God proposal: The unsatiable hunger

[Velikolepni]

During some discussions about Ru and Gozag, the suggestion was made that, since there is now a god with constant piety and a god with no piety, there might still be design space for a god with highly variable piety.

This post is just the result of some brainstorming in that direction. The main ingredient of the proposal is the piety gain mechanic, the rest is expendable.

God Name: The Unsatiable Hunger (Associated letter H). It is considered an evil god (maybe)
Fluff: The Unsatiable Hunger desired to feast upon Creation and was exiled by the other gods. Today, it is only through the blood and body sacrifices of rare worhippers that the Hunger may feed. Followers can gain, for a short while, aspects and powers of the Hunger by offering parts of their essence.

Piety decays at a rate of 1 per turn (or even higher if needed)
No excommunication at zero piety
Demigods cannot join

Dislikes: Nothing.
Likes: Feeding (see below)

Active Abilities: (usable at any piety, the numbers can be tweaked)
a) "Let the Hunger feed": Sacrifice between 10 and 20 % (random) of your current health and mp and gain the double in piety. Lose some satiation
b) "Let the Hunger feast": Sacrifice between 50 and 60 % (random) of your current health and mp and gain the double in piety. Lose more satiation than in a)

Alternatively, make the sacrifice be a percent of current hp/mp but the piety gained based on the total hp/mp that has been sacrificed.

Passive Abilities
a) "Ravenous": Gain the Demonspawn mutation "Powered by Death" with intensity depending on piety. It should also regenerate magic and at high piety be even more powerful than the mutation
b) "Frenzy": Gain the Demonspawn mutation "Augmentation" with intensity depending on piety. Again, potentially more powerful than the mutation itself at high piety
c) Potentially also add Vehumets mp on kill and Makhleb's hp on kill at high piety (5 stars and up)
d) Potentially add an hp/mp draining bite
e) Potentially give the mutation "carnivorous" while following the god

Punishments: The Hunger occasionally feeds and feast on those that abandoned it. It may also sometimes leave them in a weakened state or limit their regeneration.

The god should be of use to most characters, both fighters, hybrids and "pure" mages but also quite risky to use. It would be particularly powerful with Deep Dwarves but that should not be a problem I hope.

[kuniqs]

My shot:
1) Give a bite attack scaling with piety (1 level every **), so unarmed combatants & short bladers can have some fun
2) Double satiation gained from everything, so mages & trolls can have some fun without it being too strong
3) Your MP & HP regen is affected by your food clock - the hungrier you are, the more you get. Poor mummies

"c) Potentially also add Vehumets mp on kill and Makhleb's hp on kill at high piety (5 stars and up)"
- Get voluntarily tormented, then gain regeneration? You have to be pretty much 27 level (~100 hp + ~10mp) in full health, and in trouble for it to work, which never happens simultaneously

[pubby]

I'd like it more if you would remove hunger.

[Velikolepni]

I'd like it more if you would remove hunger.

I would just like to point out that the main proposal has in principle nothing to do with "hunger" as it is called in the game. It is an unfortunate choice of words. Just the variable piety mechanic is essential.

[Lasty]

All the abilities that this god grants are available on other gods or species.