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Take the time you need and don't worry about us.  Go round up your brothers and let your dad watch you play a nice rousing game of Catch the Hammer Throw Stuff At Baldur to cheer him up.

Ok, for sake of me not stumbling over my words, I will stick to one part of what you want to do. And that's to Conquest places. I wont say no. I WILL, though, say, not now. First, we need to reassign our shades to visit each of the villages. They will be needed to scout these villages. Mainly we look at the level of lawlessness. Each one, we drive ten people to start calling for the inhabitants to mend their evil ways and to begin serving the Gods us loyally, or else death shall be fall them. Try not to drive our messengers mad. Any town or village where the most of our messages are killed is our first stop. We can clense the village and then, any good people who die from the cleansing,  we can offer their souls ways of doing good, even in death.

What of that plan?

So. I was looking through old forum games to read and I stumble upon the goodness that was Demonhood and I read all of it. I see that some spin-offs have been made and I decide to look at them later. Once I finished reading Demonhood and went back to the main page to see if one of the threads I've subscribed to are updated and what do I find? Divinity. One of the spin-offs of a game I enjoyed reading from years ago is back! In my time! This is good because I have so many things to complain about!

Spoiler: Demonhood Rant (click to show/hide)

Let's start with my complaints about Demonhood because I know so many of the players from there play this game as well. Firstly, I am very disappointed that you never did the two MOST IMPORTANT aspects of being a demon - creating an awesome lair and creating a macguffin. Sure you made a grove/factory hybrid in Barrspring but why oh why didn't you raise a giant volcano either there or nearby as well? Then with that volcano, you could've crafted a mighty macguffin which would've increased your power immensely and given you a fairly obvious but definitely demonic weakness!
Even if you didn't do that, you could've just done the most obvious thing that would cause mass-insanity by simply flying over to Currenorwhateverthatdemoninsultingcitywascalled and appear in your true form while shouting your name.
Possibly my biggest complaint is how you turned Krlnkir Yrlvnt -an eldritch abomination who was like Slenderman but way more evil and malicious- into Crinkle Yearvent - some affably evil ponce who ended up being more like the guy from Evil Overlord than he is a manifestation of all the evil and madness in the world. The biggest mistake you guys made was turning the Tall Man -the one who speaks to children and who was madness itself- to the Evil Overlord - the one who marries princesses for no good evil reason.

tl;dr at the bottom of all this.

Spoiler: Complaints and Worship (click to show/hide)

Now for my complaints about what you guys have been doing here in Divinity. Guys. When we were at this power level in Demonhood we were getting worshipped by like 4 children and we were getting a decent amount of power from that. Here, we just freed a city of THREE THOUSAND and we're getting literally ZERO worship from that! Even more is that while you weaponised your nature in Demonhood to inspire fear in others on a mass scale, here we just kinda show it off a little and leave it at that. As an angel, our mere image should inspire hope and awe as greatly as Krlnkir's mere image inspired terror and pain in those who looked upon him!

We really need to stop telling people to worship the gods instead of us. We're eventually gonna fight a demon (like the one in the caves) and we need people empowering us if the demon is to be defeated. For this reason, we should get our own priesthood going so they can consecrate weapons in our name. It'll take some of the worship power we get from them but it should still be a net positive - while at the moment we literally have ZERO worship so there's no reason not to do it.

Spoiler: Weapons (click to show/hide)

I think we should start thinking about creating some weapons to use for ourselves. Now, the problem with the weapons we created/found in Divinity and Demonhood is that they were pretty useful in the hands of champions but worth little when we used them ourselves. I propose that we create a weapon that will instead be useful to us but pretty much useless in the hands of lesser beings. How, you ask? By making the weapon an amplifier. The sword will simply take some of our power and amplify its power slightly to create a more powerful attack. If we wanted to, we can send the energy back-and-forth between us which can let us fire off an energy attack at a smaller cost than Krlnkir's doom laser. As for what we'll use to make the sword, see below.

Spoiler: Angelic Necromancy (click to show/hide)

I think we should create our own kind of necromancy, but one that is intrinsically different to how demonic necromancy works. With angelic necromancy, we enlist the willing souls of dead beings who want to carry on the fight in the name of good. There are a few ways we can go about this without being evil, but like it's mentioned in the previous sentence, all the souls used need to be willing and give consent.
Firstly, let's talk about zombies. A normal zombie is the result of a necromancer forcing a soul into a body and compelling it to do its bidding until the zombie rots away. Our zombies will instead be the result of a soul being called back into its body to fight once more (key word here is 'called' - they can refuse the call). This not only allows for the dead to be of used, but the purifying energy used to contain them all sanctifies their bodies and prevents them from being turned into zombies afterwards. Unfortunately, this kind of energy is so pure that it literally burns away the zombies flesh (luckily they're dead so they don't feel it, and it's holy fire so it doesn't hurt their souls) and when it's all done burning the zombie will die where it can no longer be raised again. The time until the zombie burns out is anywhere between a few minutes to a few hours, depending on the goodness of the soul.
We can also use angelic necromancy in a different way, and one which parallels Barrsdoom. Barrsoom is infused with the crying souls of the damned, increasing its power and causing terror in all who look upon the axe. What I was thinking is we can make our own axe, and it's a normal axe in all accounts if it needs to be, but it's infused by the power of the souls we freed from undeadification and who willingly joined with the axe in the fight against evil. While Barrsdoom screams and frightens, our axe sings and inspires.
In the previous section I said that I'll explain what we'll make the sword out of and here I'll explain. You see, a sword meant to channel the raw power of an angel in such a refined and powerful way I described would have to be just as pure and good as the angel who wields it. We have four options. One: we simply find/make the sword ourselves and overload it with goodness. This is the simplest solution but finding decent metal to make the sword out of will be a challenge and putting in that much good energy would be draining. Two: we find someone pure of heart who'll volunteer to give up their life and become our sword. If we can find someone that's pure-hearted convincing them should be easy. Unfortunately, finding such a person would either be very difficult or downright impossible (unless we used angel radar or something....) Three: get a child to become the sword. As the OP says, children are innocent and they're precious - a perfect fit for our sword. The only problem here is the ethical and moral dilemma or turning a child into a weapon. Four: we find a lesser angel who'll be willing to become our sword. There are a few problems with this, namely that we'll have to expend energy to find a lesser angel, the angel might not take kindly to becoming a sword (consentconsentconsent), and simply having a will that powerful that's not our own might conflict with the sword's use.

Spoiler: Children (click to show/hide)

We should totally have children of our own. At least one. If anything, it should at least be a lot of fun since it'll allow for some cool experiments. What cravings will the impregnated human want? (In DH it was human flesh.) What complications could arise? (DH - baby tried to possess the mother.) What if we were the mother of the baby? Would we get cravings ourselves or would it be a drain on our power? Would the baby be more powerful than if it had a human mother?

tl;dr:
Star emanating hope and awe just like Krlnkir emanated terror and madness just by speaking to/being near people.
Have people worship us primarily but have them set aside a little time for the gods.
Make awesome weapons.
Create angelic necromancy and call it something other than 'necromancy' or 'angelic necromancy'.
Get pregnant. Get someone pregnant.

EDIT:
For now, let's do this:
Star emanating hope and awe just like Krlnkir emanated terror and madness just by speaking to/being near people.
Recruit the volunteers and create a permanent cult in the city.
Purify the dreams of the inhabitants, focusing on the children.
Ask for strategic locations to found a city.