[Braen]

Originally Posted by renaissance

Pretty sure this whole concept was fleshed out years ago.

You never really 'killed' a god in EQ. The gods were mere corporeal representations of the concepts they represented. If you 'killed' Cazic Thule you were merely destroying the shape that the concept of 'Fear' prefers to take from time to time. In the world of Norrath, 'Fear' manifests itself in its own geographical location (the plane of fear), which it populates with its denizens (the chief of which, and lord of, is CT).

As certain high-ups at SOE (iirc) described, once you 'killed' one of these representations, the concept (Fear, Hate, Magic, Fire, Nature, etc) would simply reintegrate again to take the shape it prefers; the God in question. Thus, killing the Gods and clearing their plane every week makes a hell of a lot more sense than killing a dragon that 'respawns'... as they are simply animals.

You cannot 'kill' fear, hate, or any other 'concept', and you cannot really kill their creations. The lower gods of the pantheon are simply agents of their 'concept' which they use to exert their influence over Norrath - and are infinite.

Sounds like avatars to me. Avatars are the physical embodiment of the concept, the god is the power behind that concept. If you are just killing a concept... then why give them names like Innoruuk or Mithaniel Marr? Just call them hate or valor? You know... liek that Avatar of War or the Avatar of Fear that were already in the game.

You give them names and then they have an identity besides the "concept" they embody. In a game were gods are killable, you have an event when one appears and the first thing people think is not, "Oh cool a god" it's, "Let's kill the bastard".

Also, in a game where you follow a deity, a follower of said deity should have repercussions for killing other followers of their deity. it should have an effect on yoru character. I hated that, for example, a cleric of Innoruuk could take part in a raid against Inny and not have any effect on their powers. The game explains that the power of the cleric comes from the god they devoted their faith in. Killing said deity should weaken them, if not remove the deities favor from them.