All-out Thaumaturgical War

[Vojvodina-Nihon]

I only recognize four of these characters. Do I lose my geek points?

(Of the ones I know about, I'm going with Granny Weatherwax.)

[NERVUN]

If you mean exploding people with thought, meh, WoT has that too. The Seanchean and Ashaman use that as their standard attack.

Still though, I don't see how errasing people out of history is all that needful.

Who knows? None of the other candidates have had a big enough ego to want to do that, so it never came up.

Neither did Garion, as he told the Orb, "That was just an example, not a suggestion!"

Ah, so I got it wrong.

Either case, it's still unimpressive. The Orb did the heavy work, Belgarion was just there to get it from scabbard to chest.

Well, given that Garion is one of three people able to actually touch the Orb and given that even gods die if they touch the damn thing, I'd say it's pretty important. Besides, he did the whole get bigger trick AND picked a fight with a dark god/personification of the Dark while a teen.

Now, do YOU go around doing that? I think not.

[Non Aligned States]

Still though, I don't see how errasing people out of history is all that needful.

It's useful. Taking a real world context, say you zap GW Bush with a really high charge Balefire. Bam! Dick Cheney becomes President. Ok, bad result, not powerful enough. Hit him with an even higher charge today, and Al Gore becomes the only candidate left to run for Presidency, Saddam Hussein springs back to life, Iraq doesn't look like a mahjong table, and Afghanistan is properly policed with sufficient manpower.

See how useful it can be? It's like time travel assassination, but without going back in time yourself.

Neither did Garion, as he told the Orb, "That was just an example, not a suggestion!"

Yes, but he did raise the issue all the same. None of the others did.

Well, given that Garion is one of three people able to actually touch the Orb and given that even gods die if they touch the damn thing, I'd say it's pretty important.

Well, the access keys were also fairly important, since Lanfear did the whole "With these, we can overthrow the Dark One, overthrow the Creator, and take their places", e.g. become gods themselves.

Of course using these were like overclocking your PC to 5000% base performance on a standard fan cooling system. Rather hazardous if you didn't have the capacity to use them.

Besides, he did the whole get bigger trick AND picked a fight with a dark god/personification of the Dark while a teen.

Now, do YOU go around doing that? I think not.

We're kinda lacking in dark gods to smite these days, not to mention artifacts of world smashing power. I'll get to it when you provide me with the latter at least.

[Grave_n_idle]

...picked a fight with a dark god/personification of the Dark while a teen.

Now, do YOU go around doing that? I think not.

Rand did, though, didn't he?

[Non Aligned States]

summoned Demons and controlled them

Hard to say that demon summoning qualifies as a direct magic spell, but fair enough.

, access to divine magic (Polgara has affected muscle control in others the prophet of min's neice's eyes for example, summoning Aldur, summoning her mother, etc...)

I'm not sure how that's divine magic. Going by what Polgara said about the prophet's niece, it could be the niece's own work with Polgara's advice that fixed them. Summoning her mother and Aldur is not much since both are mucking around just out of sight to begin with.

Teleportation of self and others, weather control, dispelling other's 'spells' and affecting their phsysical qualities (removal of shadows for example) speaking with animals, Telepathy, mass sheilding from scrying, etc...

and don't forget those attacks that they 'rebuffed'.

Animal speaking isn't much, since some prospector dude who wasn't even a sorcerer learned wolf speak, but I'll give you the rest.

[Third Spanish States]

In the short term Narackamous, because he has Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones as allies, and in the long term nobody because Cthulhu shall destroy the world.

[JuNii]

summoned Demons and controlled them

Hard to say that demon summoning qualifies as a direct magic spell, but fair enough.

I do believe Belgarath explained the difference between the demon summoning and 'sorcery'. yes, it is a magic spell, just a different type.

, access to divine magic (Polgara has affected muscle control in others the prophet of min's neice's eyes for example, summoning Aldur, summoning her mother, etc...)

I'm not sure how that's divine magic. Going by what Polgara said about the prophet's niece, it could be the niece's own work with Polgara's advice that fixed them. Summoning her mother and Aldur is not much since both are mucking around just out of sight to begin with.

still, a feat that requires what one can term 'magic'.

Teleportation of self and others, weather control, dispelling other's 'spells' and affecting their phsysical qualities (removal of shadows for example) speaking with animals, Telepathy, mass sheilding from scrying, etc...

and don't forget those attacks that they 'rebuffed'.

Animal speaking isn't much, since some prospector dude who wasn't even a sorcerer learned wolf speak, but I'll give you the rest.

again, we don't know that. since those termed 'Sorcerers' tend to manifest their talent rather suddenly and for the most time, end up blowing themselves up.

as for the prospector... he's longed lived and has the sight, whos to say that he's NOT a sorcerer. Even Belgarath couldn't say for shure.