Sound the Trump

Question: A friend of mine and I are currently making monotheism (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) into a pantheon and we're doing pretty well. But I would like to know how you would stat Michael's star-cutting sword, Gabriel's trumpet, and Azrial's book of wisdom? I put them in the same class as Mjolnir and other legendary Birthrights.

Well... a lot of this post could be about how the monotheistic religions don't fit into Scion's paradigm at all and trying to use them raises unanswerable questions and irreconcilable setting problems, and how much we don't think that trying to make a "pantheon" based on monotheism is a good idea in any way. But I suspect you've heard all that before, and you don't care or you really want to give it a shot anyway, so I won't bore you again with all the ways that it's not a good idea for Scion and won't work. You do what you want, question-asker. Go on with your bad self.

But as far as famous relics from the monotheistic religions go, we don't have ready-made stats for you (obviously, since we wouldn't use them), and we're probably not going to come up with any, either. Trying to work out what an item that powerful mechanically does takes a long time and a lot of work, and we just aren't up to doing it for items that we would never in a million years use in our own games. Sorry.

But the most important question here is this: are you planning on Scions in your game ever getting access to actually using these things? Are these things that will be used directly against the Scions? If the answer to these questions is no, you may not even need to worry about officially statting them up. They can remain plot devices, appropriately powerful and awesome when the Storyteller is narrating them in play but without any need for stats since no one is being directly affected except other people the Storyteller controls. You don't need specific stats for the trumpet of Gabriel to be able to awesomely describe how it heralds the movements of God.

If you do need specific stats for some reason, however, I suggest you take a look at our Reliquary, specifically the "Relics of the Gods" section at the end. Several examples of the kinds of high-level, famous divine relics you're looking for are statted up there, and while the items of the monotheistic religions are not among them, you might be able to get a good idea of the kind of power level that those kinds of things might have.