215 Lesser Matters (1/2)
Animation: You can use the life and mind domains to give life to even inanimate machines such as Htrae-level planes and trains. This power will obviously turn them into your worshippers.
Core Creation and Manipulation: By utilizing a number of domains such as the law domain and the eldritch and faith domains you can create dungeon cores and manipulate ones you own. Dungeon cores are efficient power gathers and dispersers and can be used to control cities, larger pieces of technology, and other spaces. Once you increase your power over the correct domains you'll be able to immediately seize control of dungeons upon entering them, or even from a distance.
Corruption And Purity Transmission: You can transmit corruption and purity into all sorts of lifeforms and undead beings aside from vestiges. This means that you can corrupt or purify machines using your virtue and your vices.
Cybernetic Necromancy: By infusing a corpse with the proper machines or even by killing someone with the proper technology, you can create undead-machines. You can also revive a piece of technology with necromantic powers rather than healing powers. Undead-machines are more naturally suited to utilizing technology and if you seek to wage war on a technologically-gifted civilization is one of the most horrifying things you can do to instill them with fear.
Fuel Manipulation: This synergistic power takes from the domain of faith, the eldritch domain, and the technology subdomain. This potent power allows you to manipulate the amount of fuel present in a machine and allows you to do other things such as give a machine infinite fuel.
Repair Manipulation: This synergistic power takes from the domain of life and the subdomain of healing. With it you can efficiently repair any machine or other bit of technology that has been broken, destroyed, or deactivated.
Enhanced Illusions: Taking from the subdomain of enchantment, this ability allows your enchantments and illusions to fool machines, robots, and androids.
Killswitch: You can immediately kill any technology or technological lifeform that is within the realm of what you can manipulate.
Illogical Technology Modifications: This synergistic power takes from the eldritch and chaos domains. With it you can apply nonsensical modifications to technology, such as giving a robot with a gun infinite ammunition. Incidentally, if seek subtlety you can also drive intelligent technology insane which causes them to obey you without realizing they are obeying you. This works by causing them to hear your commands as quiet and irresistible whispers in the back of their minds.
Pain Transmission: You can cause technological lifeforms to feel pain.]
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As I floated back down to ground-level my robotic servants took the elevator of the building I had left them in and met me right outside of the building. Once on the ground I could more clearly hear the sounds of the city coming back to life. It was odd for the city to be so alive without a single organic lifeform but I mean my inorganic city in the Heart of Darkness would soon be the exact same way. That said at least my city will originally be an inorganic one and not a city where all inhabiting organic lifeforms were killed or fled.
I glanced at my robotic servants, but only had the briefest of moments to focus on them before my senses picked up movement relatively nearby. And I detected a lot of movement. I couldn't quite detect the entire city at once, not from the ground at least, but I could feel that hundreds of thousands of mechanical lifeforms were on the move at once and that their hearts, insofar as they had hearts, were filled with awe and gratitude, their hearts turning towards me in worship out of sheer joy for being well and truly alive once more. It was an awe-inspiring sensation.
For a moment I simply enjoyed the sensation. I quite liked the fact that I was expanding the type of creatures who worshiped me. This active expansion of my worshiper base and the new abilities I possessed were both quite exciting to me which was why I had chosen to actively learn about them immediately rather than wait as I often did. I found the new things I could do with this subdomain extremely exciting and I had already made moves to begin to affect the mortal plane utilizing these newfound powers. In time I intended to make aggressive use of this but for now I was content being patient.
The reality was that until this point I had avoided interacting with the few high-technology civilizations I had learned of. That was because I didn't want to interact with them until I had powers that matched their technologies. Some of these civilizations could be found on gas giant planets, though in many cases they simply maintained outposts on such worlds, which I had come across and knew of thanks to ”Stellar awareness”.