Sovereign God

Biodata

Sovereign Spark and Authority

A Sovereign Spark grants its refiner immense Willpower and a form of universal authority. It contains no inherent law or rule; its decisive benefit is the authority and Willpower it provides to its bearer 13 92.

• Refining a Sovereign Spark transforms a High God's body into a Sovereign body through endless Sovereign Power 50.
• A Sovereign can survey an entire Supreme Plane with Spiritual Sense, though dense earth and seabeds obstruct detailed observation 50 104.
• Sovereigns can form enormous faces or Energy Clones from Sovereign Power to act and communicate across distance 50 87.
• An Energy Clone can kill ordinary god-level beings with a thought, but cannot kill a Grand Perfection expert; a Sovereign's true body can kill even a Grand Perfection expert 50.
• A Sovereign Spark also grants access to special authority methods unknown even to Sovereigns themselves, such as the ability to cross planes through Sovereign Tokens without teleportation fees 108.

Rank Structure

Rank does not perfectly determine combat power. Certain Super Divine Beasts, notably the Four Divine Beasts and Utrred, retain unusually powerful Innate Divine Abilities even after becoming Sovereigns 99 118.

Sovereign Power

Sovereign Power is an inexhaustible resource for a Sovereign, generated through the Sovereign Spark's connection to the Divine Power Ocean 98.

• Only a Sovereign can enable another being to use Sovereign Power; even Grand Perfection experts cannot extract or absorb it themselves 13.
• Sovereigns deliberately restrict its distribution, since uncontrolled access would allow lower-ranked experts to disrupt the existing power structure 87 98.
• Sovereign Power can amplify a god-level expert's strength by hundreds of times when used alongside a Sovereign Artifact 72.
• A Sovereign can erase the personal imprint from High-level God Power, allowing it to be transferred and used by another person 13.
• Sovereigns can create Divine Stones at will and therefore have no practical shortage of ordinary currency 87.

Sovereign Artifacts and Supreme Artifacts

• Sovereign Artifact — A weapon, armor piece, or defensive item nurtured by a Sovereign. Forging one is described as no more difficult for a Sovereign than forging a Divine Artifact is for an ordinary god 87.
• Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact — Regarded as the most important of a Sovereign's usual three personal artifacts, alongside material attack and material defense artifacts 105.
• Artifact reclamation — A Sovereign can retrieve an artifact granted to a fallen emissary through the special mark left upon it 87.
• Supreme Artifact — An artifact reforged or granted through a Supreme God. Its power can greatly elevate a Sovereign's combat ability 149 150.

Sovereign's Emissaries

Sovereign's Emissaries are powerful god-level subordinates formally appointed by a Sovereign. Their number is limited by the rank of their patron Sovereign 87.

• Emissaries may receive Sovereign Power, Sovereign Artifacts, status, and protection from their Sovereign 50 87.
• A Paragon can be treated with unusual freedom: the Purple Thorn Sovereign God allowed Hermes to become her emissary without kneeling and granted him status equal to a Paragon 50.
• Sovereigns use emissaries to monitor teleportation arrays, manage territories, and act in matters they do not wish to handle personally 85 105.
• The protocol limits emissary appointments to prevent Sovereign Power and Sovereign Artifacts from becoming commonplace among Seven-star Demons and Asuras 87.

Sovereign God Protocol

The Sovereign God Protocol and related unwritten customs regulate conflict among Sovereigns and preserve the balance of power 99 128.

• Sovereigns generally cannot attack weaker Sovereigns without cause or violate the established hierarchy of intervention 105 128.
• A High-level Sovereign God is not permitted to interfere directly in a battle between two Mid-level Sovereigns 128.
• The Rule Sovereigns possess the authority to punish Sovereigns who break the established order 136.
• The protocol does not eliminate greed or conflict; the pursuit of Sovereign Sparks, Supreme Artifacts, and Heaven and Earth Treasures repeatedly pressures its limits 128 134 148.

Notable Sovereign Gods