| Category | Religion |
| Type | divine lore |
A Higher Power acquires power by accumulating devotees, worshippers, or adherents. This need not be in a religious context; they merely pay homage to a Higher Power, seeking its strength, intelligence, good fortune, fertility, mastery of fire or another element, or any other attribute associated with a deity's Divine Domains. Once a Higher Power has amassed sufficient power through attracting mortal followers, it is elevated in divine power. This grants the Higher Power additional Divine Domains, prestige, and for some, an ego boost.
One stipulation of being a Higher Power is that to transcend the status of demi-power and become a deity, they must depart the Mortal Systems. This is the initial decree of the expansive treatise known as the Rule of Divine Governance. Instituted during the God Era, it segregated the Mortal Systems from those who chose to ascend to the ranks of divine leadership. In essence, it prohibits deities from entering or directly aiding the Mortal Systems. The regulations are comprehensive, including one that prevents a recently created undead from becoming a servant to a Higher Power, as occurred with Lady Hunger.
Most Higher Powers that enter a Mortal System immediately suffer the loss of one domain, and another each day thereafter. They also experience the diminishment of their powers, vitality, and strength, so that over a few days a greater god could descend to the level of a demigod. The few that are excluded from this Rule of Divine Governance were allowed to remain on Bal-Kriav after the Creation War. Bruh Kreniik granted them a pass, provided they marshaled their armies for the upheaval that would come after the Abyssal Release (7777 DE - 8777 DE). The Higher Powers not subject to this rule are Geb and Surtur. In the Demon Spawn War, these two primordials joined the Quara'tun Covenant in their fight against the Demon hordes invading the Quara'tun System.
Another example of a Higher Power residing in a mortal world is Lokestant. A demigod not as constrained by the Rule of Divine Governance, she has established her abode on the world of Bal-Kriav. It is believed that The Balance has granted her a temporary dispensation for her steadfast attempts to thwart the Karnegmoth Cataclysm.
The energy matrix that diminishes the potency of a Higher Power when entering the Mortal Systems is believed to have been engineered by Bruh Kreniik. Certain cults, devoted to all things Chaos, claim that it was actually Piranoth, the initial creator of worlds, who was responsible for this. However, they provide no justification, asserting only that it was another of his errors that culminated in the Abyssal Release.