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The three gods of Errant Story (Anilis, Senilis, & Exitialis) are actually pretty old plot devices of mine. I created them way back in ’95 as part of all the superhero stuff I used to write. I’ve forgotten most of it, but the basic story was that twelve people were fated to come together and stop some generic ultimate evil from screwing with three gods/cosmic forces. I can’t recall most of the twelve, but they included a teenage wizard that would be called a Harry Potter rip off if created now, a psionic zombie woman brought back to life by a demon, three Power Ranger knock-offs, a guy whose skin was made out of Goes Fast, a vampire, the freaking second coming, oh and powerless twins… one of which was good at kicking people in the face, and the other liked guns. Yeah… those two were kind of useless.
At some point, rather than having the plot happen as planned, I decided to have outside events/characters butt in to completely boink fate in the ear, and make the whole thing go pear shaped. When the dust settled, half of the group (mostly the characters I have no memory of at all) were dead, as were the original bad guys. The world was in full cataclysm mode (yeah, I played lots of Final Fantasy VI before writing that) and the three gods were slowly becoming corrupted. One of the group (the psionic zombie woman, as I recall) merged with the Proto Anilis god in an attempt to slow down the corruption and give the surviving heroes time to fix it. They got help from the group of outsiders who’d messed up everything in the first place, and together they defeated the new bad guy, stopped the gods and saved the day…
Well, actually, they caused that entire reality to implode and another one to be restarted in its place. But that’s another post.
Anyway, two of the gods survived the destruction of their reality in vastly diminished forms, and then showed up in the new reality as formless masses of energy. They soon came into the possession of a few main characters and those characters were vastly powered up by the experience… Eventually they went poof for plot reasons as I lost interest and had the heroes go fight off an alien invasion instead (which has since been converted into major plot elements of a proposed Cupid Stunt story).
The three gods stayed forgotten in my mind for years, until I started writing Errant Story’s plot and needed some MacGuffins to power up Meji and the main antagonist, a bastard love child of Sephiroth and Magneto that would later become Ian. I gave them a backstory that was slightly more interesting than “LOL, they’re cosmic forces that have always existed, derp!” and made the “formless balls of energy that supercharged people’s powers” element a major plot point.
