Purpose

Purposes are the roles gifted unto the High Ba'al at the moment of their creation - they define their powers, their mindsets, and the shape of their souls. It is impossible for a High Ba'al to indefinitely fight against their Purpose, something that can drive even the well-meaning deities into conflict with those they may otherwise not wish to have conflict with, as it is, in essence, somewhat arbitrary due to being instilled in a millennia-old context and never changing from that point onward. These Purposes can be detrimental to those who have them, such as the Purpose of Loptr, "Devouring", which leaves her with a ravenous and insatiable hunger that can never been quelled, or the Purpose of Talon, "Pain", which caused her endless pain while incomplete, and was 'reduced' to 'merely' causing any pain she'd ever experienced in her new body to never fade, when properly completed. While Purposes were intended to be granted by Greater Ba'al alone for the context of interacting with the Lesser Ba'al within it, there are also organic Purposes that were created by Purposes being able to 'breed', allowing children to form between gods, and constructed Purposes made using Loptr's power to manipulate that which she devoured to create Psuedo High Ba'al.

The following is a list of High Ba'al, and their Purposes.

Loptr - "Devouring". Grants the user the ability to interact with generally-immortal-and-invulnerable souls directly through the main use of its power, which consumes anything and makes it a part of the user. Since things consumed in this way are a part of the user, they can then be used in ways that the user can use their own powers or body. Souls consumed in this method are not destroyed, but torn apart, somewhat aware but unable to proceed through living due to the lack of a body, semi-consciously part of Loptr for eternity. Noted Drawbacks: Eternal, all-consuming hunger. Devouring is the first Purpose, and the first Purpose that, unexpectedly, was able to 'breed' between souls, allowing Loptr to have children-deities.

Ec Tisia - "Authority". Grants the user the ability to interact with generally-immortal-and-invulnerable souls indirectly by excluding them from the world, withdrawing them from mortal bodies, fusing willing body-less souls with willing or soul-less bodies, or subjecting them to a 'Divine Sanction' that disrupts senses at the level of the soul with white noise, rendering them nearly blind and mostly deaf by imposing excess information upon what gets stored in the brain before it is recorded on the soul. Allows the user a personal realm of existence outside of the world, to which they can draw souls into to talk with them directly. Noted Drawbacks: The Greater Good. Ec Tisia, despite their many personal preferences, cannot act in a way that would not preserve the most amount of life, with potential consequences being damned. As a result of this Purpose, they are forced to work to weaken Loptr's seal in preparation to move the Ba'al to Earth, if that is the only way that the Ba'al could be allowed to escape from the dying planet. Additionally, they cannot simply allow impertinence to slide - one must recognize Ec Tisia as a deity, even if not their deity, or they cannot stop themselves from intervening.

EXPAJA - "Conquest". Unknown exactly, but was a Purpose that could 'Breed', and was compatible with Loptr's Devouring, creating the purposes of "Hunting" and "Taming" when fused. Known aspects used by those Purposes that were taken from "Conquest", were its role of "attacking", as one does not defensively conquer, and its role of "subjugation". Since EXPAJA is known as a god of the rules of warfare, presumably one drawback of Conquest is the inability to commit war crimes (as defined by Greater Ba'al).

ViiBaCi MijiiRa - "Hunting".