180 Fantastic Fungal Powers (1/2)

[Environmental Magic subdomain details:

The school of environmental magic is a potent school of magic that alters the very world itself. This is similar to evocation magic but much larger in scale and far more varied. A god who possesses power over this school can cause all sorts of significant mystical effects and can affect far more than they could if they were only limited to evocation magic.

As you gain more and more powers over and within this subdomain you'll be able to do more dramatic things with it itself. For now, you can't create environments using this power, in time you'll be able too though, but you can manipulate them using this subdomain. You can create environments through brute-force with constant spell-casting and through other powers, just not automatically through the subdomain itself.

Environmental magic is, at least at the lowest levels of magic, the most dramatic magic. With it raising even entire cities in an instant is possible. It is also known as ecomancy. To gain further influence over it, build a cult that revolves around ecomancy, and that seeks to shape the entire universe using ecomancy.

Environmental Magic passive powers*:

Ecological sentience: This unusual power allows you to grant sentience to weather, such as storms. It is in essence performing an awakening on a type of natural phenomena such as a tornado or hurricane. As when you awaken a truly living thing you are worshiped and served by the entity you awakened. Most awakened natural phenomena behave similarly to how elementals behave.

Subterranean lordship: You gain near-total power over places within the surface of a world. This is due to your powerful ties to the worlds underneath worlds, underground regions where your followers tend to be the most populous. This power is immensely powerful and grants you even greater control over subterranean followers of yours like the swarm and dark elves.

This power's most potent ability is the power to transform subterranean regions and also carve out new ones. This is a highly potent power that ought to be used carefully but when unleashed allows you to swiftly conquer the underground portions of entire continents. Additionally, when you're in an environment you're a lord of you can use your active powers twice as often before having to wait for the cooldown period to start.

Weather magic: You can manipulate the weather through magic, and you can enhance or disrupt the efforts of others to manipulate the weather through magic or technology. Your efforts will always triumph over those of mortals and even lesser or intermediate extraplanar entities. A greater extraplanar might be able to overpower you with this, depending on their powers.

Territory: With this power, you can select areas and manipulate them using your other powers. This is an ecomantic power solely because for right now you can only manipulate them in environmental ways, such as by turning stone into ice or putting a road somewhere.

Volcanic lordship: You have total power over volcanoes and can activate them at will. Additionally you can create creatures out of magma and lava at will, and they can take on a number of forms. In or around volcanoes you're empowered and can utilize any sort of active power of yours twice as many times before suffering from a drawback.

*Other powers exist, but these are those that are primarily ecomantic in nature.

Ecomancy blessing \u0026 curse details:

This provides a flexible blessing or curse. With it you can bless or curse someone to have the ability to endure and adapt to any sort of non-supernatural environmental condition. Or you can curse them and make them unable to tolerate a wealth of environmental conditions.]

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I shivered as I felt the power wash over me. It brought a smile to my face and I especially enjoyed learning about ”Subterranean lordship”. That power had an especially dramatic and theatrical name and it was one that I felt spoke to me on a grandiose level. With it I felt even more powerful than I had before. It was grand enough that even though the other powers felt disappointing I wasn't disappointed.

After I read over the powers, I closed my eyes and grinned. My powers were ever-expanding, and I was quite fond of that. I enjoyed the gradual growth of my powers and the ever-expanding list of things that I could do. I was quite ambitious and I had come to this world already equipped with a healthy list of powers at my disposal.

It was while my eyes were closed that Geoffrey, now in the body of his youth, approached the part of his extensive property that was suited for farming. I sensed him approaching and chuckled softly. I silently took steps until I was near an empty patch of tilled soil and then I got started doing something unusual: using my powers over spores.

I wanted to help the farmer, and I had one specific set of abilities that'd make helping him very easy: my power over spores and fungi.

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Althos was a potent lord of a plethora of things. Not the least of the things that he lorded over were spores and fungi. His abilities over spores and fungi came in the form of an abundance of abilities that he hadn't really used yet, but he began to change that as Geoffrey approached him, the man approaching the god from the same path that the god approached the man, last night.

Althos stood over an empty patch of tilled soil and chuckled. There was a crude smile on his face as he rose an arm over the soil and silently allowed some of the spores he had generated internally to seep out of his hand and drift lazily towards the soil at his feet. These spores were created using his ”Spore production” power and they were ordinary, reproductive spores that would rapidly grow into a diversity of fungal lifeforms if left alone.

The young god was silent as the spores detached themselves from his body and as the first of them reached the ground quickly and quietly. He smiled as they planted themselves into the dirt at his feet. As they did so he effortlessly targeted them and activated his power to age lifeforms, and watched as the spores began to grow quickly.

Before his very eyes, the spores advanced through the first of the stages in their life-cycles. The ones he found the most fascinating to look at were the spores that ultimately grew into mushrooms. Those spores invaded the soil, created hyphae that went on to find other, similar hyphae by digging into the ground, connected with them, and then began to form pinheads that ultimately grew into full-on fruit-bodied mushrooms.

Some of the spores that left his body seeped into the ground and swiftly became eerie patches of mold that swiftly spread through the tilled dirt, discoloring it and causing it to begin to exude an unpleasant smell into the air. That said the god was fascinated by this, and enjoyed displaying his own powers to an audience that consisted solely of himself.