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Lord Drakan

Lord Drakan

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Tiers of godhood are nothing more than a memo for developers to keep in mind roughly what a deity could conceivably be capable of when featuring them in content. They're not canon, they're not a source; will people please get that through their skull already. Despite the original disclaimer provided when we were told of the tiers - at the time an interesting insight in develoment process and not actual game lore but by now simply an annoying phenomenon that keeps popping up - it's still being discussed. Huaargh.

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30-Aug-2016 20:44:04

Lord Drakan

Lord Drakan

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If tiers are explicitly referred to in DaT, that's a mistake on the developer's part, as something like that would only be appropriate in the Gower Quest. But while DaT is a significant improvement over MPD, and arguably even a good quest, given the lore credence of its artifex, tiers' being mentioned (apparently) are an argument in favour of my statement, if anything. :P Which is not to say my previous post was an opinion, it's simply true. Which sounds c***y but is something we know to be true, but people tend to disregard. Mod Osborne said so himself when he first mentioned the tiers. At this point I wish we would never have got them. Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire. OSRS: POH ideas & RS3 minigames & achievement ideas!

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30-Aug-2016 21:12:06

Lord Drakan

Lord Drakan

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Hazeel said:
Aterivus said:
Hazeel said:
Lord Drakan said:
They're not canon


DaT.


To be fair, Zamorak did refer to it as a construct of the humans of the Second Age attempting to make a "crude quantification" of the Gods' power(s). We could still conceivably refer to it as non-canonical or headcanon, but purely from the perspective of ancient NPCs rather than the game developers. In-universe, it's still a rough estimation of raw power and the capacity of divine abilities, not something adamantly etched into the bylaws of godhood.

But still, it was perhaps a mistake to even mention it in-game. It may have been better to keep it as purely outside knowledge, if only to keep an aura of mystique and appeal surrounding the powers of the Gods from an in-universe perspective. I feel it would have been a better approach to keep it so no one would actually know how to measure their power in-universe (in-game), so we'd have all different people of all different faiths thinking much-different thoughts about how powerful their favored god truly is (and/or how weak they would perceive those they dislike).


You could certainly make an argument to the credibility of tiers, but tiers as a concept are definitely canon.

They are not. There isn't any arguing otherwise, sorry.
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30-Aug-2016 21:13:22

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