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World of Darkness -- Pax Romana

In The Beginning

The Primordials

From Pantheon to Pantheon the story of creation varies greatly. Yet all share a common belief that at the beginning, Something stirred the universe into motion. What that something was remains a topic of hot debate between divine entities within each Pantheon. Wars have even started between the Pantheons over this subject and all now generally agree to disagree with the goal of avoiding pointless violence.

One thing all the Pantheons can agree on is the existence of primordial deities, like: Chaos, Darkness, Day, Earth, Light, Night, Sea, Sky, and the Underworld. Other potential primordial deities include: Fate (one or more), Life and Death, Time (or Eternity) and Love (or Misery). A few of the Pantheons include negative aspects of the previously mentioned primordial deities and can include personifications, animals or stranger things.

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So You Want to be a God?

"Being a god is being able to recognize within one’s self these things that are important, and then to strike the single note that brings them into alignment with everything else that exists. Then, beyond morals or logic or esthetics, one is wind or fire, the sea, the mountains, rain, the sun or the stars, the flight of an arrow, the end of a day, the clasp of love. One rules through one’s ruling passions. Those who look upon gods then say, without even knowing their names, ‘He is Fire. She is Dance. He is Destruction. She is Love.’ [...] they do not call themselves gods. Everyone else does, though, everyone who beholds them." — Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light

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Dominions

Introduction

The term dominion means the power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority. But with respect to deities, the term dominion comes to mean something similar, but different. Here dominion refers to sovereign authority over a given aspect of reality, such aspects cover a wide variety of material phenomena such as: animals, plants, rocks, geographic features such as mountains or rivers or other entities of the natural environment, including thunder, wind and shadows. The deity's divine authority allows him or her to command these diverse phenomena through their spiritual element and each deity's dominion over their chosen phenomena grants them nearly uncontested control of those phenomena.

Classifications

There are three classifications of dominions: common, pantheon, and sacerdotal. Common dominions are available to all deities regardless of their pantheon, sacred band or parentage, provided they are not anathema to the deity or violate that deity's taboo. Pantheon specific dominions are only available to deities who belong to a specific pantheon and cannot be taught to another deity outside the pantheon. Sacerdotal dominions are very specialized dominions that govern the more mysterious powers of the universe like: fate, magic, prophesy and sacrifice. Most deities with sacerdotal dominions are perceived as having a greater power over their progeny, sacred band or pantheon and as such, they are usually loath to teach these secret dominions to other deities regardless of their relationship.

Character Creation

At the point of character creation, players may take up to three Dominions, one gained from their Divine Progenitor, one gained from their Pantheon and one jointly learned in tandem with their Sacred Band. Those Dominions taken by the Sacred Band must be agreed upon by the group of players before hand.

Powers

Each dominion is further broken down into classifications of potency known as the lesser dominions and the greater dominions. Lesser dominions are available to demi-gods and lesser deities, while the greater dominions are only available to full-fledged gods. Within each delineation of the lesser or greater dominions, individual acts of dominion are called powers. For example, the first power within the Lesser Dominion of Beasts is Beast Speech which allows the deity in question to converse with most animals. Both lesser and greater dominions are broken down into five powers ascending from weakest to strongest, so the fifth and strongest power of a given lesser dominion would be slightly weaker than the first and weakest power of the greater dominion. Despite this arrangement, there is a considerable jump in potency between the lesser and greater dominions.

Common Dominions

Common Lesser Dominions	Common Greater Dominions
Lesser Dominion of Beasts	Greater Dominion of Beasts
Lesser Dominion of Chaos	Greater Dominion of Chaos
Lesser Dominion of Darkness	Greater Dominion of Darkness
Lesser Dominion of Death	Greater Dominion of Death
Lesser Dominion of Dreams	Greater Dominion of Dreams
Lesser Dominion of Earth	Greater Dominion of Earth
Lesser Dominion of Fertility	Greater Dominion of Fertility
Lesser Dominion of Fire	Greater Dominion of Fire
Lesser Dominion of Guardianship	Greater Dominion of Guardianship
Lesser Dominion of Justice	Greater Dominion of Justice
Lesser Dominion of Luck	Greater Dominion of Luck
Lesser Dominion of Moon	Greater Dominion of Moon
Lesser Dominion of Sky	Greater Dominion of Sky
Lesser Dominion of Spirit	Greater Dominion of Spirit
Lesser Dominion of Sun	Greater Dominion of Sun
Lesser Dominion of Vitality	Greater Dominion of Vitality
Lesser Dominion of War	Greater Dominion of War
Lesser Dominion of Water	Greater Dominion of Water

Lesser Dominions of Pantheon

Lesser Dominions of the Aesir -- The Norse Gods	Lesser Dominions of the Dodekatheon -- The Olympian Gods
Lesser Dominion of Blóð af jotunnum -- Secrets of the Aesir	Lesser Dominion of Epikrátisi -- Mysteries of the Dodekatheon

Lesser Dominions Sacerdotal

Lesser Dominion of Fate	Lesser Dominion of Prophesy
Lesser Dominion of Magic	Lesser Dominion of Sacrifice

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