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Do some divines just MAKE new monsters for literally no reason other then they wanna? Like, Titania made faeries to be soldiers, Cerno made the first werewolf to defend himself (And made a plague), Erasmos made demons to boink, and Morganya made arachne to piss off Gaia, but could there be a divine who, at one time, made a species of monster and had NO intention for it beyond they thought it'd be cool if it existed and they made it exist because they're divines and Gaia lets them use her tools?

There have been plenty of monsters that existed simply because a divine said, "I think this would be cool" or "I want to make my own custom friends/spouse/pet/whatever".

Most monsters are one-of-a-kind and eventually die out, and not all of them get recorded by the World Athenaeum before they pass. These simply get lost to history. Only a very small number of them go on to build a self-sustaining population (like skorpius, harpies, etc.)

Monster forging is a complicated process, it violates World Law, and it's one of those things that everyone knows is a bad idea, but some divines can't resist the temptation to try anyway. Every monster has some unintended flaw and the potential to wreak massive havoc on the ecosystem or society. Monster forging is considered "playing God".

(Even Disgrace was wary about making the camedile because he knew that thing was going to turn out fucked up no matter what he did. I mean, it tried to attack its own creator right off the bat, so...incidents like that are pretty typical when forging monsters.)

So, divines making random monsters willy-nilly doesn't happen as often as you'd expect. But yes, it does happen.

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[loominggaia]

Por cosas de la vida, los divinos terminan en drifter hollow, ¿Que situaciones suceden?

(Translated with Google Translator)

Due to things in life, the divine ones end up in drifter hollow, what situations happen?

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Well, we already know what happened when Morganya showed up...and Disgrace...

Karenza would have to hide from Isaac. If he saw her face, it might just jog his memory enough to break his amnesia, and that's an emotional confrontation she is not prepared to deal with.

The Drifters are afraid of Reaper. They all lock themselves in their houses until he leaves. He has a nasty reputation because of his long history as Morgause's lackey, but the fear isn't warranted anymore.

Erasmos tries to solicit sex from Ginger. She refuses him, then he sees her kiss Itchy. Erasmos gets furious that an ugly old bastard like Itchy can have her, but he can't. He throws a manbaby tantrum and tries to kill Itchy, but the FGG step in and defeat Erasmos.

Allmother is carefully scrutinizing Itchy and Ginger's children, trying to decide if she should replace them with changelings. She is sad when Azadora doesn't recognize her, but knows it's for the best.

Morbus throws hands with Haggomah. Loses the fight and gets double-cursed.

Varas burglarizes everyone. Tons of shit goes missing overnight and everyone blames Itchy.

Green Witch tries to recruit Flora and the other nymphs to her cause, promising them a commoner-free sanctuary in Spriggan's Sanctum. Some would join her, but Flora would definitely tell her to piss off.

Linde fangirls over Miliko. But he's super mean to her, makes fun of her albinism, just absolutely shreds her and breaks her heart. Jeimos does not stand for that shit and whups his ass all the way back to Matuzu Capital.

That's all I can think of at the moment!

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Are there any divine children? Imagine how messed up That would be. Like, your just a normal mom in a normal village having a normal life- and then your little girl stops aging.

At first you just assume she'll catch up to her peers eventually, she just needs some more time, no big deal! But months and eventually years go bye until you can't ignore it anymore. She looks, acts and sounds ten years younger than she is, her younger brother just got married and she's still playing with dolls.

You always assumed your children would outlive you, that maybe they would care for you in your old age as you once did for them, but you never could've imagined this. You should be enjoying the last years of your life, but instead you're caring for your fifty-six year old elementary schooler, worrying yourself into the grave about what will become of her when you are gone.

(Well, this scenario got away from me :^D)

You know, I've been kicking around the idea of divine children for a very long time now and still haven't decided if it's something I want to do. The youngest divine in the series right now is Cerno, who is in his mid or late teens.

