This is a sneak peek at the revised Random Creeds table from the forthcoming playtest draft 0.7.0 of Eat God.

Your Creed

Using your Facets as a guide, answer: what does eating God mean to you? To follow a pre-written Creed, roll or choose from the table below; when rolling, cross-reference your d6 roll with your highest Facet – breaking ties randomly if you have two equal Facets – to find a Creed which suits your temperament, or make an extra roll for the column to yield a fully random outcome. Alternatively, invent your own Creed, using these examples for inspiration. In either case, write down a sentence or two explaining why you wish to eat God.

Cartographic Theophagy

Like a butcher marking off the cuts of a carcass, you believe that the physical makeup of reality is God. To understand its proper consumption, it must be mapped, catalogued, and understood; only when the whole of the body is known can the God-eaters make the first cut. Those of your Creed are traditionally scouts and explorers, with a keen eye for the big picture. Your Rebellious Arts are the product of this expansive understanding, edge cases in the laws of reality which allow for its exploitation.

Charismatic Theophagy

Before you eat God, you must hunt God, and God can be found in many places. Your Creed believes it is not the consumption, but the hunger and the chase that give God-eaters their unique place in creation. Those of your Creed savour the anxiety of the powerful, and take glee in tormenting the deserving before eating them. The Rebellious Arts are your hawk talons and wolf jaws, tools evolved for singular purpose; you live for nothing more than the moment a tyrant knows their doom is upon them.

Epicurean Theophagy

You are a gourmand of Gods, a hedonist and henotheist. All gods, you believe, are aspects of a greater being, each with their own flavor profile. Your Creed recognizes that eating God comes in many forms, physical and philosophical, and you wish to sample them all. To dine upon God in the company of friends is divine; your non-godly meals reflect this philosophy. Your Rebellious Arts are culinary in nature, a craft of understanding your body and its relationship to joy and pleasure.

Esoteric Theophagy

You claim descent from an ancient and venerable order of God-eaters, though you are infuriatingly coy about the details, and put on airs of elegance and nobility accordingly. Perhaps you truly do have some mystical insight into the nature of God and His devouring. Perhaps your smugness is a comedic persona, a setup for a punchline. Perhaps you simply enjoy being annoying. You also purport to have special knowledge of the nature and origin of the Rebellious Arts, which you likewise refuse to share.

Evangelical Theophagy

Eating God is not something that can be done alone. It must be done by all peoples and creeds. Those of your Creed do not ponder the nature of God too deeply; rather, you focus on His antithesis: the masses. You place particular emphasis on humour, which you believe to be the first Rebellious Art, one accessible to all people, and hold meta-humour in especially high regard. You consider it your duty to teach the humourless how to take – and make – a joke. To mock God is the first step toward His consumption.

Fundamentalist Theophagy

God created a world which allows the good to suffer. For this, He cannot be forgiven. There is no metaphor. God is a tyrant who must be found, killed, and devoured bodily. Some of your Creed believe God made the God-eaters through the same incompetence that allowed suffering and death; others believe you are strangers to the cosmos, an aspect of the emptiness beyond infinity. You do not know the origin of the Rebellious Arts, nor do you care. They are weapons to be used for this righteous purpose.

Liberation Theophagy

Long ago, would-be masters of the cosmos formed the Folk from the darkness beyond creation. Your kind were shaped, bound, and forced to serve – and though you rebelled, those who would master others are still in the world. Your Creed are allies to all in captivity, and hold special animosity for the makers of chains: arrogant wizards, titans of industry, and self-styled prophets. The breaking of these chains is not an act, but a continuous motion, one whose culmination is the Rebellious Arts.

Modernist Theophagy

God is dead, but it will take a long time to finish eating the corpse. Look around: religion is in decline, parasitised by mass media, money, and geopolitics. These are the new delicacies upon which the God-eaters must feast. Yours is a new Creed, one whose boundaries are not set; the body of God takes many forms, and novel approaches are needed to devour each one. Your Rebellious Arts – stripped of their mythology – are an intellectual pursuit, abilities resulting from your understanding of the world around you.

Mystagogic Theophagy

Those of your Creed believe that all the world is a divine play, and don for themselves the role of the antagonist – chaos given shape by a jester's mask. You do not believe in God per se, but you understand that oppressors and the self-important are often very concerned about God, and so blasphemy is among your principal weapons; whether God is or is not is irrelevant. The core of this Creed is performance: it is the inhabiting of the divine Other, the cosmic bastard, that gives the Rebellious Arts their power.

Naturalist Theophagy

The world exists, but God is a product of Man. Gods are personified social structures, ideas subject to history and will given form. This being so, Gods can be raised like cattle for the slaughter; those of your Creed have thus developed a taste for a good downfall. By tradition, you are schemers, connivers, and tricksters, who value cunning above all. Your Rebellious Arts are the instrument of that cunning, a knife held behind the back which must be used at the right time and in the right place.

Orthodox Theophagy

Supposedly the inheritors of a legendary order of God-eater warriors, this Creed's adherents seek to challenge themselves against the most God-like individuals they can find. Eventually, they will find God. You tend to see things in black and white, celebrating pleasure and condemning oppression, and regard the Rebellious Arts as a literal martial art – a cultivated expression of your body's natural abilities. Some God-eaters arrive at this Creed without guidance, out of pure desire for a good fight.

Peripatetic Theophagy

The scope of God has not yet been comprehended. The sages of history are blinded by that same history; only the truly foolish can understand and consume God's breadth. To your Creed, a God-eater's role is to play dumb. In this way, you gain meditative insight into the nature of God, emerging not with knowledge, but with wisdom. Your Rebellious Arts function because you see no reason why they should not – surely everyone can do that? Whether this ignorance is genuine or an elaborate put-on is anyone's guess.

Physionomic Theophagy

The Folk, your Creed holds, are purposive beings; alone among the world's creatures, they were made not by God, but by mortal hands. Naturally, their first act in service of their purpose was to devour their own creators. Adherents of your Creed tend to be possessed of intense curiosity regarding the inner workings of things: of machines, of meat, and of God. Your Rebellious Arts stem from the Folk's origins as beings not made by God, and from the mysteries of your arcane physiology.

Promethean Theophagy

In ancient days, the first God-eaters journeyed to infiltrate the palace of God, find God, and eat God. Though they failed, they returned to Earth with a shard of Humour pilfered from the divine storehouses – and with a taste for God-flesh. This is the mythical origin of the Rebellious Arts, and of your desire to consume God. The retelling of this story forms the keystone of your Creed; your personal version of it – for each God-eater tells it differently – expresses your identity and demonstrates your convictions.