Gods

The Gods are an ancient race of beings that have been around for most of the universe's existence. They are a very scientific society and culture that devote most of their time to studying the universe, and the existence and interactions between Fate and resolve.

Gods are not specifically a type of lifeform, but more of a universal stand in for a concept. Multiple Gods can exist for one concept and one God can be the avatar for more than one concept. An example of this would be the God Apollo, who oversees the sun, music, and more, while Sol is also a God of the sun. The Gods oversee the universe through a council fittingly known as the Council of the Gods. Th council itself is a hub for important hearings and a library of all information the Gods gather on their travels. Once every thousand years the Gods gather to exchange information and discuss other important topics.

## Recent History

The Gods operated the same without any significant changes to the council itself since its formation, with some Gods leaving and rejoining throughout its time. This all changed when the God that was away for the most time out of any of them Lucifer, called for an emergency meeting of every God. The Gods gathered, and Lucifer began stating how the council would operate now under his new rule. Lucifer wanted a much more militaristic control over the universe instead of the current passive viewing state of the council. After the Gods unanimously disagreed with Lucifer's sentiment, he began to slaughter all of the Gods with his newfound power. Alarmed and caught off guard, the Gods didn't stand much of a chance against Lucifer's new might. Most of the God population was erased that day, with only about 10% of them managing to escape after the stole and ejected Lucifer's power source. Some of these Gods being Apollo, Ra, Khonshu, Juryoku, Aurvandil, Jupiter, and Ganesha.

With the Council of the Gods officially being disbanded, the Gods that survived Lucifer's genocide scattered about the universe going into hiding as best as they could. Lucifer would attempt to hunt down any Gods that he missed to suffice his own ego. In this time, a specific group of Gods came to earth to retrieve the Kismet Star, only to find that it is now in possession of a human known as Ketteimeisuru Sakurai. After studying from afar for a while the Gods eventually made contact with Sakurai to help him train to become powerful enough to stop Lucifer's reign.

## Physiology

As Gods are not traditional lifeforms, they have inconsistent physiology that can't be categorized. Each God has different properties making them unique among each other. Though all Gods are able to be killed (or erased) in some way. Gods can range from having physical forms to only being mental constructs.

## Abilities

Each God has unique abilities to the constructs they oversee. The power and strengths of Gods also varies greatly, with some Gods not being much stronger than an average kismet artist, and some being universally powerful. All Gods are immortal and cannot die of age or sickness. Gods also grow more powerful the more alone they are. When Gods are brought together, they slightly lose a bit of their power. This effect stacks, which can be quite problematic if many Gods are caught in an unfortunate situation together.

Like kismet artists, Gods draw their power from the amount of resolve and determination they feel. This leads them to be susceptible to the same pitfalls of kismet artists. As Gods are supposed to be Immortal universal constructs, when a God is killed a glitch in existence appears for a while. This glitch is patched out by reality after a while and the essence of the God is transferred into one of three things: the rebirth of a new God, empowering a living God, or returning to the universe, the latter option causing stress on reality.

### God birth

Every few billion years, a device in the Council of the Gods will birth a wave of new Gods ranging from only one to dozens of Gods. These Gods are born when a universal construct is growing complex or important enough to need an avatar to govern over it. This cycle of birth only occurs when a mass of Gods congregate, causing mystery surrounding the origin of the universe's first Gods.

## Trivia

* The Gods Apollo, Khonshu, and Juryoku existed in the planning phases when Fate's Wish was still a short film, having concept art for costume design