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So, the part is in book 1, and right at the beginning. Hence many of the players are still feeling out what they want to do. One, a skald who worships Cayden Cailean, was toying with taking the liberator feat and was curious as to the state of slavery in Korvosa.

I decided to check, assuming that Korvosa would follow the example of Cheliax and have a fair bit of slavery (if less wide spread and racist in tone). However, the players guide seems split on the issue. the slave trade is mentioned in two ways: one is that the king formerly had a small slave harem he disposed of in favor of his new wife. the other that the church of Asmodeus may or may not work with the cerulean society to help "black market slave trade."

What I assume is that Korvosa has slavery, but it's regulated. something like having to go through the church of abadar for every trade, and it being filled with fee's to make sure only the rich can manage. The church of asmodeus and cerulean society then work underground, either by selling without supervision or perhaps going so far as to kidnap and enslave folks that shouldn't be.

If anybody has a clear answer that I'm missing, I'd be grateful for it!

Having read up a bit on how people deal with the powers of various gods (ranging from using the 3.5 stuff to "insta-gib"), I had to start wondering: what about for stuff between gods?

In Golarion, the gods are generally considered to be leagues above demi-gods, let alone humans. Even at the bare minimum, if you assume the stats that are proposed for gods in 3.5, pathfinder gods are easily 10 to 20 cr over even the highest level demigods, and easily able to crush them.

But what about between them? are all gods of roughly the same power level, or are some significantly more powerful then others? are there greater gods that are to the lesser ones as the lesser ones are to mortals? I mean, in at least one case, that of Rovagug, we can assume that he's far more powerful then all of his peers, but as an extra-dimensional reality destroyer I figure he is more likely to be an exception.

So, basically, if some spunky youngster like Besmara or Cayden brew up a fight with grumpy old Asmodeus, What would happen?