Drakmah wrote:Pantorrum wrote:
Perhaps his power needs to be cut. I mean, I'm not really concerned about Ezin considering his place and his army of angels, but Azazel is really really op.
While I wasn't expecting an issue I'll agree his is more powerful than the other gods, but from what I understood that was the point of a forerunner. It seemed to be a special position with more power that needed extra effort to get, however I would agree to tone things down if you all are truly worried about things getting out of hand. The plan was never to actually kill anyone, especially since killing PC's takes the fun away for everyone except the person doing the killing.
But I understand that even though I never planned on killing anyone, someone having the potential to do so even without the intention can be unsettling and so if you highlight exactly what bothers you the most I would be amenable to changing things. I've pinpointed what I think are some issues that may be causing this and some potential solutions.
7 Weapons - This is a central part of his character, and so I think that making the combined strength of all 7 being equal to one or two of the others gods weapons is a good way to tone down the potential power and make things less unsettling.
Him being Highborn - He technically isn't highborn, that status was taken from him when he was thrown, but I understand how I might have worded things that unintentionally made it seem as though he was. His power is supposed to be weakened, but it was never established how exactly powerful a forerunner was. I had assumed that because of their previous Highborn status they would hold some increased power over the others gods, but not as much as it seems he possesses. I'm sure we could agree on a power comparison.
My idea is 1.5 times up to maybe 3 times as powerful as a normal god, given that the 5 Highmore given in the OP ruled immense physical based domains with uber power, that most of that stripped away would be comparable to that, given that our gods mostly rule concept domains, with less power. And with the weapons, correct me if I'm wrong but a few of the are simply to do what we gods can easily do, for example traveling between realms or shapeshifting, or flight.