“We’re all dying Luna. Some of us are just dying faster than others.”

“I’m serious Ignis! You recklessly used the elements in a way they were never meant to be used! If I had known that’s what you were doing I would’ve stopped you…” I should stop joking around. I think I see what they’re getting at.

“I’m sorry. I was told to use the most powerful attack I could think of.” I might’ve accidentally killed myself.

“Instead of sealing the magic within the creature while also sealing the creature in a temporary prison you permanently sealed his magic and killed him. That magic…or divinity, it didn’t just vanish into thin air! It’s in you! Every minute that passes your vessel is cracking further and further. At any point your body, or rather, your thaumic system will fail completely. Once that happens the energy is just going to tear your body apart.” Great, now Luna’s completely crying. Even Nightmare is a bit choked up but she mostly just looks frustrated.

She probably feels helpless and I know she hates that feeling. “We can’t just siphon the divinity into the Moon? Why can’t we just use it to empower your divinity?”

“Because it’s sealed in you. We could use the elements on you, but not only are we unsure what will happen to the magic once it’s expelled from you. We aren’t even sure what the elements will do to you. There’s a chance you end up sealed for 1,000 years and the unleashed magic reforms into Discord and revives him. I argued that we should risk it because it’s better than you dying. But, the elements are apparently not responding right now. We’re unsure if it’s because Twilight isn’t mentally capable of using hers, or if it’s because of how turbulent their friendship is right now. I don’t know what to do, Ignis.”

“Let’s just enjoy whatever time we have left and I’ll try to think of something.”

All four of us just laid there like that for who knows how many hours. Every so often I’d move my hands between the three mares, trying to give them all attention and affection. I’ve wracked my brain the entire time and I can’t come up with anything. “Wait. Why is it destroying my thaumic system?”

“Mana and divinity cannot exist in the same ethereal body. You know this. It’s why our divinity is stored in the moon and we pull from it as needed.” Nightmare answers me this time. Her tone surprisingly harsh, but I know she’s just upset at the situation.

“Then I just need to get rid of one of them, yeah?”

“That…that might work. You mean to completely empty your mana reserves, yes?”

“Yeah, exactly. Teleport us to the Everfree.”

Within a few seconds there’s a bright flash and I find myself a couple of feet in the air. Unceremoniously falling to the ground on my back as three mares also fall on top of me. “Okay maybe we should’ve stood up before we teleported.” I comment with a groan as I rub my chest where Force landed.

After untangling ourselves all four of us stand and I crack my knuckles before looking up at the night sky. At least if I go out now it’s under her moon. “Here goes nothing.”

“Wait, you're just gunna go for it?!” Force calls out right before I start.

“Yeah? I mean I’m dead either way right? What’s the point in waiting?”

“But…shouldn’t we say our goodbyes?”

“Nah, that implies that I’m planning to die. That’s never part of my plan.” Without waiting on any further arguments I thrust both of my hands up and just start to dump as much mana as I can, as fast as I can.

I can feel my hair rise off my back and become lighter, which means it’s become ethereal again. Guess that shows just how mana I’m channeling right now. An instant later and another massive silver beacon is unleashed into the night sky. Oh this is already starting to hurt.

I can feel myself growing weaker with each passing second as this beam of magic is screaming out of my hands. Even more concerning is that a familiar heat is spreading in my chest. As more and more mana is expelled I can start to feel the foreign energy in my mana pool.

Dropping to one knee I can hear myself starting to groan in pain. The heat in my chest is searing at this point and I feel so weak I can barely stand. Surely I’m almost out of mana, right?

My eyes open wide as I watch my chest start to glow brightly. From the light there’s raw energy drawing lines on my body as it sears through me, leaving trails of blood running down my torso from the lines. I can only scream at this point as my other leg gives out and I drop down to both knees. The beam of magic I’m firing straight up is becoming narrower.

