‘Pathfinder: War of the Immortals’ Puts the God of War “On the Chopping Block”
Golarion’s god of war is going to die. Maybe. Find out in Pathfinder’s new meta event The War of the Immortals launching soon.
Paizo announced a big meta event this week, the War of the Immortals, a return to the big overarching plots that RPGs used to do in the late nineties and early aughts. And this metaplot in particular has to do with the War of the Immortals.
According to the announcement, the big War of the Immortals will span many different products. Because it not only marks the start of a new wave of Pathfinder books, but it also heralds the return of Paizo to fiction. That’s right, there’s a new novel coming out as well.
So with hardcover rulebooks, novels, and more on the way, here’s a look at everything that the gods will be fighting within.
Pathfinder’s War of the Immortals Heralds the Death of the God of War
Over the last few months, you might have seen Paizo going through the Godsrain Prophecies in their blog. These are false prophecies about the potential deaths of the gods. Weekly, each one has been marked as safe. Until this last week, when we know that the actual god “on the chopping block” is none other than Gorum, the god of war.
How? Why? We don’t know yet. That’s going to be uncovered during the War of the Immortals. And it all kicks off with a big hardcover rulebook, titled Pathfinder: War of the Immortals, which will feature two brand new classes:
This 240-page hardcover (also available in special edition, retailer-exclusive sketch variant, and forthcoming pocket edition) will introduce mythic rules to Pathfinder Second Edition, as well as two brand new classes—the first original classes built on the remastered foundation of the Pathfinder Player Core—the animist and exemplar!
Alongside the big tentpole book, there’s the setting book: Lost Omens: Divine Mysteries. As the name suggests, this is about all things deific in Pathfinder, and it looks at gods old and new in the Age of Lost Omens (2nd Edition). Look for this in November.
Then there’s a big standalone adventure, Prey for Death, which is aimed at 14th-level characters. You play members of the Red Mantis assassin, out to do some assassinating.
And then Pathfinder’s 40th adventure path: Curtain Call, which sounds like it was made just for me. Curtain Call puts players in the role of producers of an opera based on their past exploits, while also taking them from 11th-20th levels. It’s designed to be run after you finish a campaign, immortalizing your work as in-game theatre. Curtain Call kicks off at Gen Con.
The next adventure path, with a more direct tie into the War of the Immortals, is Triumph of the Tusk, which tosses players into the midst of the War of the Immortals, fighting alongside the orcs of Belzen in their war for independence.
All this, and more, in the coming year for Pathfinder!
