This still reads like you overhyping naagloshii and severely nerfing Yama Kings. At the very least, cosmologically a Yama King would be equivalent to Erlking. If a naagloshii is a fallen semi-divine messenger, then Yama Kings are corrupted divinity. Nothing semi about it. And need I remind you that Mab considers Erlking a peer? A being with great power.
-I dont think I am, but we can agree to disagree.
-Naagloshii are the second or third most terrifying combat antagonists we've seen in the Dresden Files, short of Ethniu and Drakul.
They have broad-based Intellectus dedicated to how to fuck you up, in a setting where information superiority is a crushing advantage, and non-geographic intellectus is usually the preserve of the really Big Boys.
There are entities who are more broad-spectrum threats, and have done more damage. Strategic scale dangers.
There's also one-off combat abominations like the Coin-bearing Genoskwa.
But for an entire class of non-unique beings you might run into in an alley, you're gonna be hardpressed to do worse.
I mean, its worth recalling that Donald Morgan, second in command of the Wardens of the White Council, was willing to attack the Red King in open battle, cutting his way through multiple high-tier Reds on the battlefield to do so before the Red King ran.
This just happened like three months ago in-quest.
But his reaction to getting hunted by a naagloshii was to run the fuck away and risk a freaking nuclear test site in the 1950s/1960s, when they were cooking off cans of sunshine aboveground in the Nevada desert.
-Some Yama Kings are corrupted divinities. Some are uncorrupted divinities, like Yen Lo and Haha no Fukami.
But most do not appear to have ever been even minor gods prior to being YKs, including some of the most prominent and powerful, like Mikaboshi and Emma.
And we have text evidence for their being crippled just fine by material creatures.
Dont get me wrong, you can kill Dresdenverse Fae royalty. Its very hard, it requires timing and location, but its done.
The Courts promote someone and march on without loss of power. Yama Kings get killed, not regularly, but enough to be notable, and their Hells usually die with them, ripped apart and claimed by others. No timing issues involved
-Word of Jim states that the Erl King is a peer, but nowhere near an equal of Mab.
For the purposes of this quest? Naagloshii, Yama Kings, Mab and the Erl King are all Incarna-class entities.
Some are just a lot more Incarna than others.
WoD sorcerers can do everything on that list. "Can, theoretically, do the same as X" does not make someone X or equivalent to X.
/broadly uninterested in the debate, but my eye stumbled upon this passage
*checks*
Some, not all.
Of course WoD often has higher tier magic feats than the Dresdenverse at the high end.
Still, no WoD sorcerer is getting into dustups with Dresdenverse Dragons, which are apparently Incarna-tier entities.
Bella still has the invulnerability of youth, I see.
And what kind of party was she going to at 5-6 AM on a Tuesday?
Man, rich people live different.
What we need is going to be dependent on what we think our worstcase projections are, plus a safety margin for recovering our people. 17 akuma.
Can they summon spirits/demons from Kakuri? Thats the question here.
I would love to send a message with our choices here.
Not enough to hire Odin himself, mind, (LOL) but enough that anyone else who chooses to go after Molly's people, and Molly's people themselves know that she will pull out the stops for them.
Need to look at the budget.
