for our prayers, or our temples or if we even live; in fact before the Dark Mistress convinced them to test us they were just going to wipe out humanity and some of them are still trying to kill us!

4)The Old Gods judge fairly - Humans and monsters struggle to prove which is the best and the Gods judge; and for the most part they're impartial.

5)To Worship: Live - The Gods don't want hoards of people bowing to their name, fighting each other or offering constant prayers. They want people to live their lives to the fullest, working hard and finding enjoyment in equal parts.

6)Monsters are varied and nightmarish. - We've really got no idea what the monsters are. There are no descriptions anywhere since the game itself doesn't state it clearly and as Tom's said, the game mechanics do the job of a GM, if it fits with the game then go right ahead. All we know is that the monsters are inhuman in all regards, they probably have multiple limbs, with big teeth and slime or none of those things. Heck maybe they have no body at all, or something even stranger. Key thing is that the monsters are united in their desire to destroy humans, but nothing says they have to be all the same, some could be large animals, or daemons, or who knows what. We just call them monsters because to us they look like stuff from our nightmares.