168 Chaotic Surprises (2/2)
Both of these subdomains are powerful ones governed by the domain of creation. Art meshes well with both domains you've just acquired power over, and blacksmithing is fantastic for gods who are creating new civilizations, which is what you'll be doing quite soon. Either choice is a valid and respectable choice, but you must make the choice.
Which will you pick?]
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The choice wasn't a difficult one. Not in the slightest. I picked the art subdomain.
Weeks ago I first heard of the art subdomain as the subdomain that governed beauty. I then heard of it again in the context of one of my shapeshifting powers. And at last, I now possessed the power to acquire it. And with it I suspected I'd experience a further upgrade to my potent shapeshifting prowess. When I selected this power I felt it surge into me, and I felt... changes happen to my body.
As my mind filled with my understanding of my new powers I felt stronger than I had ever felt, and it felt positively wonderful. A serene and truly rapturous smile alighted across my face as I felt the plethora of new powers I possessed seep into my soul.
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All over the world, moments after the notification alerted the Althonians of their god's agreement with Morehammer, all manner of creatures who worshiped Althos were instantly teleported from their homes to the new floating islands and floating oceans throughout the planet. Plants, fish, humans, elves, dwarves, and other, odder creatures were yanked from their homes and safely deposited throughout floating colonies hovering all over the world.
Creatures deep underground were teleported from their underground homes to new homes deep beneath the surfaces of floating islands. Creatures who lurked within the flightless depths of the seas were teleported to floating oceans made specifically for them that were impenetrable to the light of the sun. And for a few moments, these new places floated in the air, before abruptly teleporting elsewhere and placed in a unique temporal stasis.
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[Alert: Divine Realms
Your Torunian worshipers have been taken and placed in your divine realm. Your divine realm is a dimension you have total control over, where you are at your strongest, and where the souls of your worshipers go when they die. Until this moment your divine realm has been an empty place littered with the souls of those who died and were your faithful. But now it's changing.
At the moment your divine realm is becoming... A copy of Torus actually. At a later date this will become something you have more direct control over, but for now, what you need to know is simple: this world is like the Torus of yesterday, just with more abandoned kingdoms and fewer dwarves. Althonian dwarves still exist in this world, but that's less than half of all dwarves throughout Torus at the moment.
What will be really interesting is seeing how dead Althonians interact with living Althonians. That said, you too will be teleporting in a matter of moments. Not to your divine realm, but to a world of your choosing. If you wish you could basically do a complete restart, on another world even in another solar system or galaxy. Even Htrae is an option if you want it to be.]
Htrae... Andrea's homeworld... I thought, a cruel smile on my face as I mulled that over. I wasn't sure what option I would pick just yet, but I did want to go far from here for now. Perhaps a restart would do me good, especially since I could still travel to and from the solar system at will.
I wouldn't decide what to do until the moment before I was teleported away from the world of Torus. A bigger notification loomed overhead and told me to pick a destination, forcing my hand.
As I was teleported away from Torus I quietly and silently said goodbye, for now, to the world of my birth. As I did I directed my final thoughts at the dwarves who stayed behind. It was a hateful one, filled with rampant malice and a desire that the demons and dragons who were now arrayed against them had fun devouring them.
My smile turned malicious as I was yanked an unknown distance to a destination far from my homeworld. And as I was taken from my homeworld, my very body began to change on a fundamental level and in permanent ways.
[Emotion domain details:
The domain of emotions is the domain that governs any and all emotions all manners of life and unlife can feel. These emotions include love, fear, happiness, sadness, anger, and more. You have acquired power over love through the contract you signed with Morehammer because Morehammer was absolutely loved by his creations.
The domain of emotions is a potent domain that allows those who wield influence over it to nonviolently and dramatically alter the worlds they come too. It brings with it a number of potent powers that come in two sets: the generic, omni-applicable powers like ”Absolute empathy”, and then the specific powers that come from each emotion you can influence such as ”Love inducement”, one of the powers you've acquired as the god of love.
To acquire greater power over this domain, build cults dedicated to emotions and use your powers over emotions.
Emotion domain passive powers:
Absolute empathy: The power to absolutely sense and understand emotions felt by creatures within your sensory range.
Emotional aura: At will you can suppress emotions near you and cause creatures near you to experience only emotions you wish. For now you can make creatures near you experience despair, love, or desire.
