Editing Deities (section)

==Types and Derived Others==
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=== Demiourgos ===
Colloquially Demiurges, literally meaning crafter, is used to describe those deiforms that focus primarily in the cultivation and shaping of their specific [[Realm]], can have any number of origins and are completely sovereign in their space with the consequential problems that makes in reality, continual expansion of its realm attracts unwanted attention so some Demiurges will make minions or items or contract with a [[Caller]] to bring in the means to empower itself.<ref>The Demiourgos (technically correct) or Demiurge is a divine being that is first and foremost a craftsman of its own realm and/or universe.  They may originate from a variety of sources but as they encapsulate a large region or are given the means of seizing a place, the first tools to their hands are those of realm creation, and they often swallow up a place or define a pocket realm.  Most are some form of Other that already has some ability to swallow up places or influence the people who then influence the place (Nex Machina, Bugges, Celestial Horrors, Harbingers, some other practitioners).  Most deities have demiurgic power, but the Others labeled Demiourgos lean heavily into it and place it primary in their capabilities.
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Because the means by which they seize a place and the power of that place and thereby become deific is so haphazard, the Demiourgos is often somewhat reckless.  They manage and manipulate their domains and may be mad kings or arbiters of draconian rule, and because they dwell there, the place must be penetrated for the (oft nascent) deity to be defeated and those trapped released; a place where the Demiourgos manipulates reality itself.
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Draoidhe often interact heavily with such, protecting and/or expanding the place in exchange for the ability to unload the divine being's power with but a few words or simple practice.  Demiourgos can go in three directions, either expanding recklessly by their own hands and exposing themselves to being found, targeted, and exterminated, expanding out through a mechanism (such as items of divine power, living rituals, bugge glyphs), or entering a stasis state and relying on a Draoidhe to do the expanding work for them, a keen mind with understanding of the landscape of man finding the times, places, and potential victims to swallow up an area and add it to the demiurgic domain. - Wildbow on Discord</ref>

[[Deus ex Machina|The Blue Heron Throne]] is one such example.
=== Human Gods===
Most gods start out with human faith empowering them; either starting out with the power of faith and having that propel them to a god's powers over creation, starting out with divine power over creation and acquiring faith later, or being born with both.<ref name=":13">Durocher looked up at him.  “And many are like yourself, others are, hm, what would we call them?  Raymond?  Glitches in the system?”  She looked to Raymond, who sat off to the side.<br><br>“Emergent gods,” Raymond said.  “Sometimes we’ll term them cosmic rounding errors.  Complexities of a deific scale?”<br><br>“Complex, in that case, being used in the same sense we talk about complex spirits, elementals, and such?”  Durocher asked, pacing, looking at the class and not Raymond.<br><br>“Yes,” Raymond said.<br><br>“You have to be careful with that lot,” Metaphaos said.  “[[Mess]]y.  Interesting, but not fun.”<br><br>“Why?” Durocher asked, pointing at him, without turning around.<br><br>“They don’t always have humanity and humanity’s faith giving them a push from behind from the outset.  You can get less human forces, and that gets out of control fast.  They might not speak your languages, they might not have very good aim, or they might not care either way.  [...] Most gods get to be gods because they have that faith backing them and they have the tools to do that creating.  Sometimes it’s one and the other follows, other times?  We’re like this, right out of the tin.  Grown and gorgeous.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/09 Excerpt] from [[Vanishing Points 8.1]]</ref> They aren't necessarily known to [[Innocent]] society at large, however. They may be primarily worshipped by Practitioners, people in pocket Realms, or the like.<ref>I’m not one of your gods from the books, and very few of the gods who practitioners will deal with are.  Being bound up in history is too constraining, too formalized, it comes with too much baggage.  You only find the best gods if you go looking in places unknown. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/09 Excerpt] from [[Vanishing Points 8.1]]</ref><ref name=":14" />

=== Glitch Gods===
Also known as "emergent gods" or "cosmic rounding errors", some gods are born with little or no human influence, a complex snarl of inhuman forces. Being less shaped by humanity, they tend to be less personable.<ref name=":13" /> [[Nex Machina|Nex Machinae]] are examples of this, born from patterns in the [[spirit]]<nowiki/>s of the digital and online traffic.<ref name=":8" />

