Moderate Deity (LN)
The Prinny God is the supreme ruler of the Plane of Failure, and the master of all Prinnies; which theoretically making him the biggest failure among the gods. A fact he is not too happy with.
Although his original form has long been forgotten, The Prinny God is believed to once have been a regular run-of-the-mill deity in a regular pantheon. Only the gods remember how he came to be in his current position, but most assume based on his followers that he must have died such a miserable, pointless, and stupid death, or somehow managed to royally tick-off the other deities on such a godly level that they damned him to serve as The Prinny God instead of letting him fade while his body went to the Astral Plane (although his original body might possibly be there somewhere).
Although neutral in his views of good vs. evil, he is an extremely PO'd and angry individual; which is understandable, wouldn't you be angry if you were the god of the prinnies?
He has unchallenged dominion over all of Prinny Land: The Plane of Failure, though, he spends most of his time locked away at the top floor of the Prinny Headquarters Building located at the very center of Prinny Land. Disturbing him is one of the only known methods to reduce a prinny to -10 (see my Prinnies thread for more information).
Theories abound regarding who or what he was before becoming The Prinny God. Some say he was a deity who got too close to the realm beyond existence, while others say he was a god with a drow fetish who tried to make a pass at Lolth. The most common rumor goes that he was the former deity of anger, who is known to have suddenly disappeared in a puff of brimstone when Vor: The Big Red Angry God of the kobolds' own minions finally drove Vor's rage to a level that dwarfed his own. If the later is the case, the irony between the two deities' situations is irresistible.
Some sages believe The Prinny God is attempting to gain his own reincarnation or death by attempting to raise his divine status to Greater. How he is trying to go about this is uncertain.
Aside from being the highest ranking and most powerful prinny in existence, The Prinny God is the only prinny known to be immune to the word -dood, which prinnies are known (and often hated) for. In fact, many prinnies believe The Prinny God implemented the word himself just to further the contempt other races feel towards them.
Portfolio: Anger, Death, Judgment, Prinnies, Suffering, Rebirth.
Domains: Death, Hatred, Law, Life, Prinny, Retribution, Suffering, Wrath.
Clergy Training:
Clerics and other divine casters of The Prinny God are relatively rare outside the ranks of the prinnies. Since prinnies are essentially a slave race, few bosses outside Celestia are willing to let them waste the valuable time and costly materials needed to crate a place of worship for their god. While some temples exist in Celestia, at most prinnies elsewhere in the multiverse are allowed a small shrine or alter in their already cramped living quarters. Hence most of the prinny temples in existence are located in Prinny Land (where worship of The Prinny God is mandatory by law) and most prinny divine casters in the multiverse hail from them.
Note that just because a prinny devotes it's life to The Prinny God, and The Prinny God sees it fit to entrust a portion of it's divine power with, does not mean The Prinny God likes the thing any better.
Quests:
Followers of The Prinny God often take quests to hunt down rogue prinnies, as well as prinnies who are attempting to escape their sentences by other means. They often act as leaders of hunting parties consisting of prinnies specially trained at Prinny Headquarters for this job.
However, these prinnies and their hunting parties also hunt down any bosses who have breached their contracts with the prinnies, or necromancers attempting to interfere with the souls of those sentenced to their prinny suits. Note that this is the most help a prinny is ever likely to receive from Prinny Land and the higher ups.
The double nature of these prinnies (and tiny handful of other creatures) has earned the prinny divine casters a status as both saviors and tyrants among prinny society, as well as mixed feelings and reactions from their kind.
Rites:
The Prinny God's clerics and clergy are charged with manipulating the souls of those sent to Prinny Land, and sewing them into their prinny suits. They also craft the neigh indestructible, yet huggably soft, suits in an ancient sweatshop located in the basement of the Prinny Headquarters Building.
The Prinny God's Realm:
The Prinny God's personal realm is the top floor of the Prinny Headquarters Building located at the exact center of Prinny Land. Only one entrance leads to this realm, a short narrow stairway beginning at the floor right below. The stairway is located near the courtroom where the Prinny Council judges and sentences newly arrived prinnies. At the top of the stairway stand two massive golden double-doors engraved with elegant designs, powerful magical incantations, and divine glyphs all embedded with platinum or silver. Behind these doors lies an entire demiplane.
It is unknown what The Prinny God spends so much time on in there. However, every prinny in the Prinny Headquarters Building knows that he retreats there to be alone. Alone, and away from any and all prinnies. Only Saa of the Prinny Council is allowed to freely enter and roam this realm.
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Those who try to escape:
Those prinny who decide to just say screw it, accept the abuse they naturally unsuppress in others, and spend their eternity as a prinny without need of a boss or paying off their debt are known as rogue prinnies. Once the accountants back in Prinny Headquarters believe a prinny has gone rogue (usually after their Prinny Debt reaches the maximum of -5,000gp) they immediately send out hunting parties to retrieve the creature. Once found these prinny are dealt with quickly and brutally.
