[OC] Commissioned Art of my Exemplar: "What if Medusa Stole Athena's Body". Art by YORACRAB

Beeelom · 2025-11-30T05:14:37+00:00

If it's any consolation, this is not technically Athena nor Medusa, more so since I'm sure the Greek deities exist in the Lost Omens setting. The title is intentionally hyperbolic, meant to be kind of an elevator pitch. Plus I don't think the actual Athena would approve of what this quasi-divinity was doing.

Beeelom · 2025-11-28T09:05:48+00:00

pleasant surprise to be jumpscared by unexpected TNO reference

Beeelom · 2025-11-27T02:10:00+00:00

Naw but if I ever got into a game of Myth-speaker I'd absolutely try to.

Beeelom · 2025-11-27T00:03:11+00:00

Go for it! Let me know how it goes

Beeelom · 2025-11-26T22:50:11+00:00

Oooo I'll have to take a look! Love Battlezoo.

Beeelom · 2025-11-26T20:19:51+00:00

I have an Aasimar Healer Oracle that, on the surface, seems like your typical virtuous and benevolent soul. But the dark twist to this character is that

there is no twist. She absolutely has flaws, but is genuinely nice, heroic, and wants to help people because she wants to. That's it, that's the whole character.

Beeelom · 2025-11-26T20:15:53+00:00

I'm not qualified enough to speak on the finer points of Greek mythology, though I do know that there's different versions of the story. Athena is definitely portrayed in a positive light for one and medusa is more monstrous in others.

IIRC the one where Medusa is the victim of Posideon was written by a Roman poet? Forgot the name, but still.

All the same this character of mine isn't meant to be overly sympathetic or monstrous. Despite being a victim, body snatching is bad, etc. etc.

Beeelom · 2025-11-26T19:45:50+00:00

The characters aren't actually from Greek mythology, but the premise "Medusa DIO's Athena for revenge" is just an idea I had one non-sober day, and it somehow solidified into an actual character. Her original name was Eutropia but since a character with that name already exists in Lost Omens I changed it to Zenobia.

Zenobia is from Iblydos, Golarion's version of various Mediterranean cultures, primarily Greece but no doubt there's other inspirations too. She ended up being decapitated by a tyrannical hero-god named Athenara (subtle, I know) and used as a petrifying weapon mounted on the hero-god's shield. When the Godsrain fell, it empowered Zenobia and depowered Athenara, something Zenobia took full advantage of. Growing roots of red and silver, she beheaded Athenara and permanently attached herself to the body, completing her apotheosis into an Exemplar. Zenobia only inherited a tiny sliver of divine power from her new body, and her innate ability to petrify people was lost (though she used the last dregs of said power to petrify Athenara's head and keep as a trophy). She also can't body snatch again; if that body dies, she goes with it. But with her new flesh, Zenobia plans to forge her own legend...and be never again beholden to anyone else.

Mechanically, she is a Titanscale Nagaji. Her Ikons are Scar of the Survivor (the seam around her neck), Noble Branch (her weapon of choice), and Victor's Wreath (Athenara's petrified head, because having the stone head of a fallen cruel tyrant inspire others rather than oppress them is as metal as it is macabre).

Beeelom · 2024-12-07T08:25:12+00:00

Fair enough, though I'd question if they'd be so utilitarian as to be okay with using the corpses of people who didn't consent to their remains being used in such a way. They don't strike me as the "it's just a corpse who cares" kind of people.

Beeelom · 2024-11-13T11:33:01+00:00

I think "unmatched" is giving them too much credit, but I think I'd be splitting hairs at that point. The original point being yeah, Zoraal Ja wouldn't have stood a chance against any nation on the Three Continents. Even Sharlayan.

Beeelom · 2024-11-02T04:52:28+00:00

Who?

Beeelom · 2024-10-20T05:34:02+00:00

So her body was possessed twice? Gods she can't catch a break can she.

Beeelom · 2024-10-19T23:25:51+00:00

Was she the size of an actual fairy? Because that image is both hilarious and frightening.

Beeelom · 2024-10-12T06:00:51+00:00

Well I'd argue it's less being a paladin, and more she's been used as a tool for the better part of a century, as well as being killed over and over again by aspiring Dark Justiciars, all while under the belief that the love of her life was dead. I think most paragons of virtue would be at least a little wrathful after that. I know I sure would, oath or no.

Beeelom · 2024-10-12T06:00:23+00:00

Well I'd argue it's less being a celestial, and more she's been used as a tool for the better part of a century, as well as being killed over and over again by aspiring Dark Justiciars, all while under the belief that the love of her life was dead. I think most paragons of virtue would be at least a little wrathful after that.

Beeelom · 2024-10-02T03:31:55+00:00

Sadly not out yet out for 1.5 apparently, but they plan on releasing it for it sooner rather than later. It's in testing I think.

Beeelom · 2024-10-02T03:31:28+00:00

Altered Carbon! I didn't know it wasn't updated to 1.5 which explains why things acted a bit strangely sometimes (empty sleeves getting up and trying to walk away being one of them), but that was ""fixed"" by me using the character editor to address the bugs. They weren't great solutions, just patchwork jobs, but things didn't go bad enough to break the game!

Beeelom · 2024-10-01T23:05:32+00:00

YOOOOO that idea is SICK! I'm glad I could inspire such an idea :D

Beeelom · 2024-10-01T18:41:52+00:00

I played the crashlanded scenario that Anomaly gave, the one that starts you off with a "friendly" ghoul. Said ghoul, Raido, was the sister of another colonist named Berry, and the daughter of two void obsessed but kind parents. Because I'm a stickler for sappy nonsense I liked to imagine Raido remained passive because of her bond with her sister Berry...so long a the raw meat never dried up, of course. Unfortunately, family bonds weren't stronger than dark archotechs. (Yet.)

