Godmodding

= Canon =

Godmodding is the art created by Locybe the Psi during the Nebulous Hypercosmic Period, broken by Plankton, and currently wielded by Lexicon and a number of other godmodders. It centers on the use of reality-warping power to become overpowered, particularly in defensive terms. It was originally contested by wild hunts of Descendancy, but after Plankton triggered the Breaking War and sacrificed much of its primacy to destroy them it has been reduced to the plaything of meta-witches and theotokos. Most of its abilities are benchmarked into extremely formidable wide-area conceptual weapon barriers referred to as Curses.

Definition has fewer holes for a Godmodder to weasel through. They have significant powers to modify what is true, and formidable defensive/reaction capacities, but with the loss of their primacy they have to invent countermeasures and counter with them rather than merely overwhelming truth passively. Much of their remaining authority is concentrated on defense, and with the reduction of their own durability to merely supernaturally resilient comes the easier system of intra-life maintenance, extra-life stack control, and infinite-extra-life-system protection. Godmodders acting competently are extremely difficult to damage in a meaningful fashion sufficient to take from their stock of extra lives, but it is accordingly very difficult to heal them in a way that matters without additional means of stacked life recovery, as their physical body is only tangentially a system whose destruction has to be worried about. In order to be at their best condition during final battles or not worry about which particular elements are compatible, many godmodders generally position a stock of lives before any damage they take has a lasting effect, using godmodding-lives as stacked hit-shields.

Most forms of godmodding are an 'active power', with persistent or passive defenses usually linked to curses, reaction-validity, or systems warped into existence. Base defensive values are generally raised through self-modification to a significant but not infinite level, commonly pegged to 'moderately superhuman, but can spike' abstract ratings as a passive baseline if they lack any additional abilities whatsoever (which is generally fixed upon ascension). Their ability to respond to incoming events and counter them is relatively high. Unless their attention is pointedly focused on something else, many godmodders can easily respond to several simultaneous reality-warping attacks and rapidly follow up (though an attack they don't understand how to counter initially may get through, forcing them to adapt).

Meta-circumstances can sometimes allow godmodders to take damage from normally ignorable effects, a weakness that was erratic in the Nebulous Hypercosmic Period but after the Breaking is often influenced by witches to leverage direct control.

Godmodders are sometimes formed by abstract circumstances demanding an enemy who can respond to impractical conditions.

= Proposed Canon =

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