Editing Deities (section)

=== Abilities ===
Each god will have a portfolio, for example Dionysus has power over madness.<ref>The High Priest worshiped a deity that included ''madness'' in his realm of control. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2015/02/07 Excerpt] from [[Judgement 16.5]]</ref>

Gods are generally [[Greater Powers|immensely powerful]].<ref>Greater Powers<br><br>–Worship – Prayer, tapping into the well of divinity, serving divine forces.<br>–Labeling Greatness – Identifying gods, primevals, angels, great spirits, et al.<br>–Capricious Power* – Management of the uncontrollable and unpredictable.<br>–Overflow and Excess* – When measures to contain greater powers fail.<br>–Heartless Practices* – Breaching the bounds of mortality and humanity.<br>–Hollow Others* – Vestiges, hollows, stains, and other remnants of excess power.<br>–Others in Excess* – Others of unrestrained power; god-cursed, wishful, oroboros.<br>–Counter-Diabolism* – Mitigating harm, best practices for self-preservation. - [[Blue Heron Institute]] class list, [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/20 4.1 Bonus Content]</ref><ref>“Major powers.  Are these gods?  Great spirits?  Incarnations? [...] What would you say if I asked if these greater powers are judges?  Carmine, Alabaster, Sable, and Aurum?” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/09 Excerpt] from [[Vanishing Points 8.1]]</ref> Gods are among the few beings powerful enough to empower someone to kill a [[dragon]].<ref>“Dragons are ''so'' like they are in video games,” Evan said.<br><br>“No,” Tiff said.  “Um, in video games, a guy with a sword can kill a dragon.  Only way that happens ''here'' is if a god intervenes, or you’re drawing on some similar degree of power.”<br><br>“We’ve got an in with gods, right?<br><br>“Not unless someone wants to hike back to the house,” Peter said. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/12/06 Excerpt] from [[Sine Die 14.3]]</ref><ref name=":6">“There’s no polar opposite.  Most are amalgams of elemental and spirit and animal and nightmares, on top of whatever else.  You have to beat them at their own game.  You get the dragons that are all poison, to the point that one drop of venom can clear out a lake.  Then you have to just ''out-poison'' them.  You get the dragons in some areas of the East that are more spirit and elemental, like dragons of the mountains and… it’s like you have to destroy a mountain by hitting it with a ''bigger'' mountain.”<br><br>“How do you-” I started.  “Nevermind.  You’re saying the only way to kill ol’ firebreath there is ''hotter'' fire?”<br><br>“No,” she said.  Her voice dropped to be even quieter, as we approached the end of the street.  “There’s another way.  Most are violent, killing machines.  So… if you’re brave enough, you can try the ''conventional'' means.  Facing them in battle.  Eventually ''someone'' succeeds.  Usually with the backing of some major power.  ''Usually'' a god.  Which makes them rare.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/12/06 Excerpt] from [[Sine Die 14.3]]</ref> Gods are powerful enough to shatter all the [[Demesne|Demesnes]] in a building for their follower with a single blow and incapacitate those inside, infusing the whole area around them with power in the process.<ref>[[Mala Fide 10.6]]</ref><ref>“We’re crashing a party,” Jeremy said.  “Barriers or no, when you ask a god to open a door, that door gets opened.”<br><br>The direction they were traveling.  Hillsglade House. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/08/26 Excerpt] from [[Mala Fide 10.5]]</ref> They could easily crush a being such as [[Blake]] at a word from their follower.<ref>“Any last words?” he asked.<br><br>“Why would I need last words?” I asked.  “I’m not planning on dying anytime in the immediate future.”<br><br>“It’s a courtesy.  I only need to say a word to my deity to lay you out flat.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/11/20 Excerpt] from [[Execution 13.7]]</ref> A god might be one of the few beings that could challenge a lesser angel such as [[Faysal Anwar]].<ref>Don’t let appearances deceive.  The angel Faysal is powerful enough that only a god or a demon might pose a challenge.  - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2015/01/08 Excerpt] from [[Possession 15.2]]</ref> Even a lesser god of light was able to restrain and injure [[Ur]].<ref>“Ur,” I murmured.<br><br>It was working its way into this place that lay through the cracks. Into the Drains.  The only thing that had stopped it, cutting it off from the heart at the source of it, was the accidental uncovering of this ancient forgotten god.<br><br>[...]<br><br>I screamed ''guttural'', as close to the same tone as the god that shone its light into this dark chamber, fighting Ur for as long as he ''lasted''.<br><br>I ''worshiped'' that lost god for just a moment.<br><br>The light grew more intense, and Ur burned away.  Even the pieces in my arm. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/08/07 Excerpt] from [[Null 9.5]]</ref> [[Johannes]] believed that there were gods in Limbo that could kill [[Barbatorem]], although [[Blake]] disagreed.<ref name=":5" />

Gods have a unique power to shape and define [[creation]]. This makes them especially adept at altering fundamental rules, creating life, and healing.<ref name="8.1e2" /> For example, one god was able to create an entire race of super-fast-reproducing humans from the seed of one man.