Re: New Mod: Nova Deus II (taking requests)
 

The thing is thats how a phoenix is meant to look, not a big, burning bird of doom we usually see.

Re: New Mod: Nova Deus II (taking requests)
 

Lord of Knowledge - demigod, has an ibis head (Thoth).
Lord of Retribution - demigod, has a hawk head (Horus).
Lord of the Underworld - demigod, has a donkey head (Set).
Lord of Healing - demigod, has a dog head (Draffut, from the Saberhagen books). Heals battle afflictions.
Voice in the Clear Air - has glamour, is ethereal, stealthy, causes unrest, seduces. Kinda like the glyph but mobile. (Jehovah)
Monkey King - ride around on a cloud, has a staff. (Hanuman)
Lady of Mercy - woman riding around on a ki-rin. (Kuan Yin)
Great Seqoia - actually didn't you have a tree in your elf mod?
Mother Hydra - chaos hydra, eats provinces.
Ancient Lizard King - aquatic, breathes lightning. (Godzilla!)
Great Butterfly - flies, gives off sonic booms when it moves (if I can arrange that...).. maybe tramples, defintiely has a poison cloud. (Mothra!)
Lady of Freedom - is a demigod made out of copper holding aloft a torch (the statue of liberty.)
Rainbow - is a rainbow. It's immobile, it pays 10 for new paths and starts with ASN. I'm frickin' hysterical.
Great Minstrel - rainbow pretender, has awe, and is a standard, presence reduces unrest.
Great Pimp - Demigod, wears purple zoot suit, has cane. Copystats on the Pan (so he attracts Maenads). Dousing bonus.
Celestial Architect - Rainbow pretender, copystats on the engineer. Pees earth gems.
Azure Stone - a big blue rectangular prism. It's a piece of the firmament of heaven that was left over when construction was finished. (Dream of Red Mansions, the classic chinese novel.)
The Black Sword - it's immortal, because if the wielder is slain someone else just picks it up. The sword transforms any peasant that draws it into a mighty warrior (so the pretender has the jade lord profile), and it itself has roughly the stats of a wraithsword but is a "bonus weapon" - the wielder only has a left hand slot. (Stormbringer).
The Ring - Same deal. Immortal rainbow pretender, missing a misc slot. Worn by a hoburg (you saw this coming,) but he's ethereal, glamoured AND lucky!

Re: New Mod: Nova Deus II (taking requests)
 

Zepath, if you do change the Earth Mother, please keep her dimensions and such. I don't find her form distasteful at all but I would be interested in seeing a touch up that makes her a bit more defined. As of now, the colors make it hard to determine her features.

Re: New Mod: Nova Deus II (taking requests)
 

It could be cooler, and still authentic.

Aberdeen bestiary

Re: New Mod: Nova Deus II (taking requests)
 

This is one way for a cool pheonix to look like:
http://www.the-genies-lamp.com/image...ps/phoenix.jpg
This is another:
http://www.the-genies-lamp.com/image.../phoenixes.jpg
(Though that's just a head shot)
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: New Mod: Nova Deus II (taking requests)
 

"Phoenix is an immortal heron..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron

That "Snowy Egret" looks better than the current heron, and I wouldn't mind seeing something like that. But a bird aflame would be a bit strange IMO.

Re: New Mod: Nova Deus II (taking requests)
 

DrPraetorious, check on the pimp lord.

Foodstamp, which features of the Earth Mother are you worried about? Her decription explains that she is made of clay so I can see why sharp facial features or even feet might not be visible on her...

Sandman, Agrajag, Endo, I'm all for revamping the Phoenix, esp. since its always a tempting pretender choice for me simply because it's, well... a phoenix. As for it's appearance, I favor the perception of the thing looking like a normal bird most of the time. The idea of a phoenix being a huge ever-flaming bird of pure fire seems to be an amalgamation of the idea that it is A) a bird and B) immortal and briefly self-immolating every few centuries. The snowy egret on the Wiki page Endoperez posted would be nice and I'll try it out and see what I can come up with.

Re: New Mod: Nova Deus II (taking requests)
 

It might be cool if you do a firstshape/secondshape thing with it. Weaken the normal form, and bring out giant flamey phoenix in battles.

Re: New Mod: Nova Deus II (taking requests)
 

The only problem is that you can't put an animated sprite, so you'll get flames that don't move and therefore look really wierd.
(Can we please have animated .gif support? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif)

Re: New Mod: Nova Deus II (taking requests)
 

That could probably be solved by a Flame Shield effect.