=== Lesser Gods/Deiform ===
Some have been noted to be lesser gods, like the god of light that remains as part of [[The Drains]].<ref name=":3" /> A [[Deus ex Machina]] or [[Nex Machina]] is considered a type of minor god.<ref name=":8" /><ref>“Years ago, there was something on the horizon that clouded my Sight.  It recurred as an image.  A teenage boy dressed as a king, sitting in a chair with water running over him, repeating the same nonsense phrases over and over again.  If I gutted a bird and pulled out its entrails for a simple fortune telling, I could find papers in the guts, with the phrases on it.  It was… obnoxious.  I traveled from Toronto to Winnipeg, met with other Practitioners who had run into the same problem, some of your parents, as a matter of fact.  A company that managed and experimented with server architecture had rented out three floors of its building to a startup and had unwittingly played host to a group of technomancers trying to get users to engage with rituals they’d programmed.  They abandoned their work, killed by Witch Hunters or run off by Others, and their work was deleted.  As Raymond Sunshine would be sure to tell you, however, deleted does not mean gone.  Just as you can pull something out of your trash bin on your desktop, their work was still there, gradually taking form, reaching out into the rest of the servers in the building until it could become a small god.  After that, it started expanding out, until it was interfering with my Sight. [...] It had taken over the building and the running of the company that managed the servers.  Within was a world of its own that would take a month to cross.  I went to deal with it, and ran into someone else who was doing the same.  A young lady who would be best described as being very interested in the most vast and uncontrolled parts of conventional practice,”  He indicated Mrs. Durocher.  “She had already contacted a colleague of hers from a previous errand, a man who was just then achieving notoriety for his first practitioner-facing website.”  He indicated Raymond Sunshine. [...] Together with Mr. Bristow and Mr. Musser, we annihilated the god, shared out its power, and we drank together that night.  For Mr. Sunshine, Mrs. Durocher, and myself, it sparked a close friendship that has lasted ever since.  One of the things I hold most important about that experience was the epiphany I had, during that night of conversation and light drinks.  It wasn’t the power that I was happiest with -and I was as power hungry as they come- but the moments I had been with other practitioners and felt purpose and felt like we were all better for those deals.  Better informed, and we all know having the right information makes us strong.  Dealing with other practitioners makes us safer, better equipped, stronger, and more capable of covering our weaknesses.  That epiphany would eventually lead to us starting the Blue Heron Institute alongside Mr. Bristow, Mr. Musser, and others.  We named it after one of the faces the god in the machine had worn.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/01 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.5]]</ref> A lesser god might be on a par with a powerful [[Incarnation]] or greater [[Goblin]] or [[Spirit]]; the sort of being that might create a [[Ritual Incarnate]].<ref>That much power that fast has to come from somewhere, and then be given form as a ritual by someone or something.  A strong incarnation, a lesser god, a great Goblin.  If it had appeared in the last month, I might think it had something to do with the current state of the Carmine  Beast.  That could be a big enough power source… ''perhaps''.  [...] There are things that have that kind of power, like gods and strong incarnations, but I’m not aware of anything that strong that could have any connection to the Choir, and I’ve done some extensive searching. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/18 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.2]]</ref> Numerous Others are mentioned to be able to become equivalent  to a god given the right circumstance and available [[Power]],<ref> “So he’s like a god.”<br><br>“He ''is'' like a god,” [[Nameless diabolist|my driver]] said.  “And we could go into a deep discussion of the common elements between gods and incarnations, the abstract versus the straightforward, but that’s outside of the bounds of your agreement with the firm, and I believe we’re on your street.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/03/04  Excerpt] from [[Collateral 4.1]]</ref> such as the right [[Heroic figures]].<ref>Heroes themselves are far, far stronger as entities.  They are human and not human, incarnations without a set theme, gods but more material.  A true Hero is an incredible weapon or tool and often the culmination of generations of a family’s work.- [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tKrCvBQt8stvO4p1zoovnDs9IYhvqTyQQ4KPKSzg_N8#heading=h.ctli737k3w4j  Pact Dice: Heroics]</ref>

[[Corvidae]] could be compared to the least of gods,<ref name=":1" /> as could the empowered [[Wraith]] of [[Molly Walker]]<ref>Jacob’s Bell is going to become a new attraction in the Abyss, complete with a spiteful lesser god and a perpetually tolling bell.  - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/12/02 Excerpt] from [[Sine Die 14.1]]</ref> 

A lesser god which worships itself is one of the feedback loops that could develop into a [[dragon]].<ref name=":0" />

===Giants===
Only the oldest or roughest gods were able to create [[Giants]].<ref name=":4" />

===Icon===
Artifice animated and given a well of, usually finite, power,  incredibly varied.<ref>A god had put some of its essence into a statue to breathe power and existence into her.  Not life, exactly, but animation.  It was possible her skin ''was'' ivory, as a matter of fact.  Icons served as decoration, representatives, errand-runners, and sometimes guardians.  They had a lot of divine power, but it was a finite source that didn’t tend to replenish without the direct attention of the god that made them. A lake’s worth of water that didn’t refill when it was drank from, used to grow trees, used to put out fires.  When it was spent she would go still and never move again. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/31 Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.z]]</ref>

===[[God-Begotten]]===
Applied to any children of the gods though usually those that are not pleasing to the eye. In previous ages their parentage was instead explained as a curse.<!---Come to the attention of higher powers easier. <ref>Verona said.  “My blood, to help it grow.  Um.  The divine energy saturating Tashlit’s teeth as a god-begotten, definitely helps.  More importantly, it’s supposed to open the door to the aphth having some boggling effect on other higher powers.  Gods, judges, founders.  Tashlit probably gets audience a lot more easily with these guys than we do, just by virtue of her birth, kind of.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2023/02/22 Excerpt] [[Go for the Throat 23.6]]


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===Other Creations===
Dieties are know to create several diffrent varieties of Other to serve their purposes or advancement.