Empathetic conversion: You can convert feelings someone feels towards someone or something into other feelings. For example, if someone hates dragons but loves gnomes, you can make them love dragons like they love gnomes, or hate gnomes like they hate dragons. As you gain greater power over emotions this power also undergoes various upgrades.
Emotion inducement: You can induce emotions you have power over, in your case, this means love, desire, and despair, in any target aside from a vestige.
Emotion domain active power:
Empathetic Inundation: Once per hour you can overwhelm up to fifteen targets with a flood of emotions you have power over. The exact effect this will have on targets depends on the emotion you target them with. This differs from your inducement ability as your inducement ability adjusts a victim's mind to the power, rather than just overwhelming them. This power doesn't do that.
Emotion domain blessing and curse details:
By blessing someone with this domain you grant them a far lesser version of your own empathy. By cursing them with it you take away their ability to understand how others feel.
Love details:
The emotion of love is an incredibly powerful emotion that relates to how people see other people, other lifeforms, and even objects and ideas. As a god of love, you can alter how people see other people and even relate to the world around them. You now have access to a whole bevy of powers that alter relationships and can forever alter history. What's worse in your particular case is that you are a god of beauty and desire as well. This means that you are now tremendously powerful.
What's more is that unlike other domains and subdomains where you pick what you gain influence over, this particular domain grants you true and near-absolute mastery of the emotions you pick. All of your powers from specific emotions are capable of affecting anything but higher beings until you get to the final tier of this domain and become its overgod, something which no god has ever done before. This power has also amplified all of your lust abilities and elevated them to new levels.
Love passive powers:
Absolute beauty: You have now become the embodiment of beauty, a creature whose attractiveness and innate charisma transcends alignment, sexuality, and species. The true power of this, it's mind-altering and sanity sundering effects are innately turned off but even passively you are impossibly, almost painfully attractive.
When fully turned on this power instantly causes those who are sexually, romantically, or aesthetically attracted to men to fall for you in any and all ways they can. It snatches their hearts and wills aways and causes them to become fixated on you. It doesn't matter what species of creature you are interacting with, or even your own form at the time you use this power, you are seen as the most attractive creature imaginable to those who behold you. This synergistic power can also freely be applied to artistic depictions of you as well, allowing you to make incredibly dangerous statues, paintings, sculptures, or other pieces of art.
Aura of desire: You innately sense all of the desires of any creature who is in the range of this aura when you activate it. If they are attracted to you in any sort of way they also become obsessively infatuated with you.
Aura of love: Creatures who are capable of feeling some sort of love are incapable of harming you as long as this aura is being used. They also view you as the manifestation of whatever sort of love they are capable of feeling, which overwhelms their minds and in the case of mortals begins to lower their sanity. Mortal minds are not meant to withstand continued exposure to gods of emotion.
Love negation: You can snatch the love out of someone's heart, even love they feel towards things and ideas, not just the love they feel towards people. You can absorb, destroy, or redirect this love however you wish.
Meta love and lust inducement: As a god of love and desire you can induce either in any targets you wish aside from vestiges. You can direct this love, or lust however you wish and it thoroughly penetrates anyone targeted by it, unstoppably transforming their emotions.
Mesmerizing presence: Whenever you turn on this power your true, terrifying power as a god of love leaks out and infects the minds of those near you with your sublime presence. This power causes any mortals and non-greater extraplanars in your presence to be filled with awe for you and causes them to be enamored with you.
Relationship modification: You can modify a target's relationships. This power is a fierce one that allows you to make someone love people who hate them, or snatch away all of the feelings of love someone feels. For now you can only manipulate or induce love, and desire. You cannot yet cause someone to fear people, or to experience anger towards someone.
True love's kiss: This is the ultimate version of the succubi's kiss power. With this power, anyone you kiss falls in love with you. This power is unlike your other powers here. It is unlimited from the start. It could also be considered an enslavement kiss depending on who you want to use it on and for what purpose you intend to use it. Only you, or another god, one of hate or anger, could undo the effects of this kiss.]
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As I read through the powers granted to me by love and emotions I realized something: Love was a truly terrifying emotion. And with these powers, I felt far more insanity-inducing than I ever had before. And that brought a thin grin to my face.
I was being forcibly teleported to a new world, with a whole new set of powers, and I intended to use these new powers to their maximum potential. Soon, I would be free to use all of these new powers on a whole new planet, one beyond the solar system of my birth.