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Yes, I think that's highly likely. Of course that was a very long time ago and she would have outlived them all by now anyway, but I imagine they all died in that big battle she had with Hulushka and his tribe before they became divines. Every one of Okatogg's kids was probably a soldier, a career she pushed them into because she valued military might above all else.

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I think this does happen every so often...but it can't keep happening for long, because there are nymphs hiding everywhere. I think eventually a nymph would notice a divine resurrecting (it's usually a big, flashy event marked by strange localized weather patterns) and come running to check it out. It's actually quite hard to be truly alone in Looming Gaia's wilderness.

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Good question! In the vast majority of cases, this would be treated like any other murder. Whether the victim resurrects or not, the murderer will face full penalty all the same. At best, some jurisdictions may downgrade the charge from "murder" to "manslaughter", but that isn't very common.

For a divine, the death of their physical body can potentially be devastating. They have to participate in capitalism just like everyone else, so if they're not around to pay their bills for a whole year, things can start getting repossessed. A lot can happen in a year's time. They may resurrect without a house, without livestock, maybe their spouse left them, their stuff gets stolen, they miss the deaths/weddings/birthdays of their friends, and so on.

The wealthier, more notable divines have hired stewards to take over if something like this happens, and their lives aren't disrupted as much. But even the most powerful ones can end up losing influence and wealth too.

The Crescent Cult, for example, starts crumbling pretty quickly whenever Disgrace gets killed. He has appointed a Cultmaster to hold things together in his absence, but it's still dicey and he ends up hemorrhaging a lot of troops and wealth if he isn't physically there to scare the cult into doing things himself. Other divines might have similar experiences.

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I would like to redesign Krozlaug and Erasmos themselves (a lot of the divines are due for a design overhaul) but as for their monsters, I'm pretty satisfied with the current look of the cyclopes and demons.

Divines don't like to reveal every single ingredient they used to forge their monsters (they gotta keep some trade secrets!) but it is known that some of the ingredients used to make cyclopes were: minotaur horns, ogre hides, troll ears, granite dust, and satyr bones.

While some ingredients to forge demons were: satyr horns and hearts, maenad wine, bat wings, and aphrodisiacs.

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Thank you so much! I think he's a really fun character with so much potential for a good story. I can't wait to incorporate him into the main series.

The hard part is trying to decide which direction to go with him. Should he have happy ending, or forever continue down his path of lonely bitterness? I haven't decided yet...

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There is another post about this here <---

There are so many different reactions to divines among Gaia's religious groups. Even different sects of the same religion may feel differently about them. Most often they are feared or worshiped, but in some cases they are hated and shunned.

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As for the crescent cultist, unlike the divine they worship they are each fully & truly deserving of the title of evil. For their cruelty is entirely their own choice, the product of their own malice & selfishness then any survival need. They willfully choose to violate & destroy others entirely for their own malignant pleasure, the golden mask they get only allowing them to profit further from their malice, not creating it out of thin air.

This is a great analysis! This is why Disgrace is one of my favorite villains in the series. He's really not "evil" in the way we traditionally think of evil, but he does bring out the true evil in others.

He can only do so much damage alone. His real power lies in the hatred and violence he inspires in peoples, and his army of angry, hateful soldiers are the ones who do the real damage.

Disgrace has no choice but to do the evil he does. His army, however, joins his efforts out of a greedy thirst for power. They see his violence as power and they're inspired by it, wishing to be powerful too. They are willing to ride his coattails all the way into hell if it means trampling some people along the way.

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Good question! In this case, they would resurrect as a normal nymph. If they wanted to become a titan nymph again, they would have to redo the ritual. Or in the case of minervae, they would have to convince Karenza to transform them.

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