@mhd #Ironsworn has an asset: Empowered, conveniently right next to Devotant. You want to play a Priest with some traction in the world? Take both those assets.
This ends up being a very game-mechanical-forward pair of assets, which can express in a very specific way what kind of authority that you manifest as a "cleric of the war goddess."
Now, that's not the only way to handle that, but it is one of the most direct and finger straight on the mechanisms of telling everyone else at the table what they would like to play and how they'd like to play it.
That's not necessarily or even unpleasantly "nerd power fantasy" because once you start down that dark road forever will it dominate your path as thinking that your players should never have any kind of power other than what you deign to grant them and that their choices and place in the world have less importance than the choices and places in the world of the things that you have put there. It's just as easily and just as likely a "GM power fantasy" "problem" if it becomes a problem at all.
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