New pretender gods

[Alneyan]

A shame; it would have been so amusing to see your Pretender die because of his own heat aura. *Improved* Imps (notice the irony) with the Heat aura should certainly do the trick however, especially if you happen to cut down their wings and thus make them immobile. You do not want the Imps to go away before their summoner has been completely killed; these Pretenders can be so bothering and refuse to die, even when they are about as powerful as a limp and blind dragonfly.

I guess I didn't pay enough attention to the part of the thread when artifact Pretenders were mentioned. Credits go to the original poster then. How wonderful a Rainbow mage is indeed, especially when its paths mirror your national mages strengths (I did it in Try Something New, though I managed to pick one path not already covered by my own mages at least).

Going back to the topic of Pretenders, may I have a nice Succubus as Pretender? Please? A Vampire Queen might do the trick here, but she is definitively too powerful, and so will not qualify under my tastes for "nigh useless gods, whose only purpose is to give a good casus belli to invade neighbours". It would also be one of the few Pretenders able to meddle in assassinations, and assorted pastimes.

[Vicious Love]

A thought: R'lyeh should have a mindless, permafeebleminded, obscenely huge, higher than 18 MR, 20-30% regenerating, battlefield feebleminding(MR easily negates), 200 or so points-costing, nigh-unkillable pretender. And where dragon pretenders occasionally trigger bloodslave-devouring bad events, this thing should trigger army-devouring events.

[Curwen]

Vicious Love said:
A thought: R'lyeh should have a mindless, permafeebleminded, obscenely huge, higher than 18 MR, 20-30% regenerating, battlefield feebleminding(MR easily negates), 200 or so points-costing, nigh-unkillable pretender. And where dragon pretenders occasionally trigger bloodslave-devouring bad events, this thing should trigger army-devouring events.

Thinking of Azathoth? I was wondering about this very kind of pretender this morning.

[Vicious Love]

Curwen said:
Thinking of Azathoth? I was wondering about this very kind of pretender this morning.

Yup.


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Of course, properly simulating capital G, singular form God, or possibly even gratuitously all-capped GOD, with his mindless but very much literal omnipotence, his raw biggosity, orders of magintude bigger than the limits of human imagination of bigdom, really so inconceivably biggious there's no point in trying to describe him, would take about a billion nation points. I suppose we could balance it out by taking away R'lyeh's water magic and Atlantean thralls.

Still, we could always go with a mini-Azathoth, one a bit smaller than the universe itself.