However, your scenario here is so compelling that I think I'll allow it! You could do a lot with a character like this. It might sound fun to be a kid forever, to never have to deal with adulthood and all the stress that comes with it. But there is also tragedy in the concept of eternal childhood, and that dichotomy between childhood innocence and immortal wisdom is really fascinating to me.

So I'm going to say yes, there are child divines!

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Can divines be any age? What about babies?

I don't know about babies, but I think children can be divines. It seems to be an incredibly rare phenomenon, but the World Athenaeum has recorded a few instances of prepubescent divines.

Because these divines can't physically mature beyond childhood, their minds aren't able to finish developing. So, they still behave like children even though they may be centuries old, and world governments still treat them as children in a legal sense.

These children will eventually outlive their parents/guardians, so it's possible that the World Athenaeum has taken some of them into its care. It's also possible that they are placed in the care of more mature divines, or other immortal creatures like nymphs, for the sake of stability.

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Donde se encuentran cerno en la actualidad?

(Translated with Google Translator)

Where are they currently located?

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Looks like we had a translator error here. I assume you're talking about Cerno?

Cerno's current whereabouts are unknown because he is always on the move. The World Athenaeum tries to track him, but it's proven difficult. They track him mostly by interviewing eye-witnesses. Sometimes people manage to snap photos of him.

He is always seen deep in the wilderness, far from civilization. But he doesn't like being seen, so he usually flees at the sight of people and disappears for years at a time, only to reappear in a completely different region or continent. How he gets there is anyone's guess.

He's become kind of like a cryptid. Chasing him is never a good idea...years of isolation has turned him feral, and he is known to attack people like a wild animal if he feels threatened. Some witnesses have caught him performing magic rituals with bones and chanting, but what he is trying to do is uncertain. It's rumored that he is trying to summon his father's spirit from the celestial realms, but Cerno himself has confirmed nothing. It appears he's forgotten how to speak, communicating only in grunts and growls.

He has been known to enthrall animals, using them as his personal mounts and bodyguards.

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Did Disgrace really kill Arjuk or is that just something they believe?

This is highly debated by historians. The short answer is: no one really knows.

There are some things to consider about this situation:

The Divine of Hate we know today may not be the same one that Arjuk encountered (if he encountered one at all). Sometimes there are multiple divines with the same or similar titles, or one divine may have multiple titles. There are two known "Divines of Love", for example: Azizala and Karenza. But there may be even more Divines of Love, known only to obscure cultures.

The World Athenaeum has not registered every single divine on Gaia. They know there are plenty more hiding out there who don't wish to be identified.

I will also mention that throughout history, Disgrace has been blamed for a lot of shit that he didn't even do. When a government or entity causes some terrible calamity, it's very easy to blame the Divine of Hate instead of taking responsibility for it. It's not like Disgrace is going to defend himself and deny it, he doesn't care. He'll happily take credit for all the fuckups and disasters on Gaia.

Is it possible that Arjuk was slain by Disgrace? Absolutely. But as of now, we just don't know for sure!

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This might be a stupid question but: is it possible to spawn camp a divine? By that I mean send an army to a divine's birth place and kill them right after they resurrect.

Yes, this is possible. However, most divines have found clever ways to prevent this from happening.

For example...

Karenza, Divine of Love: Used magic to picked up the chunk of land where she was born and cause it to levitate through the skies. Now it's always mobile, and she resurrects on the floating island wherever it may be.

Mankind's Disgrace, Divine of Hate: Instructed his evil army to build a fortress around his place of birth and guard it. It has been destroyed a few times by his many enemies, but in the end, his army always prevails by chasing them out and rebuilding it.

Erasmos, Divine of Lechery: He's just so pathetic and incompetent that no one sees any point in spawn camping him. He's not worth the effort. His birthplace is also in the middle of nowhere, deep in a forest where no one goes. No one knows the exact location, nor do they care.

