Hey all!
It's been a few since since I discovered Dominance War through one of my regular contacts on Deviantart. I found the concept terribly fascinating, but I was in school at the time and wasn't able to really do much. I would play with each year's concept on my own, just for practice, but no serious posts ever came of it. Well no more! I'm throwing my hat into the international ring. As soon as the damn game artisan's site decides to cooperate, I'll throw this on there as well.
This year's contest is to create some kind of god. My concept centered around the God of Extinction. Seemed more interesting than some cheesy old death god which has, let's face it, been done to death. I wanted this guy to be more of a "final solution" kind of deity. I played around with a few roughter ideas, but ended up settling on a more-or-less humanoid form.
My thought on the concept was focused around the idea that this god may have once had a cult devoted not to worshiping this spirit, but to banishing it from conscious thought. Knowing this god's name is a torment that will last for your entire life and overshadow your every thought and deed, leaving you with a dull shade of a life. When life graced the cosmos, this god took its first form as the doom that would overshadow all of life's natural struggle to thrive. Its cult eventually emerged, tormented by their collective nightmares of the despair that this god bestows on all life, and worked themselves to death to imprison the god within a physical form and lock it away forever, as far from life as possible in the hopes that it would be lost in its own lifelessness. However, with the Rise of the Gods came a great catastrophic upheaval in the world. Never before has this god felt such an opportunity, so it was shaken from its death torpor and coaxed back into unlife, rejuvenated with new purpose; to erase all life from the cosmos, one entity at a time. With each life it snuffs out of existence, it grows a little stronger, shedding off its dessicated former body and replacing it with a new form more befitting its purpose.
I played with a couple of ideas in terms of the form, but finally settled on something slightly humanoid, to keep the design from getting too alien. We're talking about a god to end all life here; it can't be something alien or it isn't scary. The body gets slightly more fleshy the higher it goes, though rather than turning into a ball of muscle, it becomes more of a mass of threads, like muscle tissue cut loose, or worms wriggling to free themselves of the earth. He carries around a tombstone on which he etches the name of every living thing as he extinguishes them. He also wields a giant bone candle-snuffer as a symbol of his power. There's much more on the way. I don't know if I'll get this done in time, but I don't care. It will be done.
