Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-11555902-20140109165305/@comment-24163067-20140110003435

Kaboto Leafgrinder wrote: In my opinion a being that achieves Ascension does not make them a god. Like I said before, "God" is an opinion. The way I see it, ascension is nothing more than said being transfering from a level of power into a higher level of power. In a sense, a powerful entity becomes a super entity. But in no way does that make it a "God" untill someone lables that name on it. Other than a gain in power, the only other things that change are the way they die and maybe appearance, but that doesn't make them a "God". And as I said before, The elder gods are not "Gods" until someone calls them "gods". They were simply the creators of the universe. But not "Gods" until someone said so. I could argue that an evergreen tree is my god, and it is a god. And if someone came along and said it was not a god, I could turn around and say Zaros is not a god for all the same reasons. Because that tree was born a tree! That tree was born holy and its my god. Now wether or not that tree has the ability to create beings and fly though the sky and pull rabbits out of a hat is a completely different story, but I never said that tree was a all-powerful entity that can move around and scare people like Zaros is, I said he is my god. Thefore it is true. I hope you all catch on to what i'm getting at.

Being a god in Gielinor obviously means something differant than IRL, like I said, more akin to the Greek and roman pantheon.

The gods attained godhood from an elder artifacts like Saradomin, from being created like Zaros, or from killing god like Guthix. You can say someone or something is a god, but they are not truly divine until they are powerful enough to be considered like such.

Atleast, in Gielinor, that is.