Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-2.100.92.38-20130821124429/@comment-218.186.253.58-20131023090215

I think CHIM is not onmipotent. From what I understand, it is alteration taken to a whole new level or a process that is similar. It lets you reshape the world as you see fit, but it needs a world to shape, a canvas to work it's arts. So no Mundus, Aetherius, Oblivion, CHIM is probably useless. We also do not know its limits, which could be so low that only basic space time manipulation is possible. From what I know, alluding back to string theory, Anu and Padomay are the branes which anchor the universe (all of them). Akatosh is time, Dagon(destruction/change)+ Sheogorath(insanity/quantum processes in brain going wrong)+ Hermaeus More(fate)+ Alduin (end of times, big rip, big crunch etc) are entropy (change, sithis is a brane after all). Magnus, Kyne etc are physical forces/energies, People like Molag, Mephala, Boethiah, Mara, Dibella, Clavicus Vile etc are emotions. Talos is 2 dovahkiins+a powerful battlemage. So, the more base the DP/Divine is, the more powerful they are, likely. Akatosh is weak because he cannot control his power, even though he has the most (it makes him NOT powerful, just because you have epic powers does not make you all powerful, if you have power incontinence). Emotions are likely not that powerful as they claim (Molag Bal and Boethiah's rivalry shows that the emotions themselves are suceptible to each other). Entropy's power is split, so possibly not those. Thats why, only if there is a quantifier to measure their power, this question will remain an eternal mystery

p.s. Alduin was probably not that weak. The Dovahkiin cannot devour his god soul. It is probably the limitations of his physical manifestation (the big, black dragon) that allowed the DB to even hurt him. If he came in god form, DB probably won't stand a chance. So, possibly he was sent to only cleanse the universe, not to destroy it before his banishing, and after he came back (his banishing might actually be planned by the divines), he could not return to aetherius. The drifting through of Akatosh's dominion (time) also probably weakened him. The DB was probably just doing the dirty work of disciplining Akatosh's delinquent kid for him.