Once the rogue prinny is captured and the initial beatings are over, the secondary beatings begin. Once that is done the prinny are dragged back to the Plane of Failure. There they suffer treatment even worse than that of your average demonic boss until their torturers are convinced the prinny is genuinely willing to go back to work on it's sentence.
The Prinny Council is the administrative body in charge of overseeing all affairs in Prinny Land, and judging, prosecuting, and sentencing newly arrived souls. They are a small pantheon of mostly quasi to demi level divine entities. They are the second highest ranking prinnies in the Plane of Failure, and are also known as the Prinny Kings; however, this is mostly a formal and meaningless title since they spend the vast majority of their time sentencing prinnies and processing paperwork.
Unlike The Prinny God, more is known about the Prinny Council. All five members were once divine entities of around quasi or demi status who earned their fate just like the prinnies they now sentence do. They were all personally judged by The Prinny God himself, and once the first of them was sentenced (Saa) it was slapped with the duty of judging the prinnies (a task The Prinny God despised) and managing Prinny Land. This allowed The Prinny God to begin his retreat into his personal demiplane, and away from the creatures he loathes so much.
The Prinny Kings freely admit that they are working on completing their Prinny Debt(see my thread on prinnies here), though, they tend to leave out the part about how massive and long it is. Saa, the first lesser power to be sentenced to the Prinny Council, has been at it so long it's original form has been completely forgotten to antiquity.
Although separate entities with their own power, the Prinny Council is almost exclusively worshiped as a group. Effectively serving as a miniature prinny pantheon.
Portfolio: Balance, Human Resources, Judgment, Paperwork, Prinnies, Punishment, Suffering.
Domains: Death, Law, Life, Prinny, Suffering.
Saa:
Lesser God (LN)
Saa is the oldest and most powerful of the Prinny Council. It serves as the head of the council and reports directly to The Prinny God himself.
Nothing is known of it's former form, and it never speaks of the transgression(s) which led to it's current position.
Saa has been at it's job so long that it has managed to slowly rise in divine level. Within the last century Saa has achieved Lesser God status, making it an official divine power in the multiverse. What significance this has to it's role/banishment to the Prinny Council is currently uncertain, but until now Saa has remained doing it's job without question.
Over the ages of working with The Prinny God, Saa has managed to form at least some level of comradeship with it's boss. Although The Prinny God does not seem to feel any ill-will towards the other members of the Prinny Council, he simply does not care about them outside of official business and daily duties (Well, at least this is better than how he feels for his own followers...). Saa is the only being allowed to freely enter and roam The Prinny God's personal demiplane in the top floor of the Prinny Headquarters Building.
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Sehdre ("Soft Charmer" in Elven):
Quasideity (CN)
Sehdre was once an Elven demigod who attempted to "pantie raid" (as the mortals would call it) the consort of Moradin Berronar Truesilver's divine unmentionables in their shared realm in an attempt to poke fun at the dwarven pantheon while trying to gain notice in the elven pantheon. What happened to him should be self-explanatory.
This being can be accurately described with a single sentence: "I hate my job..."
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Dionysus:
Quasideity (NN)
Dionysus is the latest edition to the Prinny Council. He was once a human intermediate level god of mirth, madness, wine, fertility and theatre. He gained his position shortly before the first of the Great Human Wars after attempting to seduce Malcanthet: The Demon Queen of the Succubi believing he could "handle it". He couldn't.
The irony is that this might have saved Dionysus, for it wasn't long after his sentencing that the madness the human's inflicted upon themselves and their gods began. Whether this fate was better for him is yet to be seen, it is not the party lifestyle he once had, but at least he is still alive (well, kinda).
Notes:
- Odds are if someone non-prinny is willing (or desperate enough) to worship the Prinny Coucil or the Prinny God, they are probably going to end up as prinnies themselves. So some figure why not get on their good sides, right? Since worship/worshippers is the method The Prinny God might be attempting to use to earn reincarnation, this often works, and the Prinny Court will often be slightly more lenient in the sentencing of these individuals. Plus, that simply means one prinny who will be out of The Prinny God's hair sooner.
Whether the Prinny Council benefits from increased numbers of followers is unclear, but it might have been a factor in Saa's recent ascension to true godhood.
Prinny Land is the Outer Plane of Failure. Here is where the souls are sent of those who either lived worthless depressing lives, or died such a meaningless, pointless, stupid, and worthless death that the higher powers decided that they needed a timeout before moving on in the natural life cycle.
Planer Traits:
• Normal Gravity.
• Normal Time.
• Finite Size.
• Divinely Morphic: The Prinny God and the Prinny Council can alter the plane at will. The Prinny God's will always overrides that of the Prinny Council.
• No Elemental or Energy Traits.
• Aligned Traits: Strongly lawfully-aligned, mildly neutrally-aligned.
• Normal Magic.
Description of Prinny Land:
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(No clue here. I could really use some help please!)
