2 hours ago
Ya'll pretty much covered any thoughts I had about the 4th Age! I don't have anything to add. Oh, the only thing I guess is there is almost no lore or FA canon built yet about other parts of the world in the 4th Age - it's all centered on Europe/Middle East. There's the Far East, Pacific regions, Americas, etc that Nox could have been born into.
You could also consider that Nox becomes a HotH in this life, then you don't have to worry about accounting for the past.
Personally I never really considered Ged/Geb a bad-guy god. He was an underworld/death god because he was seen as the earth, and burying bodies in the earth was basically so Ged/Geb could hold the souls of the departed so they could rest easy. However, if you want to spin him more bad-guy god, you can totally do that.
For instance, I'm currently thinking about the Mesopotamian & Canaanite god Baal, who is seen as a demon today, but I'm making it so that he's actually a good guy and it was his enemies that spun the stories that he was bad/demonic, etc. And at the time of his life, he was actually quite beloved by his people. So you can spin things however you like to fit the story you want to tell.
You could also consider that Nox becomes a HotH in this life, then you don't have to worry about accounting for the past.
Personally I never really considered Ged/Geb a bad-guy god. He was an underworld/death god because he was seen as the earth, and burying bodies in the earth was basically so Ged/Geb could hold the souls of the departed so they could rest easy. However, if you want to spin him more bad-guy god, you can totally do that.
For instance, I'm currently thinking about the Mesopotamian & Canaanite god Baal, who is seen as a demon today, but I'm making it so that he's actually a good guy and it was his enemies that spun the stories that he was bad/demonic, etc. And at the time of his life, he was actually quite beloved by his people. So you can spin things however you like to fit the story you want to tell.