The God Effect:

     God's, demons, daemons etc. are all thaumic beings i.e. their "bodies" are made of thaum.  The thaum which makes up a thaumic being has distinctly different properties from normal thaum.  These properties are dependant upon - and related to - the entity in question.

Using Divine Energy:

     Anyone can pray to a god.  And, in fact, anyone can channel divine energy.  The amount of energy that can be channeled before causing harm to one's body is determined by a character's thaum points (Tha).  The amount that can be channeled before one forcibly explodes is (1d4)xTha.  The amount of damage done by exploding characters is 10x the amount of energy required for them to explode.  The blast radius is 1m/Tha. point.

     Thus a successful request for help to a god will result in one of two things: a miracle, or the supplicant becoming scenery.

Example:

     Torand, an average commoner (Tha. = 10), and his friends were captured by a greater demon.  All his friends have been killed in various ugly ways and Torand is sure he is next.  He prays for the means with which to destroy the demon.  The power comes.  He makes his will save but fails his Endurance save and so fails to control the divine power now flowing through him.  He explodes; doing an immediate 200 points of damage to everything with in 10m of his position.

Clerics

     Strangely Clerics are less prone to the effects of channeling divine energy than one would expect.  They tend to believe it is because their god protects them from its full effects.  It is actually because they are not, for the most part, channeling divine energy at all but merely using normal thaum.

Thralls and Chosen:

     Thralls and Chosen are usually Sorcerers who have come under the influence of a thaumic entity.  They, in fact, unlike the average cleric, do have direct contact with the thaumic entity and  are channeling divine power.  Thralls and Chosen are very rare (as the god must give up some small part of themselves every time a spell is cast) and very very powerful.

Avatars:

     An avatar is when a thaumic being possesses a physical body.  A god's avatar has only limited free will - since it is almost entirely given over to the god.

  Most gods, however, will only take willing avatars as an unwilling avatar can be very dangerous to the god.  Taking an avatar at all makes the god vulnerable (It is said the God Nurgle died when his avatar was destroyed by the Mother of Waters).  Taking one who was unwilling would increase the possibility of disaster.

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