All of the magic is suddenly gone and I feel so incredibly empty. The burning heat in my chest feels cold now. I can’t move. Did emptying my mana pool kill me? No. Time is stopped….

Quest Reward now available! Incompatibility corrected!

Time resumes and I look over just in time to watch Celestia and Twilight appear in a bright flash. They must’ve sensed it. Before I can say anything or even try to process what the quest reward is, the searing pain in my chest comes back in full force.

The pain wraps around my torso and my entire back feels like it’s being flayed. I hear gasps behind me, but can’t ask what’s happening due to the involuntary screaming. I manage to wrench my gaze up and watch in confusion as thousands of chains are shooting into the air. They’re coming out of my back?

The chains are twirling and intertwining with each other as they rise into the air until they form one singular giant chain. It’s the Chain of the Heavens I used to seal Discords divinity…

Suddenly the chain flips around in the air and starts flying towards my chest. What the fuck is going on?

I gasp as the chain pierces through my torso, splitting me from my neck to the bottom of my stomach. The pain is indescribable as I watch thousands of golden lines spread all over my body from where the chain is impaling me. Everything goes white and I hear a loud explosion, and then everything goes dark.

The elf's entire body glowed in a bright golden light for several seconds until suddenly exploding. Leaving nothing but scorch marks on the ground where he was kneeling just a few seconds prior.

Within a fraction of a second Luna and Force collapse onto the ground. Luna is screaming the bladesingers name while Force is just loudly sobbing. Nightmare is glaring at the ground silently with streams of tears running down her face.

“This can’t be real. He’s just… dead? Like that?” Nightmare mutters as she stomps on the ground in frustration.

“He’s not dead.”

Silence instantly washes over the small clearing in the Everfree as all three mares snap their gazes towards Celestia. They’re confused when they see her with a soft smile on her face.

“He ascended…”

“Why are you here?” Rapidly blinking my eyes I find Harmony staring at me, wide eyed. She looks terrified.

“I don’t know. What was I doing? I think…I was trying to empty all of the mana in my body so the two energies wouldn’t clash and kill me. Then suddenly the Chain of the Heavens appeared and pierced me. Next thing I know I hear an explosion and I’m here.”

“No…there’s no way this is happening.” Harmony looks stunned as all of the TV’s she normally uses to observe the world start to flash different images and memories from his life.

“I don’t understand. Is this the afterlife? Are you supposed to reincarnate me now?”

“No. Ignis you’ve ascended. This is normally what happens when I select one of my faithful ponies to become an alicorn.”

Sure enough as soon as she says that a notification from the system pops up.

Ignis Ferrum
Bladesinger 12/Paladin 2 - Divine Rank 0

“Holy shit. Wait, why is it only Rank 0? There’s no way killing Discord and absorbing his divinity just gave me Rank 0 divinity.”

Main Quest - The Era of Gods: You’ve ushered in the Era of Gods for Equestria, and have even dared to trespass into the realm of divinity yourself. Currently you do not possess the qualifications to wield or access your divinity. You can change this through two means of action:

• Absorb divinity from other Gods: (0/14)

• Amass devout worshipers and followers: (27)

  • Next Divine Rank at 400 followers.

Absorbing another Gods divinity will also assimilate their followers.

This is cool and all, but I'm supposed to help Luna amass more followers, not bolster my own. Also I thought I was playing in some updated version of 5th edition? Divine ranks are from 3.5.

Calculating Reward…

Wait…ascending into divinity wasn’t the reward?

Divine Rank 4

• Absorb divinity from other Gods: (1/14)

• Amass devout worshipers and followers: (27)

  • Next Divine Rank at 4000 followers.

A familiar heat returns to my chest, but this time there’s no pain. Instead it feels like a shot of adrenaline, like there’s lightning in my veins. There’s no way Discord was only equivalent to a rank four deity, but I assume the conversion ratio upon absorption isn’t one to one.

