Board Thread:Versus Battles/@comment-37583355-20190811094542/@comment-25603146-20190816072836

Well, the tricky thing about this site and the Sephiroth is that they kinda fundamentally disagree?

The Sephiroth by design are supposed to only enable Zain to have the opportunity to resist higher-order magic, not necessarily to be immune to normal such things without an expenditure of Will. All things that can be considered "attacks" within the verse are rejected consciously or subconsciously on the basis of their being a hostile gesture, and Will is essentially synonymous with AP: hence I bothering figuring out what the APs looked like from the get-go. But then that contradicts that higher-dimensional characters are supposed to have infinitely higher AP, etc... I dunno.

The easiest way to break an Archetype Armiger user's resistances is just to break their spirit tbh, but that usually requires more social finesse than Olierus seems fond of using.

My main argument more entails that, since Olierus's definition of Order essentially extends to "whatever I exert to be order", he (or his relationship with the spear describer as corrupting him more specifically) would constitute an obvious Idea Fracture that the Chesed can 'repair'- that is, that it can set to follow less subjective laws, regarding what constitutes Order. I mostly bring up the fact that the Kether (and by extension the rest of the Sephiroth) are what they area because the possibility to resist against someone who can cover so much of their bases and even counter their enemy's own fluctuating power levels (stripping them of "buffs", the Geburah, etc.) has a lot of inherent advantages in being able to consistently apply that defense.

...really, I had ought to make a blog explaining all of this in more detail/elaborate on that, since that seems to be enough to constitute a weakness by this site's standards.