Concept

Forget the seven deadly sins – the Seven Virtues are here to pick a Chosen One and get him to save the world from an ancient evil and untold destruction. Unfortunately, they want different Chosen Ones, and they can’t agree on a hero in time. So now they’re stuck trying to save the world themselves.

The problem? Enemies have Lord of the Rings-style monster armies that attack through Brute-force, not any kind of anthropomorphication of sins; and the Virtues only have power in the forms of (a) being able to demonstrate almost superhuman levels of the virtue they represent, and (b) giving any ordinary human who’s still uninvolved in the conflict the same level of that virtue. (They would have been able to give virtues to an extraordinary human, but unfortunately whatever time window they had for doing that ran out.) (Now, “ordinary” doesn’t just mean unpowered – it also means you can’t be too far from average in any direction! Being too good at chess or a famous singer disqualifies you, but so does being more lazy than literally everyone else, or being able to lick your elbow.) How do the Virtues end up coordinating an effort against the forces of evil?

For reference, here is a list of the Virtues:

Virtue Charity

Virtue Chastity

Virtue Humility

Virtue Kindness

Virtue Temprance

Virtue Diligence

Virtue Patience

For further character prompting, try having two virtues be male and two be nonbinary.

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