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y-rhywbeth2 · 7 months ago

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"...gods can bring about unlikely or otherwise impossible births. Usually to ‘mold’ Chosen or prepare backup future host bodies. However, it’s VERY rarely done because it costs (permanently lost) a small amount of divine power, and because unless the deity wants to just waste that power, the rearing of a "godborn" takes a lot of time, attention, and effort. And any godborn is a juicy target for rival deities. So it's done only as part of "long game" elaborate strategies, not out of Zeus-like lust."

Hmm.

#“Backup future host bodies”#HMM.#As somebody who's of the opinion Bhaal was aiming at something like the Iyachtu Xvim route: HMM I say #Also the fact that the divine power is unrecoverable to the deity unless #say #the god is actually reborn in that child as a host body...#I'm assuming that's different from producing demigods the carnal Time of Troubles way. As “permanently lost” was not the aim.#On the other hand:#“Average deity very rarely produces godspawn: Bhaal who produced hundreds of the damn things is an outlier and should not be counted”#/durge #babbling

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