Time resumes and that feeling of adrenaline only grows. I can feel power swelling up within me. Harmony stares at me with wide eyes and I can only imagine what she’s thinking as I feel a massive smile break out on my face. I open my mouth before thinking and start to say something rude, but before I can even get the first syllable out I’m thrusted out of the realm and back to the Everfree.

“I thought that was something only ponies could do?” Luna asks her sister after hearing the revelation.

“It’s not like it’s a widely explored area of study, Lulu. There’s quite a lot that even I don’t know about ascension.”

As soon as Celestia finishes her statement there’s a bright flash that blinds all of the ponies in the clearing. The first two ponies to notice the change are Twilight and Force. That’s because everyone is still blinded, but those two are able to feel the new presence in the area. It’s not heavy or intimidating, but an eerie calmness. They don’t feel threatened, but they feel an urge to kneel and bow. It’s very similar to the presence Celestia exudes during ceremonies or public speeches. The only difference is that Celestia’s presence also feels a bit warm, and this is cold.

Force is awestruck as she tries to blink the light out of her eyes, but she doesn’t bow. Twilight on the other hand bends one of her forelegs and dips her head down, purely out of muscle memory.

After a couple of seconds everyone can finally see again and they’re shocked at the sight before them. The elf has returned, but he’s nearly a foot taller than before. His hair seems to now permanently be in a state of etherealness, it’s like there’s a light gray cloud surrounded by a thin layer of a lighter silver colored smoke. It reaches all the way down to his hips. His eyes are just golden orbs with no pupil.

The most shocking thing is that the elf is stark naked. On the ground next to him is his Mizzium device and his Moonblade, in its sheath. Ignis can immediately tell something is wrong based on the way the ponies in front of him are reacting, and when he looks down he yelps and moves his hands to try and cover himself. “Oh, C’MON MAN! I just got that shirt! INVISIBILITY!”

As soon as he turns invisible he relaxes with a sigh as he hunches over. It’s only after another second that he realizes a key fact. “Celestia! Close your eyes! Pervert!”

“Trust me I disabled my True Sight several hours ago. Where was this shyness earlier today, hm? You didn’t seem to have qualms flashing me and my student back then.” Ignis leans his body far, far to the left and keeps a close eye on the solar alicorns pupils. When she talks to him she’s still looking at where he was standing, so she really can’t see him right now.

“That was…in the heat of the moment. Please forget that as well.”

“I would love to, but unfortunately I can’t. That type of magic is outlawed except for very specific medical uses related to mental health. I’m afraid the nobles wouldn’t agree that “Watching my sister and h-””

“OKAY! We get it! Please God, someone just teleport me back to the castle.”

Force, Nightmare, and Celestia both start to laugh as they experience this rare moment of the elf being deeply embarrassed. Luna just has a soft smile on her face and Twilight is still stunned, standing there wide eyed. “Come rest your hand on me and I’ll teleport us back.” Luna offers an out to the poor elf.

Within a fraction of a second she feels something touch the middle of her back, right in between her wings. Without wasting another second she ignites her horn and teleports herself, Ignis, Nightmare, and Force to her bedroom. As soon as they appear in the room Ignis ceases his invisibility and looks at Luna with a serious look on his face. “I’m sorry Luna. I understand what I put you through earlier, and I apologize.”

“I don’t care, you idiot. I’m just happy you’re alive. Your body literally exploded and we thought you were gone.” As she stops talking all three of the mares tackle the elf onto the new bed in the room.

“Yeah I thought that was it for me as well. As soon as I appeared in Harmony’s realm again I asked her if this was the afterlife. I’d never seen that pony so shaken before. She really didn’t understand how I’d appeared in her realm. Apparently I have a whole new list of abilities to sort through, but as soon as I reappeared…well, you know what happened.”

Ignis notices that Force has a strange conflicted look on her face. “What’s wrong?”

“Luna has gotten bigger, Nightmare got her original form back and now she’s bigger, and now even you’ve grown. I feel a bit out of place. I’m afraid I’m too small now.”

