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Question: Ignoring Relics, what's the highest possible DV and soak that a Legend 12 God can have, assuming they've maxed on every appropriate stat to increase those abilities?

Okay, so I answered the DV part of this earlier in the week but not the soak part, because I'm awful at reading comprehension. Then John was going to come in and do the soak part in comments, but he didn't because he's awful at follow-through. So here's the second half of your question, Griff, and we apologize for the tardiness!

To begin with, we'll get our base highest soak, which requires maximum Stamina and Epic Stamina. With those at their topmost level, we have a total soak of 56B/51L/12A.

From there, it's on to the massive list of ways Scions can increase their soaks!

Animal Feature: adds half Animal boons (10, assuming the maximum of 19 boons) to any soak for scene
Banner Bearer: adds half War boons (11, assuming the maximum of 21 boons) to all soaks if used by a second party with Universal Commander
Body Armor: adds Epic Stamina dots (10, assuming the maximum) to bashing and lethal soaks for scene
Cloud Body: adds double Sky boons (20, assuming the maximum) to all soaks against specific attacks
Colossus Armor: adds double War boons (42, assuming the maximum of 21 boons) to all soaks for scene
Devil Body: adds Fire boons (21, assuming the maximum) to all soaks for scene
Earth Armor: adds Earth boons (20, assuming the maximum) to bashing and lethal soaks for scene
Earth Body: adds half Earth boons (10, assuming the maximum of 20 boons) to all soaks for scene
Form of the Giant: adds successes (12, at maximum of Legend) to Stamina for scene, translating to 12 bashing soak, 6 lethal soak and 3 aggravated soak
Giant Among Men/Demigods/Gods/Truth in the Blood: adds a total of 11 dots of Stamina, translating to 11 bashing soak, 6 lethal soak and 3 aggravated soak
Greenskin: adds one to bashing and lethal soaks for days equal to Fertility boons (20, assuming the maximum)
Impenetrable: adds half Epic Stamina dots (5, assuming the maximum of 10 dots) to aggravated soak for scene
Invulnerable Nail: adds Epic Stamina successes (46, assuming the maximum) to all soaks for a specific point
Liquid Form: adds double Water boons (38, assuming the maximum of 19 boons) to all soaks against heat-based attacks
Phase Body: adds half Moon boons (12, assuming the maximum of 23) to all soaks for scene
Riastrad: adds War boons + Piety dots (27, assuming the maximum of 21 boons and Volevoi for Piety) to bashing and lethal soaks
Roll With It: adds Epic Dexterity dots (10, assuming the maximum) to any soak for a single attack
Unbreakable: adds Legend points spent (maximum 196, assuming The Burning Heart is active) to any soak for a single attack

In addition, attacks against a god with the Landslide boon trigger an additional soak equal to Earth boons (20) thanks to their innate immunity to all things dirty and rocky, and attacks against a god with the Starfire boon trigger an additional soak equal to Stars boons (13) from their reciprocal cosmicness. Those two usually won't be too compatible with everything above, though, especially Invulnerable Nail.

Surprisingly, there aren't as many soak powers that are incompatible with one another - possibly none, depending on whether or not your Storyteller is inclined to let you use things like Cloud Body or Liquid Form in conjunction with other soak powers. It looks like this time we're working with an Aesir god (or perhaps Vanir, considering the emphasis on natural elements in these boons?), so we will have to kick the Bogovi opportunity to have six dots of Piety out of play for Riastrad, but I think the mourning will be slight.

So if we put all of these together, a giant four-element-plant-phase-bodied armored riastrading warrior with a commander to back him up who is being attacked by an incredibly focused heat-based attack that he sees coming a mile away will have a maximum base soak of 356B/345L/260A for the scene. If the god also has the Legend to bust Roll With It and Unbreakable, that could potentially soar as high as 509B/499L/413A for a single attack (although he'd better get out of there posthaste afterward!). The Aesir with their extra Stamina have the pantheon soak race won hands down - unless Unbreakable comes into play, in which case a Teotl god with full Legend and a fully-juiced use of The Burning Heart can potentially hit soak out of the park with a possible single-attack soak of 537B/527L/458A.

This is only slightly less bananas than DV because there's no roll involved that can get to stupid levels of improbable successes.

So, to sum up: the goddess with the highest theoretical DV in existence would be either a Tuatha or Theoi deity with maximum Animal, Guardian, Moon, Sun, Sky, War, Water and Dexterity, while the highest theoretical soak in existence would be either an Aesir or Teotl god with maximum Animal, Earth, Fire, Sky, War, Water, Dexterity and Stamina.

So, in other words, nobody. Because it's fucking ridiculous.

Yay math!