Krozlaug, Divine of Industry: His birthplace is now a tourist attraction owned by the Zareenite government. He got drunk and signed a bad contract, so long story short, he receives no money from this. On the bright side, his spawn point is protected by Zareen Empire. On the down side, it's covered in trash and graffiti from tourists, and there is nothing he can do about it...

Green Witch, Divine of Forests: Her method is "kill your enemies before they kill you". That's it. If she does die, she's kinda fucked because she'll resurrect in Seelie territory. The Seelie are her enemies, and they would love nothing more than to capture her. They actually do "spawn camp" her place of birth, just waiting to snipe her the moment she appears. She is working on gaining ground with her army and reclaiming that chunk of land.

Miliko, Divine of Vanity: He simply built one of his mansions over his birthplace, so he always resurrects in his own home. As long as he keeps up on his taxes, he's fine.

For the most part, divines have enough money, social clout, or power to protect their birthplaces in some way. They might hire mercenaries or bribe government militaries, or maybe they just have a lot of rabid fans willing to protect the site for free. In any case, divine birthplaces are rarely unguarded.

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@darkwingphoenix I see. I definitely get the need to ensure the current doesn't body hatchlings left and right Me. Ocean DEFINITELY has a more Resting Depressed Face. He prolly DOES have depression, tbh Also, the fact that cancerous cecaelia just stop having cancer is hilarious to me. Also, do they heal if they have the cancers and are divine?

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1 ) Yep, controlling nursery conditions is a full-time job...and probably the most stressful job ever tbh. Cecaelian nursery managers have hundreds of pissed off moms yelling at them all day, every day like, "The current is too strong over here! The water is too warm over here! Too cold over here! There's a crab loose in the nursery, kill it right now! I can't find one of my hatchlings! Yellow One is spreading gossip about me! Waaaah waaaaah waaaaaah!" lol. Their complaints are totally justified, but still...what a job to be in charge of that chaos.

2 ) Oh yeah, Mr. Ocean has major depression. It was actually the reason he started using greenbrite/greenlite in the first place. The death of his parents seemed to be the trigger and he just never got over it properly.

3 ) Good question! Cancerous cecaelia don't necessarily "stop having cancer" when they become divine, their cancer just stops progressing. It's still there, it just won't get any worse. At that point they can seek treatment to remove it (if possible) and it won't come back unless they die and resurrect.

Resurrection "resets" their body to whatever state it was in when they were granted divinity. If they were riddled with cancer at that time, then they will have it again upon resurrection. This goes for all peoples, not just cecaelia.

So for example, if a divine human got a bunch of tattoos after they became divine, those things are disappearing when they die and resurrect. So are any scars, piercings, amputated limbs, etc.

Unless they had those things before divinity was granted, they will be lost.

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Few things about cecaelia: Firstly, I see hatchlings and fry usually walking on surfaces like octopi do, and they hatch with 10 tentacles, two of which become their arms later and drift up as they elongate. Secondly, can I just say that the northern cecaelia look depressed asf? Also, imagine a cecaelia divine: They die from brain cancer but respawn, as a divine does. Like, they already had brain cancer when they died from like squid rabies, so they sometimes just die from brain cancer but return

1 ) You are correct! Hatchlings can swim from the moment they hatch, but they spend just as much time crawling as they do swimming. Their suckers aren't formed yet, so they can't yet stick to surfaces like mature cecaelia can. The current must be controlled in their nurseries to keep them from getting pushed around and slammed into things.

2 ) Northern cecaelia definitely have that look to them. Some people have Resting Bitch Face, they got Resting Depression Face! It's just the fact that their brow shape happens to droop downward. This feature is quite prominent on Mr. Ocean.

3 ) Actually divinity freezes all progressive ailments, so a divine cecaelia's cancer would stop progressing! This is the case with Haggomah, who was doomed to die from all her malignant tumors until her divinity put her body in a "living stasis". Her tumors don't shrink, but they no longer grow either.

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The monsters divines try to create:

What they actually create:

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Were Karenza and Azizala in love?

