The Athar Guide to the Powers

Of all people, would you have expected the Athar to catalogue the powers? Yes cutter, the faction who think all the powers are frauds also have a detailed system to classify them all. It’s almost certainly the influence of Corsica Ralopolis, that infamous Mathematician explorer, on her Athar husband Burbank, but between them they’ve come up with a classification system to put those beings that call themselves Powers into neat little boxes. Of course, powers are anything but neat and some of them refuse to be content with one box, and the grabbiest ones have multiple domains of influence.

Anyway, it can sometimes be useful to think of all of the powers of War or Love at one time, for example, rather than grouping them by the average ethnicity of their worshippers or the plane they choose to call their home.

Here then is the Ralopolis’ attempt to classify the unclassifiable. Please forgive the sarcastic tone…

An Codex of Chicanery:

Categorising the So-Called Powers

Authored by Burbank and Corsica Ralopolis

P0. Creators (not necessarily deities)
- P1. Primordials
P100—P199. Powers in general
- P101. Supreme powers
  - P102. Mother powers
  - P103. Father powers
- P110. Classification by divine might
  - P111. Greater powers
  - P112. Intermediate powers
  - P113. Lesser powers
  - P114. Demipowers
- P120. Trinities
- P130. Trickster powers
- P140. Aloof powers
- P150. Wandering powers
- P160. Departed powers
- P170. Dead powers
  - P171. Dying-and-rising powers
P200—P299. Powers of the upper world
- P210. Sky powers
  - P211. Weather powers
  - P212. Storm powers
  - P213. Thunder powers
  - P214. Wind powers
  - P215. Rain powers
- P220. Sun powers
  - P221. Powers of light
  - P222. Powers of dawn
  - P223. Powers of day
- P230. Night powers
  - P231. Moon powers
  - P232. Darkness powers
  - P233. Powers of stars
- P240. Powers of Winter
P300—P399. Chthonic powers
- P310. Powers of the dead
  - P311. Powers of death
  - P312. Conductors of the dead
- P320. Powers of entropy
P400—P520. Powers of the mortal realms
- P410. Powers of the earth
- P420. Nature powers
  - P421. Powers of forests and trees
  - P422. Powers of agriculture
  - P423. Powers of fertility
  - P424. Powers of animals
- P430. Household powers
  - P431. Powers of food
  - P432. Powers of wine
  - P433. Powers of kin
- P440. Local powers
- P450. Powers of water
  - P451. Sea powers
  - P452. River powers
  - P453. Spring powers
- P460. Powers of trades and professions
  - P461. Artisan powers
  - P462. Hunting powers
  - P463. Healing powers
- P470. Powers of abstractions
  - P471. Powers of the arts
  - P472. Powers of beauty
  - P473. Powers of fate
  - P474. Powers of magic
  - P475. Powers of sleep
  - P476. Powers of war
  - P477. Powers of wealth
- P480. Powers of virtues
  - P481. Powers of love
  - P482. Powers of wisdom
- P490. Powers of vices
  - P491. Powers of treachery
- P500. Powers of fire
- P510. Powers of liminal spaces
- P520. Powers of travellers

Source: Jon Winter-Holt, inspired by the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, by Stith Thompson