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Lucarikx - Except mephy does not suffer from the black rage.
He has beaten it and it has no effect on him.
And was after that his name was changed to mephiston.
Power wise, it all depends.
Prediction wise tigurius is unmatched on that list.
Strength wise, mephiston is unmatched.
Ezekiel - Im not too up to date on his fluff.
Njal is unmatched for his beard though.
Really, these 4 couldnt be any more different if they had tried.
What would you call her abilities? She's a very strange phenomenon itself.
As for the Librarians.. I'd say Tigurius is more well rounded but Mephiston is right there as well
She is a Daemonifuge, and a Living Saint. The Daemonifuge part is where she basically has the True Names of Slaanesh and most of its Daemons stuffed into her head, giving her practically unlimited power over them. The Living Saint part is why she keeps coming back to life.
"That time I only loaded the cannon with powder. Next time, I will fill it with jewels and diamonds and they will cut you to shrebbons!" - Nogbad the Bad.
Varro. As well as the previously mentioned supreme divination and possibility of cracking open the Hivemind itself, he simultaneously defeated seven Chaos Space Marine sorcerers while only a mere Lexicanum. Also he has since come into the possession of a force staff once owned by Malcador himself, so that's probably a good thing.
I don't think there is a "Most Powerful Librarian"
To be a Librarian, especially a chief Librarian such as one of those indicated, one can't simply wing it. It requires centuries of valorous service. That combined with the rather immaterial, shifting, and genuinely chaotic nature of channelling the warp and utilizing psychic powers in any sort of controlled manner means that at any given time a Librarian could have a good day or a bad day.
Tigurius is a beast
Mephiston is a monster
Stormcaller, Ezekiel, and Sevrin Loth are all very skilled, massively powerful individuals but a big part of their power rests on their ability to harness powers that no one truly understands or comprehends.
Personally my money is on Sevrin Loth but that's just because I like his story and background.
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I feel like Njal has a lot of raw psychic power, beating that of most of the other options here, but he loses the fight to Mephiston in terms of efficiency. Sure, he can call up storm and wind, but he has no control over the specifics.
Mephiston, meanwhile, loses to Tigurius. He is powerful, but all of his powers are focused internally, on buffing himself up.
Tigurius, meanwhile, can do all of the above, with precision. If he ever actually geared up for Close Combat, he'd be unstopabble. (Give him Artificer Armor, an Iron Halo, and something fast and AP2. The Empy's sword would do.) Just going off of the rulebook powers available, he can buff himself up as much as Mephiston, or be granted nigh-perfect sight of the future, or control and sculpt pure flame, or any number of other options. And he has better control over what he does than any other Librarian.
And he only fails 1/144 times, unlike the other psykers.
Read Eclipse of Hope and Mephiston: Lord of the Death he does some insane feats that are not just limited to his physical prowess. He's every bit the skilled psyker that Tigrius is--but his will and control over the warp is emphasized throughout. He's not a regular psker or Librarian.
His words.
Spoiler:
"The Warp is mine. Destruction is mine. I am the Lord of Death, and I hold illimitable domination"
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Not just talk, because he backed it up.
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Thesanguinesword wrote:Mephiston is the most power psyker ever to live ( besides the emporor and the primarchs) 'nuff said
2. The smurf's tigurius is no where near the power of most other chapters chief librarians he's just ok at predicting stuff.
Malcador the Sigilite, Eldrad Ulthran, Ahriman and Kairos Fateweaver would like a word with you.
Draigo, Nurgle, Tzeentch, Slaneesh and I'm going to assume Gork and Mork too. Mephiston is a peon on the psychic scale when you start busting out the big dogs.
Why isn't Dak'ir on that list? He's hilariously overpowered compared to all of those on that list, considering he had the whole Salamanders chapter scared that he was a planet buster (which he was).
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Probably because no one knows who he is. It is the lot of Black Library characters to falter in terms of recognition compared to their Codex Counterparts.
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We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
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