Post by deo on Dec 15, 2014 17:19:24 GMT
I was thinking something more broad. Like the goal for the Hounds is stop crime/evil by any means necessary. They're chaotic good to maybe neutral good, or even extreme lawful good for knight templar types. Aegis wants to stop crime/evil but wants to do so in ways that set good examples, a la the justice league. They're lawful to neutral good depending on how much of a boyscout club we want to play them as.
With Argus, they're essentially the Sindicate. They want to make money, gain power. They're not all searching to gain power through finding midas's missing pinkie finger, they just all have similar goals, and maybe one guy happens to be searching for the golden pinkie. I'd call them neutral evil honestly, they commit evil for their own gain, not to enforce some ideology, and not for the sake of doing evil for itself.
Excluding the neutral zones (lawful neutral, true neutral) for solo characters and the like, that leaves a lawful evil and chaotic evil empty.
For Asura, what if their broad goal was to make the world a better place. Really, they all have the purest intentions possible; unflinching, merciless, and murderously pure even.
We've created a world where superhumans have gone from myths to a solid chunk of the population in a few decades, and its caused chaos, an absence of control, and nature abhors a vacuum. The heroes fight some of the symptoms, but they're part of the problem. They're trying to hold onto pre-meta human ideals of morality and society, and that only delays the inevitable destruction necessary. So, somebodies got to bring order from the chaos, to wipe the slate clean, and to take the reins after, and why not Asura. In order to save this world somebody's got to take over.
That said, Asura is a good name, as they're supposedly power-hungry deities. Each character might have personal reasons for thinking the world is f*cked, and they might even have contradictory views. But that doesn't matter, because a little bit of political infighting is to be expected between megalomaniacs.
I also liked the name Shiva, because she is the 'destroyer' but isn't inherently evil, she's just a part of necessary progress, which would match these guys thinking. But Asura just sounds scarier in my ear, so I'm cool with that.
(also because I buried that thread with this one, ten days left till the december character contest closes.)
With Argus, they're essentially the Sindicate. They want to make money, gain power. They're not all searching to gain power through finding midas's missing pinkie finger, they just all have similar goals, and maybe one guy happens to be searching for the golden pinkie. I'd call them neutral evil honestly, they commit evil for their own gain, not to enforce some ideology, and not for the sake of doing evil for itself.
Excluding the neutral zones (lawful neutral, true neutral) for solo characters and the like, that leaves a lawful evil and chaotic evil empty.
For Asura, what if their broad goal was to make the world a better place. Really, they all have the purest intentions possible; unflinching, merciless, and murderously pure even.
We've created a world where superhumans have gone from myths to a solid chunk of the population in a few decades, and its caused chaos, an absence of control, and nature abhors a vacuum. The heroes fight some of the symptoms, but they're part of the problem. They're trying to hold onto pre-meta human ideals of morality and society, and that only delays the inevitable destruction necessary. So, somebodies got to bring order from the chaos, to wipe the slate clean, and to take the reins after, and why not Asura. In order to save this world somebody's got to take over.
That said, Asura is a good name, as they're supposedly power-hungry deities. Each character might have personal reasons for thinking the world is f*cked, and they might even have contradictory views. But that doesn't matter, because a little bit of political infighting is to be expected between megalomaniacs.
I also liked the name Shiva, because she is the 'destroyer' but isn't inherently evil, she's just a part of necessary progress, which would match these guys thinking. But Asura just sounds scarier in my ear, so I'm cool with that.
(also because I buried that thread with this one, ten days left till the december character contest closes.)