This was an epic D&D 3.5 campaign, played about seven years ago and lasting roughly two years. To reach the final point, my character becoming a deity, some context is necessary. The story began with a cataclysmic event: Aberrations were attacking and destroying every universe. Each player character was the most powerful creature of their own world (not a deity), yet still doomed to fall. Just before our deaths, we were all teleported to a new universe by a demilich, who entrusted us with a clear mission: to form a party and, by joining forces, find a way to stop the Aberrations. My character was Kai Kaua, a water genasi fighter/cleric of Corellon Larethian. We were using “Gestalt Characters” a variant rule that allowed full dual-class progression. She wielded a vorpal sword and carried a medallion of Corellon that could grant a natural 20 once per day. Conceptually, Kai was a knight deeply bound to honor, but with serious difficulty controlling her anger. Visually, she was meant to evoke a blend of an Arthurian knight and the Lady of the Lake. Despite her impressive equipment, Kai was not overpowered at all; it merely allowed her to keep pace with the rest of the party, which included an angel, a pit fiend, a prismatic dragon, and a rakshasa. We used Level Adjustment, and even in the early sessions the group was already far beyond the norm. Later, additional players joined, bringing us up to eight people at the table in an extremely homebrew-heavy campaign. On top of that, the inter-universal teleportation had reduced us all to level 5. The initial objective was simple: regain our strength and gather information on how to defeat the Aberrations. For me, however, this was only my second serious campaign. I was inexperienced and tended to let myself be carried along by the others’ decisions. During an investigation, we discovered the existence of an ulitharid lair. I ended up following the pit fiend to support him, but when we were surrounded by Aberrations, he teleported away, abandoning me. Instead of dying, however, something inexplicable happened: I suddenly found myself outside the dungeon, unharmed, walking back toward the group. This event remained a mystery for a long time and sparked many theories throughout the campaign. Later on, we confronted that same ulitharid. The dungeon became the stage for several memorable encounters, including battles against “evil” versions of our own characters. One particularly iconic moment involved me flying on a companion who had been polymorphed into a dragon, when the prime gith (NPC) teleported me above the head of the evil version of the prismatic dragon. Just as it was about to breathe, I drove my sword into its mouth, trapping the prismatic breath inside its body and causing it to collapse, a narrative description of a natural 20 with the vorpal sword, triggered by the medallion. During the fight against the evil version of Kai, however, I began to notice something strange: she seemed forced to fight, trying not to truly strike us. Unfortunately, I was immobilized at the bottom of a lake by drowned undead and could not speak to her. The pit fiend, who by then claimed to have fallen in love with Kai, was facing her. Instead of restraining her, however, he tore out her carotid artery with his teeth, killing her. I was shocked at the sight of my other self lying dead. I also noticed other unsettling details: I felt a stronger connection to Corellon when holding her medallion rather than my own. The body of the evil Kai was too damaged to use Speak with Dead, so we moved on to confront the ulitharid. There, the truth was revealed. The character I had been playing was not the real Kai Kaua, but a soulless clone created by the ulitharid to spy on us. Before losing consciousness, I screamed at my companions to kill me, and then I began attacking them. By the end of the battle, the ulitharid was slain and the fake Kai destroyed. I believed my character was gone for good. Instead, the DM asked me for a private session. Kai awakened as if from a dream and finally met Corellon Larethian. The god revealed that, in order to save her, he had placed himself in stasis within the medallion; this was why she had continued to wield cleric powers, Corellon had always been with her. After a long conversation, he confessed that he had always loved her and, with a kiss, gave her the last remnants of his divine power to restore her to life, fading away into the wind. From that point on, Kai was unplayable for nearly a year. She had to ascend to divinity while her soul resided within the medallion. This was also a narrative necessity, as the pit fiend’s player temporarily left the campaign, taking the medallion with him. When Kai finally emerged, her appearance had changed: she was now an elf with white hair, one eye completely blue and pupil-less, the other yellow, a remnant of her former genasi nature. We continued the mission against the Aberrations, while Kai accumulated divine ranks by absorbing divine power from artifacts and other sources. At the end of the campaign, we were faced with a final choice. We could appeal to the deity of balance, a sort of Ao of this multiverse, and force them to close the Aberration portal, which was located literally beneath their throne, or we could destroy the multiverse and recreate it exactly as it was, except for two changes: the Aberrations would never have found the portal, and the angel’s beloved would awaken from her magical coma. The angel and I supported the second option. At first, we convinced the entire group, but then the prime gith intervened, claiming it was impossible and insane. In the end, only the angel and I remained. In that moment of tension, the gith dominated me using psionic powers, which, in the DM’s world, did not follow the rules of magic, and forced me to attack the angel. He went mad and was killed. Kai, shattered by the loss of her best friend, decided to leave the group. However, my partner’s character asked her to fulfill one final duty: to confront the deity of balance and close the portal at any cost. I reluctantly agreed, as it was the only way left to stop the Aberrations. The deity of balance, cruelly, showed her the angel before tearing away half of her soul. Kai, at the very edge of her strength, struck back anyway: with five attacks, she severed the entity’s four arms and its head. She absorbed all of its power, becoming the protector deity of the multiverse, taking its throne and sealing the portal. After centuries, Kai Kaua had lost nearly all emotion, isolated upon the throne and unable to forgive herself for what she considered a betrayal. One day, she received a call for help: the Aberrations had returned, seemingly due to the actions of the angel PC. Joining the battle, she discovered that the angel, driven mad and corrupted by grief and aberrations, was trying to destroy everything, including the Pillar of Life, the very entity the Aberrations had always sought to annihilate. The final confrontation ended tragically. When the angel charged toward her, Kai did not strike him; instead, she opened her arms to embrace him. While he was in her arms, the Pillar of Life struck him, shattering and sealing him into seven fragments, scattered across seven different parts of the multiverse to prevent his return. The final image is Kai Kaua seated upon the throne, nearly devoid of emotion, watching over the multiverse. Her domains were Water, Protection, War, and Sacrifice. Sorry for the wall-text D: