Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20171004044748/@comment-31763506-20171009151413

2606:A000:1019:80A9:80F8:5F48:11D7:D8DD wrote:

Another theme of the game is that characters are supposed to use / take power that is presented to them. This is seen multiple times: when Aka helps out the slums by talking to Sarai, Sarai gives a short speech on just that; Simon's argument for taking the Incubus King's shard; Simon's shard itself; Janine's acceptance of the Doomed King's plan actually making the better future she wanted. Also, as we've seen in the game, God does not mean omnipotent.

Simon is currently struggling with the notion of Godhood, and he's showing a progression from Atheist to actively exploring Divinity.

Goddesses can have physical incarnations, as we've seen with Antiala. Xestris specifically says that most powers have some sort of foothold in the mortal realm.

Finally, the list of categories wasn't arbitrary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_deities

The categories that aren't on that list are commerce and seneschal. However, the commerce appears multiple times in various pantheons. Divine servants are less common, but not unheard of; Ganymede is basically a divine waiter, Odin has ravens bring him news, and there are many messengers like Hermes or Iris. I'm not retracting my critique.

You'll note that I qualified omnipotence with "practical". I'm quite aware that "godhood", as used in TLS, does not entail true philosophical omnipotence.

You seem to be confused about my telling Animalia that applying the scientific concept of nature to the domain of a mythological deity was a category error. There was no criticism applied to the list of mythological domains in the OP there. (Strictly speaking, a deity whose domain is "nature", would be either monotheistic or pantheistic because everything is part of the natural world as understood by science.  But my point was that trying to apply the scientific understanding of "nature" to the domain of a mythological deity is like trying to explain the hammer Mjolnir in terms of the difference in electrostatic potenial in thunderclouds.)

You seem to be confusing Xestris and Sabitha.

You also are missing a key word in the last paragraph. "Transcendent " means, in this case, "not having a physical body".