In short mc and aeson are just tools 
I hope mc and aeson can free from them(although that may impossible) I understand Priscila thought about “gods” now,especially the one “god accept it with glee” and something like it just going to be their downfall at prologue
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They won’t be. Rohie mentioned that there’d only be 4, and something would happen that’d act as a catalyst and kick the war effort into overdrive, making the trials essentially useless.
I know. That’s why I said it.
But @Misa101 specifically asked for the case of the trials taking place like the gods did intend for them.
I thought they were asking what would happen if you made it through to the end, and had to fight to the death the way it was supposed to happen?
Eh the question seemed to be more what exactly MC will win/what would be their position on Olympus after winning.
That the trials probably will be interupted is pretty clear considering that MC has to end up in the war…can’t let the trials end normally with MC eventually losing and dying before that.
So, in case that Saint will really die I guess that will be the moment it happens and probably also the moment Hermes the traitor will reveal himself. That after all could cause enough chaos to even force MC’s enemies in the council to begrudgingly accept MC as their hero…or for Cronus to recruit the Bearer/Bestower.
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Well there is also the more disturbing possibility that Cronus is simply able to use the essence through us somehow and that we’re merely serving as his battery or conduit, regardless of our wants, desires or consent. I mean it would certainly explain why the fact that the “mage” mc is so spectacularly unskilled at actually wielding the essence for him/herself might not matter in the grand scheme of things.
Seriously, why do you believe this? It’s been perfect every time that I saw.
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Before coma, we can do invisibility now, (before it used to be that both our shield and the invisibility were solely due to magical items) but after our coma and “transformation” we struggle mightily and it becomes physically painful to pull off even a simple light spell. In addition there is no indication that the mc knows how to use their magic to create anything (money creation would certainly have been useful) or will have enough skill and precision in the near-future to alter anything (about themselves) without it horribly backfiring. We also can’t use it in our gym-class fight with no rules, while we may want to hide our magic skills for strategic reasons the simple fact is that we cannot use it there, shortly after that coma, at all.
In any case our “magic” never comes as effortlessly and easily to us as it seems to do with Aeson and his casual manipulation of that tree, it is never casual to do anything at all for mage mc.
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Why would you use magic in a sparring match? And the opponent doesn’t even have magic and you’re in a society where you’re expected to be a warrior?
All we do is focus and maybe repeat a word for a few seconds and the one time I saw magic after the blocker removal, making a light to get the other’s attention, it didn’t seem like the mc tried all that hard, I don’t think they even had to focus.
Hey, I thought you said you wanted nothing to do with Hades…
Money creation through our essence “magic”, not through whatever demigod “powers” we may have, but cannot (yet) use after that coma. 
My mc will also never accept any money from either Hades or Aeson.
From the game:
It starts off as a warm, carressing sensation that builds up in your chest, and spreads to your fingertips. You ignore the usual sharp pain at the back of your head and brilliant, spiraling bursts of light shoot out of your fingertips.
The mc, currently always has to focus and it always causes them some amount of pain. In addition they seem limited to the “spells” they know. So “magic” is definitely not an easy, effortless, wish-fulfillment thing for the mc. Nor does it seem to come as effortlessly to us as it does for Aeson.
That could have any number of reasons, lack of training, “mage” mc forcing the essence to conform to what we think we know about human “magic” but the fact remains that it is painful and requires focus and is neither easy, nor effortless for the mc. In addition every time we have used magic, even before the coma the mc utterly seemed to lack any sort of finesse to me and always appeared to be brute forcing it, which is not a good sign if we ever want to use it on ourselves in order to alter our own bodies.
No, I fear that any attempt at plastic surgery with my mc’s control over the essence will yield Michael Jackson-esque results at best.
So what? They have training that we don’t and it is explicitly stated that there are no rules to that fight. Also my mc has been a part of the society that expects us to be a warrior for how long now? A week or two at most and in all that time has received exactly zero warrior training and his interests in his old life really didn’t gravitate towards any martial pursuits so my mc simply isn’t a warrior and he’s not going to become one either, not in a couple of days at least.
But Hades powers is coming from your powers, demigod powers is essence.
I really don’t consider a sharp pain to be a sign of being unskillful, and your assuming Aeson doesn’t feel like it. I think if you describe a pain as usual you should be able to ignore it.
And where would you have put a skillful option of magic?
And yet you can still effortlessly win without training, so their expectations are correct.
Didn’t the one past life we saw die in combat
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Why I want to use magic IN A NO RULES SPARRING? Maybe because I got ZERO FIGHTING SKILLS… AND I ONLY TRAINING SOME MAGIC…I am a damn cheerleader with 30 of strength that was a porn actress in the run. If I were so mighty magician I would use a weakness spell in the damn giant and not have to struggle fight with a weapon I never handle in my live. I used a trick to win and the scene totally seem like she let me win I NEVER ATTEMPTED ATTACK I WAS ONLY DEFEND… WITH NO COMBAT KNOWLEDGE WHATSOEVER… The magic since coma felt pure and utterly garbage and A focused magician SAME PROFICIENCY THAT A NEVER TRAINED WARRIOR .So no way I could trust on it. No I have my beauty cunning and intelligence to win this using tricks and nasty lies. Because no damn way I could win this fairly. Except Chronus is plotting in let us win to use us later.
