Divine Kingdom

Biodata

Power Progression

Nature and Function

A Divine Kingdom is the spiritual half of a New God’s Divine Domain. Living beings inhabit the material-plane interface; after death, their souls enter the Divine Kingdom. 12

• A New God’s Divine Domain combines a material plane and a Divine Kingdom, allowing its owner to carry believers and territory rather than remaining bound to a fixed afterlife realm. 122
• Native Divine Kingdoms are generally fixed locations and normally house Petitioners rather than living believers. 122
• A True God’s Divine Kingdom protects their True Body. Even an Intermediate Divine Power can be extraordinarily difficult to kill while entrenched within one. 581
• Divine Kingdoms can be built from nothing or transformed from Demiplanes. A transformed Demiplane costs less Divinity but inherits its original environmental and rule biases. 582

Construction and Maintenance

• A basic Divine Kingdom embryo requires roughly 100,000 Divinity Crystals and only establishes enough fundamental rules to house deceased believers. 472
• Completing, expanding, and strengthening a Divine Kingdom requires continued investment of several times the framework’s initial Divinity cost. 472
• A Divine Kingdom created from nothing has no innate rule bias, allowing its owner to add and modify rules freely; its ultimate strength scales with its owner. 582
• Lin Xiao’s micro Divine Kingdom used a copied Bottom-Layer Rule network, though his available Divinity was initially insufficient to activate the entire system. 582
• Divine Kingdom upkeep consumes substantial Divinity. A God can prolong its survival by shrinking the realm or converting its Petitioners and territory back into Divinity. 579 653
• Severing a god from mortal faith gradually starves the Divine Kingdom of Divinity, weakening its rules until the kingdom and Godhead can decline or collapse. 645

Inhabitants

Petitioners

Petitioners are deceased believers who dwell within a Divine Kingdom.

• Petitioners can be resurrected repeatedly inside a Sanctuary or Divine Kingdom. 586
• Their individual strength is lower than in life, but they inherit traits from the Divine Kingdom itself and can still harm True Gods. 586
• Lin Xiao’s believers may choose to become Petitioners in a subordinate Divine Kingdom or be reincarnated into his Divine Domain. 472
• Petitioners with insufficient faith may be assimilated into the Divine Kingdom to gradually expand its area. 649

Divine Guards and Angels

The most devout Petitioners may be strengthened into permanent defenders.

• Lin Xiao transforms fanatically devoted Cave Dweller Petitioners into Divinity angels for Divine Kingdom warfare. 650
• The Underdark Divine Kingdom accumulated tens of millions of Cave Dweller angels, most around level ten, relying on overwhelming numbers. 650
• Haken’s Divine Kingdom instead concentrated its resources into elite defenders, including nearly 200,000 level-fifteen-or-higher Beastmen and beasts, with more than 1,000 Legendary guards. 650

Divine Kingdom Rules

A Divine Kingdom’s owner can directly use its internal rules to empower allies and suppress invaders.

• With the owner’s permission, inhabitants may receive flight, rapid regeneration, near-instant recovery of stamina and Mana, and—at additional Divinity cost—teleportation or resurrection. 650
• The owner can use full-map teleportation and rapidly restore their avatar’s injuries, while invaders suffer restricted movement and greatly increased Divinity expenditure. 652
• Haken altered his Kingdom’s rules during battle to reduce invading forces’ speed by 50% and more than double their energy consumption. 652
• Lin Xiao can analyze a hostile Divine Kingdom’s Space rules to open concealed entry gates and can alter local rules to hide allied avatars after infiltration. 649
• The God Palace is the most heavily protected core: its defensive rules are tied directly to the owner’s will and cannot be silently bypassed through ordinary rule analysis. 650

Known Divine Kingdoms

Story Role / Major Events

• Lin Xiao’s earliest Divine Kingdom was largely undeveloped despite sharing the full size of his material Divine Domain. 15
• Lin Bao established a rough Divine Kingdom embryo for Lin Xiao’s subordinates, allowing dead believers’ souls to be collected while its rules remained incomplete. 472
• Lin Xiao created his own micro Divine Kingdom after accumulating more than 30 million Divinity, using 20 million for its initial construction. 582
• After defeating Underdark rivals, Lin Xiao refined five captured Sanctuaries and the Lord of the Underdark’s abandoned Divine Kingdom into his own expanding realm. 587
• Lin Xiao led the first documented Human assault on a Beastmen True God possessing a Divine Kingdom, infiltrating Haken’s realm through analyzed Space rules. 651
• Haken’s Divine Kingdom ultimately collapsed after Lin Xiao used the Matter Great Prophecy Spell to solidify it, captured Haken’s Godhood, and withdrew his forces. 654
• During the later full-scale war, Void Warships and True Gods breached hundreds of Divine Kingdoms; the damaged realms and surviving Petitioners were brought into the Underdark God System for integration. 731