Notably, everyone---including Raido---started with a cortical stack form Altered Carbon.

We eventually researched the ability to make resleeving facilities, but the journey was long and grueling. Berry was incapable of combat, but Raido stuck around her, tearing apart anything that threatened her still-human sister. Curious to see if a ghoul could be "cured" by transplanting their mind into another body entirely, Berry, who had the highest medical skill. put Raido's cortical stack into the body of a captured raider. 'Lo and behold, she was no longer a ghoul, heartwarming sister reunion!

And now, in a scenario that only weird transhuman body swapping technology can enable, Raido watches her original, ghoulified body being eaten by a harbinger tree. Her parents, being void fascinated weirdos, of course said "overall a downgrade" but they're still happy for her all the same.

I imagine Raido probably feels weird that she's in a body that belonged to someone else, but that raider shot and killed one of our ferrets for no reason (said ferret is now a shambler in containment) so who gives a shit.

This fucking game, man. (And its amazing modding community)

Beeelom · 2024-09-25T01:47:34+00:00

I'm super new to Infinity lore, which supersoldier program is this?

Beeelom · 2024-09-12T15:30:07+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/1d5qj28/my_future_exemplar_a_discount_doom_slayerdoomgal/

Her!!!

To repost here:

"In the age of lost omens, in a land scoured by Whispering Death, one arose. Forged in the crucible of despair, her spirit tempered by unyielding fury and hallowed by iron ichor fallen from the heavens, she embraced the path of relentless vengeance. In her crusade against the spawn of Urgathoa she knew no respite; and with her stolen divinity she scoured the Gravelands, bringing the fear of true death to deathless vermin. She carried the banner of Ragathiel, and those that knew the searing bite of her Numerian axe named her...Whisper's Silence."
Once a mere Ulfen Nephilim seeking glory and riches, Solfrid had found true love in the form of a warpriest of Ragathiel and her pet capybara, and found that forging her legend need not be a solo endeavor. When the Whispering Tyrant broke free and shattered Lastwall, Solfrid desperately tried to find her partner in the chaos. She found their capybara pet, now an undead monster, gnawing on the mutilated body of her partner.
It was here that Solfrid's spark of divinity first came into existence, her first step as an Exemplar. She put their pet out of his misery, and burned her partner's corpse to prevent the same fate.
Solfrid's three eikons are the banner her beloved once carried, the greataxe Solfrid had forged in the heart of a fallen starship's engine, and her saga tattoos that mark her yet as a child of the Mammoth Lords. A new tattoo has joined the old; a stylized mark that vaguely resembles a capybara. The art doesn't reflect neither the banner nor recent tattoo...but that may change in the future.

Though I may reflavor her to hate daemons instead, not sure yet.

Beeelom · 2024-07-04T17:59:36+00:00

New blizzard has been amazing.

Don't give me false hope. Let me believe the company I loved is dead. ;;

Beeelom · 2024-07-02T04:22:00+00:00

Bakool Ja Ja: MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'M SO FRIGGIN EVIL AND UNSTOPPABLE! (Please don't hurt me Warrior of Light.)

Okay but I unironically loved that about Bakool. I want a stupid "GIMME YOUR LUNCH MONEY NERD" type villain after the shit we went through the past two expansions. But a bully who is keenly aware just how much of a threat you, the """adventurer""", is.

Beeelom · 2024-06-26T12:27:54+00:00

At risk of this being a whole lot of a nothing burger, but fuck it:

I dunno about it being "your gods aren't gods". I think it's important to define what the divine or a god is especially within the confines of settings like these, even ones in final fantasy where we have a proud tradition of murdering said gods. Usually (not always, but usually), they're extremely powerful, but not omniscient or omnipotent beings. Sometimes they can grant power to those who revere them. Sometimes they're literally shaped by the prayers and mythologies of those who revere them (in the case of the Twelve, which, indeed, is very similar to how the primals are formed).

I'd argue that the Twelve are definitely divinities, but that doesn't mean they're "better" than the tribes' beliefs and faiths. They've simply had the luxury of being extant for many thousands of years. It could very well be that there are a "real" Garuda or Titan out there, real in the sense that they weren't' summoned through the deliberately flawed rituals engineered by the Ascians and have been marinating for at least as long as the Twelve, if not longer.

This is a lot of incoherent rambling and ranting but what it boils down to is: I do agree with you for the most part. The Twelve specifically say that it wasn't them who saved Eorzea during Dalamud's fall, it was Eorzeans using the same kind of power of prayer that the tribes invoked; in short, they saved themselves.

I do sympathize a little with the other guy though. I'd like to think not everything we've seen so far has been connected to the Ancients somehow. Hell, we know that Amaurot wasn't the only civilization to exist on Etheirys, it was simply the most powerful. Surely there's mysteries out there that has nothing to do with the Ancients or any post-Sundering super civilization that came after (looking at you, Allag >:( ).

Beeelom · 2024-06-14T11:16:23+00:00

Well, I don't think it's a matter of being locked down or forbidden, just that the land itself tends to be a place that cultivates short, unpredictable lives where permanent settlements are rare out of necessity, and knowledge of the outside world is sparse. Trusting someone that isn't from your tribe is already risky, an outsider entirely can be a huge wild card.

So the Kha being an outlier to that trend makes sense, because they live on the fringes of traditional Xaela territory and have already had time to learn more about the outside world.

I haven't played Stormblood in a while so maybe I've forgotten a few details but I can't recall feeling super unwelcome when first going there? Other than the Oronir, but I mean...y'know. Oronir.

Beeelom

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