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It's little-appreciated but Action Surge is the Fighter's flee power.

More like promotional material.

Draconians are the Dragonlance tieflings.

Have you had a look at religion in RuneQuest? People actively sacrifice mystic energy - POW - to their gods. Divine intervention is a real thing. Etc. And don't forget the false gods - entities that people think are gods but are not. Paranoia, anyone?

Another twist: kill off Valindra before the final fight. Then, during the fight with Acererak have him point at a phylactery and say, "Valindra, arise!" And nothing happens. Her soul got munched. Clever players will be able to point out to Acererak that, despite him being so powerful, if they...

Lukanu and Zaal you want to try to keep alive in case one PC gets killed, so you can have the player take them over. There is nothing worse than having a player sat twiddling their thumbs. Do the PCs know that Valindra is a lich? Have Valindra fully on the side of the PCs, except that when it...

No, it doesn't. You're bang on with the Star Wars Cantina reference. That's fine for a port city, gateway to other lands, but the land as a whole is going to have very few races.

IIRC The Commoner class was introduced in Imagine magazine.

I'm not grokking the Phantomrift. The inhabitants would need to move around, trade, eat, sweep the streets, harvest, and so on, so PCs would see that going on.

Ah right, I'd forgotten about that sort of thing. I'll have to go read up on it. But the idea was to do away with extra numbers. So you might say that 5 / day (or whatever) Kratos can empower his Strength to the Legendary tier, then define the Legendary tier and what it can do elsewhere. Thus...

Can I nuance this? How about the old BBEG possessed the forest on its defeat? Maybe it started with just one tree or fungus but by now its influence has spread throughout the forest?

A modest suggestion: for Legendary Strength, just say that Kratos automatically succeeds on any Strength check, no matter what is tried. You might limit automatic success to non-divine opponents and obstacles and give him advantage against divine ones. This avoids the problem of saying it's...

Do your players spot the way out? If not, perhaps you need to be more obvious.

Ah right. I thought you took both from 16 to 17.

Which fighting style did you take? Hmm... dark elf. Not so good above ground. I remember in one of Feist's Midkemia novels there's an elf who turns from being evil. "I have returned." You might like to work that in at some point, stopping being a dark elf and becoming some other sort of...

I think a better analogy might be oxbow lakes - remnants of meanders - for the timeghylls. But I'm not grokking aqueducts and uchronic demiplanes. Anyway, this is seriously cool stuff you're creating.

We've had several threads on this. I found it particularly valuable in 3E for getting rid of old gear. Otherwise magic items just accumulated - the Christmas Tree effect. You just need to forewarn players that it will happen and then get them used to it. Any time from 8th level on you could...

And if that becomes a problem, a Disjunction is a swift solution.

I listed one possible abuse upthread. Fair enough.

And how about later on, when the PC has more 4th level spells? How about when the PC is casting from a scroll? Perhaps one they created? Think about how the spell can be abused.