Just an ordinary guy of the setting, who happens to be a god.Very powerful on home ground (either a specific region or anywhere they have worshipers) but weak outside it.Above the power-level of "normal" people in whatever universe, but still capable of being defeated in mundane ways (generally the way of Physical Gods).Scarily powerful but still capable of being outwitted or even defeated using some kind of magical artifact.Omnipotence, but with some kind of rules in place might even be self-imposed, but the point is that the god won't break them.they're incapable of making something contradictory, like a square circle, or a stone that they themselves cannot lift). Omnipotence: Can do anything, though many theologians would usually put in the limit "anything that it is possible to do" (e.g.How powerful is the god? What can they achieve? This ranges from. In some, just thinking about them can drive you mad.īasically, gods can be distinguished based on several criteria: In some settings, gods are omnipotent, strange, or scary in others, they are basically just people, and sometimes not even particularly powerful ones. (The main exception would be in the case of a monotheist capital-G God, who can go without an explicit job description by virtue of lacking competition and generally already being the "god of everything" anyway.)
Without that, "mere" sufficiently advanced aliens, eldritch abominations, angels in many cases, and of course mortal pretenders to the title do not usually qualify.Īnother trait almost universally associated with gods is having a divine portfolio or sphere of influence - that is, the thing(s) they are the gods of. Or he might be a Superhero that, despite his godhood, gets beaten up by people empowered by radioactive slime.Ī general minimum requirement for a character to be considered divine, though, is that regardless of their power level and number and conviction of their followers (if any) the narrative should acknowledge them as an actual god at some point. On the other end, she might be an easily embarrassed teenage girl.
A god might be the classical God of ethical monotheism: omnipotent, omniscient and infinitely good. Lots of tropes go with gods and religion. There really aren't many similarities between gods.
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