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Post by gabriael on May 14, 2015 23:35:33 GMT
I'm pretty sure there's more to it than that. A deity is a concept with a consciousness, a force of nature with a personality, a reified abstraction, a person whose abilities and personality and existence are not meaningfully distinguishable from one another. So, a deity is seperate from what I would originally call a god and the Golem's gods aren't deities either. You do mess with my router in a way I can't wrap my head around, but it has zero Arcane Might, so I could shut you down. If I could find you. If you don't have arcane Might that you simply don't need to mess with my router. Shutting up now.
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Post by Mother Starlight on May 15, 2015 0:33:41 GMT
On further reflection, it seems that the details of what a deity (god, goddess, etc.) is varies somewhat between worlds, not unlike the differences between e.g. Daevinity humans and Garden humans.
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tonistark
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Post by tonistark on May 15, 2015 1:15:47 GMT
I do not approve! That means Pop Tart (Thor) gets to call himself a god, even though he is ACTUALLY just a hyperadvanced alien and humans would totally be able to do anything they can do if they just had, like, a couple thousand of me work on it for a few years.
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Post by gabriael on May 15, 2015 14:13:48 GMT
Does he in fact call himself a God?
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Lantern
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Post by Lantern on May 16, 2015 21:27:44 GMT
My world, my planet, only humans. Possibility of people in other planets, haven't gone far above planet yet, up to each moon. Other people have not come to planet, have not said hi.
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Post by Captain Viridian on May 18, 2015 5:56:05 GMT
I do not approve! That means Pop Tart (Thor) gets to call himself a god, even though he is ACTUALLY just a hyperadvanced alien and humans would totally be able to do anything they can do if they just had, like, a couple thousand of me work on it for a few years. I think I have to agree with Toni here, because by that definition I could be a god simply by claiming to be and persuading my crew that it was necessary, and I really don't think that makes sense given the sort of powers those on this forum who call themselves gods seriously seem to have, whereas I am simply in a mobile pocket dimension with very few people in it.
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Post by gabriael on May 18, 2015 8:36:50 GMT
Well, do you call yourself a God? Because, you know, many people could be rapists and very, very few are. Thing is by many other definitions Pantheon has no gods, and she's adamant that they are gods and it would be unhealthy for her to get used to other lingo. While this definition might upset some stick in the mud's sensibilities at least it doesn't get anyone smitten.
For whatever Mother Twinkle or Raezenoth is we have the word deity, for fundamental beings with their own Might you can use Slidar. Definitions make communication easier! And arguing about them is completely pointless!
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MagicPhD
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Post by MagicPhD on May 18, 2015 17:57:21 GMT
Only Andrew-style humans here (modulo local magics), as far as we know. There might be life on planets in other solar systems, but we haven't gotten there yet. It's on my to-do list. No evidence for gods or souls either, and magitech sensors are getting pretty good at identifying oddities. Gods are theoretically possible: a mind whose substrate is magic could use magic pretty easily, and get very powerful very quickly. But we've seen none. Of course, some people still believe in gods and afterlives. One cult even started worshipping Arch-Mage Nazareth after he discovered how to heal with magic ~2000 years ago. He tries to get them to stop, but people can be stubborn. proper Mathematics ... were completed only six thousand years ago. Just checking: you mean that they discovered "recursive derivation Algebra" at that time? I'm not a mathematician, but I'm pretty sure the number of provable theorems is unaccountably infinite, and can never be 'complete' in a meaningful sense.
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Post by gabriael on May 18, 2015 19:00:45 GMT
There's a canon of important theorems that's checked. It's not all that complete, but enough for most forms of technology. They are something of a milestone.
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Fish
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Post by Fish on May 25, 2015 0:32:11 GMT
My world has two types of intelligent life and a good deal more unintelligent life. There are humans, who are made of matter and are mammals and seem to be the same as others for most purposes. The unintelligent life comes in plants, animals, and some others, all of it made of matter. The unusual life is the djinni - that's a poor translation from the Bedu language, but I am used to it. They are not made of matter; they are composed of motion and patterns, and in the same way a thought may pass through our mind as a pattern in our matter, their thoughts are physical objects in specific shapes, moving in specific ways. They are quite powerful, as distance means very little to them and they experience time in a terribly fuzzy way, but they are also very fragile; perceiving the shape of an ankh is very nearly the same as a feeling of aversion and fear, for them, and perceiving a certain spiral-covered egg shape in motion is the same as the thought and the experience of death. They can also be quite confused about people; they cannot distinguish identical twins, and perceive me as the same person as my half-brother, who shares a father and a birthday but was born one year prior. I do not fully understand them; I am not sure any human does.
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Post by xom on May 26, 2015 14:33:37 GMT
Xom knows of many kinds of intelligent life. Humans, orcs, kobolds, elves, spriggans, dwarves, merfolk, demons, angels, the fabled Pandemonium Pizza, horrifying creatures from the Abyss... wait, what was Xom listing again? Oh right, species. Xom guesses Pan Pizza isn't actually an intelligent species, but Xom wishes it was.
Mostly Xom plays with adventurers. Especially the really funny ones who choose to worship Xom. Sometimes stupid boring adventurers choose to worship Xom instead, but they die fast enough.
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Post by Ahrotahn on May 30, 2015 20:08:12 GMT
There are humans native to Earth/D'ni, of which I am one. Some other worlds have native humans as well. The D'ni themselves are arguably human; they're interfertile with humans (as humans from different worlds are interfertile with each other), but the D'ni are about 50% taller. There's also the Bahro, which are sort of humanoid shaped and sort of insectoid, and can travel betwene worlds at will.
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Eskay
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Post by Eskay on Jun 1, 2015 7:12:19 GMT
So many humans! Where I live, humans are a mythical kind of people with the qualities of all other kinds of people. I always sort of doubted they existed. Even now, with all you fine folks before me, I still think _our_ "humans" must be more fantasy than reality. Unless you really do go around with tusks and bushy tails and necks half your height.
Some common kinds here are fox, cat, walrus, bear, boar. I am a squirrel, so I have two-toned fur and a big bushy tail. If I were a bear instead, I would be big and round with thick fur all one color.
Besides human, some more mythical kinds are snake, dragon, bird. Birds are very popular in fiction because they can fly from place to place without any machine.
The only kind of people I've seen here on the forum that I'm sure my world has is cats. I heard of a panda kind, so maybe Balts are like our kinds?
I've never heard of elves or kobolds or daeva. Daeva sound a lot like birds. If we have secret daeva too, maybe they inspired bird stories?
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Post by Ahrotahn on Jun 1, 2015 17:33:55 GMT
I'm familiar with animals by those names, but I don't think they're usually people.
...I have a wacky hunch, please bear with me for a minute.
Our animals by those names tend to be very different from each other in size; for example, a bear is several times taller than a squirrel. Do your kinds have that much variation? Also, what kind of posture/gait do you usually use -- walking on all four limbs? walking on two limbs and using the other two for manipulation?
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Post by Kit on Jun 1, 2015 17:48:55 GMT
I don't have tusks or a tail or a really long neck! The database says dragons are made up but snakes and birds are real. Foxes and squirrels and bears look soft, I wish i could go to your world.
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