Ignis reaches out with his telekinesis and grabs his staff that’s sitting in the corner of the room. “Enlarge.”

With the Staff of the Magi he could cast Enlarge/Reduce at will and it doesn’t cost him anything. The effect is immediate as the pegasus laying on her belly on top of the elf’s chest suddenly doubles in size. Ignis makes an oof noise as her weight increases eightfold. At this new size she’s a bit bigger than Celestia. Force looks around surprised before smiling down at Ignis and leans down for a kiss.

“It only lasts for one minute, but I’m sure I can use a couple of runes to extend the duration. It also doesn’t cost me anything to cast that so I could keep you at this size indefinitely.”

(A/N: This is legitimately a giant wall of text. I completely understand if you want to skip this and just learn about the new abilities as they are naturally used and introduced. Ctrl + F “Holy fuck” to skip to after the giant wall of abilities.)

Now that I’ve solved Force’s new insecurity let’s take a look at these new abilities.

Ignis Ferrum - Demigod: Divine Rank 4.
Bladesinger 12/Paladin 2

Divine Characteristics:

• Deities receive maximum hit points for each Hit Die.

  • New HP Maximum: 120/120.

• Walking Speed increased to 60ft.

• A field of Divine energy encompasses your body, granting you a Divine AC Bonus equal to your divine rank. AC: 19.

• Deities of Divine Rank 1 or higher do not automatically fail on a natural roll of 1.

• Deities get half of their Divine Rank (rounded down) as a bonus to all attack rolls, saving throws, and ability checks.

• Deities of Divine Rank 1 or higher are immune to polymorphing, petrification, any other attack that alters its form, charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, morale effects, electricity, cold, acid, disease, poison, stuns, sleep, paralysis, death effects, and disintegration. These immunity’s are ignored by Deities of equal Divine Rank or higher.

• You can use any Domain power that you can bestow upon your followers a number of times per day equal to your Divine Rank. Similarly, you can use any Domain spell you can bestow upon your followers as a spell-like ability at will. If the spell requires a saving throw the DC is equal to 10 + Divine Rank + Charisma Bonus.

• You are naturally immortal and cannot die from natural causes. You do not age, you do not need to eat, sleep, or breathe. Deities of Divine Rank 1 or higher are not subject to instant death from massive damage (Twice your maximum Hit Points.)

• Deities of Rank 1 or higher have incredibly sensitive perception. Your senses (including darkvision or even True Sight if you possess it) extend out to a radius of one mile per Divine Rank. Perception is limited to the senses the Deity possesses, and you cannot see through solid objects without using a Remote Sensing ability.

• Remote Sense: As an action, a deity of Divine Rank 1 or higher can perceive everything within a radius of one mile per Divine Rank around any of its worshipers, holy sites, or other objects or locales sacred to the Deity. This effect can also be centered on any place where someone speaks your name or title for up to one hour after the name is spoken, and at any location when an event related to your portfolio occurs. Deities of an equal or higher Divine Rank can block this ability. You can extend your senses to two remote locations at once and still sense what’s nearby. Once you choose a location to sense you will automatically receive sensory information from that location until you choose a new one or until you can’t sense the location.

• Block Sense: You can block the sensing ability of other Deities equal to or lower than your Divine Rank. This extends for a radius of one mile per Divine Rank of the Deity, or within the same distance around a temple or other locale sacred to the Deity. You can block up to two locations at once, plus the area within one mile of yourself. The block lasts for one hour per Divine Rank.

