Divine Flavor · 11:58am Dec 11th, 2017
Reposting this from Group Precipitation for greater visibility, since so many people have enjoyed it already. One of the latest shorts mentioned Ditzy Doo as an eldritch magical patron, and I took the idea and ran with it. Details follow:
Ditzy Doo
Titles: The Watcher in the Void, the Unheld Center, She of the Seven Pupils
Adjective: Ditzian
Home: Unknown
Alignment: Neutral
Areas of Concern: The planes, interplanar travel, perception, hallucinations
Worshippers: Planar travelers, arcane scholars, mad prophets, aberrations
Cleric alignments: NG, LN, N, CN, NE
Domains: Knowledge, Luck, Madness, Travel, Void
Subdomains: Aeon, Dark Tapestry, Exploration, Imagination, Stars, Thought, Truth
Favored Weapon: Longspear
Symbol: Seven-pupiled eye
Sacred Animal: Horses and other equinoids, especially pegasi
Sacred Colors: Silver, gold, color out of space
Those researchers of eldritch lore who have not yet descended into incoherent babbling consider Ditzy Doo to be the most benign of all the entities known as the Elder Gods. Indeed, her approachability, coherence, and identifying as a comprehensible gender make some scholars believe she may be misclassified as one of those dread beings. She claims to hail from beyond even the Abyss, which not even other gods have substantiated, and says that she wandered to the known multiverse out of curiosity. She finds the concept of divine magic entertainingly novel, and accepts worshippers with a somewhat sardonic air.
Ditzy teaches that expanding one's boundaries is the greatest good, and that the unknown is never as terrifying as the consequences of ignorance. However, her understanding of what mortal minds can withstand leaves something to be desired, and "going mad from the revelation" is listed as the most common reason one of her high priests has had to step down. (Some claim that it's actually a requirement to attain the position in the first place.) Beyond that, her teachings are few, believing that commands from on high might detrimentally impede her worshippers' personal journeys. Her favored weapon, the longspear, was extrapolated from one of these rare lessons: "When in doubt, poke it with a stick and see what happens."
Ditzy's moral and ethical stance is less "neutral" and more "not applicable." She doesn't seem to comprehend the concepts of good, evil, law, and chaos as most do, and whenever she tries, unpleasant things tend to happen to the Outer Planes. To the entire multiverse's relief, she has shelved the matter for now. This, more than anything, is why she doesn't grant power to those of extreme alignments, believing that the existential damage she might cause by doing so could prove catastrophic. (Ominously, her exact words on the matter were "That might destroy the multiverse before I'm through with it." It is statements like these that have kept even her most devoted petitioners from asking why she holds horses in such high regard. To their shame, they're afraid they might get an answer.)
Ditzy's physical form resembles a cross between a dragon, a squid, and an eye with the optic nerve still attached. Indeed, her "head," such as it is, is simply an enormous, seven-pupiled eye, from which her holy symbol derives. Aberrations, especially flumphs, revere her at least as often and as devoutly as humanoids.
Most other gods keep their distance from Ditzy Doo whenever possible, though Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle have passably pleasant relations with her, and Sunset Shimmer appreciates her efforts to leave the multiverse largely as she found it. Pinkie Pie claims she knows some truly amazing muffin recipes, and literally everyone else in the Great Beyond tries not to think about that. Nor are they willing to try any.
More please?
I would love to see the EqG pantheon's actual stat tables like were alluded to in one of the stories about the new o&o edition..
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Seconded!
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Well, I do have some old homebrewed stuff with regard to pony deities. I'll see if I can dig any of it up.
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Can't promise anything there, not least because I favor Pathfinder over whatever actual D&D is up to, and in that system, gods are CR Don't Bother. In the main campaign setting, one god got decapitated and his severed head fell into lava. His favored civilization fell into ruin, but he's still wandering around, headless but alive.
Still I'm glad you enjoyed it!
May I have your permission to use this in a CoC game I’m running?
Even though I had no plans to that effect, one of my players already dreads that there may or may not be a gate to another reality containing colorful horses.
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I love inspiring people. And I can only imagine how Ditzy will fit in with actual Mythos entities.
Go right ahead!
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Well, they're about to enter the “sealing the portals” portion of the campaign. I should be able to work her in somewhere...
I know I'm late to the party but maaaan do I want to see the other characters interpreted as gods.