Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-11555902-20140109165305/@comment-4536066-20140109175035

Something that's probably very relevant to this discussion is something we don't have enough informaiton on in-game: ascension. There's talk when it comes to gods, particularly Sliske at the moment, about when a god "ascends." We know that, to be a god, a being must "ascend" from its original state and become a god. What we don't know is if this is an actual physical event, or more something psychological - is "ascension" a thing, a moment, an event that physically happens to a new god (either by choice or not) that makes him forevermore a member of godhood, or is it just the term for when a being who has become powerful enough to qualify decides he no longer identifies as a mortal?

The answer is, we don't know right now. Maybe someone should ask about it, but for now, we don't know. It does make a big difference in the answer to your question, however; if ascension is a psychological choice, then any very powerful character could become a god, but if it's a physical event, then whether or not that has happened to a character is what defines him as a god or not.

I might note here that it's my belief, if ascension is an actual physical event, no one should ever play it in public roleplay on the grounds that it's pretty much the definition of godmodding. It's one thing to have a character who claims to be a god and who has followers and worship, and it's another thing entirely to have a character who is literally so powerful that he has become an immortal in strength upwards of Lucien himself, who defeated an entire team of some of the world's greatest heroes in seconds even before he had the Stone.

As an afterthought here, I think it's good to keep in mind that once a character is a god, he both forefeits his right to an afterlife and can have goodhood stolen from him through defeat. If a character goes to any afterlife, or if his slayer (should he have one) does not obtain all of his power upon defeating him, then he was not nor was he ever truly a god.