• Portfolio: Your Domains currently consist of the following:

  • Hope
  • Chaos

• Divine Aura: Your mere presence can deeply affect mortals and beings of lower Divine Rank. Creatures can resist the effects with a Wisdom Saving Throw, the DC is 10 + Divine Rank + Charisma Bonus. Any being that succeeds the Save is immune to the effects for 24 hours. The radius of your aura is 10ft per Divine Rank, but you can alter the size or suppress it altogether. You can also choose to make your own worshipers or beings of your alignment immune to the effect as a Free Action. If a creature fails the Save you can choose from one of the three following effects:

  • Daze: Affected beings just stare in fascination. They can defend themselves, but can take no actions.
  • Fright: Affected beings become shaken and suffer a -1d4 penalty to attack rolls, saves, and checks. A glance or gesture from the Deity makes them Frightened and they flee as quickly as they can.
  • Resolve: Deity’s allies receive a +1d4 to attacks, saves, and ability checks, while the Deity’s foes receive a -1d4 to the same types of rolls.

• You can grant spell and domain powers to any mortal divine spellcasters that pray to you. You can grant any spell from the Cleric spell list, and from your Domain spell lists. You can withhold spells from a particular mortal as a free action.

• You can understand, speak, and read any language, including nonverbal languages. You can speak directly to any beings within one mile per Divine Rank of yourself.

• As an action you can send a Remote Communication to a remote location. You can speak to any of your worshipers, and to anyone within one mile per Divine Rank of a site dedicated to you, or within one mile per Rank away from a statue or other likeness to yourself. You can speak directly to the being telepathically so only they hear, or you can project your voice into the air, the ground, or some other object of your choosing. In such a case anyone within earshot will hear you. This ability can cross planes and penetrate any barrier. Once initiated you can continue conversing as a free action until you decide to end the communication.

• Divine Realm: Each Deity of Divine Rank 1 or higher has a location that serves as a workplace, personal residence, audience chamber, and sometimes as a retreat or fortress. You are at your most powerful within this realm. You have modest control over the environment within your realm, able to control the temperature and minor elements. The radius of this control depends on whether the Realm is in the Outer Planes or the Material Plane. For Divine Rank 4 your radius is 100ft per Rank for both Planes.

You can set the temperature to anything considered normal for the Plane where the Realm is located, fill the area with scents and sounds as you see fit. Sounds can be no louder than 120 dB, but cannot be intelligible speech or a harmful sound. At higher Divine Ranks the possibilities of what you can build and control in this realm increase exponentially.

• Deities of Divine Rank 1 or higher can use Greater Teleport at will, except you can only transport yourself and up to 100lbs of objects per Divine Rank.

• You may now choose up to four Salient Divine Abilities or Feats.

Okay that’s a long fucking list of abilities and feats. Jesus what the fuck is this? Is this real? Most of these abilities have insane prerequisites that I won’t meet for years. Like this Divine Celerity ability would let me give myself Haste for one minute per Divine Rank, but it requires my Dexterity to be 29 or higher. Oh this one seems useful.

“Alter Size.” That’s a good first pick. As a free action I can change my size to be anything between Fine and Colossal. I can change the size of up to 100lbs of objects I touch, and if I have a familiar, mount, or personal intelligent weapon, I can change it’s size when I change mine as long as I’m touching it. The next ability I want actually has this ability as a prerequisite.

“Alter Form.” I can alter my form, including clothing and equipment. The assumed form must be corporeal. My body can undergo a limited physical transmutation, including adding or subtracting one or two limbs. If the form has wings I gain a flying speed equal to my walking speed, and if it has fins or gills I can swim faster or breathe underwater. I can remain in that form indefinitely, but revert to my own form when slain. I’m completely overwhelmed at how long the list is. Oh this one seems really strong…

“Hand of Death.” I can point to any mortal within my sensory range and snuff out its life. There has to be an unbroken line of sight between me and the target. They have to pass a Constitution Saving Throw with a DC of 10 + Divine Rank + Charisma Bonus. Which is 16 at the moment. That’s a pretty low DC, but if they fail it’s literally instant death. I can also only use the ability a number of times per day equal to my Divine Rank. Lastly… this one also seems insanely overpowered.

