When does a weak person accepting a god's power ever turn out well?

When does a weak person accepting a god's power ever turn out well?

Every "divine" character like clerics, paladins, avengers, invokers, favored souls, inquisitors, oracles, etc.

No, more like being a god's avatar or prophet is what I mean

AD&D 2e Planescape's On Hallowed Ground goes into heavy detail on this, and it can ofttimes work out very well for the character.

While most of the "greater proxies" in the book are high-level characters, there are also many relatively weak specimens with levels in the lower double digits. The weakest one listed is "Petra Kourakis," 2nd-level male human fighter and proxy of the god Apollo.

The second-weakest is "Banebdjedet," 3rd-level male bariaur fighter and proxy of the god Thoth, who has no apparent relation to the ram-god of the same name.

Neither seems to have been disadvantaged by their position, despite being low-level fighters.

Belgarid/Malorean series by David Eddings.

The orphan child Errand/Eriond.

A bit simple minded, innocent and child like. Suddenly levels up to godhood by taking up a md maimed gods power as his own. Become very good at it.

Birds are easily distracted by shinies!

Makes me wonder why nobody ever tried to fool Aya like that, considering she's a filthy crow.

though On Hallowed ground also makes it clear that the end point of that accepting of a god's power is to eventually having your soul consumed and absorbed into the diety.

Well it kinda sucks in Dominions since your life force gets tied to faith as well

On the contrary you can get always active blessings

Pages 32-33 of On Hallowed Ground notes that this applies to *all* petitioners, not just proxies.

One important thing to remember about Planescape is that, for all its Western trappings, it is far more grounded in Indian religions and New Age spirituality. As On Hallowed Ground explains, dying and becoming a petitioner is more akin to reincarnation than an afterlife, and as the Believers of the Source would claim, there is no way to tell if a petitioner merging with their plane or deity is truly the final step in that soul's existence.

Malazan as well

i thought the point OP was making was spiritually weak, IE, a shitty thug or school bully-tier person who tortures small animals to feel strong.

What are you talking about? Avatars get fucked ALL the time in Book of the Fallen. Hell, one of the more prominent avatars had her entire personality wiped/damaged as a minor god stole and hijacked her body then sort of threw it away when done. She never even fully recovered and is now some sort fo abominable amalgamation of her and him.

Well Paran and Gruntle got off well. Most of the shitty ascendants weren't mentally stable or healthy to begin with

When the god is good, grants strength, gives the person hope more or less to draw on, or the person gets a story arc about finding strength and what strength means or whatever.

>A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools - Douglas Adams

Depends what kind of god

The god of avatarianism. He hands out generalistic power to his mortal avatars cause thats what he does and why he exists.

I can't [STAND] that god, giving out so much [POWAH].

>A god that has little personal power because he generously hands out powers to his worshippers
How viable it is?

Well most gods live off of prayer so lets assume they become gods through worship.
That means people literally prayed to a god of avatarianism making him real just so they could have power.
I'd imagine once they know it works plenty of people will just keep praying giving him more go juice.
Now he might not be the strongest god but you fuck with him you fuck with his boyz finna come wreck your mosque/church/synagogue/temple up and not even buddha can stop that much amassed power in a riot.

The weak person knows what it is to be weak, and how to be humble.

They gain the gods power, and become a humble and sympathetic god.

Sounds nice.

Not always. Plenty of weak people just gain an inferiority complex. Usually its those that were humble regardless of status that would make sympathetic champions.