Originally Posted by Doo (Post 785994)

I hated it at first too, it felt wrong in a computer game like this that I couldn't heal those afflictions, curses and horror marks that my lovely pretender, unique summons and heroes accumulated. They were my babies that I nursed up to 4 stars and kitted out with only the best equipment at the time. Now my thugs have base encumbrance of 10 and rainbow mage is feeble-minded.

Insert expletive here. And another expletive, and another!

Now I actually like it because it because imagination-wise it creates a richer story, the pathless pretender wrymm with so many afflictions all it can do is sit gasping for air, yet it is endlessly thrown back into battle by its believers and called back from death again and again. The living vegetable god who used to be the most powerful mage in the land, and will be again once it truly becomes the god (or the healers fix it or the nation gains access to nature ect.,).

Very annoying when it happens in the early game but thats life. Just be sure to do it to them first ;)

Originally Posted by Loren (Post 786061)

I disagree--how can a living vegetable ascend to godhood??

I have no problem with the curses/horror marks/insanity in general, it's *ONLY* with the pretender that it feels wrong.

Originally Posted by Squirrelloid (Post 786074)

The same way a wooden totem ascends to godhood? People believe, it is enough. (Well, and compel everyone else to believe).

Originally Posted by scene11 (Post 786093)

Try forging items which make your god ethereal and other such items.
btw i am new here

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker (Post 786113)

Godhood is not based on the actions of a unit. They are based on the worship of the populace.
That is how a big rock, or a giant fungus, or a fountain become something more. They are not worshiped because they are more. They are more because they are worshiped.

It is also why pretender-gods (in vanilla) cannot bless, or be blessed, or build temples to themselves. And why they are boosted within the area of their worship (dominion)

And if all other pretender-gods are wiped out so that this is the only thing being worshiped, it ascends to godhood. It does not choose to, its forced to.