“Power of Truth.” I instantly know when anyone (other than a Deity of equal or higher Rank) deliberately lies. I can also enchant creatures so they become truthful. I can do that on up to one creature per Divine Rank at once, but no more than that each day. All targets have to be within my line of sight when first affected. They have to pass a DC 16 Wisdom Saving Throw and if they fail they are unable to utter any deliberate falsehoods or evasions of truth for an entire day. If they pass the save they are immune to the effect for 24 hours.

“Holy fuck.”

“What is it?” Nightmare asks, a bit startled as I suddenly disturb the peaceful cuddling.

“I’m overwhelmed by the sheer number of new abilities I have. Some of these I don’t even understand. Like, it says my senses should be extended out to a radius of four miles, but my senses feel the exact same as before. Although one of my new abilities is something Luna is going to absolutely love.”

Said alicorn glances at me with tired eyes as she hears her name and raises her eyebrows inquisitively.

“Alter Size.” I shrink myself down to around 4’2” and the response is immediate. Before I can even blink my vision is obscured by fur and I just hear two mares making those dumb noises you make when you see something cute.

“I thought you could already do this though?” Luna asks a completely valid question.

“I could but that was through a spell. This is an innate ability I have through my Divinity and I’ll stay like this until I choose to be a different size. With this ability I can also shrink even further than this and I can grow up to 64ft tall.” My voice is higher pitched than normal and I almost laughed just hearing myself talk, but I manage to hold myself back.

“Alter Form.” I demonstrate my other new ability as my naked form is suddenly completely clothed with an identical copy of my Night Court uniform and cloak. “Ta-da! I have complete control over my form as well! I could actually turn myself into a pony with this ability. I wonder what I would look like if I didn't choose any features and just let the magic change my form into what I would actually look like as a pony?”

“Can we find out?” There’s a hint of something unfamiliar in Force's tone of voice as she asks that question.

“Fuck it, why not? You guys gotta let go of me so I can climb off the bed though.” After some awkward shifting around I’m finally free from the warm, comfy, soft fur prison, and standing next to the bed. “Alter Form.”

After a brief flash of light I turn towards the mares on the bed, and nearly lose my balance as I do. Four legs is weird. “How do I look?”

“Woah.” I can’t tell if that’s a good response or not from Luna.

“Is that a good woah or a bad woah?”

“It’s a good woah, but also I’m very surprised. Your jaw is more rounded, similar to a mare, and your barrel is slender until it reaches your flank where it widens a bit. If I didn’t see your equipment, and didn’t know you were a stallion…I’d be almost certain you’re a mare. You’re more pretty than handsome if that makes sense.”

As Luna is explaining it she floats over her full body mirror and sets it down next to me. I can see what she means. I’m about as tall as Fleur and my body type is damn near identical to her as well. Overall though I just look like a very bland unicorn. My fur is white, and my mane is exactly the same as an elf, a light gray and silver ethereal cloud.

“I guess that makes sense. As an elf my appearance was pretty much like that as well. Elves by human standards were all exceptionally pretty or beautiful. I have a very soft face with feminine cheekbones and my eyelashes are more similar to a woman than a man as well. If I was a human I’d be called a femboy, but that appearance was pretty common among elves. I kinda hate how bland I look though. White on gray is a very boring color palette. The golden eyes help a bit, but not enough. I need clothes to contrast with my hair.”

“Oh we actually have that same term here, but I didn’t wanna say it cause I was sure you wouldn’t get it. You’re a femcolt.” Force seems far too excited as she says that. “I’m moreso surprised you’re a unicorn. I thought for sure you’d be an alicorn. Also you don’t have a cutie mark.”

“My ability only lets me add up to two new limbs. So, I can either have two wings or one horn, but not both.” I respond without looking away from the mirror. I’m eyeing myself up as I turn and twist my body so I can try and see all of myself.