Locations in Prinny Land
-The Prinny Headquarters Building.
(Again, some help in this section would be greatly appreciated!)
This thread is the sister thread to my Prinnies thread HERE.
I could use bit of help from the experts here. There are some things I need to figure out, and I am burned out of ideas.
Some things I know I need to fix off the top of my head:
- First of all, any critiques, opinions, or ideas you have (good or bad) would be greatly helpful. I always learn from the help given on these forums.
- I need to figure out a Prinny Domain. I have nearly no experience with magic, so I was hoping a divine magic fan can help me with this.
- I would like some advice and ideas for both The Prinny God's personal demiplane/realm, and the rest of Prinny Land/The Plane of Failure.
- I would like to know what you think of the whole concept to be honest. I know a "Plane of Failure" probably seems stupid and immature.
- I would like to know if it makes sense to have a deity's realm not only be off the deity's plane, but isolated and meant for only one person/itself. Does this completely defeat the purpose of a realm? Can some of the older edition players please define a deity's "realm" a bit clearer?
- I need idea for the remaining Prinny Kings. And perhaps some ideas for further fleshing out the first three? I feel I did a very poor job of them.
- If a pro at deities can look over them, especially the portfolios and domains, that would be greatly appreciated. I completely winged it there. I used the free PDF list of D&D domains from Crystalkeep to try and match them to these guys, but I have found no information about how to give portfolios.
- As well as helping make/flesh out Prinny Land, I can use ideas for locations, settlements, etc. Perhaps some ideas like this for The Prinny God's personal demiplane as well?
- Any ideas for what The Prinny God might be scheming (if anything) secluded inside his person retreat (or if he really is by himself?).
- Your honest opinions on all this/them (good or bad).
Any help or advice you are willing to give me would be greatly appreciated!
A couple things: I'm not entirely sure what the tone of the Prinnies is. Are they creepy and angry, or funny? It seems to go back and forth, but perhaps this is actually a good thing.
Also, you say: "At the top of the stairway stand two massive golden double-doors engraved with elegant designs, powerful magical incantations, and divine glyphs all embedded with platinum or silver. Behind these doors lies an entire demiplane."
Elegance and gold don't really seem, in my mind, to fit in the Plane of Fail. Perhaps a shabby door with a broken hinge would work better?
I only had time to skip this, so I can't offer much specific advice, but I am highly, highly amused. I congratulate you, sir.
Why, thank you! I am glad someone actually liked it.
A couple things: I'm not entirely sure what the tone of the Prinnies is. Are they creepy and angry, or funny? It seems to go back and forth, but perhaps this is actually a good thing.[/i]
Elegance and gold don't really seem, in my mind, to fit in the Plane of Fail. Perhaps a shabby door with a broken hinge would work better?
Well, have you have ever planed the games Disgaea? It is the game the prinnies originate from. Disgaea had an amazing, and at the time unique (though they have since milked it poor like everything else
) style that of perfectly balancing a slightly dark atmosphere (the game takes place mostly in hell/the netherworld) with cute, funny, and even adorable elements. As for the prinnies they were mostly comic relief, and often the butt of many jokes. I guess they were surprisingly upbeat given their current situations.
You can learn more about them here if you like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prinny
Here are a few Youtube videos about them:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eSU85b8Fh60
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt4rr60lfXU&feature=related
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=F-1vun4bdP4&feature=related
.Also, you say: "At the top of the stairway stand two massive golden double-doors engraved with elegant designs, powerful magical incantations, and divine glyphs all embedded with platinum or silver. Behind these doors lies an entire demiplane."
Elegance and gold don't really seem, in my mind, to fit in the Plane of Fail. Perhaps a shabby door with a broken hinge would work better?
That is a very good point. Thank you for pointing it out.
However, I kind of pictured the Headquarters Building to at least be as neat as an office building IRL. And he is a god.
Then again he is the god of failure...
Would it make sense for the doorway to me like that, but the rest of the building to be intact? Or would the door be of representation of his status as a god of failure?
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Oh, and should I add Failure to The Prinny God's, and possibly the Prinny Council's portfolio? Or possibly there is a Failure domain out there?
Pringer X needs to be included, too.
I love Disgaea, this is a great idea.
Thank you.
Although I think 'Plane of Failure' should be changed. It just doesn't seem right. Plane of Reincarnation?
Not a bad idea, but how would I explain why their souls got sent there instead of to an Outer Plane that fit their alignment or deity?
I was trying to somehow fit them into the default D&D cosmology without removing the Abyss, Baator, or Celestia which mostly dealt with the good and evil souls, so I needed an alternative for all this. Thinking back of on the prinnies I came up with "failure" as a way of describing them. Do you have a better way of explaining them in the D&D cosmology?
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Pringer X needs to be included, too.
Is he/she from a later game? I have not played anything besides the original, since I feel sequels always ruin and mil to death the original "unique" products like Disgaea.