Orblover

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Well, depends what you consider to be control. Authority is control over people, so Jake can't just control the world as he pleases. Order, meanwhile, being the fusion of authority and power, is said to "write the laws that govern the universe", so that would be closer to complete control of everything.

In reality, every apostle's power controls a certain aspect of the world. Authority controls wills, power controls, well, power/energy, body controls the physical, etc.
I am just wondering. It is hinted that he limited his power "Control" to simply controlling people's thoughts/actions. What if control had the ability to effect other things.
I am just letting my mind brainstorm. But what if it could influence the many things that we cant calculate as it happens. A marble rolling down a hill. We can't know the path it will take. Not without measuring every nook and cranny of the mountain to find what will impede one path or another. That would not be re-writing the law that govern the universe, or would it?
Maybe just nudging them a little. But surely not more that is allowed by the observer effect.

This is just a half-formed idea, but with there being multiple references of him limiting his abilities; it has me wondering.
I will have to replay the game and give it more though
 
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I am just wondering. It is hinted that he limited his power "Control" to simply controlling people's thoughts/actions. What if control had the ability to effect other things.
I am just letting my mind brainstorm. But what if it could influence the many things that we cant calculate as it happens. A marble rolling down a hill. We can't know the path it will take. Not without measuring every nook and cranny of the mountain to find what will impede one path or another. That would not be re-writing the law that govern the universe, or would it?
Maybe just nudging them a little. But surely not more that is allowed by the observer effect.

This is just a half-formed idea, but with there being multiple references of him limiting his abilities; it has me wondering.
I will have to replay the game and give it more though
Yeah I don't think authority alone can do that. Authority, during the apostle training MC had, said something like "I speak and others obey". That implies that the 1st affects only people, minds, wills, or however you may put it. It only affects things that can decide their own actions.

A rock, meanwhile, cannot decide for itself anything, for it is mindless. No matter how much authority a king has, willing a rock to move won't do anything.

As for altering the rock's path, you are correct that you don't have to necessarily alter the laws of the universe to do that; after all, you can just alter its trajectory, weight, size, shape, and many other factors to achieve the same effect. However, "how the universe works" is rather obscure. Order would probably be able to just make physics go haywire (either in general or only for that rock) and make the rock end up where the user wants it to.
 
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Yeah I don't think authority alone can do that. Authority, during the apostle training MC had, said something like "I speak and others obey". That implies that the 1st affects only people, minds, wills, or however you may put it. It only affects things that can decide their own actions.

A rock, meanwhile, cannot decide for itself anything, for it is mindless. No matter how much authority a king has, willing a rock to move won't do anything.

As for altering the rock's path, you are correct that you don't have to necessarily alter the laws of the universe to do that; after all, you can just alter its trajectory, weight, size, shape, and many other factors to achieve the same effect. However, "how the universe works" is rather obscure. Order would probably be able to just make physics go haywire (either in general or only for that rock) and make the rock end up where the user wants it to.
Hmm its really weird because authority by far is the most broken power out of all apostles because if the user is a very good match then just being near them is ultra mindrape that you cant defend yourself against. Lvl 2 Jake was able to mindrape lvl 5's until he got exposed and he was some shit user, imagine a qualified authority user...
 

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I am just wondering. It is hinted that he limited his power "Control" to simply controlling people's thoughts/actions. What if control had the ability to effect other things.
It explicitly does have the power to affect other things. Warping reality is also a form of control.
Authority is terrifying and not limited to mind control only
 

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It explicitly does have the power to affect other things. Warping reality is also a form of control.
Authority is terrifying and not limited to mind control only
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Authority isn't the control of all things. Else, Order wouldn't be different thing.

A chosen of Authority is akin to a king amongst superhumans. Not because of an overwhelming power to shape reality to their whims, that'd be a god, but because they can control everything someone can do.
 

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I don't know, in a weird way authority seems to be the most basic of all powers.
Like, you could argue, all others have a form of power derived from authority over something.

In that way, I think, Authority's most compatible hosts are those that have no authority over themselves.

Where there is a lack of Authority, a foreign one may take hold.
 

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I don't know, in a weird way authority seems to be the most basic of all powers.
Like, you could argue, all others have a form of power derived from authority over something.

In that way, I think, Authority's most compatible hosts are those that have no authority over themselves.

Where there is a lack of Authority, a foreign one may take hold.
I'd say you were correct if Authority was the control over everything. However, the existence of Order and the other "higher" powers, as well as the twin gods render that pretty unlikely. Authority, just like all the other apostles, supposedly comes from one of the twin gods splitting themselves, and isn't the parent of the other apostles.

Authority is quite literally authority in the same sense that a ruler has authority over their subjects. That is the simplest definition of authority there is.
 
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Authority isn't the control of all things. Else, Order wouldn't be different thing.

A chosen of Authority is akin to a king amongst superhumans. Not because of an overwhelming power to shape reality to their whims, that'd be a god, but because they can control everything someone can do.
Ella explicitly says that Authority isn't as limited as Jake makes it. That his self-consciousness caused him to focus on people so much.
Most likely, Authority is mind control and telekinesis.
 
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I'd say you were correct if Authority was the control over everything. However, the existence of Order and the other "higher" powers, as well as the twin gods render that pretty unlikely. Authority, just like all the other apostles, supposedly comes from one of the twin gods splitting themselves, and isn't the parent of the other apostles.

Authority is quite literally authority in the same sense that a ruler has authority over their subjects. That is the simplest definition of authority there is.
You misunderstand what I'm trying to say so much, you argue I'm wrong with points that actually support me.

The axiom of this discussion is that authority is authority et al..

The first argument is that Authority is what's left if you cut all implicit authority out of authority et al..

The second part is that Authority only works where there is space for explicit authority and that is where implicit authority is weak enough.

It's also why I fundamentally believe that Jake, if he mastered his his powers and reached his fifth evolution, could use his authority to control the world, even though the scales are stacked against him.
 

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Ella explicitly says that Authority isn't as limited as Jake makes it. That his self-consciousness caused him to focus on people so much.
Most likely, Authority is mind control and telekinesis.
That can be interpreted in many ways though. It doesn't necessarily mean he missed an entire aspect of his powers. It could easily (and more reasonably) be interpreted as Ella implying that Jake was either uncreative and/or unskilled at using his power.

...I don't remember that scene, though, so I may be wrong.
 
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