Godborn are the offspring of specific divine entities of the Religions on Aloria, that even includes Estellon and Void Worship even though they are based on extra-planar entities. The Godborn manifest unique appearances, personality, and powers based on their heritage, but also have a uniquely difficult life within their own religious communities. Far from being worshiped or praised as the children of the god, Godborn are uniquely cursed with a demand to prove themselves, a task which for many of them seems too great to achieve, and so many of them languish in irrelevance, subject to the mockery and derision of the faithful, as if they are an extension of the inability of their religion to prove its superiority to others. In fact, many of the Godborn become an extension of religious wars between the various beliefs around the world, even if they nominally live in relatively peaceful conditions in various countries. There is always the hope that a Godborn will beat the Godborn of other religions in fame and name, though failing that, the criticism towards them is also proportionally more severe. It is said among the various religions that when a Godborn is born, the Gods flip a coin, with one side resulting in them being paragons of their faith, pious and virtuous, and the other side resulting in them being a curse of crime, violence and disappointment.
Catheron, the Eclipse Witch
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Description
Catheron is the personification of the Pride Arken who ascended to Godhood when he uplifted the Void Cultist Elves to Kathar and inflicted the ultimate destruction on the Arch-Exist. In the power that he gained from this act, he murdered the Void God Onu, and absorbed all of his power to breach into the Void where this superior fragment of his identity remains a constant reflection from his mortal incarnations on Aloria. Catheron is simply put the Evolist God of all things Magical, Artifacts, and Power, but so much more beyond that. Catheron's preachings state that reality in Aloria is suffering and pain and that the enforcers of reality (Dragons, and other Gods) are inflicting perpetual torture on the living through disease, death, entropy, divine laws, and decay. He raises the idea that Magic is the ultimate solution to this inflicted torment, where the sufferer can reverse the roles and re-impose reality to assuage their suffering, while also ascending to the same plane as the inflicters. Words Words Words Words Words. Words Words Words Words Words. Words Words Words Words Words. Words Words Words Words Words.
Context
All worshipers of Evolism are granted the gifts of Catheron. The first is the Law of Catheron's Reflection, which causes any Curse placed on an Evolist to also be mirrored back on the (non-Greater Entity) that made it. This does not make the Evolist immune to the Curse, it just means an identical Curse is placed on the Curser (that they cannot remove themselves). Words Words Words Words Words. Words Words Words Words Words.
Mechanics
All worshipers of Evolism are granted the gifts of Catheron. The first is the Law of Catheron's Reflection, which causes any Curse placed on an Evolist to also be mirrored back on the (non-Greater Entity) that made it. This does not make the Evolist immune to the Curse, it just means an identical Curse is placed on the Curser (that they cannot remove themselves). Words Words Words Words Words. Words Words Words Words Words.
All worshipers of Evolism are granted the gifts of Catheron. The first is the Law of Catheron's Reflection, which causes any Curse placed on an Evolist to also be mirrored back on the (non-Greater Entity) that made it. This does not make the Evolist immune to the Curse, it just means an identical Curse is placed on the Curser (that they cannot remove themselves). Words Words Words Words Words. Words Words Words Words Words.
All worshipers of Evolism are granted the gifts of Catheron. The first is the Law of Catheron's Reflection, which causes any Curse placed on an Evolist to also be mirrored back on the (non-Greater Entity) that made it. This does not make the Evolist immune to the Curse, it just means an identical Curse is placed on the Curser (that they cannot remove themselves). Words Words Words Words Words. Words Words Words Words Words.
Trivia
Playing a Godborn won't suddenly make other Roleplayers interested in your character. While the Demigod aesthetic is alluring, it inevitably won't be a golden bullet to make other Characters interact with yours.
Godborn of the Unionist Schisms (Evintarian, Dogmatic, Emended) are recognized in Regalia. Other Godborn however are not acknowledged, not even Old Gods Godborn despite many Old Gods faithful living in the Regalian Capital.
Godborn can seek out their parents to acquire a greater understanding of their purpose in life, but this may sometimes come as a pandora's box: not all Gods are interested in speaking with their mortal offspring.
