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Wait for Robama to defeat the Fiscal Cliff.
Congratulate him on his victory.
Kill Robama.
Run for president on the platform, "President of the Future."

Tell her your birthday, you idiot!
...And don't you dare say, "Your birthday, you idiot."

What do you mean by that. I test those that worship me. If they fail they become scared and form the common worshiplers. Those that are brave are raised to the higher ranks and inspire the populace.

Oh. Someone was killing people who failed the Fear Test...

And here's my actions again.

Anyways. Draco will transform seven of my disciples, chosen by my prophet who I would like to know the name of into a new race, which I will call Eladrin. They are like tall, slender people with wings and pointed ears and golden skin, and can detect evil within their sight. To punish the criminals, they have an array of magical spells. I will also give the remaining disciples new weapons* and the skill to use them. The Eladrin will be ordered to seek the ones who caused this disease. And I will hope I don't burn through my reserves of power.

Hopefully the fact that I'm only making a few Eladrin will keep down the cost.
*Made from a metal a bit past what's common at the time. If they have nothing more than copper, give them iron or bronze. If they have bronze, give them steel (iron is actually a bit worse than bronze, just more common and alloyable into steel).

TL;DR: Make Eladrin. They're probably more or less Angels, but made from mortals. Take that as you will.
EDIT: Make them angels, officially, and drop the wings. Also, if it would be cheaper/easier for some reason, make the Eladrin from scratch, although it should be cheaper to make them from existing people. Right?

About how much would it take to make a Lesser God?

Um...Climb the tracks while going choo-choo.

I think the term canon has been misused.

Checking my dictionary, it says, "A member of the chapter of a cathedral or collegiate church"...oh, wait, that's the second...The first is about laws, but the third bit seems most relevant, "The list of an author's works which are accepted as genuine; the Shakesperian canon."
Looks like we gotta go to TV Tropes. [www.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SarcasmMode]Not that I ever go there or have memorized the URL or anything.[/url]

The page for TV Tropes on canon defines it as "[t]hat which counts, in terms of continuity." It goes on to be more specific for specific definitions in literature and television, but not video games.
I think that canon for DF can be classified into three categories, in order of decreasing importance: 1. Word of Toady. 2. What happens in-game. 3. How things are clearly stated to be in the raws*. In none of those locations has it been clearly stated what, exactly, the player is. Therefore, any speculation is non-canon. The only possible exception is if the note in Legends Mode that the adventurer was possessed by strange forces or whatnot counts as Type 2 canon for the theory that the player is Armok or somesuch.

Anyways...yeah.

*Allowing things like "The melting point of adamantine is 25,000 degrees Urist" to be canon.

The problem is, the generated world name would probably be harder to remember than a number.

That said, it would probably be possible to make it an init option, and shouldn't be too hard (compared to some suggestions floating around...)

But to GWG, the more resilient members of society will become superhuman !!
Immune to all disease!

No they won't.
1. The people surviving? They happen to be protected by people like me.
2. They might become immune to your disease, but no others.
3. The "immunity" will probably come with the equivalent of sickle-shaped red blood cells, if it comes at all.

And besides killing off 1/10 of the population of the world isn't that bad, right?

...
Yes, it is. It's like killing everyone in China and India about three times each.

But I like it when people are brave. I want to push the scared into being fearless.

mcclay...mcclay...which guy are you again?

Well, if that's an open invite, then I wouldn't mind helping out. Sending the humans to war against Javier's followers and his plague beasts will work wonders.

Of course it is. Thank you for your help.

Edit: we gain power from the fear of mortals, the anger that they give us
You won't be able to rise against the Fae or the Gods with that attitude!

He won't need to, either.

Also GWG, I made some people immune to the plague

Whoop-de-doo. The plague you made, no?

Also Wyrm, what counts as a major offense? Anything that disturbs that natural order of things, or just the slaughter of massive amounts of humans? Would, say, resurrecting an army of zombies that I had no hand in killing be considered a charge if I hadn't actually done anything with them?

I'm Pragmatic Good. Raising the dead corpses? As long as the souls are unmolested and the zombies aren't doing evil, I'm cool.

Run into the house, then consider finding a pillow.