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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starglim" data-source="post: 2063693" data-attributes="member: 17011">You're on the right track describing a deity evoking magical effects with ease, almost thoughtlessly. It should be utterly competent, unable to fail at any task or be flustered by any situation. Its fingers are never dirty (unless they're always dirty) and it never seems tired or in a hurry. It always has at hand whatever small thing it wants.It should be surrounded by superhuman effects and reactions so that nobody could mistake it for something mundane for more than a moment of stillness. Its tread should shake the earth, or its gaze should pierce the soul and send the onlooker reeling. The ordinary world should change as it passes, with plants sprouting or dying, a breeze brushing through as it moves, shifting shadows or a rare unexplained scent.There are a couple of effects from the Lord of the Rings movie that might be worth looking at. Whenever someone drops or places the Ring down, it crashes down like a weight of tons. When the Balrog is approaching through Moria, it doesn't make any sound at all nor emit smoke or flames, just slanting beams of silent red light. If you can capture these sorts of impossible, out of place events, you'll be on your way to evoking a sense of something awful and majestic appearing.</blockquote>