“Ah, that’s because you changed your form to a pony. We alicorns are a separate species entirely, Ignis. It’s why there’s essentially no natural born alicorns and it’s why our bodies explode when we ascend. You need to change your form to specifically an alicorn and then you wouldn’t be adding any limbs that’s just the standard limbs.” Luna lets me in on a fact that I was unaware of, but that doesn’t change anything.

“I didn’t know that, but it doesn’t matter. What I mean is that whatever form I change into can only have up to two extra limbs. I literally cannot become an alicorn through this ability. Once I learn more spells though I can probably do it with True Polymorph. Alright well this was fun, but I miss having thumbs and only walking on two legs.” As I say that I dispel the transformation and return to my shrunken elf form with my Night Court uniform on.

Hopping back into bed I notice there’s some light peeking in from under the curtains blocking the balcony. It seems like it’s morning already. “Seems like you need to lower the moon, Luna.”

Luna ignites her horn and shifts the curtain to reveal an orange sky on the horizon. “It would seem so. I wasn’t aware it was already morning. That’s perfect cause I am ready to go to sleep, I’m exhausted.”

I go a bit slack jawed as Luna doesn’t even get up, but lowers the moon right there from the bed. “I thought you had to go out on your balcony or just be outside in general to do that?”

She shakes her head no as she lets out a big yawn and I suddenly find myself being lifted into the air in a light blue aura. “Wow she doesn’t even ask first, can you believe that?” I look at Nightmare and Force with a smile as I float through the air and they both just roll their eyes.

“By the way, Ignis. You’re on duty when we wake up.” I just let out a groan before I get buried in a cuddle pile and close my eyes.

Author's Note

I get the feeling we're gunna lose some readers after this chapter. Some people are probably curious why I said Ignis couldn't keep his complete understanding of magic because it'd be too OP only to do this 2 chapters later.

The answer is that I can think of so many insane feats he could do with his complete understanding of magic that it would trivialize literally every new obstacle for the rest of the story. That means that this DOESN'T do that. I know there's a lot of OP shit in those new abilities, but the whole theme of the story post-Season 1 is "The Era of Gods." So trust me when I say as he is right now, he still has his work cut out for him.

Now that the cat is out of the bag though, next chapter will likely be the last one that is mostly just the cast hanging out and talking to each other. After that Nightmare and Ignis still need to have their date and then that'll probably get followed up with a NSFW chapter and that'll be the end of the "Intermission" as it were.

Don't worry things are not going to get super dark like they did during the Discord encounter for a long while, but we are going to slide back into more serious things and it might get a little dark. Not too much though, I don't plan on crying or making anyone else cry.

So, if you drop the fic cause the powerscale just went from 0-100 in a single chapter, I don't blame you. During the year long hiatus after Nightmare Moon was defeated I sat on this story for a while and decided what I wanted the ending to be and then kinda worked backwards. So, this was always the plan is essentially what I'm saying, and I have kinda hinted towards that. Like in the changeling hive I said that level of power was a teaser for where we're going to be in the near future and now we're officially there.

During the New Genesis bladesong I also had Ignis say something that boiled down to him claiming the Era of Gods was his era, and Discord would be the first example. So I promise this did not come from out of nowhere.

Also here is the 3.5e list of Divine Ranks and Powers that I used as a reference: https://www.d20srd.org/srd/divine/divineRanksAndPowers.htm

I didn't use EVERYTHING from this list and on like half the things that I did port over I nerfed the ability, so if you see something on that site that wasn't even referenced here...that means it doesn't exist in my canon. Also, here is the list of all of the Salient Divine Abilities:
https://www.d20srd.org/srd/divine/divineAbilitiesFeats.htm#salientDivineAbilities

Ignore Gift of Life. I haven't decided if I'm going to let that be a power that exists or not. If I do end up letting it exist then I can say Ignis didn't take it because it specifies that you need permission of the Deity that oversees the souls of the dead for whatever Plane you're on an Harmony would definitely have a bitch fit and not give permission.

Anyways, like always:

Thanks for reading. :D <3