Talk:Giant/@comment-34666853-20180418185150/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180808182729

Cainable is described as a god, whom clerics can worship to recieve divine power.

A demi-god would be a being with some divine attributes, but without the qualification to bestow divine powers to worshippers independently of any other god.

This also seems to apply to the 6GG and Four Great Gods (which seem to be a subset of the 6GG). Since they have worshippers capable of recieving divine power without needing to worship any other gods, they qualify as gods for the purposes of Overlord.

Buddha has also been mentioned as a god worshipped in some parts of the New World. It seems likely that a minor player introduced this worship somewhere South of the area in which the 8GK held sway (it may even be that one of the 8GK spread word of Buddhism or the concept of Buddha being a god, and this turned into a viable clerical vocation).

Overall, within the New World it seems that all that is necessary for something to function as a god is for someone with cleric-type classes to sincerely believe that being to be a god capable of granting divine power. The entity doesn't have to exist or have ever existed within the New World. This is why Demiurge believes it should be possible to turn Ainz into a god.

As a side-note, it's interesting that Cainable is specified rather than Lilith. The reference seems to be the vampire origin myth that Lilith eventually had children with Cain (who had adopted the name Asmodeus, or "divine wrath", and styled himself a king of demons). In the Yggdrasil version, it would seem Cain had instead added the name of his murdered brother to his own as an attempt to claim to have been the only son all along.