User blog:Maple Tree Alt/Breaking down Absolute Powers

Hi everybody!

Today I wanted to discuss Absolute powers, because the admin Nekron2 made a very good point on our Discord regarding them. They made some really good points about trimming down the users, and ultimately gave me inspiration to write this blog! So credit to Nekron2. :)

Absolute Powers
This is things like Absolute Immortality, Attack, Defence, Intellect and more. These powers are the absolute pinnacle of their field, and are unmatched by lower levelled variants of their power. This brings us to a popular "Limit" they all share: "What about Omnipotence and its darker sister power, Nonexistence?"

Would you guys agree that such a limit depowers the "Absoluteness" concept that these immense abilities hold? A little theory of mine is that most users of Absolute powers ARE Omnipotent to begin with, because Absolute Immortality for instance is the Immortality that an Omnipotent user would possess. It is fully protected from all powers, otherwise it wouldnt be absolute, right? To me, Absolute powers are like little aspects of Omnipotence.

My second theory for these powers is that the powers might only truly exist in a world where the author has decided to not have a fully Omnipotent character in the verse. In this case, Absolute powers may be used to their fullest, almighty effect, with no technicalities such as "But Omnipotence...".

The wrap up
I hope this little blog makes sense! This is my first attempt to break down a common paradox. But to simplify it as much as possible, or for those who like a TL;DR section, here it is! :D
 * 1) I think Absolute powers are aspects of Omnipotence that can at least be used by non-omnipotents if there is no such OP character in the verse in question. Most of the time though, the users, particularly of the Immortality power, already ARE omnipotent, so there is no what if paradox.
 * 2) Absolute powers Are exactly that. They are unlimited and almighty, and although as a power encyclopedia we account for Omnipotence paradoxes, it should be noted that this is more for convenience than an admission that Absolute powers can be countered by Omnipotent powers. They can, but yet they also...cant, if you get my point?
 * 3) Absolute Immortality in question is specifically for a verse where Omnipotent powers either dont exist, or the user of AI is the omnipotent user themselves.

Your thoughts?
I hope you enjoyed this little blog! Thank you for reading, and dont be shy about adding your own input in the comments! I look forward to hearing your own views!

Maple Tree Alt (talk) 20:33, December 21, 2019 (UTC)