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True, I always wondered about that myself too. Even if we really did win that fight, it wasn’t because our skills as a warrior it was because our silly, transparent “trick” actually worked. In any case the only ones we ever seem to be able to defeat are not our real enemies or competitors. All of our actual competitors have thus far been easily able to wipe the floor with us, not just Aeson, but he is the worst.
Not effortlessly my mc, and Mara’s too can barely “win” that fight using a cheap and silly trick our real competitors likely won’t fall for. Winning it with any skill requires either being a warrior or having high strength, effortlessly I think requires both of those.
Just cunning and intellect for my mc, but I agree with this Cronus and the traitor God are constantly manipulating things from behind the scenes and our training “fight” may have been no different.
I meant in this life, before being forced on the run and even while being on the run my mc wasn’t exactly a fighter, a burglar and minor con-artist perhaps but not a thug or a fighter.
After our stupid birthday, yes, right now, no.
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Strength doesn’t really matter much in the fight there’s 2 checks and the fight lasts longer relying on it and seems worse in my opinion. So you still won right? Ending with you overpowering her and cutting her neck?
The essence is magical and physical, so it goes both ways, you’ll be a great warrior too.
Sure I will be a great warrior with 30strength and 0 combat knowledge… 
And I will transform chronus in a flying pink pony and traveling arround world peeing rainbows. No weapon except viagra count as one.
I mean you in your play through could be all hippie and naive you want. But don’t try to make everyone feel the same more if we are role playing.
I and @idonotlikeusernames we are talking from our perspective IN CHARACTER NOT META GAME INFO In text there is no knowledge our character have that we would end being Arnold Schwarzenegger in drugs With The powers of Harry Potter and Voldemort all together.
What I see is a character who has lost all her spells and only cand do is make a door handle dissapear… while is inside Hunger games with only a viagra pill as weapon against monsters and the ninja demigod army…
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Rohie mentioned the sparring match was an oversight on her part, and tht since there were no rules that it was strange that a Mage!MC couldn’t use the essence, so I think tht’s something she’ll be rectifying. Keep the rewrite in mind, this is smth she said she’d be addressing! [quote=“idonotlikeusernames, post:9387, topic:15482”]
Well there is also the more disturbing possibility that Cronus is simply able to use the essence through us somehow and that we’re merely serving as his battery or conduit, regardless of our wants, desires or consent. I mean it would certainly explain why the fact that the “mage” mc is so spectacularly unskilled at actually wielding the essence for him/herself might not matter in the grand scheme of things.
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This hasn’t been stated in the in-game codex, it was only mentioned that Cronos split the essence and that it did nothing to diminish its power. I highly doubt that this is possible, as the Essence is infinitely more powerful than Cronos, and even if he had created some sort of loophole, it isn’t like we’d be unable to do anything about it (repositories of limitless power tht we are).
You’re always so consistent, lmfao.
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How dare you! I would never play as a hippy and have a healthy amount of cynicism.
Even without the meta knowledge and stats screen, I’d assume it come part of the deal as the “origin of all.”
Being the origin of everything doesn’t mean anything else I am not the essence yet. I have something I could not control I can’t say Power give me a machine gun and tear down the monsters and Santiago. I can’t say Essence give me wins and make me invisible to fly the other group and kill the monster … Essence make Chipmunk stops looking at me all the night because I want to sleep. Essence is pure crap of a trap of power. Yeah I have potential but POTENTIAL WITHOUT ACTUAL CONTROL AND POWER MEANS NOTHING. If essence were so big any of actual previous beareers could have say essence make me immortal and a cold coke… No because the essence is only all powerful when it is in no human being… so then we are nothing.
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None of the previous Bearers have known, though! You’re the first Bearer to be self-aware 
. I concede with regards to not knowing enough abt the Essence frm a technical standpoint, our understanding is very lacking. Rohie said tht our powers were paradoxical in nature, there are limits but there aren’t. What are they? This is why I prefer having the Bearer being forced to remain human, because it limits us. Infinite, unbounded power creates redundancy IMO.
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They not only didn’t know they had powers, were going to die etc… but didn’t have our god blooded bodies and the chance to survive and actually use the powers. Plus we won’t have to be human once we get the power.
Papa Hades gave me the only gun I’ll need 
Oh and we have turned invisible already and will probably kill monsters. And we saw Aeson already make stuff fly…And you could kill Haris to make him stop looking at you. And by doing the above you’ll probably win.
You’re offspring of Zeus so you should have an easier time flying anyway.