The First Age

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I love the mythology that's developing here. :)

Thanks. I'm glad!

How "alien" are Ammonite and Trilobite Terrestrial gods? Or really, ammonite and trilobites in general, actually. Are we talking totally incomprehensible to Vertebrate minds, or their motivations can be understood but not their logic, or totally able to relate to them, even if they are still unsettling or something else?  (re-reading lovecrafte and playing as Llandri makes it interesting to think about how these are portrayed). I can see it going both ways because, as I understand, Ammonites and Trilobites in First Age are still OF the terrestrial world as opposed to out of space and time.

I don't think they're utterly and totally incomprehensible, if only because that would make it hard for me to write about them, as well as make NPCs of these races a big strain for the GM to play, and forget about them being PCs. Their thought processes are definitely different, though. Sometimes, it's possible to relate to them but they are unsettling: things like the prevailing ammonite view about their racial superiority, or their art being hideous and incomprehensible to humans and synapsids. Other times, their thought processes themselves are alien, but have parallels that vertebrates can understand, like how ammonites make all kinds of prejudgments about other ammonites based on the texture and shape of their shells. Then there is the stuff that just can't be explained in coherent terms at all-- like how someone else's mind "tastes."

Given that Celestial Gods are of the inscrutable cosmic variety yet, I'm presuming, have physical forms...what do they look like?

No, they don't have permanent physical forms. They can take physical form, I guess, but that form could look like just about anything. This one of the ways that Celestial Gods differ from Terrestrial Gods, who are always in physical form. (Some Terrestrial Gods can shapeshift, but they still generally transform within a certain range of physical body types, and they still always have to have a physical body)