Now that I reread their dialogue, I totally understand how it could be interpreted that way! I think they did love eachother, but not necessarily in a romantic way.

I personally see their relationship as more of a mentor/student or familial thing. Karenza's parents were both killed, and the loss of her mother was particularly hard for her to cope with, so she likely saw Azizala as a mother figure.

But if someone wanted to interpret their relationship as romantic I think that's perfectly valid! So far there is nothing in canon that contradicts this.

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De los divinos ¿Cual fue la historia que más te gusto crear?

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Of the divine ones, which story did you like to create the most?

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That's a hard question! I think my favorite story is Karenza's, just because it's the craziest and deepest one. You'd assume she'd be this righteous, benevolent force because she's the Divine of Love, but she is actually very chaotic and morally questionable. A lot of people consider her evil. In this way I think she's a complex character, which makes her and her story more fun to think about.

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Me perdí un poco, ¿Quien es azizala?

(Translated with Google translator)

I got a little lost, who is Azizala?

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Azizala was the original Divine of Love before Karenza. When Karenza realized she'd been granted divinity, she sought the nearest divine to teach her about her powers. Azizala became her mentor, but she was later killed by Disgrace with his special weapon, the Divine Executioner. Karenza then took her place as the new Divine of Love.

There is more info about her in "Lost Scriptures". She specialized in curative and transformation magic, and often transformed herself into a peacock or a colorful peacock-like dragon. This is why peacocks are associated with the Divine of Love.

Here is the most important excerpt about her from Lost Scriptures:

Azizala was old and her temple grand and her knowledge vast. Orbiting her were scores of devoted servants who sought her guidance in the ways of love and light, and Azizala did lead them all to paths of nurturing. She was masterful in the ways of music, art, and magic, and so the beauty of her temple birthed many maenads, nymphs of spirit. The nymphs came to know not Gaia as their mother, but the divine Azizala, and they loved her just as their true mother, and she loved them as her daughters. Karenza humbly approached Azizala at her grand temple and she said to her, “Azizala, Divine of Love, I have come from the faraway land of Alqamah to meet you, for my people speak of your benevolence with such fondness and warmth, and these things they tell me have beckoned my heart in your direction. I am also a divine, but so unfledged and ignorant of my own power. I wish for you to guide me in the ways of love and light so that I may nurture the world.” As Karenza was so smitten with Azizala and her deeds, Azizala was smitten with Karenza and her ambition, and so Azizala agreed to mentor her. “Lovely Karenza, though we have only just met, I believe we will be as two eggs in a nest, hatching and growing together, but I pray we always fly in the same direction,” she said. “Do not think that because you are young that I have nothing to learn from you as well, for as eternity stretches on and generations pass before me, I feel my love and enthusiasm for life begin to slip away as water through my fingers. We divines fight an eternal battle not with the world, but with our own hearts. You, Karenza, with such refreshing hope for allkind, may remind me why I became known as the Divine of Love, and in return, I shall share with you all I have learned through the ages.”

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If a person or their partner was pregnant and then was granted Divinity by Gaia part way through what would happen to the fetus?

Good question! Divinity "freezes" the body in its current state, so I think there are 2 possibilities:

1 ) Divinity forces a miscarriage. The divine resurrects without a baby, as the baby is counted as a separate being and the blessing may not apply to them.

2 ) Both mother and child were granted divinity, meaning the divine mother remains pregnant and her divine child just gets to chill in her womb as a fetus for all eternity. If the mother dies, the child dies with her and they both resurrect together. If only the child dies, they will resurrect in the mother's womb.

(Which is an interesting thought, because it's the only known way a divine can get pregnant!)

It's implied that Karenza was granted divinity after she got pregnant. In her case, the blessing only applied to her and not her child. So when she died, her body instantly disintegrated and left the child's body behind. She resurrected a year later, no longer pregnant. She returned to the scene of her murder to collect her child's bones and used them to forge Isaac.

The whole affair was quite grisly, but she turned it into something positive.

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