What would you do if one of your players killed the Goddess of Love?

At least he's not moustache twirlingly evil and actively seeking to fuck over his own followers for shits and giggles

then there's the laughing god but I'm not a space elf with a clown fetish

>Not worshipping Gork n' Mork.
Ya gitz.

you'll always just be a digga to them, and not even their digga.

Some minor deity takes over the domain and grows in power and influence.
Probably the Goddess of /d/eviacy

Welp, love's over.
Time to bring out the death dungeon of pain and torture, and not the kinky kind.

What type of gods are we talking here?

Did she have one or more partners?
Are they likely to be a) also gods, and b) pissed off?

Also, worshippers of the goddess are likely to be annoyed as well, if they know.

I'd put a serious target on your player's back, and probably give them Labours at the very least

"you break it, you bought it"

In one of the longest campaigns I've ever played, my sole objective near the end of it was to crush the new Goddess of Love, who was a co-player's character.

She had it coming. The shit she did to the world with her "oh wow the leaders of the imortant factions are suddenly into each other and diplomatic marriages between them will bring peace to everyone". Peace my ass. I've never seen anyone abuse their divine aspect so shamelessly to get results, while lacking any finesse or style.

It's a pity the game crashed and burned before I got to do some burning of my own.

>zone-tan is a goddess in your setting
>internet personas make up all your gods
>it's a good life

In my game, it would most likely be the paladin who decided that his justice-god needs the love god to be smote. Possibly I'd then have the world be a slightly gloomier place for a while and then describe how the idea of love is now attached to other gods.

"What is 'love'?"

"Baby, don't hurt me"

Love ceases to exist even conceptually in universe, because the gods are the regulators and guardians of reality.

this is going to be a fucked up pantheon.

The Goddess is dead, yet the God lives. What kind of goddess of love doesn't have a beloved one?

>>zone-tan is a goddess in your setting
>>internet personas make up all your gods
>>it's a good life
sounds like my real life, not just a setting.

If they pulled that off then I would have seen this coming for some time and drawn up several counter plans.
First and fore most is that it is notoriously difficult to kill a god and ensure they remain dead.
She's probably picking herself back up as we speak, ready to personally have a nice long talk with her would be assassin.
Second is that there is many gods and goddesses drifting around, so which Goddess of Love did they just kill?
Canter, Steppes Goddess of all matters of the Heart?
Kuu, Elven patron of dance, poetry, art and forbidden romance?
Mikullani, who paints the sky? She presides over marriage.
Argar-Argar-Unndrr, Fertility Goddess of Swamp Trolls?
Ai, girl of the spring fling?

That's not even all of them.
A setting with just one pantheon is boring in my opinion.

And finally, no pantheon will just sit back whilst one of their own is killed by an outsider, a mortal one at that.
Hope they planned on what to do when all the Psychopomps are coming to claim their arse and the God of Destruction is sitting on their lounge nd eating their cake, waiting for them to come home.

Was deifying Bane part of your plan?

No big deal, TBQH. Gods are plentiful in this setting. One of characters picked that as their starting background.

So, what are her domains?

Hate

Pornographic art and masturbation. Shes niche.

She's to the Goddess of the nearby lake, particularly revered by the local untouchable tribe/caste who have a taboo monopoly on fishing.

Who's gonna be the god of trolls and how would his demons/angels look like?

Good art, in particular the one that causes arousal.

Get a new DM. Oh, wait...

>crashing the Material Plane with no survivors

Exalted?

Goddess of love in my setting can't be killed. People keep trying every few centuries but they have never managed to actually off her. God of friendship is similarly immortal. Some suggest that they are actually the two greatest powers in the universe.

The goddess of love infects them as she dies, and they turn into the new one. It's just like The Santa Clause, they'll love it.

Not possible in my setting, if she was still the Goddess of Love at the time. Gods can't be killed by any force, mortal or otherwise.

They *can* have their divine power stripped from them, reducing them to mortality (which the vast majority of them, including the Goddess of Love, started as), and then be killed as a mortal. But the two overdeities of my setting will just find a new vessel(s) for it - the power can be split apart to create multiple new, albeit weaker, deities - one of whom may choose to become the new God(dess) of Love, or may not.

Love exists whether or not there is a deity of it. All a deity of it existing means is that Love now has an active intelligence promoting it and an agenda behind it.

I'm gonna take a stab in the dark here and assume that your setting also has a goddess of the sun and a goddess of the moon, the latter of whom had a brief stint as being evil for about 1,000 years but has since recovered and is now best goddess.

No actually there are no deities of celestial bodies at all, well there will be, but that's how the setting is to end, with the celestial bodies coming to life as deities.

Anybody who kills a god becomes a god in their place. If a player killed a god, the character would become an NPC and the player would have to roll a new character.

Gods/Goddesses of concepts like love are basically manifestations of the collective mind of sapient races. Yes you killed her but she'll be back. You can't kill love after all.

What if I kill all sapeint life?

Then she'd be gone.

Sure. Good luck with that though.

Of course then that raises the question of whether non-sapient animals can experience love but that's some biology/psychology bullshit I don't know enough about to comment on.

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fuck that, my dog loves me.

I don't know, maybe have a foreign God or Goddess of Love decide that this is their opportunity to grow in power by increasing their influence and pool of worshipers.

just like u love ur dog amirite ;)

I would go with the troll gods from the eddings books

Ghworg, the God of Kill
Ghnomb, the God of Eat
Schlee, the God of Ice
Khwaj, the God of Fire
Zoka, the God of Mating

God of hedonistic debauchery but explicitly without derivation of any joy

(that's right, god)

I tip my fedora and inform my player that in his drug-adled state he's killed a syphillitic whore and he's contracted STDs from exposure to the whore blood.

From a biological point of view, many mammals experience similar mental processes to what humans display when in love. If this is the same thing is unknown.

On the point of dogs, they have found they show exceptionally similar reactions, accounting for the difference in brains, to their owners when they play together or when the owner is heavily patting them.
This suggests that yes, dogs do feel love, as we understand it, towards their owners.