Pantheons+Glei+Introduction

The Mironen Pantheon is meant to have a duality to it that makes it more complicated than simply good gods and bad gods. The pantheon as a whole brings something new to civilization in its quest for finding beauty and showing the amazing nature that exists in our world. Yet they seek to limit that interpretation of beauty to what they see as true, and find it disgraceful for works that don’t meet their standards to be displayed in any form. They show a new way of experiencing life and it’s intricacies, however, they are so focused on the perception of these amazing skills and talents that they lose any sense of development or personal growth from them. In short, their view of art is limiting and ultimately meaningless at its core.

 

This is why I believe they would make for a powerful storytelling device over the course of the campaign, as we progress from the more simple, standard Magic Era with predictable and familiar gods inspired by the most well-known pantheon to eventually land in the Mental Era, where the players will have to answer the questions being posed by their existence the whole game: What makes something beautiful? Who decides that? What is the value of beauty? What is its purpose in this world? Following the death of the god of Perception, the players and lesser Gods alike will have to decide without the influence of a supreme power dictating for them. I believe it would be quite fitting with the era to see a mortal force rise up, seeking to reclaim their own views and pursue their own truth in art in a deeper and more intimate way than the gods ever did.

 

I see this playing out ultimately in a civil war of sorts, with one side fighting for the freedom of art and expression that is personal to the soul alongside mortals, that can not be judged by any mortal or god alike, and the other trying to reinstate the structure and egotistic guidelines put in place under their previous leader. How this conflict pans out will be dependent on the surrounding forces, and will likely get caught up in other conflict going on during this era, most notably the Spider Queen. I also think the influence of Amena, the Goddess of Purpose(Glei/Vei), could be very interesting, as she has a desire to explore a deeper meaning to the way we view the world and how our surroundings have a profound emotional impact on us. She could be at the head of this divide, calling for a change in how beauty is valued. Or possibly Balla, with her Jutu views of freedom, would want to see her people explore beauty without restrictions, and come to see the existence of gods themselves as limiting and harmful to the blossoming of society.

 

This could even result in a majority of the gods siding with the morals, and hence breaking the eternal cycle of gods being overthrown by their creations, and instead of finding a way to coexist as some form of equals. It would be a significant shift from the gods viewing themselves as superior and always looking for ways to gain strength and maintain control, to gods who instead use their gifts to inspire the mortal races to find a strength of their own and develop their own beliefs, about beauty and existence in general. This would, of course, be dependant on the players and how they view the issue, which sides they take and how they confront the conflict.